Dead 3.0

Check out my post at VentureBeat about Lijit, a new person-centric search engine. Also of note, my post made it onto Techmeme.

See my post at VentureBeat about kyte.tv, an online video company that today received an investment from Nokia Growth Partners, the investment arm of mobile giant Nokia.

See my post at VentureBeat about Israeli semiconductor manufacturer Altair. WiMAX is a complex space with enough acronyms to make your head spin and it is competing with other next-generation wireless technologies to bring you mobile broadband access.

See my post on VentureBeat about Eye-Fi closing a Series A round for their integrated (hardware + software) approach to wireless digital photography.

See my post at VentureBeat about the soon-to-be-released Parallels 3.0. The new software features tighter integration with the underlying filesystem called SmartSelect, 3D support (OpenGL and DirectX) and a System-Restore-esque rollback feature called Snapshots. Seems like a solid alternative (or complementary?) product to Apple’s Boot Camp.

Check out my post at VentureBeat on Tumri’s Series B funding round.

See my post at VentureBeat about Tumri Publisher, a new service that allows publishers to easily sell inventory from leading online retailers.

Check out my post on VentureBeat about vFlyer. vFlyer is a “horizontal platform” that allows sellers to distribute classified ads as widely as possible (e.g. Oodle, craigslist, and other websites; widgets; email; print; and now mobile). The business is a distribution-play aimed at making the process simpler for sellers. One of my favorite parts is they allow sellers to print out brochure-quality flyers. That’s a smart move–most “Web 2.0″ companies would dismiss print offhandedly but the fact of the matter is that paper is still huge in real business.

For the most complete information, see Virginia Tech’s Collegiate Times. It’s been all over the news but it’s still shocking. Watching MSNBC yesterday morning, I couldn’t believe my ears when the fatality count rose from one to 20 in the blink of an eye. The final count of 32 struck close to home. Charlottesville, VA is a short two-hour drive from Blacksburg, VA and more than a few good friends from high school attend Tech. Thank God they’re all safe. In the moment after the shooting, the outpouring of grief from fellow students across the county was immense. I got multiple invites to join Facebook groups reaching out to support our peers at Tech. The group I am in at UVA already has over 2K members. The Collegiate Times has a piece on the Facebook outreach related to the shooting. Students are using Facebook to support our friends and family at Tech, organizing vigils and expressing sympathy. I rarely run out of words, but there really isn’t much else to say–yesterday was a sad day for all students, Virginians and Americans. Please take a moment of silence to pray for those affected, their friends and families.

Update: see my post at VentureBeat on the same topic.

(Editor’s note: I didn’t think about it at the time of writing, but the title of this blog (Dead 3.0) is somewhat ominous given the topic of this post. The title has nothing to do with the shooting, instead referring to another blog (Dead 2.0) which covered the myriad of foolish startups currently being launched (and their subsequent demise). Oversight on my part, apologies.)

Check out my post on the newly launched StreetAdvisor over at VentureBeat.