June 29, 2006
Work For a Palo Alto Web 2.0 Start-Up With A Silly Name At Your Own Peril
The Boorah people of Palo Alto are in stealth mode and won't give you much more than a peak a their logo. They will tell you:
"We are an early stage startup focused on creating an Internet Vertical website that blends community and social networking elements with the latest technology advances in web. The goal is to become ‘the destination’ on the Internet for this very focused vertical. Our proprietary semantic search and correlation algorithms will incorporate community network feedback to enrich the user search results and provide a dramatic improvement to existing services in the market place."
Plus, they claim the un-named founders are Internet Mucky-mucks. We checked their blog and they do seem obsessed with GPS, but who knows what vertical Boorah wants to sit on top of.
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Angel-backed Buzzlogic Wants SF Engineers For Social Network Analysis
Buzzlogic’s management impresses. Rob Crumpler, President and CEO, was GM of MSFT Money. Mitch Ratcliffe, Chief Science Officer and Co-Founder is a well-known blogger and was on the board of directors of Match.com and Electric Classifieds.
BuzzLogic says it is currently in beta with 25 top tier companies “helping communications and marketing practitioners understand and take action with blogs.” That sounds spooky. The start-up is planning to launch its first application later this year.”
What you will do in your cube: “As a key participant in architecting, designing, implementing and debugging our core social analysis engine, you will design and implement advanced algorithms for efficiently analyzing and reporting on networks of millions of nodes covering thousands of topics in near real-time. The analysis engine is highly distributed and tightly integrated with several external and internal systems and databases.”
Funding: BuzzLogic was founded 2 years ago (formerly Persuadio), and began raising funds this February. Within eight weeks, the start-up had raised its target of $750K, plus an additional $100K, all from angel investors. The company’s primary competitor looks to be Biz360.
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Read - http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/blogtalk/wpn-58-20060601PRToolsandBagofTricks.html R Tools And Bag Of Tricks (Web Pro News)
Read - Cofounder's Blog (Ratcliffe's Blog)
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Gig For Cell Phone Ad Network In Menlo Park
AdMob is a pay-per-click marketplace for mobiles. The application debuted in January and has been receiving favorable reviews. It has self-service publisher and advertiser sign-ups that seem to function. The start-up is looking for a Sr. LAMP Developer. They say it’s a contract position “but we are looking to make a full-time offer to the right candidate.”
As a full-time position, a gig with AdMob sounds a bit dicey. Google Adsense and the other networks are rolling out mobile ads in a big way. So we think AdMob has a short supply of air in the room.
The start-up is boot-strapped so the obvious question in the interview is where does AdMob stand in terms of financing?
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Read - Is AdMob the New AdWords? (MobHappy)
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June 22, 2006
My Digital Life Wants Mobile Software Eng In Menlo Park
This is a stealth company that is looking to build software for smart phones. They are incubated by NetService Ventures Group, which we hadn't come across before.
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