BackTypeは、ブログコメントによるTwitter (1)
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BackTypeはYCombinatorのサマープログラム出身の最新スタートアップだ。ブログへのコメントに焦点を絞ったスタートアップで、ファウンダーのChristoper GoldaとMichael Montanoのふたりが、何百万というブログを、初めて検索や構文解析が可能な1本のストリームに集約した。ウェブ全体のコメントによるTwitterだと思えばよい。 この会社は、最近続々登場しているブログでのコメント体験の整理に注目したスタートアップとは異なる ― Disqus、SezWho、JS-Kit参照。ブログ自体が（コメントした人も）積極的に関わらなくても対象になる。代わりにBackTypeが何百万というブログから（フィードやスクレーピングによって）コメントを取得して、サイトに追加していく。 Twitterと同じくこれは情報の宝庫だ。私が試しに、TechCrunch50、Obama、Olympicsを検索してみたところ、ふつうなら見落としているようなコンテンツがたくさん見つかった。検索結果のRSSフィードも可能だ。 コメントした人を指定して追跡することもできる。BackTypeはリンクされているURLと一致する名前でコメントを集約する。したがって、多くの人がそうするように、同じURLを記入して複数のブログにコメントすれば集約される。また、私のようにアカウントを作れば、異なるURLを使った場合でも集約される。コメント欄に書かれた内容以外には認証の方法がないため、偽コメントという大きな問題がある。これは、管理機能を働かせ、自分の名前による書き込みには必ず承認が必要になるようにすれば解決できるだろう。 私はこのサービスをかなり気に入っている。 CrunchBase Information BackType Y Combinator Information provided by CrunchBase [原文へ] （翻訳：Nob Takahashi） タグ: backtype, Y-Combinator 【関連記事】 Y Combinator発のSlinksetが、大衆向けホスト版Redditを公開 Y Combinator発のAnyviteが、Eviteと対決。すべてをシンプルに。 Y Combinatorカンパニーって誰? Y Combinatorのヨーロッパ版無認可クローン Y Combinatorいじめは理解できない
BackType, A Twitter For Comments (38)
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BackType is the newest YCombinator startup to launch from their summer program. They’re a blog-comment focused startup - founders Christoper Golda and Michael Montano are for the first time aggregating all comments from millions of blogs into a single, searchable, parsable stream. Think Twitter for all comments on the web. They are not like the recent barrage of startups focusing on cleaning up the comment experience on blogs - see Disqus, SezWho, JS-Kit, etc. Blogs ...
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lkratz said:
ça marche pas mal ce truc
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Colide81 said:
This reminds me of friendfeed.
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Jeffrey said:
dangit, another idea i had implemented in the real world =/ sigh...
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That Kid from Omaha said:
This looks to be very useful.
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Bill Shakes said:
worldtv search?
Sometimes You Just Have To Walk Away (14)
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The title of this post is a line in a Damon Gough (aka Badly Drawn Boy) song that I heard on my bike ride this morning. You can click on the black banner at the bottom of the screen and hear it play while you read this. And it took me back to an email exchange that I've been having this week with some friends about "breakage" in a venture capital portfolio. Tim (Connors I ...
Sometimes You Just Have To Walk Away (4)
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The title of this post is a line in a Damon Gough (aka Badly Drawn Boy) song that I heard on my bike ride this morning. You can click on the black banner at the bottom of the screen and hear it play while you read this. And it took me back to an email exchange that I've been having this week with some friends about "breakage" in a venture capital portfolio. Tim (Connors I ...
Indentured Servitude 2.0 (1)
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I've been researching Y Combinator a lot lately. I am a huge fan of Paul Graham: he tends to attract controversy precisely because his writing and his thinking are so clear. People less clear are harder to disagree with, for the reason that often they are not even wrong. Big thinkers operate in broad strokes: they trust the reader to fill in the details and refine the exceptions for themselves.The logical extreme of Y Combinator ...
Someone is Going to Get Burned, Why The Incubator Model is Dangerous (2)
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Michael Arrington posted today on why he doesn’t understand the hate about Y Combinator. Having traveled the nation last year meeting almost 2000 early stage entrepreneurs, I can say it is pretty simple, and it has nothing to do with Y Combinator or Paul Graham. So why the hate (not just of Y Combinator, but of TechStars, LaunchBox, SeedCamp and the many other models)? People have been burned before. The ‘incubator 1.0′ model blew up, ...
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Sue said:
Andrew brings up some good points but I think the incubation industry is also maturing and learning from past mistakes so it shouldn't be written off so casually.
Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham vs. "one cranky attendee" [Nerdfight] (4)
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Why might this this summer's batch of incubator Y Combinator's startups bore you, as they did "one cranky attendee" who told Silicon Alley Insider so? Because you're not as talented at spotting early stage startups as Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham, says Paul Graham in a comment on the SAI post: Statistically it's almost certain there will be startups in this batch that go on to be highly regarded. It's a rare skill to be ...
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Austin said:
I like frogmetrics, meetcast, and Ididwork.
I Don’t Understand Y Combinator Hate (25)
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The vast majority of entrepreneurs I’ve spoken with who’ve been funded by seed stage VC/incubator Y Combinator are happy that they took the investment. And the ones that applied but weren’t selected generally have nothing bad to say, either. So I continue to be surprised to see journalists write stories that suggest that the deal Y Combinator offers to entrepreneurs is somehow unfair. Unless they find a significant number of entrepreneurs who back up the ...
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Jesse said:
Agreed. I would welcome this type of investment with open arms.
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KeVroN said:
Damn right Mike!
Montreal’s startups versus Y-Combinator’s startups … part 1 (1)
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Twenty startup’s were in Y-Combinator’s Summer 2008 funding batch. Here is my take on the first half of them (the rest will be in the next post) and where appropriate a mention of Montreal companies I am aware of that are competitive or complimentary. Posterous A hosted blogging platform that allows you to post many different media types via e-mail. Great software, ultimate in simplicity - but perhaps it could have worked even better as ...
Y Combinator's August 2008 Demo Day in Cambridge (3)
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Here are the three things that hit me hardest about today's Y Combinator Demo Day in Cambridge. 1. The Boston VC community has finally woken up to this event, and the promise (and engineering skillz) that many of the YC start-ups show. Represented in the audience today were Matrix, Sigma, Kepha Partners, Spark Capital, and a zillion others -- many of whom weren't present last August. General Catalyst sent at least three folks, including co-founder ...
Recap of Boston Y Combinator Event (1)
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Last night’s Y Combinator event at Tommy Doyle’s Pub was a success. The place was packed. Somewhere around the order of 100-150 people showed up. Here are some photos. If you are posting photos, Anyvite asks that you post them to Flickr with the tag yrbb4dt0. Here are some things I took away from the event: From the Q&A that Paul did, here are some insights on what Y Combinator likes to see on applications: ...
Software Startups No Longer Need As Much Venture Capital, Says Founder of RescueTime (1)
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VC, startups, innovation Gregory T. Huang wrote: Venture financing—who needs it? Not early-stage software and Web startups, if you ask Tony Wright. I sat down with the serial entrepreneur and founder of Seattle-based RescueTime yesterday, and he had some intriguing thoughts about recent trends in the innovation community. “The nature of VC is changing,” he said. “The notion of a ‘big launch’ is dead… The magic of something that takes hold in the market is ...
Advice: Microsoft Should Invest Y Combinator-style (1)
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Former Microsoft employee and current founder and CEO of web startup Blist Kevin Merritt has some advice for Microsoft: rather than throwing around billions to try to acquire Yahoo! or buying unproven search startups for reportedly twice their valuation, try throwing a little cash at young engineering talent with startup ideas. The results could be well worth your while. Last October, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that the company planned to acquire 20 companies per ...
Google Acquires Omnisio To Spice Up YouTube (44)
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Google has acquired Atherton, CA based startup Omnisio, the companies are announcing this afternoon. Omnisio, which is a Y Combinator company, first demo’d to us in early March 2008, and it launched later that month. The price is not being disclosed, but we hear the deal is all cash and is in the $15 million range. The company was founded by three Australians (Ryan Junee, Julian Frumar and Simon Ratner). The service lets users annotate ...
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caweldude said:
payback time! Lucky kids :)
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Tony Buser said:
Is it just me or is Omnisio's logo a totally ripoff of Ubuntu's? Even the font looks similar.
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Justin said:
Another one bits the dust to Google. Today, YouTube and Google has grown a little more stronger.
Paul Graham on How to Make New Things (1)
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Paul Graham on how to make new things – I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly. When I first laid out these principles explicitly, I noticed something striking: this is practically a recipe for generating a contemptuous initial reaction. Though simple solutions are better, ...
Tipjoy Founders on Passing the Hat (19)
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Ivan and Abby Kirigin founded their startup, Tipjoy, to give consumers of free content a new way to pay for the stuff they really like: by leaving a tip. While the idea sounds simple enough, what the Kirigins want to do is actually far more ambitious than their quaint company name suggests. With Tipjoy they aim to exploit the commercial power of micropayments, a hip, Long Tail business concept in which consumers pay for things ...
Y Combinator Guru Paul Graham hilft Startups mit Ideen auf die Sprünge (1)
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mit dem Beitrag “Startup Ideas We’d Like to Fund” listet Paul die 30 Existenzgründungsideen auf, in die Y Combinator investieren möchte. Spannend hierbei: Es sind viele “Enterprise”, also Business-to-Business Produkte darunter, aber auch Dauerbrenner, wie Auktionen, Video- und Photo-Sharing (dabei dachten viele, der Kuchen sei längst verteilt..) und Startups für Startups - also Existenzgründer-Helfer.
Стартапы: Y Combinator и 30 идей или рынков, в которые мы готовы инвестировать. Вольный перевод, часть 2. (2)
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Перед вами вторая часть материала о перспективных стартапах (здесь можно прочитать первую часть). Напомним, что инициатором этой статьи стал материал от известнейшего венчурного инвестора, Поля Грэма (Paul Graham), который руководит уже известным нам фондом Y Combinator (о котором мы писали, да и в России уже появились фонды, в той или иной мере копирующие его бизнес-модель). Теперь он описал своё виденье рынка и указал на тридцать тем или скорее очертил круг интересов и рынков, в которые ...
Y Combinator - “30 Startup Ideas We Would Like To Fund” (2)
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I’m cross posting this from Jonathan Macdonald’s blog who in turn sourced this from Y Combinator. I’m with Jonathan about number 12 (or soon will be working on this full time - fix advertising and specifically mobile advertising). You can see the original post here and I have re-pasted the list below. 1. Two things are broken: record labels and movies. 2. Simplified browsing. The space between a digital photo frame and a computer running ...
