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Chartbeat Raises $3 Million From Index, Conway, Sacca, Clavier, Lerer, And Dixon
Published On: August 31st
Summary: Chartbeat gives you a realtime dashboard that shows you the activity on your Website as it happens: what stories, pages, or items are hot; where traffic is coming from, how fast your pages are loading.

Buy Together, Donate Together: Startup Combines Social Shopping & Charitable Donations
Published On: August 31st
Summary: Endorse for a Cause is a platform where individuals can donate money to their favorite charities. EFAC allows users to shop online for their favorite products and push brand recommendations out to their social graph. When your friends make purchases based on your recommendations, EFAC gets a portion of that sale and your favorite charity gets paid.

Neighbortree Raises $120k for Hyperlocal Community Websites Network
Published On: August 31st
Summary: Neighbortree provides free, interactive neighborhood websites to any type of residential community, including traditional neighborhoods, subdivisions, condominiums and apartment buildings. Think of it as a sort of Ning for neighborhoods.

Google Buys Mobile Social Game Developer SocialDeck
Published On: August 31st
Summary: SocialDeck’s games were downloaded about a million times in 2009. Its games include Shake & Spell, Color Connect and Pet Hero. What makes this more interesting than just a game developer acquisition is that SocialDeck has significant cross-platform experience. A non-game product it offers, called Spark, provides social integration across Blackberry, the iPhone and Facebook, while Shake & Spell also works on all three of those platforms.

Kooaba’s Reality Augmented With $3 Million Funding
Published On: August 26th
Summary: Kooaba’s mobile phone apps allow users to take a snapshot of print ads, DVD and book covers, movie posters and physical goods to derive product information, best available prices, and possibly coupons or associated digital extras.

10 ways data is changing how we live
Published On: August 25th
Summary: Here are 10 examples of data which have changed everything from how we assess wars to how companies deliver milk. Some very interesting examples in this article.

Cloud Computing Startup 6fusion raises $3M
Published On: August 24th
Summary: 6fusion offers a tool called the Work Allocation Cube – or WAC – which tracks various elements of cloud-computing usage, like bandwidth and memory usage, and combines them into a single value that companies can use to simplify pricing models.

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