Disqus and Intense Debate are two new blog commenting systems going into public beta today. There are many such services, and none of them have really taken off.
However, these latest companies could help connect conversations in new ways, including by aggregating blog comments on popular social networks that are opening to developers.
Some sites, like coComment, [...]
Docstoc, a site that calls itself the “YouTube for professional documents,” has launched publicly, offering you a way for doctors, lawyers and other professionals to post documents easily for others to use.
The Beverly Hills, Calif., company competes against Scribd (see coverage ), Divshare (see coverage) and a number of others sites that let you post [...]
Optimal Technologies International is a software and technology provider for electrical utilities and consumers. It promises to improve efficiency and reduce consumption.
The company’s AEMPFAST product is an analytics program for utilities that tells the system where to send electricity. Optimal claims that utilities that have installed its technology increase capacity by at least 10 percent, [...]
We’ve heard that Specific Media, a large and rapidly growing online ad network, has raised $100 million in a round led by Francisco Partners. Specific Media intends to announce this next week.
The pre-money valuation, which our source said is around $200 million, underscores the intensity of interest in the online advertising [...]
One problem with solar power farms are the massive expanse of land they require. That’s why a crop of companies developing “concentrator” technologies are getting financial backing lately.
These companies use mirrors and other techniques to concentrate the sun on solar cells, which boosts the conversion to electricity.
The latest is GreenVolts, a San Francisco company that [...]