Need to know what to wear and how to do your hair 24/7?  Waltham based mobile start-up Quattro Wireless announced a new contract to power the mobile version of celebrity hairstyle site, BeautyRiot.com.  The San Francisco-based fashion site provides image galleries of your favorite celebs like Ashlee Simpson, Hilary Duff, Nicole Richie, Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Simpson, etc. BeautyRiot [...]

Xconomy, the Cambridge-based tech blog, just landed their series-A funding led by CommonAngels (undisclosed amount).   Bob Buderi emailed me the news earlier today and wrote a funny piece about the funding on the site this morning. For all of those people that think your east-coast startup is not getting funding because of location, I guess [...]

StyleFeeder, an online social shopping site based in Cambridge, launched their new StyleFeeder Personal Shopper today. Available in beta at www.stylefeeder.com, this FireFox and IE plug-in (very soon to be released) brings much of the functionality of this local social shopping service right into a nice downloadable browser application. The sidebar (explorer bar in IE) [...]

I received such a great response from the first Boston Mobile 2.0 round-up from earlier in the week, that I decided to create another list to point out the local start-ups that I missed on the first list!

In last weeks round-up on the Boston online video space, I started off by stating that the video sector was one area where Boston was gaining significant traction. However, there is yet another sector that Boston has started to capture some serious “street cred” – Mobile.

Going.com, the destination site and community for 20-somethings who want to know what’s happening in their cities, today announced $5 million in follow-on financing to be used to expand the popular service into new markets and expand their platform. Board members Bob Davis of Highland Capital Partners and George Bell of General Catalyst Partners, who [...]

Boston has a new face of online gaming and virtual worlds and I should have included in my recent article about Second Life. Hiawatha Bray’s article posted on Boston.com today provided more information about the much anticipated game by Curt Schilling’s online game company 38studios, formerly known as Green Monster Games (Maynard, MA).

If you are one the people who believe that the Boston area is not exactly the hot bed of Web 2.0 activity, there is one area that the hub has developed well – online video. Last year, everything was about YouTube and other consumer generated plays. At the same time, some New England area companies [...]