Cambridge based TopTenSources acquires Watertown based social shopping site Style Feeder according to TechCrunch. No details of the acquisition have been released (maybe in a morning release). TopTenSources is a human edited best of the blogs on various topics. Style Feeder is a social shopping site where users can create a “wish list” of items [...]

Jupiter research has announced a study that corporate blogs 35 percent of large companies plan to institute corporate Weblogs this year. Combined with the existing deployed base of 34 percent, nearly 70 percent of all site operators will have implemented corporate blogs by the end of 2006. What does this mean? We’ll C-Level executives have [...]

In a move that could signal the next generation of the online video industry, Sony BMG Music Entertainment has launched a new music channel service MusicBox that features full length music videos. The service itself provides a fairly standard online video player provided through a partnership with Cambridge, MA based Brightcove Networks. However, the real [...]

Cambridge based ChoiceStream has raised $13.1 Million to further port it's online personalization technology over to mobile devices and set top boxes. The series B round was led by Sutter Hill Ventures along with General Catalyst Partners and Sage Hill Partners. ChoiceStream's software was designed to provide personalization services to online consumer content sites like [...]

Welcome to the inaugural post for the New England Web 2.0 Blog. I’ve started this post as a way to both comment and categorize new technology start-ups within the Boston area and throughout New England. Why? It will attempt to make sense of why the Boston area, which formerly was a strong hold for new [...]