What a week to get bogged down at work and pass over some key happenings in the world of the local technology!  Quite a helping of tech news was served up last week including some key funding and IPO announcement, beta launches and a bit of potentially bad news for Eons.

The Boston web 2.0 week started strong with another successful Webinno on Monday night and went strong all the way through LocoModa’s funding announcement on Friday.  I have a feeling that this week will start strong as well.

2 Beta Launch Announcements

Boston-based web analytics company Compete announced that the Compete Search Analytics service has come out of beta and launched to the general public.   The ”pay-as-you-go” service is an good compliment to their existing Site Analytics service and is worth checking out. 

Also opening to the public this week is Zync, the Cambridge-based event recommendation service that uses a patented technology to suggest what to do this weekend based on reviews from people just like you.   If you like to win things, they currently have an iPod promotion for registered users going on right now.

Over 210M in Funding, IPO Filings and Investment Announced

Alright, $103.5M of the headline was from the Pogo ( Chicopee, MA ) IPO filing announcement, which is not quite web 2.0 but an “on-demand” private jet service is pretty darn cool stuff. Along with Bedford’s Linearair, it’s good to see that the area is taking part in how VLJ’s are going to transform that industry into “Flying 2.0″. 

Here are the list of other key Boston-area stories:

• Mike Volpe emailed over the announcement that SMB marketing service Hubspot announced $5M in funding led by General Catalyst ( More on StartupSquad )
• Constant Contact (Waltham, MA) captured quite a bit of coverage with their IPO update announcement and the hope to raise $70M+.  I covered their $15M VC round last year…maybe they will use the extra cash to update their appearance now?
• Somerville’s LocaModa, a developer of location-based text-messaging services, raised $6.18 million in Series A funding
• Sermo , a social network for physicians, announced it has raised $26.7 million of venture capital led by Legg Mason Capital Management
• ScanScout, the Cambridge-based video advertising technology, announced an undisclosed amount of funding from Time Warner

Will EONS Take an Early Retirement?

That would have been the headline if I wrote an article on the baby-boomer social network news of the week.  The site that was setup to bring together the active 50+ set  announced that it was restructuring their organization and laying off 24 of it’s staff in effort to focus on what works and trim what does not.  Another 12 of the staff left voluntarily for opportunities outside of the company as well.  

Bravo!  I love it when start-ups realize they can not be everything to everyone.  With over 65M boomers online right now, there is a market for helping seniors connect (newsflash…dating!).  Eons appears to have built a respectable level of traffic and this move to refocus will hopefully put them back on track.

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Can you watch my dog? Somerville based Pawspot.com is a social networking site for pets and their owners. The difference with Pawspot is that the site aims to be more of a resource for pet owners rather than a “build the biggest meaningless friend list” application. Pawspot is billing it’s social networking model as a way to connect dog owners for pet sitting, good dog walks, info on vets and other topics that would be important.

Pawspot is a free service that is currently in beta, although I did not see any ads on the current site. If you have pets, go sign-up!

The site was covered by TechCrunch, ValleyWag (a small dig actually) and The Skinny.

Other sites blogging about PawSpot.com.

Somerville based Dataupia has raised $15M in initial funding from the likes of Polaris Venture Partners and Valhalla Partners of Vienna, Va.

The overly tech-buzz-word filled homepage of the company states that they will “change the way the industry thinks of enterprise computing data management, while setting new standards in ease-of-use, total cost of ownership, and scalability.”

The Boston Business Journal suspects that they may be building a next-generation data warehousing application.

We’ll get to the bottom of it but it could be another entrant into the “data warehousing for SMB space” which is getting hot in the area. I can guess the name comes from the concept that all of your data will live in peace & harmony on an open-source server!

Looks like a good start on the surface and we wish them good luck.