I spend quite a bit of time wasting away the day with Twitter as I mentioned in the earlier too-infrequent post to the 93South blog. Like anything else in this software world, using Twitter effectively takes a bit of philosophy or strategy.

Mark your calendars, July is now the web networking month for Boston area. It marks the return of the several premier tech events including schmooze-fest TECH Cocktail Boston 2, PodCamp3 Boston and the uber Boston web 2.0 event – WebInno18.

Our next 93Startup Profile is from another MITX finalist that is taking on the task of managing social communities for top brands including AOL and ESPN.  It looks like they have been doing quite well with "14,000 communities under management". What do you think of Mzinga? Let Boston Know. Mzinga Location: Burlington, MA Funding: $32.5 [...]

Our next 93Startup Profile is from another MITX finalist and a company that I have covered on 93South before – StyleFeeder, the web 2.0 “personal shopping site”. What do you think of StyleFeeder? Let Boston Know. StyleFeeder Location: Cambridge, MA Funding: VC – ($2M Series A in Jan. 08 plus an earlier round) # of [...]

I guess it is a whole new world – it used to be the norm to have your parents post the news of your engagement (no…this is not a post about Facebook user engagement) in the local newspaper but not anymore.  I logged into my neglected Facebook account to find the engagement announcement of 2 close friends.

I’ve had the great opportunity this year to be a judge in the 2008 MITX Technology Awards. My panel this year was the Collaboration & Social Networking category. I wanted to hold off on posting until the finalists in the category were announced and the judging process was complete. Sitting through the business presentations for [...]

Newton and Israel based WorkLight, Inc. announced that it has closed a series B round of funding totaling $12 million led by Pitango Venture Capital, Israel’s largest VC.   Proceeds from WorkLight’s series B round funding will be used to further expand its presence in North America, Europe and Asia.  WorkLight was founded in 2006 with [...]

StyleFeeder.com, a social shopping site that I have covered numerous times in the past, announced open access to a developer API today. The new open API initiative allows social media developers to create third-party applications, widgets and basically pull all of StyleFeeder’s key functionality into their own sites. I’m glad to see that they are [...]