This weeks 93Startup profile, currently in Alpha, brings a crowdsourcing approach to sourcing vendors for your business. We all know that finding a new service provider can be a risky and frustrating process. VendorCity is looking to make that process easier through customer recommendations.

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’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 [...]

StyleFeeder, the local social shopping startup, announced partnerships with both Shopping.com and The Glam Network today. The company will extend it’s reach and technology to Shopping.com users and the Glam Publisher Network of more than 400 popular lifestyle websites and blogs targeting women. StyleFeeder recently announced a new open API initiative for social media developers [...]

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 [...]

According to VentureBeat (and paidContent), our very own StyleFeeder has captured another $1M in venture funding from Highland Capital Partners and Schooner Capital.  The Cambridge-based social shopping site most recently launched a new design and social sidebar application this August as covered in an earlier post.   The site helps users stay up on trends by [...]