Age of mobile buzz indeed
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A Pleasanton start-up, Buzzage, has raised $2 million in first round of venture funding, according to VentureWire (sub required), though it continues in stealth and won’t say much about what it’s doing.
Funding was from Storm Ventures and Labrador Ventures. Chief Executive Michael Cerda simply says the company is developing “voice services for consumer mobile applications,” and might involve telephone numbers and social applications. Though this entry on the company’s blog suggests Buzzage is focused on SIP, which it calls the “3rd great protocol,” and which ushers in the so-called “URI.”
With SIP we have the URI. The URL points to a web address and the URI will eventually be my catch-all address for everything…phone #, e-mail address, IM, fax, video, etc. I’ll eventually have the means to control who gets to contact me and how
And U2′s Bono, and his dabbling in technology investing, is driving these mobile guys wild. At his concerts, people pull out their phones, and send text messages to the One campaign. This Buzzage blog entry reflects the preoccupation. And Pankaj Shah, the chief executive of Palo Alto start-up 4INFO told us last week he’d been to six U2 concerts in eight days! In fact, one of us (Matt) will be in New York Monday night for the U2 concert — along with Treo — and will see what this is all about.
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Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.
