LA Times invests in Mixx, integrates social news site
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The Los Angeles Times has partnered with Mixx, a social news website, to give readers more input in the news they read.
The publication has also said it will start using technology from Aggregrate Knowledge, a Silicon Valley company, to deliver user-driven content suggestions to its… Continue Reading
Pique recommends products across Web sites (and Web 2.0 is dead?)
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Aggregate Knowledge, a Silicon Valley company that recommend products to visitors of Web sites based on what people like them have previously chosen, is offering its service across Web sites.
The service is called the Pique Discovery Network.
The San Mateo, Calif., company’s technology seeks to put… Continue Reading
Aggregate Knowledge raises $20M, to boost sales on Web sites
Aggregate Knowledge, which tracks Internet user surfing patterns within a site in order to sell them more, has raised $20 million in venture capital, as expected.
We reported about Aggregate Knowledge’s progress in February, including early details of this round. Venture capitalists valued the company higher… Continue Reading
Baynote peeps at user Web behavior, and says it boosts revenue
Baynote is yet another company boasting that its customer behavior-tracking technology can boost revenue for Web sites.
It says it has increased revenue for some customers by up to 20 percent.
It recently raised $10.75 million in venture backing, (see our recent coverage), but we… Continue Reading
Baynote raises $10.75M for corporate Web site search
BayNote, Cupertino, Calif. company that tracks the surfing patterns of users of corporate Web sites, in order to make a site easier to navigate, has raised more cash.
It has gotten $10.75 million in a second round of funding, according to a regulatory filing cited by… Continue Reading
Google’s virtual world, the blog filter rush & more
(Updated) Round-up in Silicon Valley:
Google working on a Google Earth version of Second Life? — So says venture capitalist Michael Eisenberg, a partner at Benchmark capital, the firm that invested in Second Life, citing a rumor from the “PhD grapevine.” [Update: Google spokesman Daniel Pastor… Continue Reading
Aggregate Knowledge raises $5M from Kleiner, on a roll
You’re familiar with Amazon.com’s recommendation feature: “People who bought this book, also bought these books.”
Aggregate Knowledge is a Menlo Park start-up offering such a recommendation service on a mass scale — to any Web site. But it does Amazon one-better by watching consumer reading… Continue Reading