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 web site, starting with its travel section. It lets users see what other users like them have also viewed.
These are the latest moves by a large newspaper to try to… 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 products or content in front of you that pique your interest. So if you’re reading an article on WashingtonPost.com about your favorite sports player, says the Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez, the… 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 than $70 million (post-investment), the company’s chief executive Paul Martino confirmed. DAG Ventures led the round, and was joined by Kleiner Perkins. Martino, an affable fast-talker, also co-founded social networking… 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 only yesterday got to see a demo of the site.
Baynote’s technology seeks to quickly get people to pages they’re most interested in. Example: One of Baynote’s customers is StressCenter.com,… 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 PE Week. Investors include Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, JK&B Ventures and Steamboat Ventures.
The company raised $4.6 million in 2005.
The company hasn’t gotten much visibility, despite launching earlier than the… 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 says: "We're continually exploring opportunities to expand our offerings, but we don't have anything to announce at this time."] Google co-founders have always been about having “impact.” This would give… 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 patterns online, and giving recommendation feedback immediately. (Amazon updates its recommendations once a month)
By all accounts, AK is doing very well. It started in April, and is already making $2… Continue Reading