Chat startup Chatterous gets widgets, more users
Chatterous, the startup that tries to simplify communication by letting you participate in chats through whatever medium you choose, has announced some new ways to interact with its service, including an embeddable chat widget and a group application programming interface (API). The San Francisco company also tells me that it’s seen dramatic growth since the beginning of the year.
The chat widget is exactly what you’d expect — it’s a way to embed a Chatterous chat… Continue Reading
Chatterous raises angel funding to integrate email, instant messaging and SMS
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Are you tired of jumping from emails to instant messages to text messages, depending on who you’re talking to? A company called Chatterous feels your pain, and according to VentureWire, the Seattle startup has raised a small amount of angel funding (less than $500,000) to help.
There are other startups taking on this problem, but usually from a different angle. Companies like Orgoo and Digsby, for example, bring your email, IM and SMS accounts together in… Continue Reading
Ten Y Combinator companies that want to revolutionize social networking, search, databases and anything else you can think of
VentureBeat Editor Matt Marshall and I attended the Spring 2008 Y Combinator Demo Day yesterday, where we were both pretty blown away.
Okay, so I’m easy to impress, but Matt’s a tougher nut to crack — just ask some of the start-ups who’ve been on the receiving end of his criticism. Yesterday, however, both of us found ourselves constantly saying, “Wow, that looks cool.”
Y Combinator is a Mountain View-based incubator company that funds and nurtures early-stage… Continue Reading
Roundup: Smaller social networks growing, Stage6, Sandvine and more
1. Niche social networks grow, market leaders level off
2. Startup employees headed to big companies?
3. Stage6 had a lot of would-be investors, still has at least one
4. Sprint’s fate unclear
5. Sandvine, a company that helped Comcast block BitTorrent traffic, facing trouble
6. Chatterous: Message all of your friends at once
Niche social networks grow, market leaders level off — Web metrics service Compete reports that leading social networks MySpace and Facebook saw traffic plateau in the US… Continue Reading