Wix lands $3.5M to give amateurs the power of flash
Flash website builder Wix has brought in $3.5 million in second-round funding from Mangrove Venture Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners. The Israeli company has raised about $8.5 total since its founding in 2006 and hopes to continue developing its drag-and-drop tool that allows even novice web users to build flash sites.
Right now, Wix provides this service for free, but it announced today that it will launch a premium membership package including web hosting and related… Continue Reading
A roundup of scenery from the Web 2.0 Expo: an annotated photo gallery
I spent four days this week at the Web 2.0 Expo at the Moscone West convention center in San Francisco. Here is a summary of the scene, including photos and my impressions of the show.
I attended the RockYou/Clearspring/Mixercast reception on Tuesday night at Bong Su, a trendy new Vietnamese restaurant. Three companies sponsored the party and so it made the Web 2.0 froth seem a little less excessive, since they can split the bill. There… Continue Reading