Roundup: March Madness, Starbucks start-ups, Zannel and more
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March Madness alerts — Palo Alto mobile search company 4INFO will send you an alert in the final minutes of any of NCAA March Madness game that looks like it could be an upset. It sends final scores too. To sign up, text TOURNEY ALERTS to 44636, or signup at the company’s site.
Coffee-house entrepreneurs — The SF Chronicle has a piece about the SF entrepreneurs who launch companies at coffee houses, exploiting the WiFi… Continue Reading
Freebase, the database, wants to be global brain
Metaweb Technologies is a new start-up seeking to create a massive public database that will store all of the world’s digital information, creating what one insider calls the “synapses for the global brain.”
Led by Danny Hillis, an expert in intelligent machines, it has an ambition akin to Google, but built from the beginning to allow free access, to be highly categorized and allow machines to talk it in more sophisticated ways.
The New York Times’ John… Continue Reading