Yotify wants to let you subscribe to everything
If BranchNext, maker of Yotify, has its way, you will one day be able to get updates on everything that matters to you on the web. Do you like that shirt you saw on CafePress but don’t want to throw down all that cash? Yotify would love to tell you when it goes on sale. Looking for a two bedroom apartment in downtown Manhattan? Yotify wants to be there for you when one opens up.
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Valley networker Auren Hoffman’s reputation on the line
Auren Hoffman is one of the Silicon Valley’s most connected people. For a while, he made his living with his Rolodex, hooking people up through his firm Stonebrick.
Last year, he started a company called RapLeaf, designed to keep track of your reputation for reliability as you buy and sell things online. It works across Web sites, and so takes eBay’s reputation system and extends it universally (our story here).
So it is ironic that Hoffman has… Continue Reading
Iconix sues founders of photo site RockYou — wins first round
(Update: There appears to be a settlement).
A U.S. district court judge has issued a preliminary ruling favoring Iconix in a suit alleging two of its former employees committed intellectual property theft in forming photo slideshow site, RockYou.
Iconix apparently nailed them by archiving their IM conversations.
PE Week’s Alexander Haislip has done the reporting (link is here, but it is subscription only), and digs up the details from the complaint. Here’s our earlier story on RockYou, about… Continue Reading
MySpace hijacking, ePlanet’s fund, SpaceShipOne & Anderson’s abundance
(Updated with clarification from ePlanet)
Myspace loose with email confirmation — Did you know that someone can sign up as you on MySpace, using your email address?
If you’re not already using MySpace under the email account, then someone can come along and use it to create an account there, and assume your identity. Auren Hoffman, owner of online reputation company RapLeaf, demonstrates this, using the example of signing up ValleyWag’s Nick Douglas.
EPlanet Ventures raises $550 million… Continue Reading