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Lucid Imagination, the startup that commercially distributes the open source Apache Lucene and Apache Solr search technology, has raised $10 million in Series B funding from
Shasta Ventures with
Granite Ventures and
Walden International participating in the round. This brings the company's total funding to
$16 million.
Lucid powers enterprise search technologies using the open source Lucene/Solr search. Customers include Zappos, Nike and Netflix. The new funding will be used to accelerate the adoption of Lucene/Solr search technology.
[Post Time: 2010-03-12 12:24:12]
Do you remember to the days of college, when you were required to sort through your curriculum and career goals with your designated college advisor? Education startup
MyEdu aims to replace this by helping students virtually access their academic information and create a roadmap tailored to their career goals.
To date, over 2 million students at 750 universities have used MyEdu to earn their degree. MyEdu's suite of online products try to streamline the entire process of a college student's lifecycle, from selecting a college through to earning a degree. The suite includes detailed course descriptions, grade distributions, official course evaluations, and student reviews to pick the right classes; and schedule Planner to build the best schedule that fits a student's time constraints and goals.
[Post Time: 2010-03-12 12:24:12]
If I were a spit takin' man, I'd do a spit take right now.
Motorola, stalwart of freedom, will work with Chinese carriers to add Bing to Chinese Android-based phones, ousting Google Search and Maps from the scene. Now this isn't meanness on Motorola's part although
Reuters notes that this move could have something to do with that whole
Great Chinese Google Hacking Incident a few weeks ago.
[Post Time: 2010-03-12 12:24:12]
I handle a lot of mice in this job (right now I'm using the
Mionix Naos 5000) and I have to say that if a mouse were, like the
Magic Mouse, shaped completely wrong for human hands, I would throw it away and never speak of it again. Others, while perhaps more crafty, are far less principled, and will go so far as to fabricate a silicone crutch to rest their hand on. There, I fixed it!
[Post Time: 2010-03-12 12:24:12]
As mobile gaming takes off, developers will need in-depth analysis to determine consumer behavior with their games and adjust their games accordingly.
Motally, which provides user-action tracking services for the mobile web and apps, is expanding its product base today offering a targeted analytics service aimed towards mobile games on the iPhone, Android and Blackberry platforms. The
service is currently in private beta, but developers will be able to sign up to use the service.
Motally's game-oriented analytics platform allows publishers to track in-game data including where users drop out in-play and which levels users interact with most. Motally also allows for the dynamic changing of the game's design, allowing developers to measure the impact of changes immediately. As a result, publishers can tweak their games including design, performance, and ad placement by pinpointing areas of the game with the most traffic and identifying trouble areas.
[Post Time: 2010-03-12 06:56:42]
With Microsoft becoming increasingly marginalized in areas like mobile media, DirectX is becoming less of a must-use toolset and more of a gaming-specific one. The other side of the coin is, of course, the increasing relevance of standards like OpenGL, OpenAL, and OpenCL: powerful cross-platform systems for graphics, audio, and
parallel processing. You may remember OpenCL from
its debut on the Mac in Snow Leopard, and OpenGL ES of course powers the UI on the
iPad. OpenAL is still a ways from being brought under the public eye, but it's getting there. In the meantime, OpenGL 4.0 was announced today at GDC, and clearly it has DirectX in its sights.
[Post Time: 2010-03-12 06:56:42]
Google has
Google Trends, Twitter has trending topics, and now so does Wikipedia.
Pete Skomoroch, a Senior Research Scientist at LinkedIn and blogger at
Data Wrangling, built a
trending topics page for Wikipedia. The homepage ranks the top-25 Wikipedia articles with the most pageviews over the past 30 days, as well as the fastest rising articles in the past 24 hours.
Some of the most popular Wikipedia articles in the past month include ones on the Perseids meteor shower, Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted, director John Hughes, and G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra. These are quite different than the types of search trends you would find on Google trends or realtime trending topics on
Twitter.
[Post Time: 2010-03-12 06:56:42]
FlyScreen, the mobile phone lock-screen replacement from Israeli startup Cellogic, has added
Foursquare integration to its Android app ahead of this year's South by Southwest festival.
The new Foursquare widget lets users of the location-based social network access its main features, including the ability to quickly find places nearby, "check-in", share their location with friends via Foursquare, Twitter and/or Facebook, as well as access their foursquare friends-list.
[Post Time: 2010-03-12 06:56:42]
Fits.me, a virtual fitting room for internet clothing retailers based on robots (yes really) has won the European startup competition in Brussels,
Plugg.
It's actually even cooler than it sounds. By creating robotic shape-shifting manakins and testing how people reacted by seeing clothes on the robot with their dimensions, sales actually went up.
Only 7% of all clothing is sold online today, a $36bn market It's $20bn for computers), because you can't see how the clothes look on a human body. The fits.me trial with partners showed these pictures of adjustable manakins wearing clothes increased sales three times and dramatically reduced returns by 28%.
[Post Time: 2010-03-12 06:56:42]
After
shopping itself around to all the major search engines, Radar Networks finally found a buyer in another semantic search startup. Today,
Evri is announcing that it will be acquiring Radar Networks, along with its core technical team and its main product,
Twine. Rumors
surfaced yesterday on ReadWriteWeb that Evri was being acquired, but that is not the case. Evri is the acquirer.
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