StartupSD

Mahalo, the Los Angeles based human powered search engine startup who’s CEO is the infamous internet personality, Jason Calacanis, is searching for the next host of their popular vlog, Mahalo Daily. The contest, which was announced about a month ago, is now a tight race between 12 different female contestants, all with varying levels of [...]

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Planning on attending Structure 08 - Put Cloud Computing to Work? The conference, which was developed by GigaOM and created to “inform businesses so they can plan their future computing infrastructure needs,” is being held June 25 at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco.
GigaOM confirmed Structure 08 will host the first workshop [...]

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Here are a few tidbits of local San Diego startup news.
Nouri.sh Ranks Among The Top 100 Rails Applications Of The Web.

The local web app, Nouri.sh was recently ranked in the top 100 Rails apps by Alexa. Nouri.sh is a very cool .RSS feed-to-email newsletter tool that was developed by Matt Browne and his team [...]

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Stolen Mangos, a social network currently in development, isn’t a site that either you or I will be using anytime soon. In fact, Stolen Mangos is a site designed to mirror the functionality of Facebook, mix in the micro-blogging and mobile elements of Twitter, but serve an audience solely in India.

The back story starts with [...]

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You probably already know about Goowy Media, the San Diego based widget startup, that’s been making noise since mid 2004. You may have read about them when they first appeared on the scene, but you probably read some of the more recent press in February when they were acquired by AOL. I skimmed all the [...]

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Taaz, a month-old online startup based in La Jolla, offers users the chance to realistically alter their appearances and test out new makeup and hairstyle looks online. Taaz.com is the result of work by UCSD professor David Kriegman and one of his students, Satya Mallick, now a Ph.D., to create an algorithm that allows you [...]

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About Travature
We’ve all been to travel sites that supposedly search for the lowest fares to find us the best deals. If your experience has been anything like mine, you’ve noticed that these so called deals are nothing of the sort, and that some of the user-generated content around the hotels and surrounding attractions are lacking. [...]

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Nominations are still being accepted for The Under the Radar Conference taking place June 3 in Mountain View, CA. Under the Radar is an annual one-day event produced by DealMaker Media to uncover 32 startups in the entertainment and social media space. You must have launched in the past year to qualify.
DealMaker Media’s events (which [...]

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Dayak.com, a San Diego based online recruiting marketplace scored $1.15 million in seed capital today. The funding round was lead by the local Tech Coast Angels (TCA) group with efforts headed up by Dan Caufield. First Round Capital of San Francisco also participated in the funding round.
I know Dan personally, he’s a workhorse with [...]

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If you follow me on Twitter, then you probably already know that I had the opportunity to chat with Martin May, Co-Founder of Brightkite, this afternoon. In fact, if you follow me closely, then you not only know that my introduction to Brightkite was through Nate Ritter’s tweet & subsequent invite to join Brightkite, but [...]

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