ProjectX Technology

Congrats to Eurekster securing $US5.5M in a Series B round of funding.

Here’s what Steve Marder says in the Press release:

“Not only are we thrilled with global investors TVP and Transcosmos joining the Eurekster family but this transaction marks the next phase of accelerating our leadership in the social search and vertical search areas. With their support, we will more aggressively deliver on our vision for social search driving brand reinforcement, user engagement and improved targeting all to the benefit of web publishers, end users and advertisers.”

Congratulations to Silverstripe for being accepted in Google Summer of Code!

They had a fantastic plug from Chris Di Bona.

“I feel SilverStripe is a great example of a well-constructed open source project. It makes innovative use of technology but it is easy to use, which is just as important for open source, so it is a good candidate for Google to support. With so much going on in the web- development arena, it will be easy for Summer of Code developers to contribute, and with the mentors having helped students in the past, we were happy to trust SilverStripe to be the first New Zealand organisation involved.”

– Chris DiBona, Open Source Programs Manager, Google Inc.

So, if you’re a student and looking to work on kick ass project with some serious cool people AND getting paid by Google. Check out Silverstripe’s projects and apply to the Google Summer of Code.

I have just added a whole bunch of pictures from this year’s Summer of Code on Flickr. Enjoy!

I subscribe to a RSS feed that shows me how ZoomIn hits the blogsphere. I discovered today that someone is using copied ZoomIn content to seed their link farm. At first I thought someone liked our site and wrote about here and here.

On closer inspection, I noticed that it contained a “cut and paste” of our “About Us” text . And they took time to include pictures ????

Arrrgghhh!!! Why why why???

As spotted on this years Where 2.0 2007 site