startups

Remember This Name: PayPerPost to be Called Izea

The very controversial service PayPerPost, which pays bloggers small sums for writing about the products of advertisers, will change its name tomorrow to Izea. Izea will be the parent entity of a...

Domainers Invest in SharedReviews to Populate Parked Pages

The consumer product review site SharedReviews.com will announce tomorrow that it has taken an undisclosed sum of investment from parties in the domain buying industry. Those investors include Frank...

JumpBox Simplifies Server Software Deployment With Virtualization, Announces Partnership with Micros

JumpBox is a virtual appliance platform that simplifies the deployment of server software on local machines. By utilizing virtual machines and cleverly packaging an operating system, web server,...

Intense Debate: A Very Sweet Comment Management Plug-in

Colorado based Intense Debate, the sophisticated blog comment system with the silly name, launched its public beta this morning. There are some definite kinks in the service still, but there's also...

Cofundos.org Crowdsources Open Source Software Funding

Recently launched Cofundos.org, from the Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web Research Group at the University of Leipzig in Germany, is a community funding site for open source software. ...

DocStoc Takes Its Long Shot Vision to the Public

Document sharing site DocStoc opened to the public today after months of a high-profile private beta. Similar to the already launched and funded Scribd, DocStoc aims to provide a place for you to...

Plentyoffish: 1-Man Company May Be Worth $1Billion

We've written before about PlentyOfFish, a leading online dating site that is run by a single person and is raking in money. Markus Frind is the singular force behind PlentyOfFish. At the time of our...

Brijit Makes Your Magazines Lovable Again

Brijit is an interesting new service that supplies magazine abstracts for those of us too busy to read through every print publication we're subscribed to. If you don't subscribe to print...

YourStreet Relaunches as Elegant Local News Site

YourStreet is relaunching this week as a local news aggregator and mapping service. It's simple but really well executed; getting to review nice, smart little apps like this one is a big part of what...

ActionThis Launches Online Task Management Service - Free Offer for R/WW Readers

ActionThis, a Wellington, New Zealand based startup, today launched a "Get Things Done" task management app. It enables people to create and track project management items and tasks, either...