Kosmix company updates


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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
Read more on Kosmix and the mystery of Deep Web. Inside India's Hindu Business Line: http://bit.ly/7hALYL on December 29
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
Looking forward to hosting the Girls in Tech Resume Workshop at Kosmix HQ tonight! If you're looking for a job or want some tips on building a stellar resume, this is the place to be. http://bit.ly/4AjKx on November 19
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
At SDForum in Palo Alto tonight, Kosmix and Google will debate two very different approaches to the Deep Web. Should be a lively discussion! http://bit.ly/1izuGg on November 12
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
Kosmix Startup Smackdown: The Movie! Here's the highlights vid of our ping pong tournament last week. It's Silicon Valley's own version of "Balls of Fury." http://bit.ly/LDIpM on November 09
bryan ward
bryan ward at 04:21pm November 09
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
Tonight is Kosmix Startup Smackdown! We're gearing up for a FIERCE ping pong tournament with Evernote, Polyvore, Talenthouse, TheFind, RhythmNewMedia, SkyFire & Meebo! on November 05
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Bambi Francisco Roizen
Bambi Francisco Roizen at 12:27pm November 05
Sounds like a blast!
Ezra Roizen
Ezra Roizen at 12:43pm November 05
The winner gets to play Vator.
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
Big news at Kosmix today: We just acquired a very cool startup called Cruxlux, which charts relationships between people, places and things--like an automated version of "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon." Details on our blog: http://blog.kosmix.com/websearch/kosmix-acquires-cruxlux/ on October 20
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Bambi Francisco Roizen
Bambi Francisco Roizen at 02:03pm October 22
Can't wait to see how that plays out. Any more acquisitions in the pipeline? The community wants to know what Kosmix is looking for.
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
We're attending GigaOm's Internet Salon today, all about what's next for the Web. Check out the discussion here: http://bit.ly/3WBOc7 on October 19
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
We're presenting at SF New Tech tonight! We'll have five minutes to give a quick overview of MeeHive, our personal news site, and to plug our newest iPhone app, MeeTV. Come on out--we'd love to see you! Ticket info and all the details here: http://bit.ly/4zD6Ad. on October 14
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Meliza Solan
Meliza Solan at 02:56pm October 14
You guys are going to rock it tonight!
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
Latest Kosmix Blog Post: How Wikipedia can make a giant leap ahead for the Semantic Web. http://blog.kosmix.com/ on September 15
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
We're doing a giveaway at Kosmix today, using a cool Twitter raffle app that one of our engineers developed. If you'd like to play, retweet the following message on Twitter: RT @kosmix: Woot! It's #Kosmix Giveaway Day! RT this message before 4 p.m. PT today to enter to win! on August 26
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Bambi Francisco Roizen
Bambi Francisco Roizen at 03:07pm August 26
Neat. What's the giveaway?
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
Have you checked out the Kosmix blog? Here's a link to our most recent post--about what Google's new "Caffeine" means for the search space: http://blog.kosmix.com/. on August 12
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
Great Lunch 2.0 panel with Kosmix, Mozilla and FriendFeed last week. Click here to watch the five minute highlights video, which has some good insights about what it takes to build a company in this environment: http://www.kosmix.com/corp/about on August 10
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
For those who won't be able to join us for our Lunch 2.0 panel this Thursday with Mozilla and FriendFeed, we're going be streaming the panel online. Here's the link to watch the panel live, and learn how these three companies are driving change online: http://bit.ly/TKNGx on August 04
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
Psst! Kosmix is hosting a Lunch 2.0 panel on 8/6 with Mozilla, FriendFeed and Louis Gray. RSVP at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4104128. Spaces are filling up quickly, so you may want to act fast to reserve your spot. on July 24
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Ezra Roizen
Ezra Roizen at 01:37pm July 24
I bet it's going to be outta this world ;-)
Jodi Olson
Jodi Olson at 05:03pm July 24
Ha! :)
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
Check out http://www.facebook.com/meehive to see the latest about Kosmix's personal news site. on July 22
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
We've had a tremendous response to RightHealth.com Staff Physician Steven Chang's appearance on "View from the Bay" on Friday. You can see his segment on energy drinks here: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=view_from_the_bay/health_fitness&id=6920297. on July 20
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
Energy drinks pose serious health risks to kids. Dr. Steven Chang of Kosmix's www.righthealth.com will share the scoop on today's View from the Bay (ABC7 in San Francisco, 3 p.m. PT). on July 17
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
The Wall Street Journal quotes Kosmix co-founder Anand Rajaraman in their piece about the Twitter Hacking: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/07/15/twitter-hacking-spurs-ethics-debate-over-leaked-files/ on July 16
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
Here's the video clip of the BBC piece on the Future of Search Engines--it's an interesting overview of the space, and includes an interview with Kosmix co-founder Anand Rajaraman. http://www.vimeo.com/user1010759/videos on July 15
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
Kosmix in the BBC, featured as one of the "Search Engines of the Future". http://is.gd/1vcAJ on July 13
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
Check out the "Future of Search" podcast by Andrew Davis of Tipping Point Labs. http://tr.im/rJXs. Really interesting stuff from SEO expert Bernie Borges, DuckDuckGo and Kosmix's co-founder Anand Rajaraman. on July 10
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Charles Knight
Charles Knight at 01:53pm July 11
Jodi Olson
Jodi Olson at 06:34pm July 13
This is great--thanks, Charles!!
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
We're looking forward to attending TechCrunch's Real Time Stream CrunchUp tomorrow--should be some great ideas there. on July 09
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
We're seeing an interesting trend in news consumption: TONS of people use MeeHive to follow updates about their favorite television shows. The notion of what goes on the "front page" is quickly evolving! on July 07
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Bambi Francisco Roizen
Bambi Francisco Roizen at 02:37pm July 07
That's a new twist for Meehive. Following updates about their favorite TV shows? Cool.
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
Kosmix was featured in a WIRED story yesterday entitled, "Cool Search Engines that Are Not Google." Reporter Ryan Singel tested 50 different players in the space, and came up with a list of his top picks. http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/06/coolsearchengines on July 01
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tony Huff
tony Huff at 08:04pm July 01
Yes we need more than google. Can anyone comeup with better search engine tan google?
Bambi Francisco Roizen
Bambi Francisco Roizen at 01:44pm July 02
You're amazing at getting coverage. How many news outlets have written about Kosmix? Amazing.
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
Users keep describing our personal news site, www.meehive.com. as an "addiction"--that's gotta be a good sign! on June 29
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Bambi Francisco Roizen
Bambi Francisco Roizen at 01:35pm June 29
that's a good sign
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
Great Kosmix profile in the SJ Mercury News: "Instant encyclopedia on crazy-awesome internet steroids". http://bit.ly/16RtvX on June 25
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
Kosmix is going to be hosting a Lunch 2.0 event on July 21--if you're in the Mountain View neighborhood, we'd love to have you join us! We'll send around content and invite details soon. on June 24
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
Kosmix is hiring! We're looking for an algorithm junkie to help design, implement, and deploy high-performance, scalable systems for massive data storage and distributed processing. If this sounds like you, check out the job description at http://tinyurl.com/mlbxpr. on June 19
Bambi Francisco Roizen
Bambi Francisco Roizen at 11:38pm June 19
don't forget to put your jobs-for-hire description in your company profile and we'll send it out in our "startups hiring" newsletter!!!!
Charles Knight
Charles Knight at 01:46pm June 20
with your permission we will "post" this...we also have RealMatch's job board. AltSearchEngines, we reach the world. ;-)
Jodi Olson
Jodi Olson at 03:55pm June 24
Thanks, Bambi and Charles! Charles, we'd love to have you post this as well. Bambi, I'll add the update to our company profile.
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
Kosmix has been voted one of Businessweek's 50 startups to watch! Congrats to our fellow Mountain View winners: Evernote, Loopt, TheFind and Jajah! http://bwnt.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/tech_startups_you_should_know_2009/ on June 18
Charles Knight
Charles Knight at 01:55pm June 20
Congrats! and to TheFind as well.
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Jodi Olson (Director, Corporate Communications)
Great analysis of the Long Tail and the Black Swan effect in Inc., by my Kosmix colleague Vijay Chittoor: http://tinyurl.com/koc2b5 on June 18
Charles Knight
Charles Knight at 01:48pm June 20
the Black Swan effect??
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