Twitter founders put their weight behind a new launch: rent

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Twitter co-founders biz stone, Evan Williams and longtime sidekick Jason Goldman, recently have shifted their attention from micro sharing service provider to reset the obvious, the company which originally incubated Twitter.

Yesterday the stone announced the first draft of the obvious: new application development company called lift created by Tony Stubblebine and John Crosby. Obvious said that it would help lift with "strategies, develop, finance and recruitment."

Hoist building remains unclear, but Stone says:

"Tony Stubblebine and Jon Crosby created an interesting new application for unlocking human potential through the positive reinforcements. We love this software for what he does, and since we have tried it and it works.

Crosby said more would be distributed "in the coming months." If you are interested in learning more now: Marshall Kirkpatrick was sleuthing and writes about what he found at ReadWriteWeb.

Stubblebine previously worked at Wesabe, Odeo (where he worked with obvious trio) and O'Reilly Media, and founded the CrowdVine. Crosby boasts concerts on the road, engine yard and Songbird his resume.

The lift will be billed as a company are evident, despite the obvious team clearly sees this more as a partnership in which the lift gets to go his own way, under the leadership of Stubblebine and Crosby.

Its service is currently in private alpha, but the Web site allows people to register to get more details when available. Oh and you can log in via Twitter and Facebook.

As an amusing side: entrepreneur and Hacker Connor Montgomery and/or Stubblebine, apparently added some humor in the code of the Web site of the lift:

(meta name = "description" content = "Cancel. Achieve anything (assuming that we are finishing building this app). ")

I assume that they will. Can't wait to finally be able to achieve anything!

Apparent Corporation creates technological systems to facilitate cooperation between people to improve the world. The obvious thought that technology has the power to affect individuals, organizations ...

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Former members of Expedia raise $ 8 million for the trip search launch Hopper

Robin Wauters is currently staff writer for TechCrunch and lead editor of Virtualization.com. In addition to its activities, professional blogging, he is an entrepreneur, the organizer of the event, from time to time the Council consultant and an angel investor, but the most important champion of the full launch. He lives and works in Belgium, a small country in Europe. He can often be found work from their home or ... ? Read More

Hopper, Montreal, Canada at the start, had raised $ 8 million in new funding from Atlas venture and previous Backer Brightspark Ventures, to try to ' reinvent travel search '.

Hopper is still in stealth mode, but if you want to learn more about what they cook, check out this Boston.com profile or this article from Boston's Xconomy.

Really Hopper plans to open new Office in Boston, where he plans to double its engineering team within the next year.

The company builds on the merits of the "journey of discovery" engine for consumers, allowing people to know the directions and products using only keywords such as "the best beaches in Europe".

The launch was conceived by Sebastian Rejnvillâ, Chief Engineer Frederick Lalonde, the Director-General and Chief of product Joost Ouwerkerk. The last two were Expedia Lalonde, who purchased the previous company Newtrade technologies back in 2002.

Hopper was originally founded in 2007 and previously raised $ 2 million in 2008, the company's total funding to $ 10 million today.

Jeff Fagnan, partner at Atlas venture, will join the Hopper, the Board of Directors.

Hopper is developing a search engine for travel planning. Funded by Brightspark Ventures, the company was founded in 2007. Hopper's offices are located in the renovated Paul ...

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