Vizibility raises $ 1. 3 M, makes you look good when people Google you

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Vizibility, a provider of personal branding platform for individuals and companies, today announced that it raised $ 1.3 million people in more than $ 1 million for seed funding.

Enterprise Group Launchpad Boston led round and was joined by additional investors from Angels Boston Harbor, New York Angels and Angels tie, as well as a number of independent investors from North-East and Europe. Previous backers also participated in the round.

Vizibility was founded in 2009, and is headquartered in Manhattan, New York.

The company offers online identity management platform for individuals and companies, which allows them to the priest and share their online identities, including personalized Google search results, professional profiles, contact information, and much more.

SearchMe's buttons, links, and QR codes can be shared and posted on websites, blogs, business cards, marketing materials and whatnot. Its services are distributed primarily in the form of an integrated function of social networking sites, including job search, online reputation management and Executive profile hubs as well as dating sites.

Vizibility as "Google Me" button for career professionals. Through a simple wizard Vizibility service allows people to quickly create an optimal search Google for themselves based on ...

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Diffbot sees the Internet as people do now free for developers

Diffbot is geeky and incredibly interesting technology that uses robots, algorithms, computer vision and artificial intelligence to handle content on the website so how can a man. "The whole Internet can be broken down into 30 different types of pages" explains co-founder Mike Tung, also known as "Mike," and "Diffbot Diffbot you can define them all." Diffbot knows the difference between a social network profile, blog, home page, product page, events page and dozens more.

Diffbot today released his first set of APIs that are now open for all developers for free. Running can significantly affect the types of applications that developers can create, and for consumers, this means that a variety of intelligent applications is about to quit.

New APIs: on demand & follow

With two APIS available now, developers can create applications that will automatically extract the values from the pages of the applications that understand the trends and who says it, applications that provide RSS feeds, where no one had been available previously, and apps that announced only the relevant parts of the Web page, ignoring the ads, header, and footer copy.

And that's just for starters. Future APIS will enable developers to automatically turn the pages event calendar appointments, social network profiles in the vCard format or to automatically extract the delivery prices or feedback from product pages, among other things. Although Diffbot does not have an established road map, he looked forward to the launch of these new APIs for several months.

Today, the first 2 API available are:

On-demand API: this API consists of page types "Frontpage" and "Article". The first is used to analyze a site's pages and index pages using common layout markers as headers spoken, photos, articles, ads etc article API extracts text clean article, photos and tags. (For example, see Readably).Follow the API: This is used to track changes and updates to any Web page. Diffbot automatically determines the portion of the page that a developer wants to follow and extracts the metadata as the names, images, text, summary and more, and then segments page relevant sections (see photo).

What can Diffbot actually?

These APIS are already used speech recognition system for companies like maker nuance, AOL (Disclaimer: TechCrunch is owned by AOL), social media monitoring firm SocMetrics and others.

AOL uses Diffbot to retrieve the title, author, image, text, video, themes, and other metadata for its new iPad mag AOL publications. Nuance uses technology to improve its processing into a product for physicians, natural language processing, which requires an understanding of the complex medical terminology. SocMetrics sends a bit.ly short links to Diffbot to get the full text of the article text and so that it can determine which users of social media are saying about what topics most.

These are just a few examples of big-name. There are fewer, but just as innovative use cases out there, too. Like Hacker news radio for example, which reads the Hacker news and comments to you. Or FeedBeater that allows you to easily turn any URL into an RSS feed automatically (one of the first creations Diffbot). Or created by Diffbot Twitter feed that tracks changes to a Web page for the city of São Paulo, Brazil (as it has no RSS), and tweets updates.

The new self-service platform for developers is free up to 50000 API calls per month. Cloud plan provides $ 500 calls per 100000, and then $ 0.002/call after that. Managed business plan requires a custom pricing.

Diffbot was founded by Mike Tun and Leith Abdulla, both Stanford graduate students to leave to create a company. The idea arose from the desire to Tung automatically track new appointments on the Web site of the class automatically, using the technology. Diffbot was also the first launch, sponsored by the Stanford incubator programme, now called StartX (formerly SSE Labs).

Diffbot, founded in 2008, two students at Stanford, applies the methods of computer vision in order to obtain the semantic structure of Web pages. Diffbot analyzes documents a lot as a person, using ...

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Banjo, now allows you to stem jobs and people out there

Six-week old banjo mobile applications has been updated with a new feature that allows users to virtually stalk places and people there in real time. Banjo, for those who don't know, is a new social discovery service, which reveals the current social network at any given location at a certain time. To be clear, this is not another social network, it is a layer based on social networks. With banjo you don't have to create a profile, add friends or collect followers or any other behavior typical of social networks.

Instead, to use banjo, you simply run the application to see what people around you are saying and doing right now. OK pulls their data from social networking services like Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Gowalla, Twitter, and Instagram, access to publicly available refunds and geotags that accompany status updates and posts.

When banjo first started out, he proposed a "map" function that allows you to select a point on Google Maps are practically visit interface in this place, and see who was there. However, this function was cumbersome to use because you are not able to enter in the search box, specify the actual location – you had to drag-and-drop on the map to change its position.

Virtual Tour, virtual location Stalker

But now, you can type in any address supported by the Google Maps in order to discover the hidden social network is the place, whether you seek a city location, mailing address, or even the name of the local business.

There are certainly some use cases for this feature that will appeal to mainstream users, perhaps you're wondering what people think today in concert, for example, or what people at the Conference are posting photos or tweeting about.

However, as an online journalist, immediate treatment of the search function comes from the opportunities it offers to strengthen the reporting process. Imagine being able to visit virtually on the streets of London during the riots last weekend and seeing the flow of information resulting from the popular social networking services in real time.

The benefit is not only the ease with which you can view this kind of public data, it is that you can confirm that these people really are. With services like Twitter, anyone from anywhere can send update using a hashtag (keyword is preceded by a character, such as # londonriots) to join the public conversation about this topic. However, in some cases, it is very important to know that the man is actually when you host an update feature that will allow journalists to go then on those directly on the occurrence of an event, in the midst of it. Banjo makes this possible, as it only looks at what GEO coordinates gives an update.

Public information is easy to detect

The fact that it's now so easy to identify such data should be a reminder to you that what you post publicly online is truly open.

And banjo-isn't the only application that makes it easier to disclose such information. His nearest competitor, sonar, TechCrunch Disrupt startup has a similar take on location-based social networks, except that it takes people to the site, how many friends you have in common. In other words, rather than to reveal the hidden social network location, it shows you your own social network in this place.

Coming soon: more apps, more features, more social networks

Banjo plans to add a dozen more social networks in the next couple of weeks and added or are in the process of adding dozens of new features including the ability to store photos, share them via social networking, email, or SMS, as well as improve performance and speed.

Banjo is now available on iPhone and Android, but extends to other platforms in the future.

Banjo is a social discovery service that helps people explore social updates across multiple social networks. Connecting real people in real time, banjo equipment of publicly available information and delivers ...

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