Om has the scoop on Dabble DB raising a nice series A financing of $2MM from Ventures West.

I’m a big fan of Dabble DB and am amazed by what they’ve accomplished in bootstrapping the building of Dabble DB… putting $2MM in their coffers should enable them to grow the market.

Looks like they are publically launching later this week. If you haven’t checked them out, I highly recommend it.

Congrats boys!

Via: Om Malik

More at : Paul Kedrosky’s Infectious Greed

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Marc Canter has been hyping up his DLA (Digital Lifestyle Aggregator) for some time now. I received an email inviting me to join in despite the fact I don’t think I signed up for the service… I did get a chance to meet Marc a couple times… so it’s all good by me.

The feature list of People Aggregator is daunting, I’m still attempting to digest it all. In short looks like a social networking site with blogging, photos, audio, video, events, reviews and groups. At it’s core, it’s designed to centralize or I suppose aggregate

It’s the first service in the ‘wild’ that I’ve found taking advantage of the whole distributed identity concept. You can login to People Aggregator with your SXIP login, Live Journal login or through your Flickr login. I’m anxious to see this whole identity thing take off so can centrally manage my identities… and forget a few passwords in the process.

If you want to try out People Aggregator for yourself, throw your name and email in the comments and I’ll send you off an invite.

Technorati Tags: DLA, DLA, flickr, LiveJournal, marccanter, PeopleAggregator, BroadbandMechanics, sxip

Under the Radar was another fantastic event put on by IBDNetwork

My favorite track of the day was the “Remix” track with presentations by Eyespot, Jumpcut, Vidavee and Video Egg.

It’s pretty amazing to see the kind of video editing that can be done using a hosted, web based application. Each of the companies are doing their own little twist but all have taken great effort to make a simple an usable application to mix/mashup video using both AJAX technologies as well as Flash.

It amazes me how far technology has advanced in making it easy to do quite sophisticated video editing all in a web based interface. These solutions are approaching the functionality and usability of something like iMovie with the advantage of having all the video clips and content available online.

Up next the fireside chat with Denmark West from MTV. I met Denmark last night and he’s incredibly dynamic…. I’m looking forward this one.

Technorati Tags: ajax, eyespot, flash, jumpcut, MTV, under the radar, undertheradar, utr, vidavee, videoegg

I’m heading back to California for next Under the Radar next week. I’ve got some meetings setup with advisors, investors and customers for Zigtag and will be in town between Tuesday and Saturday.

Wednesday the 14th is Under The Radar. If you haven’t got your tickets yet, you can save $100 here.

If you’ve got a Web 2.0 Company that you think I should look at, email me at submit06@web2.0central.com and we’ll see if we can get together.

If you know of any BBQ’s/Geek Dinners or the like on the go while I’m in town, throw them in the comments.

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Krugle is a search engine for code.

They recently raised $6.1MM from Emergence Capital Partners, First Round Capital,
Omidyar Network, Rustic Canyon Partners.
Krugle spiders internet source code from around the web and makes it easily available to search. It’s super handy and a tool I can certainly see using it while developing Zigtag. Vertical search engines like Krugle definitely find better results and the additional tools they have for managing and saving code that you want to refer to again later are well designed.

Krugle is still in beta. You can sign up to be notified when they launch.

More at Red Herring

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