PiXPO is a Victoria, BC, Canada company that offer video/photo/audio sharing.

The unique twist is the files are served from your machine. This saves the hassles of uploading the files and allows them to be delivered at full fidelity. Additionally, users can choose for the files to be public or private to share those special memories with just their friends and families.

As your machine is the one serving up the media, If your machine is offline so is your media. An upcoming update will remove that limitation by subscribing to a hosting package. Additionally if your media gets popular, PiXPO caches the media and delivers it so your home machine doesn’t come to a screeching halt.

In May they raised a $6.5 MM Series A financing round lead by Madrona, with participation from GrowthWorks, Yaletown Venture Partners, Springbank TechVentures.

Look for some exciting things from PiXPO 4.0 launching around October.

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Dapper is officially my favorite web application I’ve reviewed! And I only started playing with it early this morning. Dapper will change the way I use the internet!

They’ve executed on something I’ve been wishing for for quite some time. I’m SO glad I don’t have to build it now.

Dapper allows you extract data and create a web service out of ANY webpage. No need to understand grep, curl or complex scripting. They provide a visual interface for selecting the content elements that you want to capture from a page.

They’ve done a decent job with the interface for defining which content you want to scrape from a page though I think they can and will do more to make the parsing easier.

Once you’ve configured a Dapper, you can output the resulting data in an array of formats:

XML - A raw XML feed
HTML - A simple HTML display of the scraped data
RSS - A RSS Feed
Alert - Sends an email alert whenever the data on the page changes.
Email - Emails the data to any email address
Google Map - Creates a Google map with any address data from the data source.
Google Gadget - Creates a gadget to place on your Google homepage
Image Loop - Creates a scrolling display of all the images in the data feed
JSON - A JSON datafeed that you can utilize directly in your javascript apps
Link to Another Dapper - Allows you to use data from one Dapper in another Dapper

To top it all off, they’ve created API’s for PHP4, PHP5 and Java5 allowing you to easily access the data generated from your dapper.

The BILLIONS of pages out there that don’t have an API or RSS feed can now be parsed without a lot of effort. I firmly believe Dapper will be a game changing and disruptive internet service. Dapper will empower a new generation of web applications and mashups.

They are currently in beta with an expected August release. I’m completely excited to see what the Interent community does with this.

Mashupers start your engines!

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Yahoo just announced their new Search Builder service. Similar to Rollyo and Microsoft’s Live Search Macros the service allows you to build your own search engine and choose which sites and keywords you want to include and exclude from the search.

Once you configure your search engine, Yahoo provides the code for you to place it on your website. Not a whole lot different than what you’ll find at Rollyo, however Yahoo’s reach is sure to get more exposure for this.

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I’m visiting Toronto until Sunday.

I’d like to do a Toronto geek/ Canadian Tech Mob lunch Saturday afternoon. I’ve gotta check out the Toronto Web 2.0 scene.

David Crow has helped put this together.

We’re meeting at 1pm on the patio of The Bedford Academy in Yorkville.

The Bedford Academy
36 Prince Arthur Ave., Toronto, ON M5R 1A9

http://upcoming.org/event/96388

Map

Everyone is welcome.

Comment here or email me at rcheramy@web2.0central.com.

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I’m visiting Toronto until Sunday.

I’d like to do a Toronto geek/ Canadian Tech Mob dinner maybe Saturday night. I’ve gotta check out the Toronto Web 2.0 scene.

Anyone have a recommendation where we could do it?

Who’s in?

Details here.

Comment here or email me at rcheramy@web2.0central.com.

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