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Monthly Archive for October 2008

Fitbit Raises Series A

Fitbit has successfully closed its first round of venture funding. Fitbit produces a small device with a great form factor that clips on to your clothes and gathers information about your movements through motion sensor technology like that of the Nintendo Wii, which will provide personal analytics on exercise, calories, and sleep. Fitbit launched at TechCrunch50 last month where it was runner up for the top prize. Devices will be available in early 2009.

Congratulations, James & Eric!

GigaOm Daily For Your Daily Om

GigaOm Daily provides a live microblog-based newswire, inspired by Dave Winer’s concept of “river of news.” Om has listened to the laments of time-constrained readers and responded with a Twitter-style micro-newswire. This super-simplistic news solution features 15 to 30 short posts daily with editorial inputs from the GigaOm network, which can be received as an RSS or Twitter subscription or as a once-a-day email newsletter.

Matt Is Influential

BusinessWeek has listed Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg as one of the top 25 most influential people on the web due to the viral growth of the open source movement and the popularity of the WordPress blogging platform.