Hypertext - The wide world of the web | Chicago Tribune | Blog. Just back from vacation and catching up on some cross-posting of print pieces. This profile was the Sunday magazine cover story on August 17, 2008. In its day-to-day workings, EveryBlock.com, Adrian Holovaty's Web 2.0 startup, is about as far from colorful as a business can get. And Holovaty, one of the nation's hottest computer programmers, isn't afraid to tell you so. "It's generally just a bunch of guys typing into their computers," says Holovaty, with typical diffidence. "Oh, we recently got a small Nerf basketball hoop for our office, so I guess that constitutes action. " The action, though, around EveryBlock.com is hot and heavy. Yet when it began in January, the site staged none of those extravagant Internet launch parties designed to herald its arrival and, one suspects, to let computer geeks impress preternaturally buff singles with all the money their industry attracts.
"There's the dot-com, Silicon Valley, blow-all-your-money-on-booze style," says Holovaty, 27. The Next Net 25: 25 startups that are reinventing the web - Mar. A new Web revolution is picking up steam, and the next Google or Microsoft could emerge from the companies that are in the vanguard. SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Things are really crackling in Silicon Valley these days. There's the frenzied startup action, the rising rivers of VC cash, even the occasional bubble-icious long-term stock prediction (Google $2,000, anyone?). There's so much happening that the buzzword recently employed to try to encapsulate the era -- "Web 2.0" -- now seems hopelessly inadequate, defined and redefined into near meaninglessness by squadrons of aspiring entrepreneurs, marketers, and other fortune hunters. So it seems a particularly useful moment to wave away the smoke and home in on what's really core.
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IT PRO | Five Startups to watch in 2008. Even in these post dot com times, web startups are thriving. When IT PRO recently visited the Le Web conference in Paris, we were treated to a beauty parade of some of the best and brightest new companies, all trying to pioneer and establish new services and technologies for the web. This is our pick of the group, the five companies we think have the brightest future ahead of them, and hopefully won't sink without trace.
Zyb Proudly shouting that there are 12 million contacts securely stored on their website is Zyb, which allows you to back up you smartphone's PIM data (contacts, calendar entries) over the air using the standard iSync software built in to most modern handsets. You can also forward SMS messages to a number if you wish to store them for reference as well. We were impressed with Zyb on two counts. The usual questions and worries about data aside, Zyb works very well. Louder Voice Look at any online store and you're likely to find a 'reviews' section. G.Ho.st Holistis Alenty.