When Thoof launched in July 2007 a lot of people gave it a good chance of success despite the fact that it was entering into the dreaded personalized news space. Sure, the market was littered with fai

Sadly, 2007 wasn’t the best of years for many startups. Below you’ll find a list of the companies that took a swim in the TechCrunch DeadPool. Also see our Year in Deals, Year in TechCrunc

Personalized newspaper service Findory is finally closing, after remaining on life support since January when development ceased. Founder Greg Linden has now posted that the site will now be shut Nove

Mixx is a startup we’ve been watching for the last few weeks. They’ve been extremely quiet about their service until very recently. And since they are located well outside of Silicon Valle

This morning AOL is launching a suite of personalized products into beta: myPage (personalized home page), Mgnet (image-driven content discovery and recommendation engine) and Favorites (feed reader a

The web is littered with failed or stagnant personalized news startups. New startup Thoof is going to give it a whirl and see if they can do better than the ones that have tried it before. The idea ar

News site Spotback has created a new widget that lets blogs and other sites gather user ratings on each piece of content. The product has launched on a few test sites, and will be available for anyone

The last time we wrote about Findory was over a year ago. Ironically, it was to note that they had turned cash flow positive. Today, founder Greg Linden said he’s going to stop development of th

Israeli personalized news site Spotback released upgrades to its interface and a couple of new features. If you missed our initial review back in May, this is a good time to check out the site. As a p

Israeli startup Spotback, which I’ve been tracking for a while, will launch tonight (Monday) at 10 PM PST. Spotback is a personalized news portal that learns from user behavior over time to deli

Congratulations to Greg Linden, who reports that Findory is now cash flow positive. If you’d like to know more about Findory, my original profile, written on September 5, 2005, is here.

Findory has a first-class personalization engine for blog and other news (see our profile on September 3, 2005). Findory has built up a loyal following in the nearly two years since its launch. Howeve

Company: Findory Launched: January 2004 Location: Seattle, WA I’ve recently become interested in companies that exploit the actions and attention of users to provide personalized content recomme

Web 2.0 This Week September 18-24 We had a terrific turnout for our TechCrunch Meetup on Thursday and look forward to hosting future events regularly (at least monthly). It is wonderful to have so man

Web 2.0 This Week August 28 – September 3 What a week. Yes, I wrote about new companies (and there are some very interesting ones), but every day brought more heartbreaking news about Hurricane