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(Techcrunch) After developing their product on their own for six months, New York based Outside.in received financing from angels and three venture firms: Union Square Ventures, Milestone Venture Partners, and Village Ventures. Outside.in aims to aggregate posts from local bloggers (placebloggers) into one tagged and searchable directory.
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This is the first progress update we’ve had since our invitation Beta in January, and our baby’s almost ready. Richard, Marcin and myself met on the weekend in Amsterdam to go over some final issues and Marcin and I are in the production office in Krakow this week to implement the last changes before launch.

It was important to make the definitive list of features and functionalities and set the hard date for launch. We’ve gone through so many revisions, changes, and reorganizations in the last few months that we had almost lost sight of one of the most important things: actually going live!
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(Chicago Tribune) As the mastermind of Facebook.com, Mark Zuckerberg is sitting on a potential gold mine that could make him the next Silicon Valley whiz kid to strike it rich. But the 22-year-old founder of the Internet’s No. 2 social-networking site also could become the next poster boy for missed opportunities if he waits too long to cash in on Facebook Inc., which is expected to generate revenue of more than $100 million this year. The bright outlook is one reason Zuckerberg felt justified spurning several takeover bids last year, including a $1-billion offer from Yahoo Inc.
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(Post-Bulletin) When a loved one dies, people go through five stages of grieving, according to accepted wisdom: disbelief, yearning, anger, depression and acceptance. Now the first large-scale study to examine the five stages shows that they are not only accurate, but also if a person has not reached the acceptance stage by six months he or she may need professional help dealing with their bereavement.
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(Express-Times) Nearly two years ago while on vacation, Stanley Croughter received a birthday present that he wouldn’t wish on anyone. He learned from police that his 22-year-old son had been gunned down in Trenton the previous night. What followed was a grief-filled void. “I realized there was no venue for people such as myself to talk about their grief and all of their pain,” Croughter said. “No one knows that feeling unless they are someone who has felt it and is feeling it.”
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