Picked Up in the Blogosphere...

Some treasures I have found recently through blogging...

Findory. Greg Linden, architect of Amazon's personalization engine, challenged my post Saving Serendipity with a comment that led me to his startup. Findory personalizes news and blogs, which I now feed into my RSS reader (okay, I confess I still use My Yahoo), so news gets better every day. In fact, I have replaced the useless "Archives" section in this blog's sidebar with a window into the some of the news generated for my profile. Findory will have to innovate fast, though, to keep up with some new, stealthy challengers coming to market...

Nivi. Babak Nivi, an MIT Media Lab graduate, has attracted a strong following for his insightful blog on new technology ventures (now on my blogroll). I found Nivi through his blog and, I'm pleased to report, recruited him to Bessemer as an EIR. (He's much, much smarter than he looks.) Check out his web-based voice mail app Slawesome.

Browster. In case you haven't tried this pre-fetching and content previewing plug-in, check it out. It really speeds up the web experience, and enables you to examine web content more deeply than you otherwise would.

Genius Architect, as posted. I actually found two!

Slippers with Headlights, thanks to an anonymous commenter on my post First VC Blog in India. These babies safely light my way to the bathroom at night.