We raised a seed round with Cuban and Betaworks

Posted by julien on Tuesday November 17, 2009 @10:26AM
from the blog.superfeedr.com dept.

http://blog.superfeedr.com/betaworks/cuban/investors/seed/seed-round/

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Re:We raised a seed round with Cuban and Betaworks by prakash on Tuesday November 17, 2009 @10:54AM (#946603)

Awesome! Many congratulations!

Did you exchange emails with Mark and he agreed to provide funding? I remember reading that he funded Red Swoosh or Ice Rocket that way.

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Re:We raised a seed round with Cuban and Betaworks by julien on Tuesday November 17, 2009 @02:51PM (#947099)

Mark has been incredibly responsive, but yeah, this happened mainly over emails :)

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Re:We raised a seed round with Cuban and Betaworks by lanstein on Tuesday November 17, 2009 @01:46PM (#946953)

iirc box.net as well. However, they later bought him out.

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Re:We raised a seed round with Cuban and Betaworks by wastedbrains on Tuesday November 17, 2009 @01:50PM (#946959)

Congrats that is awesome, keep up the good work.

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Re:We raised a seed round with Cuban and Betaworks by steveklabnik on Tuesday November 17, 2009 @11:08AM (#946635)

Congrats!

I'll admit to not knowing much about the various usages of XMPP, outside of Jabber. Is this any different than turning text messages on for Twitter, where people I'm following == feeds and texts == jabber messages? Or is there something else cool about this that I'm not getting?

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Re:We raised a seed round with Cuban and Betaworks by julien on Tuesday November 17, 2009 @02:50PM (#947098)

I think sprsquish pretty much answered that. We're "content-agnostic" as long as they're feeds. You subscribe to a feed (and that could be a twitter feed and you receive notifications), however, please not that we're an API service, so not for "consumers" directly. Check http://notifixlite.appspot.com/ for that!

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Re:We raised a seed round with Cuban and Betaworks by steveklabnik on Tuesday November 17, 2009 @07:27PM (#947524)

Isn't RSS itself a push? Or you're just changing protocols?

Sorry for being such a n00b...

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Re:We raised a seed round with Cuban and Betaworks by julien on Friday November 27, 2009 @01:42PM (#964218)

Nope, RSS isn't push. RSS us just a common way of "formatting" the information, but it stays where it is :) If you (or your reader) don't poll it, you'll never see new items.

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Re:We raised a seed round with Cuban and Betaworks by sprsquish on Tuesday November 17, 2009 @01:15PM (#946890)

Superfeedr has an XMPP API that allows you to subscribe to updates on a blog or really anything with an RSS or Atom feed. It'll provide push notifications when your subscriptions update.

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