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Frank Gruber, Contributor
July 9th, 2006

Nine Chicago Startups Present at Tech Cocktail

The first TECH cocktail event took place on July 6 in Chicago at STATE Restaurant and Café. The event featured Stormhoek South African wine and united over 225 Midwest participants — including venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, developers and tech enthusiasts. Nine Chicago-area companies presented. Pictures from the event are here. ChicagoCrime.org, the freely browsable database of crimes… → Read More

Frank Gruber, Contributor
March 30th, 2006

The State of Online Feed Readers

Syndication is undoubtedly the heartbeat of the web 2.0 movement. A feed reader, the most common solution to consuming synidcated content, saves the user time by monitoring countless sites and sources and providing near real-time updates to one location. There are a number of different types of readers: web-based, desktop, Outlook based, etc… This post is focused solely on web-based feed… → Read More

Michael Arrington
December 13th, 2005

Gritwire – Cool Flash Reader, Stupid Launch Party

Illinois-based Gritwire, a new Flash based RSS reader, launched today at the Syndicate Conference in San Francisco. These new Flash applications are always visually stunning, even if they are not as fast as their Ajax counterparts. GritWire is no exception – its well designed. The RSS reader is functional but not spectacular. There are OPML import options and a feed search, but images are… → Read More