Forget using Facebook to hook up with random girls or guys. Venture fund Charles River Ventures is using it to find a hot startup or two. Eagle-eyed reader Rishi Mandal saw the ad to the left today, which says “Running a hot startup? Learn more about Charles River Ventures and how we can help you. [...]

KillerStartups, or rather its overarching company Startups.com Networks, has been in the news lately. First, they picked up Startups.com in a killer deal, next thing you know they’re launching their own web applications (Twingr). Now, they’re introducing the strangely named but quite useful Dataopedia, which is meant to serve as an information resource for websites.
It’s [...]

Virtual gifts have been fairly popular on social networks like Facebook, which offers a library of hundreds of gifts, most of which sell for a dollar (a few of them are free). But these gifts are generally all tied to the network they were purchased on, which means you can’t display the same giftbox [...]

The digital mixtape is dying on the Web. The RIAA is killing it just like it tries to kill anything that smacks of consumer-driven innovation. Digital mixtapes are nothing more than shared playlists. Sites that make it easy to create and share music in this fashion are shutting down left and right. [...]

Twiistup 5, an event for startups to be held in LA in February, today announced its 10 “Showoffs” - these are the top 10 startups, picked from over 100 submissions, that get to present at the event. They are: Causecast, Cogi, eHow, FixYa, GoGreenSolar.com, Meebo, RoboDynamics, TheScene, Viewdle and Yammer.
Each startup is eligible to [...]

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Company Name
Veedow
20-Word Description
A shopping discovery site that recommends products based on every user’s interests and helps them discover products they’ll love.
CEO’s Pitch
Veedow is a personalised shopfront that recommends products in line [...]

Mahalo is now answering your questions. The human-curated search engine/ condensed wiki guide is adding a Q&A service called Mahalo Answers to its mix. It is a combination of Yahoo Answers and the long-defunct Google Answers, with some cute avatars and virtual currency thrown in. (Disclosure: Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis is our [...]

An free service which protecting your email accounts, passwords, encrypt your download link from third parties miss usages. You can use Fliptitle which working write upside down such as u?op ?p?sdn ?????. When you start typing words to fliptitle site - automatically make the sentence upside down. You can share with your friends too and [...]

PDFs have always been one of my biggest computing nemesis: they slow my machine down to a crawl when opened and eat up a lot of disk space when saved. Gmail has just added a solution to address this: its own viewer that lets you view PDFs in your Web browser. It’s blazing [...]

This post is part of Mashable’s Startup Review series, which highlights great unsung startups. The series is made possible by Sun Startup Essentials.

Company Name
InternshipRatings
20-Word Description
InternshipRatings.com is a resource for college students to rate and research internships in various industries across the United States
CEO’s Pitch
Lauren Grunstein and Stephanie Gurtman launched InternshipRatings.com in February 2008. [...]