Hello, ReadWriteWeb readers! As Richard noted earlier, I am joining ReadWriteWeb as its new Editor-at-Large, and I am very excited about it. I'll start writing for the site in January, but in the meantime, I have some planning to do. And I'd love your help.

First, a brief introduction: For the past six years, I've been writing about the tech industry every day. Most recently, I launched SplatF, a one-man tech analysis and commentary site, which I'll continue to write. Prior to that, I helped create Business Insider in 2007, when it was a small tech blog. And before that, I was a tech reporter at Forbes.

That is, I'll be traveling around the world regularly, looking for the next big stories and ideas in technology. Some themes I'll be looking for include:

• The rise of mobile computing, smartphones and tablets, and how they're changing the tech industry and society.
• The promise of the digital living room and the changing balance of power in media.
• How entrepreneurs are reinventing every facet of life, from the way we communicate to our thermostats. And how new technology and business models are making it easier for entrepreneurs to do this.
• How governments and companies are investing in game-changing technology and infrastructure projects around the world, and what it means.
• The people who are making this all happen.

One of the things that attracted me to ReadWriteWeb is its global perspective, staff, and readership. So let me know: What's going on in your city, country, or industry that's fascinating right now? What's worth visiting and learning about? What interesting stories aren't being told properly? Which conferences and gatherings should I aim to speak at?

The last thing I want, I assure you, is to be the 10th person to write the same story that you've already read. So I'd love your help looking for new and important ideas.

In the meantime, feel free to get in touch in the comments below, and please follow me on Twitter at @fromedome for the latest.

Globe photo by Andy Beatty

There are almost two dozen meetups already set up and there's still plenty of time to get one of your own local meetups ready. Take a look at the list below to see if there are already local meetups happening in your area. If not, check out the ReadWriteWeb Meetup page and start one of our own with just one click.

St. Louis, MO USA

Cambridge, MA USA

Vienna, VA USA

Portland, OR USA

Auckland, New Zealand

Seoul, Korea

Vladivostok, Russia

Wellington, New Zealand

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Tokyo, Japan

Seattle, WA USA

Savannah, GA USA

San Francisco, CA USA

Palo Alto, CA USA

Ottaway, Canada

Orange, CA USA

London, United Kingdom

Idianapolis, IN USA

Dublin, Ireland

Chicago, IL USA

Bristol, United Kingdom

Austin, TX USA

If your city isn't yet listed, be sure to claim it here.

Photo: Marshall Kirkpatrick, VP Content Development and Lead Writer, and Richard MacManus, Founder and Editor-in-Chief

Last week we had our first official ReadWriteWeb meetup at the Green Dragon in Portland, OR. Why Portland? Well, for starters, it's got the highest concentration of ReadWriteWeb staff, but also because Portland is a great city, with one of the most active tech scenes out there. The meetup was great, with just the right mix of people, conversations and beer.

But not everyone can get to Portland to talk tech, so we wanted to make sure we gave you all a venue to do just that in your own area.

ReadWriteWeb Meetup Everywhere

On November 15, tech enthusiasts, like yourself, will be gathering at their own local watering hole to opine on some of your favorite topics. Discuss the real-time Web, argue over which mobile OS will dominate in 2012, contemplate the implications of identity on social networks... The possibilities for a good tech-centric conversation in your area just got a great deal more likely.

We're already seeing some communities start to take shape in a few cities, including Washington DC, Amsterdam and St. Louis, MO. If your city isn't yet listed, be sure to claim it here.

Spam Comments

Like most blogs, ReadWriteWeb assumes the best about our commenters. We don't pre-moderate because we don't want to slow down your ability to contribute to discussions. If we see a comment that we aren't sure about, we do assume your comment isn't spam.

That said, when a comment is clearly only made to pimp your blog, your startup, your product or an affiliate offer, we'll remove it. Spam includes folks who call themselves 'Free iPad', 'Low Cost Mattresses' and other SEO stunt names.

Personal Information

Our advice is to avoid placing personally identifiable information in the comments. We're not hall monitors, so if you choose to do so we won't remove it, but remember that doing so opens you up to spam and worse.

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Please don't simply drop a link in a comment and leave. While your link may direct our readers to insightful discourse that is absolutely relevant to the discussion, without context it's useless. Please take a few moments to explain why your link is relevant. If you don't not only will no one click your link, we may assume it's spam and remove it.

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Please do let us know if you disagree with our writers. Likewise, if you see a typo or if we've otherwise slipped up in some way we want to hear about it. However, please do this respectfully. It should go without saying that writers have feelings too...

Your Treatise on Subject B

Remember that you are writing a comment and not a blog post. Anything beyond 500 words probably belongs on your own blog. While we won't remove your long-winded treatise, we probably won't read it all the way through either.

Trolls, Free Speech and Hate

We understand that this is the Internet and you expect to be given free rein but this particular slice of the web is not your personal property. Any comment that we deem destructive will be removed. This includes but is not limited to libel, defamation, hate speech, excessively sexual content, excessive profanity and harassment. Passion is good. Anger is OK. Harassment is a no-no.

If you disagree with a removal you are welcome to let our community manager know.

Please give us a hand by flagging spam or destructive comments when you see them.

These guidelines aren't comprehensive, because they don't need to be. We don't struggle with a burden of inane vitriol that you see elsewhere on the web. If need be in the future we'll update these guidelines as necessary.

Candle photo by Christa Uymatiao

Ever wondered what RWW looked like 8 years ago? In this post I nostalgically look back on 8 years of homepage designs for ReadWriteWeb.

There are so many things different about the blogging environment in 2011, compared to 2003, that it would take an 8-part content series to list them all. Instead I'll just note that ReadWriteWeb has always been a two-way experience. A big part of why I started RWW in 2003 was to network with people building and writing the new Web. In 2011, it's two-way in a lot more ways. RWW readers can now tweet at or about us, have a conversation on our Facebook Page, comment on our site using a service that connects to other social media, and so much more.

Not to be too pitchy, but we're extending the two-way concept to ReadWriteWeb's 4th event: the two-day long 2WAY Summit in New York City on 13-14 June. I'm very excited about this event, because it's another way that RWW has extended itself since those humble beginnings in 2003. I'm also proud of the 6 channels that RWW now has under our umbrella, from ReadWriteEnterprise to ReadWriteMobile.

Here's a look back at some of the RWW designs over the years, starting from my own DIY efforts in 2003 to the much more professional touches of our tech stars Jared Smith and Tyler Gillies in 2011.

When I started in April 2003, ReadWriteWeb sported the default template of Dave Winer's blogging software Radio Userland.

Like many enthusiast bloggers, then and now, I started out doing everything myself - including the design work. The first proper design I did was in September 2003 and it was, believe it or not, green (well before the Other Green Tech Blog arrived on the scene).

Even greener! The version below is circa May, 2004. Not my best tagline work...

This version is an iteration from January, 2005 and featured giant pencils. Those were from one of my favorite artists, John Baldessari and his exhibition READ/WRITE/THINK/DREAM (not where I got the name of the blog btw, that is explained in the debut RWW post).

RWW went red sometime around November 2005 - and that's been our color ever since! The image below is a later iteration of this:

The foundation of our current design went live over Christmas 2007:

For posterity, here is today's homepage design. And yes we will be doing a re-design this year, although I am rather fond of this design :)

I wrote most of the following words 3 years ago, on our fifth birthday. But it's as relevant today: thank you to all our readers, sponsors and supporters over the years. It continues to amaze me how many great people I meet through blogging, all over the world!

"The Internet is a fad. We're one of the few companies who have realized that hard truth. Plus, 99.2% of the content is pictures of ladies in tube tops but you can't read it on the can! Look, we're marshaling the shift of RWW from a doomed online fad-publication to a perfect-bound, four-color slick. What's it gonna be? Sick!"

As it grew, ReadWriteWeb became well-known among trade-paper sub-editors, interior decorators, wolves, millionaire patrons of art, sadists, nymphomaniacs, bridge sharks, anarchists, women living on alimony, tire formers, educational cranks, economists, hopheads, dipsomaniac playwrights, nudists, restaurant keepers, stockbrokers and dentists as "the smart alternative to Cheri."

OZJ made its bones by pioneering the development and sales of mesquite-flavored Japanese-style toilet bacon In 25-, 50- and 150-foot family spools. After expanding its comestibles line, it moved into toys, personal defense technology, comfort tools, hardware, folk medicines and teachin's. Them teachin's will definitely guide the expansion of OZJ into publishing.

How will the focus of RWW change under the influence of the new investors? We asked MacManus.

"I'm buying a freaking cigarette boat with an airbrush painting of Janet Frame on the side and an Ed Brown Classic Custom Centennial with hand-relief engraving on the slide flats, grip screws, thumb safety flats, laser engraving on the the slide, 'Tru-Ivory' grips and a jeweled barrel hood!"

Ozark Jimmy's Global Enterprises Holding Company is a privately held firm, whose backers include Taq Hamas Revolutionary Venture Funding Cell, Cahuenga Brothers, Ltd. and the Virtual Hillbilly Investment Capital Fund. Billy-Joe Al 'Abdurrahman, general partner of Taq Hammas and Nimrod Cajones, general partner of Cahuenga Brothers, Ltd., joined Ozark Jimmy's Global Enterprises Holding Company's Board of Directors in 2001. Abdurrahman is currently director of numerous companies, none of which can be mentioned by name on pain of death. Cajones was a co-founder of Poncho.com, and is a director of several high-growth Internet companies, including Llamaspace, Cahuengista.com and Martha Stewart Living.

Cigarette boat photograph by Brent Ozar

I (co-Editor Marshall Kirkpatrick) wrote up this job description and Founding Editor Richard MacManus said, "We'll do it live!" So here you go. Read on for our description of what we're looking for in the next addition to our team.

We're looking for someone who's very competitive, hard working and self-directed. As one of the top blogs on the web, RWW combines a powerful research infrastructure, an unusually collaborative virtual newsroom, smart people, integrity, thoughtfulness and speed. We're looking for good writers with a respectable knowledge of and definite interest in emerging web technologies. We write more about the tech and culture parts of tech than the business part, but an ability to write intelligently about all of the above is what we're looking for.

Basically, we're looking for someone who can kick ass. Someone who can develop and work contacts, scan thousands of feed items daily, communicate well with the rest of our team, select their own stories (with some help) and write 2 or 3 fantastic short to medium length news posts 5 nights a week. Our philosophy with regard to our competitors is that it's best to be first and best, but it's second best to be best. In other words, we try not to sacrifice quality for speed, if we have to make a choice. We would like you to strive to do at least one incredible thing every day. As a news writer, that usually means writing something well, before our competitors do, that we're all proud to have on our site.

We're looking for someone who can make themselves a star - through humble, smart, hard, fast and skilled work.

Monetary compensation is standard for the industry; non-monetary compensation in the form of thrills, skills and experience is among the best you'll find. People love working for ReadWriteWeb.

If you'd like to be a part of one of the leading technology blogs on the internet, email me at Marshall@readwriteweb.com with the words "awesome news writer" in your subject line. If you know someone that could be a good fit for this position, please send them our way.

One company specializing in a specific form of AR riffed that another company, focusing on other initiatives, was "not really doing AR" while the other would argue they were. It would seem that the definition of augmented reality is very broad and more inclusive to some, and narrow and exclusive to others. I tend to fall somewhere in the middle, defining AR as something that can take many different forms but which should not be over used to define fringe examples or offshoot technologies.

As augmented reality evolves, I believe the accepted definition should also evolve to reflect the current state of the technology. The two words, "augmented" and "reality" should not be interpreted for their separate values. The ability to add data to a reality-based location, person, event, etc. does not automatically meet the prerequisites for what I would define as augmented reality. It is the implementation of this data into a visual display that makes it "augmented reality," rather than "augmented" "reality."

For the purpose of the mobile summit, we tried to focus on AR as it pertained to mobile devices. We discussed the issues surrounding standards and the impending compatibility issues between the various mobile AR browsers on the market. Personally I think the sooner augmented reality content can be standardized into a single markup language, the faster and more efficiently the technology can grow and become more widely accepted.

Another way that AR's acceptance will be accelerated is through publicity and greater awareness. As I've mentioned in earlier articles, AR was named a top trend to follow in 2010 by Time Magazine, and is currently being featured in a campaign on the Discovery Channel for their hit show Deadliest Catch. These are big steps forward for AR in that they place the technology in the spotlight in front of millions of eyeballs, but not all of the publicity is positive.

Personally I find the proliferation of impractical examples of AR to be a long-term detriment to the growth and acceptance of the technology. Unfortunately, the most popular iterations of AR come in the form of gimmicky promotions for movies, TV shows, cars and other products. While it is good to place the technology in front of large audiences, we are teaching people that AR is nothing but a fun trick. I have no problem with AR being used in toys to enhance playing cards, drone helicopters and the overall toy-buying experience, but when AR does nothing more than provide a cheap thrill, it's missing the point. AR for the sake of AR is, to me, pointless.

There are so many practical uses for AR being created that are largely overlooked because they aren't tied to a large brand promoting a popular product. Virtual mirrors let shoppers try on sunglasses, shoes, clothes, hair styles, make up and other products before purchasing them online or in a store. Mobile browsers let people see virtual tours, valuable government data and, eventually I hope, relevant hyper-local news results and alerts. These are just a handful of the practical uses for AR that will hopefully inundate its future.

We also pondered the various things, both technologically and otherwise, standing in the way of AR and a prosperous future with the technology. Many noted the various hardware limitations presented by smartphones and other portable devices, including camera, accelerometer and GPS quality and accuracy.

One of the more overlooked hurdles AR needs to overcome is the awkwardness presented by holding one's phone in front of their face when browsing AR content. The cure for this? Time. AR will likely need a few years to move into the public consciousness much in the same way that Bluetooth headsets did, eliminating the majority of the confusion that surrounded their use.

I think, however, that by the time the public becomes more accepting of seeing phones held up in the air, there will likely be a better technology suited for browsing AR content. Examples include fashionable head-mounted displays (HMDs) in the form of sunglasses or contact lenses, which would remove he need to hold a device in our field of vision.

What we all agreed on at the summit is that the future of AR looks promising, and the exponential growth of technology should help it expand rather quickly in the next several years. If you would like to learn more about augmented reality, be sure to read up on the top vendors in the space in our report, Augmented Reality for Marketers and Developers: Analysis of the Leaders, the Challenges and the Future.

What did the attendees and press think about the summit? One thing that struck me reading through the coverage was that each writer seemed to find a specific topic to be dominant, though none of them were the same. Perhaps the unconference is a good format to give participants a sense of focus on the things they value the most.

Jason Harris on taptu blog

The Mobile Summit was very conversational...topics sometimes deviated and this was perfect. The sessions ended up being active exchanges of ideas. Sometimes they were educational and even a bit confrontational. HTML5 was a major theme I was interested in and the drawbacks of various platforms including iPhone and Android.

Evelyn Rusli on TechCrunch

It was a long day filled with dozens of group sessions and countless ideas, but there was a recurring theme that permeated many of my discussions: the long shadow of Apple (and often, other internet giants, like Google and Microsoft) and how it's rivalries will impact the developer community.

Taly Weiss on Trendspotting blog

Richard MacManus, Marshall Kirkpatrick and others from the incredible RWW team gathered a mixed group of start-ups, entrepreneurs, developers, journalists, marketers and researchers, who are not only experimenting with mobile innovations, but are taking an active part in this revolution. While the topics of interest were freely suggested, it came by no surprise that Augmented Reality enjoyed most of the attention.

Renee Blodgett on Down the Avenue

Unconferences are really great because you can create a session about something you know a lot about on-the-fly, or sit in on a topic where you don't, but still contribute from your own perspective and world, which is often more valuable to the group than you might think...ReadWriteWeb's second unconference -- focused on Mobile -- was held yesterday at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. They had two main tracks at their Mobile Summit: Development and Business.

You can listen to the show at noon today on Blog Talk Radio. We will post the recording after the live event.

Show Details:

RWW Live Special: 2009 Year in Review

Time: Noon PST, (GMT -8)

Link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/readwriteweb

English is the de facto lingua franca of global business (pardon the Latin). If you want to do business globally, you have to be able to speak and write English. But most of the world's conversations occur in other languages. We want ReadWriteWeb to be a venue for conversations about innovation not just in English but in all major languages. We want to hear stories about innovation in those languages by people who live and work in those countries. We also want some of those stories to be translated back into English for a global audience - English serving as the hub, as it were.

Our Trailblazing Site in France

ReadWriteWeb France is blazing a trail that we want to follow into other countries. Web innovators in France can now read a selection of posts from ReadWriteWeb in French. Fabrice Epelboin and his team translate ReadWriteWeb posts into French, localize the stories, adding bits that make them relevant to France, and create new stories specific to France. Some of these stories are clearly important to readers outside of France, and we will be bringing these to our global audience. One example is Fabrice's crusade against the Hadopi law. The law is specific to France, but the issues are global, and other governments are working on similar issues that could have alarming outcomes. We hope that ReadWriteWeb becomes both a local and global voice on issues such as this.

5 Other Country Versions in the Pipeline

Versions of ReadWriteWeb are currently being created for:

• China
• Korea
• Spain
• Holland
• Brazil

In each country, we are working with an entrepreneur who is passionate about Web technology.

These countries are all large economies. We already know how many people from these countries read our content in English. Many more will read and engage if the content is in their local language.

Engagement is critical. Reading is easier than writing. Many people are comfortable reading a post in a foreign language: even if they don't understand everything, they at least get critical information that is not available in their native language. But writing a comment and engaging in a conversation is much harder in a foreign language.

Why We Naturally Take a Global View

Many people assume, looking at our content, that ReadWriteWeb is based in Silicon Valley. We are not. We do have writers in the Valley, and we congregate there frequently for major events. But ReadWriteWeb's founder and editor, Richard MacManus, is based in New Zealand. Our COO, Bernard Lunn, is based in New York but is a Brit who was born in Berlin and has lived and worked all around the world. We are a networked business, with no single location, using the online tools that we write about to run our business. So viewing anywhere in the world as a good place to report from and not regarding any place as "foreign" comes natural to us.

From a 3D printer churning out plastic copies of Darth Vader's head to the show's most geektastic game (hint: not Rock Band this time), Gnomedex left very little to be desired from our intrepid staff. Gather around and hear the tale of another great conference from Marshall Kirkpatrick, Steven Walling, Frederic Lardinois, and Jolie O'Dell.

Immediately after filming the roundtable, the crew dispersed for coffee and/or a quick game of werewolf with MakerBot's Bre Pettis, each according to the dictates of his own conscience. We hope to see one another again very soon!

As always, many thanks to Chris Pirillo for organizing another fantastic, inspiring show.

Here are a few photos by the talented, San Francisco-based Kenneth Yeung of www.thelettertwo.com. You can see more of his Gnomedex photos here.

We at ReadWriteWeb have had an awesome time gathering video content lately. We love it so much that we plan to do it a lot more. One of the discussions in the back channels has been about where to post our video content, and after considering a whole boatload of factors and testing several services, we've started posting content on our brand-new Vimeo account.

In the past, team members have used YouTube, Viddler, Blip, and a handful of other video services. We loved YouTube's HD, large-file capabilities, but we hated the media player and the YouTube watermark that ended up all over our lovely content. We adored Blip's customizable player, but our longer, in-depth interview videos were a bit too large for that format.

Our Vimeo Plus account will allow us to upload a healthy-to-ridiculous amount of HD video each week, and the speed of uploading and processing for Plus accounts is mind-reelingly fast. We'll also get to make widgets from our content. And we definitely love the very social component of groups and channels. We couldn't be more excited, and we hope to have a long and productive experience with Vimeo.

As a side note, this post isn't meant as an endorsement of Vimeo; different products work better for different purposes, as noted by many Twitter followers last week.

Another factor behind our decision was the surprisingly enthusiastic user response to Vimeo when we conducted an informal Twitter poll. Since you guys like the Vimeo platform and community so much, we hope you'll add us and check out our social media channel and our RWW group. We've added a few videos to the channel and group so far; if you have a video you'd like us to add to our curated content, just email us.

And as always, suggestions on how we can improve our video coverage are welcomed; just leave your erudite ponderings in the comments.

I'm very pleased to announce that Susan Scrupski (a.k.a. "ITSinsider") has joined ReadWriteWeb as our VP Enterprise Content and Programs. Starting today, Susan will assume responsibility for building our editorial and expertise in applying the principals of Web 2.0 to the Enterprise. With a focus on how the Web is disrupting traditional business processes and operations, our Enterprise channel (which will soon be re-launched with a new design) will focus on new products, case studies, and innovative developments involving Web strategy and execution in a B2B context. Yes, B2B is back!

Susan is the fourth full-time member of ReadWriteWeb, after myself (the founder), Marshall Kirkpatrick who joined us full-time in August as VP Content Development, and Bernard Lunn who became COO in December. The rest of our staff are contractors. I am proud of the whole team we have managed to put together without external funding.

Please join me in welcoming Susan into her new role. We have big plans for ReadWriteWeb and we're grateful for the continued support of our readers and sponsors.

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• A minimum of $1 million. We don't want $50,000 financing being called Series A. Sorry, no grade inflation here.
• Lead Institutional VC. There are plenty of other very good types of financing. We celebrate bootstrappers in our Gritty Entrepreneurs series. Angels are wonderful, and we all love friends and family. But this series is about the classic VC fund, the core of the start-up financing world. We only report the lead VC because that is what matters: with a good lead there is never a shortage of followers.
• Reported data. We need to see the dollar amount and the lead VC publicly reported. No "unreported sum" or "undisclosed investors." If you want to be stealthy, you don't need any visibility, which is fine.
• Web technology only. We are seeing a lot in alternative energy, biotech, and other sectors, which is all very interesting, but not what we do at ReadWriteWeb.
• Series A only. We recognize that getting Series B or C financing is important as well, but it is hard to see from public data whether these are really positive events or not. During a downturn, many of them, sadly, will be down rounds that protect VC capital but, because of onerous preference terms, often leave the entrepreneurs with very little. We don't want to celebrate something only to find it is viewed as negative by the participants. But everybody can celebrate a Series A: it speaks of optimism, new trends, and a go-for-it spirit.

The Heroes And their Partners

We believe that entrepreneurs are the heroes, but we also really want to celebrate their partners, the VC guys who have the guts to go against the trend and back them during tough times. All VCs talk the talk, which is that this is a great time for investing. We want to report on the ones who actually walk the walk as well. There is only one way to get into this list: close a Series A round and wire the money.

We want to use this to learn about changes in the VC business and so that entrepreneurs can see who is actually doing deals today.

Our A-Team Series Starts in October

October 2008 was a unique month for anybody in the business world. The word that kept dropping from the lips of even the most experienced been-there, done-that kind of person was "unprecedented." These are not normal times. And October was certainly not a normal month.

So, the October list was pretty short. We have heard plenty of stories from entrepreneurs about deals that were agreed on and in the final legal phase but that got pulled in September and October. We did not track September because the worst and final phase of the crash kicked in mid-September, and deals were still being done in the early days of September. So, October was the first full month of the new reality.

We count from the date when the deal was announced. But we recognize that the contract may have been signed some weeks before then.

Enough Preamble. What Deals Were Done?

Oops! Using our strict criteria, only one deal was done in October. We saw some that came close. We saw a seed round of $225,000 for a game company called Kirkland North from a venture fund called Harrison Meta Capital. We saw a Series B for $4.5 million coming from RRE Ventures to our good friends at Adaptive Blue. We saw an Israeli company called CogniSafe getting an undisclosed seed round from 21 VCs.

The one deal that squeaked into October was Zimbio with a $6.8 million Series A from DFJ and Menlo Ventures. The deal was announced on September 30th. So it is entirely possible (indeed probable) that this contract was signed before our official Meltdown Day. But the deal got done, and that is what matters.

Zimbio has very few facts on its "About Us" page. TradeVibes at least has a CEO listed; so we tracked down Anthony Mamone, and the data was sparse, not even a LinkedIn profile. All we found was a sketchy profile on Link Silicon Valley.

A Special Cheer for Syncplicity and True Ventures

The deal that kicked off the A-Team series and gave us the idea for it was the one with Syncplicity with its $2.35 million Series A funding from True Ventures. So we went to meet Leonard Chung, CEO, at True Venture's offices in San Francisco. True Venture's open-plan offices on Pier 38 do not look like classic VC, and that is probably the point. Phil Black of True Ventures made the point that ever-increasing fund sizes were taking VC away from its entrepreneurial start-up roots.

Then we noticed that our friends at GigaOm have their offices right next door. No coincidence as it happens, True Ventures was the lead investor in their Series A funding. So, True Ventures is a founding member of our A-Team. Take your best venture to them!

We have not had time to fully review Syncplicity yet. We promise to do so soon. So, in the meantime, we will fall back on the journalistic standby, quoting from its site:

"Everyday sync, backup, and sharing as simple as can be. The only all-in-one service that makes sure your files are everywhere you need them."

That is a crowded space. But so was search when Google entered the market. Getting an A round done in today's market makes one think they must have done something right, so we will check them out and urge you to do the same.

Good News from a November Sneak Peek

Here is the good news. Taking a sneak peek at November, around the middle of the month, we already see quite a few Series A deals that meet all of our criteria. We will tell all in our A-Team report in early December.

Who did we miss in October? (No spam please; look at the qualifying rules above.)