Collecta monitors the update streams of popular realtime blogs and sites like Twitter, WordPress, and Flickr, and shows results as they happen. Results can be filtered by status updates, comments, stories, or photos. The entire engine is built around the XMPP standard, which pushes out data on a continual basis, so that for every search you end up watching a stream that keeps updating itself.
Gerry Campbell is an angel investor and advisor. His portfolio includes several notable early-stage companies, and he is actively investing in the mobile and local space. Recent investments include: VitalBriefing (Luxembourg), Refer.io & FastCall.
Most recently, Gerry is the CEO/Founder of Frequency Group, which is an advisory firm dedicated to the creation of high-functioning teams and achievement of extraordinary results.” Campbell is currently an Angel Investor at Frequency Capital as well.
Previously, Gerry was CEO of realtime search company Collecta, and raised $5MM as he guided that company through its development, launch and pivot. Before that, he was president and global head of Reuters Search and Content Technologies group, bringing deep domain expertise to existing Reuters products while driving breakthrough innovation in the delivery of relevant information and insight to customers. Prior to that, Mr.
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Brian Solis is principal at Altimeter Group, a research-based advisory firm. Solis is also the author of Engage, one of the industry’s best selling guides for businesses on new media marketing. As principal of FutureWorks, he has helped countless startups and enterprise organizations launch, go public, sell, and build profitable businesses.
Derek Powazek has worked the web since 1995 at pioneering sites like HotWired, Blogger, and Technorati. He is the author of Design for Community: The Art of Connecting Real People in Virtual Places (New Riders, 2001). He is the cofounder of JPG, the photography magazine thats made by its community. He has also been Chief of Design for HPs MagCloud, advisor to a handful of startup companies, and creator of Fray, the quarterly book of true stories and original art. Derek now consults with forward-thinking companies as Fertile Medium, and is the Founder and CEO of Cute-Fight, the online game for real-life pets. Derek lives in San Francisco with his wife, two nutty Chihuahuas, and a house full of plants named Fred.
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