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Filed under: Productivity, Web services, Search

Search locally in Boston with Zync

Search locally in Boston with Zync

Finding local amenities is a tough task when traveling, let along in your area. A Boston company aims at helping personalized local search through algorithmic recommendations.

Zync has developed a prediction algorithm that enables users to pull in recommendations based on personal taste. Being that it's difficult to sift through recommendations for large cities, Zync takes into account personal tastes and the opinions of people you trust in order to model search results. Friends can share with each other what services, restaurants and locations that they enjoy, ranking them higher for their contact list.

Zync has currently only opened up only for Boston based results.

[via StartupSquad]

Filed under: Business, Google

Boston Googleplex coming soon?

google opening a bigger shop in boston?There's no beans about it, Google is rumored to be hunting out a location for a newly planned Boston area facility. They currently occupy a small office in the Cambridge area that houses mainly sales and engineering people but are looking to expand.

Cambridge is on the top of the list for Google's planned 100,000 to 200,000 square feet of office space. Compare that to the recent opening of Google's New York office which encompasses a 300,000 square foot facility, you know they are going to be hiring a bunch of new bodies to occupy space. Check out Google's job board for a list of 15 current openings if you're interested in working with this search giant.

Filed under: Business, Developer, Internet, Web services, VoIP

VON Con starts today

voice over net conferenceThe Voice Over Net conference starts today in Boston. Featured speakers for the event include the Vice Chairman of AOL, Ted Leonsis, CEO and publisher of Washington Post and Newsweek Interactive, Caroline Little, as well as the CEO of BitTorrent, Jason Krikorian. This is the tenth year for the Voice Over Net Conference. The conference will go over the full spectrum of IP communication offerings providing massive amounts of industry insight and education.

The Von fall conference will be held from September 11-14 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. It features speakers from Skype, Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, Vonage, Verizon, Earthlink, Time Warner, TMobile, Cingular, Motorola, and Hewlett Packard.

There are also rumors around new product announcements at the event including Yahoo's addition of free conference calling to its Messenger with VoIP service via a free plug-in.

Filed under: Internet, News, Podcasting, Blogging

Podcasting Unconference: PodCamp Boston

PodCamp BostonIf you live in the North East of the US, will be in the area, or just want to attend a podcasting Unconference, then Boston is the place to be the weekend after Labor Day. "PodCamp is a FREE BarCamp-style meetup..." is how the PodCamp Site describes the event.

Anybody can attend, you do not have to be a podcaster, so listeners are welcome, as well as anybody who wants to register and attend. It is free but you do not to go through the registration to get the event swag that will be there. The final venue is still undetermined, but they know it will be in the Boston area and accessible by public transportation to ease attendees getting to the event.

[Via Dave Winer's Blog]

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