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After the nanotech panel yesterday, I went to do some cheerleading at the News panel. In this photo, David Sifry, CEO of Technorati (center), explains that ~47,000 new blogs go up each day.

Jim Bankoff, EVP of Programming & Products at AOL (left), said that he uses Technorati to get a sense of the “live web”. “50% of AOL users have heard of blogs, and the number is rapidly growing. We try to capture the real-time Internet news cycle, and the swarming going on, to get the scoop on new developments.”

Here’s a list of panelists, from left to right. (full disclosure: we are investors in Technorati =)

5 responses to “News Scoop”

  1. I saw a very interesting piece on NOVA Science Now last night about the amazing Naomi Halas, a professor here at Rice University.

  2. Spooky coincidence… Naomi and Jennifer are just fantastic. From my Rice visits, I have been fascinated by their application of gold nanoshells as a non-invasive cancer therapy (they inject some nanoshells, which naturally congregate in tumors, and then shine a specific frequency of laser light that passes through the skin and couples tightly to the nanoshells, heating them up and selectively cooking the adjacent cancer cells…. all without surgery or collateral damage to healthy cells).

    Even more of a coincidence: the Dan Watkins mentioned near the end of the article has been involved in NanoSpectra Biosciences from the beginning, and he is he head of our Houston affiliate fund, DFJ Mercury.

  3. I think her gold nanoshells could do to cancer treatment, what penicillin did for the treatment of syphilis. When penicillin became available, arsenic as a cure, instantly became a barbaric and intolerable notion.

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