The door to your personal uber-search has now been opened. Several emerging companies are working on various versions, but the basic idea is to conduct the perfect search across all of your personal content, on your various devices and in your personal cloud accounts, like Facebook and Evernote. Isn’t this turf in Google’s backyard? Click here for TechCrunch’s profile of CloudMagic as a current leader in this space. It’s latest release now covers Google Docs, Google Contacts, Google Calendar, Microsoft Exchange, Twitter,
Facebook, Dropbox, Evernote, Box, iCloud, AOL, Mail.com, GMX, and Office 365.
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Can a social network be hyperlocal?
Betakit has a good overview of the new neighborhood social networks here. These businesses are hard to scale and require users to be open to their neighbors…not always a welcome thing. The upside, however, is huge. Just as facebook encouraged people to share more about themselves, the winner in this segment will figure out a way for neighbors to do the same. The early leader seems to be NextDoor, with $18.6 million from Greylock and Benchmark Capital
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