Bueda optimizes online ad placement in rich media and user-generated content via its innovative semantic matching engine. Leveraging research from Carnegie Mellon University’s Language Technologies Institute, Bueda combines user-generated tags, existing ontologies, and semantic analysis in order to match ads with the most relevant multi-media content: Images, Video, Text and other web-accessible content.
In this wide-ranging interview, Jia talks with Vasco about the future of online searching, crowdsourcing through games, the meaning of the Portuguese word bueda, and of course, ontologies! For fun, see if you can count the number of times the word ontology is used during this interview.
AJAX Street is developing user-friendly, web-based software that enables organizations to preserve and extend their brand identity. Our conversion engine creates style guides from web styles, to enforce a consistent look across different media, saving our users time and money.
Below you can view a brief interview our gonzo startup reporter, Jia Ji, had with AJAX Streetcofounder, Scott Connelly, about how AlphaLab fosters the emergence of new startups even in these dire economic times. Please excuse the poor video and sound quality, but as we’ve previously stated, these are dire economic times and we’re not professional videographers.
It seems that a lot of startups in Pittsburgh are not using the internet to communicate to new media. They have websites, but fail to use them to their fullest potential. This makes it hard for people like me to find the information I need.
In the next few weeks I hope to change that. I am going to start a web series about how you can communicate better to new media outlets. I am going to break it up into three posts.
Press Releases / RSS – This will be about how you can take the PR you are already doing and make it easier for new media types to find and use it.
Business Blog – A lot of people do not think a business blog is important. In this post I will convince you otherwise.
Social Media – I will share with you my thoughts on when startups should and shouldn’t take part in social media. It’s not for everyone.
I would like to point out that I am not an expert on New Media, but I do have a lot of experience. I would be skeptical of anyone that calls themselves an expert. New media changes so fast that what is a good idea now, can be a bad one in just a few weeks.
To keep information in our posts helpful to everyone, please comment with any questions or suggestions you may have. That way everyone can benefit from the added information.
AlphaLab is a catalyst for launching the next generation of software, entertainment technology and Internet-related companies. Created by Innovation Works, one of the nation’s most active seed-stage investors, AlphaLab provides funding, hands-on business assistance, access to a network of entrepreneurs and expert advisors, and free office space as part of an intensive 20-week program in Pittsburgh. AlphaLab helps companies rapidly develop their technology, gain user feedback from early product releases, develop go-to-market strategies, and move toward successful commercial launch.
This Monday, April 13th, 2009, from 9 to 11AM, all the writers that blog for Startup Pittsburgh will be attending Open Coffee Club at AlphaLab. If you’re interested in the Pittsburgh startup community, feel free to drop by and say hello.
The Open Coffee Club was started to encourage entrepreneurs, developers, and investors to organize real-world informal meetups to chat, network, and grow. This is a place to meet people, find out what’s going on nearby you, and then take part. Imagine it as a big open lounge where people come and go, talk to others in their industry, and informally showcase demos of what they are working on. The main goal of Open Coffee is to make investment more transparent to entrepreneurs, and to move away from the formalized “pitch” to an open conversation. Investors can give entrepreneurs really valuable feedback, and this environment is meant to foster that in a pressure-free way.
This Monday, April 13th, 2009, from 9 to 11AM, 
