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Startup Roundup: Vuzit goes social, WizeHive giving away $250,000

Introducing Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup. Here, we’ll parse out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along with the Startup Roundup’s dedicated RSS feed. If you’ve got news to share, […]

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Introducing Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup. Here, we’ll parse out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along with the Startup Roundup’s dedicated RSS feed. If you’ve got news to share, get in touch.

DEFINITE READS

WizeHive is giving away $250,000 worth of accounts after Google announced that it is shuttering Google Wave.
Vuzit is going social. The company announced DocuPub yesterday, which provides better integration for social media framworks, it says.

MIGHT BE WORTH YOUR TIME

Viddler recently announced that its analytics tools now are augmented by GetClicky. The company was also recently chosen as the video host for BroadwayJoe.tv, Joe Nameth’s new web show.
TechCrunch writes about DreamIt-incubated Adapt.ly, a social network ad campaign manager. We covered the emerging new company last month.
myYearBook CEO Geoff Cook writes about why it’s great to run an 80+ employee company from New Hope, just outside of Philadelphia.

GIVE A GLANCE

P’unk Ave has released new changes to its Apostophe content management system.
NuPathe’s IPO began trading on NASDAQ at $10 per share Friday, and this morning is down $0.75 to $8.33.
Got a messy office? Neat Company wants to see it — and they’re offering prizes in exchange.
Orpheus Media Research‘s YouTube channel was updated with a new video explaining its Myna music search technology Monday.
Startup Roundup will post weekly on Wednesdays until there’s not a Philly startup story left to link to on the Internet. See others here.

Companies: Adapt.ly / Orpheus Media Research / Vuzit / WizeHive

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