Several interesting stories worth following yesterday:
- mig33 announced a $13.5 million B round. These folks are certainly on a roll, adding subscribers and raising money at a mad rate.
- Jajah joined the Microsoft Startup Accelerator program. I guess we'll be seeing more integration with Jajah and Microsoft handsets. Perhaps the Jajah folks can also leverage this into a corporate sales strategy with Microsoft's help as well.
- TweetMeme launched a service to expose the significant topics of the day being discussed on Twitter. It's a pretty interesting idea, and one that illustrates how quickly Twitter has evolved from mere status updates to a kind of nerve center information distribution.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
