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Every social circle is different it seems.  People have their work, agendas and times when they want to be social and hang out.  When my group of friends here in Boston and other places I’ve lived made plans to hang out, we typically do the planning via the phone, email or text.  I usually didn’t [...]

CitySquares is a Boston based startup whose web application is devoted to hyper local search and discovery. Now before you write off the company with your “these guys can never win, they’re in the same space as Google” thinking, hear me out. Hyper local matters, and we’ve yet to see a real winner [...]

How do you look for apartments to rent?  Do you walk into a real estate office and talk to an agent who will show you listings? Apartment rental agencies (and housing search for that matter) seems to be going the way of the travel agency – away – thanks to the many online [...]

Back when I was a kid I absolutely loved trading sports cards – it was an obsession of mine.  Bartering after all is one of the original forms of acquiring goods and just feels good to do, know what I mean?  In college I spent some time buying cheap DVD’s from Ebay and Half.com – [...]

Socrato is a web service dedicated to improving student achievement by helping improve testing.  The company is based in North Andover, MA and it’s focus is to provide practice testing materials online to make taking practice tests easier and more accessible.  Thus far, their main focus appears to have been on state-level standardized tests – [...]