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Some of the latest buzz I’ve heard around Chicago:

• FeedBurner is officially acquired by Google. Wow. Congratulations to the entire FB team! Amazing product, and amazing reward for all the hard work.
• MediaRiver is the new name for Intelletext, and with it comes a new business model. My understand is that it’s basically a hosted recommendation engine. They could help a news site add a feature that says, “If you like this article, you may also like these.”
• Threadless got a great write-up in the latest Business 2.0. Looks like they’ll be opening a retail store in Chicago, and Digital Bootcamp might be involved in some cool ways.
• SitterCity has launched a whole new category of their service to help you find a “pet sitter” instead of baby sitters. Seeing as pets have officially become a member of peoples’ family, it only makes sense! (this happened 6 weeks ago, but it’s news to me

New companies/services on my radar:

• uLoop - looks like craigslist for college students
• QuadMarket - looks like uloop. One of the DePaul Venture Challenge finalists.
• LimitNone - is the first certified Google Enterprise Professional I’ve ever heard of (I didn’t even know there were Google enterprise professionals). They’re helping companies from MS Office to Google Apps. I’ll get excited as soon as they have an app to synch Outlook w/ Google Calendar.

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