Joshua Schachter sold Delicious to Yahoo! then quit to join Google.  During the election, Joshua Schachter created a GreaseMonkey script to highlight news stories in blue or red to indicate the bias of different stories on Memeorandum.com.  Schachter decided to take another entrepreneurial route to launch a service called Tiny Thread.

Tiny Thread takes tweets and threads them together to form conversations.  The way it works is that there are threads on the website that you can interact with.  To contribute to the threads, you are required to login using a Twitter account and authorize Tiny Thread to access your account.

The threads go one level deep.  Schachter did this project on his own time rather than the 20% creative time allowed as a Google employee.

[via TechCrunch]

DynaVox Mayer-Johnson is best known for making handheld communication devices for those with speech and learning disabilities.  The DynaVox Xpress is the company’s latest devices.  The Xpress has a 5″ touchscreen and weighs 1.5 lbs.  The Xpess has icons with different phrases and speakers to vocalize what the icons are.

There is also an MP3 player, WiFi, and Bluetooth connectivity built in.  There is also an easy to use e-mail and a calendar application in the Xpress.  The Xpress also has the ability to download additional vocabulary.  Pricing and availability information will be announced next week.

[via Engadget]

IMemories is a company that hosts web space for storing and sharing images and videos.  The company has raised $6.2 million Series B from Capital Southwest.

“Personal images have never been more important. Videos and photos are woven into people’s daily lives, identities and their connections to both past and present,” stated iMemories founder and CEO Mark Rukavina. “Images are more front-and-enter than ever before and have solidified their role as the new social currency of personal status, connection and expression.”

iMemories has raised a total of $11 million thus far.  Bill Ashbaugh has joined the board of directors for iMemories.  Ashbaugh is an SVP of Capital Southwest.

Its been about two years since Microsoft Corporation bought out aQuantive for $6 billion.  And now the aQuantive co-founder Scott Lipsky is on the verge of launching a new company.  Lipsky’s new company is called PhotoRocket.

“While still in stealth mode, I can tell you this,” Lipsky wrote in an email. “PhotoRocket is a new concept in the digital photography space that will turn photo sharing sideways and that will solve many of the most common problems and most painful  aspects of sharing.”

This is the second photography-related company Lipsky has become involved in.  Around 2003, Lipsky co-founded a company called GalleryPlayer.  GalleryPlayer developed software that enhanced the way that high resolution images were displayed on flat panel TVs.

PhotoRocket may be a competitor of Photobucket and Flickr.  Before Lipsky launched Avenue A (previous name of aQuantive), he was the CTO of Baners & Noble.  After B&N, Lipsky became a VP of Business Expansion at Amazon.com.

[via TechFlash]

There is a website called Blame Drew’s Cancer that focuses specifically on raising awareness of cancer.  The website aims to raise money for cancer  as well.  To raise the awareness, Blame Drew’s Cancer has Twitter users paste the hashtag #BlameDrewsCancer in their tweets.

Lance Armstrong’s LIVESTRONG foundation is already on board with Blame Drew’s Cancer and today 23andMe announced that they have joined the cause.  For every 500 unique tweets that adds the hashtag #BlameDrewsCancer and #23andMe, 23andMe will donate $1 to the cause.

23andMe will start donating after the hashtag #BlameDrewsCancer is used by the 10,000 person. 23andMe will be donating 5 of their $99 research kits to Blame Drew’s Cancer followers based on a raffle system.

[via TechCrunch]

On August 3, Eric Schmidt stepped down from the Apple Inc. Board of Directors due to conflicts of interest. This Tuesday Apple’s Board of Directors will be meeting to discuss some of the possible replacements of Schmidt.  Schmidt had been an Apple Board member for about 3 years.

Some of the other board members include Intuit Chairman Bill Campbell, Avon Products CEO Andrea Jung, former Vice President of the United States Al Gore, Chrysler finance chief Jerome York, J. Crew CEO Millard Drexler, and Genentech Chairman Arthur Levinson.

It would not surprise me if Apple appoints someone highly involved in the Internet application or cloud computing space considering that Schmidt’s company is one of the best in that sector.

Berlin, Germany based Wooga is a company that develops games for social networks.  The company has raised funding from Holtzbrinck Ventures. Holtzbrinck Ventures started in April 2000 and they are the corporate venture company of the publishing group Georg von Holtzbrinck.

The first game that Wooga released on Facebook is called Brain Buddies.  Wooga was founded in January 2009 and launched Brain Buddies five weeks ago.  Brain Buddies has about 2.5 million users.

Holtzbrinck Ventures has also previously invested in StudiVZ, Germany’s largest social network.  StudiVZ is basically a replica of Facebook.

TG Sambo Computer Co, Ltd. has announced three new models of monitors.  The 1080p panels have 4:3 display.  The three new models are the 24 inch TGL 2400A, the 23 inch 2300A, and the 21.6 inch 2250A.  The three monitors have an integrated digital TV tuner, 2ms response time, 20,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, HDMI, DVI, VGA, and other menu settings.  The price of the 24″ monitor is about $336.

[via AVING/Engadget]