YC-Funded MessageParty Ties Location With Chat Rooms

With the rise of GPS-enabled smartphones, developers are eager to integrate location-based functionality into whatever they can. So it’s no surprise when MessageParty, a Y Combinator company that’s launching this week, says that it’s looking to tie location with chat rooms to let you communicate with the people around you in real-time. You can download the company’s iPhone app right here

Simperium Launches A Simple Data Syncing Platform

With more and more consumers using desktop, laptop and mobile devices in their everyday lives, there’s a pressing need for syncing data across applications and devices. Y Combinator -backed Simperium is launching its platform for app-level syncing in the cloud. The best use case of Simperium’s platform is in its recently launched note taking application Simplenote.

Facebook For Android Gets A Much-Needed Overhaul (And Support For Events)

Facebook for Android, long something of an ugly stepchild to its iPhone counterpart, has just gotten another major upgrade.

Diaspora Reports Progress In Its Quest To Build An Open Facebook Alternative

It’s been exactly one month after Diaspora , which aims to become an open Facebook alternative (much like OneSocialWeb and others) raised just over $200,000 in funding from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and others through Kickstarter . Since then, it’s been quiet, but the team of four NYU students has been making some progress in actually building the system. In a blog post , Maxwell Salzberg updates the world on its progress, including the fact that they’ve set up their offices inside the Pivotal Labs building (and gotten some product advice from the company as well)

Kontagent Raises $4.5 Million For Facebook Analytics Platform

Only a few months after the company raised $1 million in funding, Kontagent , an fbFund winner and social analytics platform, has raised $4.5 million in new funding.

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