Capitol Impact
LLC offers a unique, Internet-based suite of productivity
tools for corporate, government and association
clients."
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Feed reading of RSS, Atom, and other XML feeds is revolutionizing
how
people consume content online. Rojo Networks also licenses services for publishers and bloggers
to better serve the expanding audience for content feeds.bvcapital.
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It enables organizations to
track and monitor
legislation, and to publish analysis and commentary to their members.
RSS Reader With Mojo Launches Today
SAN FRANCISCO, Rojo Networks, Inc. Rojo's
community features allow users to
share stories, feeds, tags, contacts, and profile information
with
their contacts, which makes it easy to find, discover, and share
interesting
content. In addition to the
backing of TPG Ventures and BV Capital, the company has several prominent
individual investors and advisors including Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of
Netscape and chairman
of Opsware; Ron Conway, a prominent Silicon Valley
investor and entrepreneur; and Karen Edwards,
former head of marketing for
Yahoo! Inc. Rojo lets consumers customize content for themselves and
recommends
stories personalized to their interests.5 billion, with
more than $2.disorganized clutter
Founded in 1938
, the March of Dimes funds programs of research,
community services, education, and advocacy to save
babies. Rojo lets users store an address book of their
contacts so they can easily email
stories to people. Rojo's latest financing round closed in November 2004.
"Rojo makes it easy
to find and share information among friends and
colleagues. Feeds are syndicated content streams
published
by most online publishers and millions of blogs. Their investment focus is on information
technology and
biotechnology companies, with an emerging practice in consumer-based
acceleration
opportunities. Knowing where to find things, or where to go for things or information.
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Andy
Paul, Capitol Impact's president and chief operating officer, said
the two applications would be
integrated seamlessly with the Georgia Chapters
web site, http://www. Rojo is the only feed reader
with
social networking capabilities, and advanced organizing features like
tagging -- an increasingly
popular way of categorizing and sharing information
online that lets users define keywords to organize
content.
Rojo was in an invite-only beta trial for several months and is now a
public beta
open to all, with improved speed, stability, and major new
features.
-- Popular Link Analysis
(the RojoBuzz).
About Rojo Networks, Inc.zealanders competency
The Atlanta-based chapter of the March of
Dimes will use Capitol Impact's
systems as part of an effort to organize and mobilize contributors
and
supporters throughout the state.
"Millions of people, from bloggers in pajamas to professional
journalists
and news outlets, are dynamically creating a flow of information that is
unprecedented
in the history of publishing," said Chris Alden.
"Rojo is wrapping a communications capability
around content consumption,"
said blogger and World Wide Web pioneer Marc Andreessen, an investor
in Rojo
Networks."
Rojo has pioneered the following features:
-- Social network
for content. Rojo uses tags instead of folders to organize feeds, stories
within feeds, and
contacts.
Rojo Networks was founded in June 2003 by Chris Alden, Kevin Burton, and
Mark
Graham.
Rojo Networks is pioneering a new way for people who consume media online
to discover
, organize, and share the broadest range of dynamic content ever
available on the Internet. Personal
(life) planning, physical clutter and what to do about it.
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Alden, a pioneer in Internet
publishing who was
co-founder and CEO of Red Herring Communications, and backed by two top
venture
capital firms, TPG Ventures and BV Capital.lifehacks motivating
Tags, or user-selected keywords, are an
innovative
way to categorize and share information.
About TPG Ventures
TPG Ventures closed their
first institutional fund in 2001 with over $500
million in capital.7 billion invested in technology
and telecommunications
worldwide. The four founding members of the firm have extensive
experience
in the Internet, electronic media, and telecommunications
industries.clutterbug motivating
Capitol Impact Licenses Online
Advocacy Systems to March of Dimes Georgia Chapter
The grassroots system, meanwhile, will
allow March of Dimes supporters to
provide the March of Dimes with a wealth of information about
their political
relationships and their willingness to act in support of the organization., today
publicly released its RSS feed reader at http://www." Rojo offers a new generation of
feed reading
service that allows people to find, read, and share information
with their colleagues and friends
in an organized and meaningful way.
-- Getting Started Wizard.clutter organizer
Rojo Networks Releases Public
Beta
Internet users (more than
six million people) use RSS readers to consume news, blogs, and
other content.organizers shortcuts
"With
Capitol Impact's systems, we can make their voice - and ours - heard.
The March of Dimes is a national voluntary health agency whose mission is
to improve the health
of babies by preventing birth defects and infant
mortality.com." Dave Whorton,
General Partner
at TPG Ventures and founder of Good Technology, said "We
supported Rojo early on because of their
insight into the impact of
self-publishing and bloggers of society and peoples lives, and their vision
for bringing the most relevant information to each person. Texas Pacific Group and its affiliated
partnerships have aggregate committed capital of more than $13.motivating disorganized
"And the killer app for the Internet
is and always has been
communication.
Thomas Gieselmann, General Partner at BV Capital and former
head of AOL.de
said, "We looked at a lot of companies in the blog and RSS area and felt that
Rojo
had the best combination of team, technology, and vision.messies lifesaver
"We are confident that these systems
are going to enable us to do a much
better job of organizing, informing and motivating the thousands
of Georgians
who care deeply about infant health," said Elise Linden Antrobus, Director of
Program
Services for the March of Dimes Georgia Chapter.172 homemaking
"With the legislative tracking system March
of Dimes supporters will be
able to use the web site to monitor the progress of key policy and funding
measures as they make their way through the Georgia General Assembly," Paul
added.
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"Our
goal with Rojo's community features, tags, search, link analysis, and wizard
is to make the brave new world of blogs and RSS feeds accessible and appealing
to technophiles
and new consumers alike," said Chris Alden. BV Capital primarily focuses on early stage investments
in the
media, communications, infrastructure, enabling technologies, and wireless
application
markets.homemaking organizers
The site also introduces user interface improvements and a clean and
elegant design, created
by leading user interface design firm Adaptive Path. Rojo learns from users' reading behavior by paying
attention to what they focus on. Rojo helps users discover and add feeds with
an easy-to-use feed wizard. For
more information, please visit http://www.knowing clutterbug
-- Contact management
. According to a recent Pew
Internet and American Life study, 5 percent of U.
Feeds join the Web
and email as the third major approach to publishing content
online. Rojo's community features make
it
easy for readers to share what they are reading with their friends and
colleagues.homemaking mindset
Rojo tracks
which webpages are
most linked-to by the feeds a user reads.tpgventures.mindset knowing
-- Tags
. The ability to see stories friends have flagged and popular tags
offers new ways to discover interesting
information," said Rojo advisor Susan
Mernit, a popular blogger and co-founder of digital media consultancy
5ive. For more information, please visit http://www.The ability of individuals to organize their environment
.
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and the Well, and the software systems supporting them.
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"Our members and contributors
know that there is more competition than
ever for public funding for neo-natal and infant health
care, and we have to
be the voice for the youngest and most vulnerable among us," she added.marchofdimes
.rojo.
About BV Capital
BV Capital is an independent venture capital fund with international
high
profile investors. Being considered an 'organized person', both in a home and in a work environment
.
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The free, web-based
service makes it easy for Internet content consumers to read and
manage
stories and information from many sources, and lets users share them with
their contacts
and the Rojo community. Kevin Burton created NewsMonster, a client-based RSS aggregator,
as well
as various open source projects; and Graham has made significant
contributions to the development
of online communities, such as iVillage. Rojo's free, browser-based
service enables readers to easily
subscribe to the feeds of their choice and
read content from many sources all in one place. The Rojo
service takes the growing wealth of RSS,
Atom, and other XML feeds published by websites, blogs,
discussion boards, and
various corporations and gives the user choice and control of all of them
in
one place.com.overload lifesaver
ATLANTA, Capitol Impact LLC announced today it has
licensed its legislative
tracking and grassroots management systems to the
March of Dimes Georgia Chapter.
Called Georgia
Track, the Capitol Impact system is the dominant system of
its type in Georgia. Applications are
provided via the web and include news publication tools, dynamic survey tools,
membership management
tools, event management tools, and advocacy tools. Rojo Networks is
led by CEO Christopher J.
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"We created
Rojo to solve the 'information overload' problem that so many news and
information
consumers suffer from today. TPG Ventures is an affiliate of Texas Pacific
Group, a private equity
investment firm founded in 1993 with offices in San
Francisco, Fort Worth, and London. The Wall Street
Journal named BV Capital as one of the
most influential technology financiers on either side of the
Atlantic.organizers shortcuts
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