Inflection , a company aimed to democratizing the public records system on the web, has raised $30 million in Series A financing led by Matrix Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures . Founded in 2006, Inflection aggregates public records and data from past and present and currently operates Archives.com , a site that sources historical records prefabricated acquirable on the web

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Inflection Raises $30 Million To Take On The Public Records Industry

Apple has posted their new iPod touch commercial to their YouTube account. The new Nano commercial is below:

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New iPod commercials hits airwaves

It is on the way down now.  Who wants it? Just kidding

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iOS 4.1 GM seeded to developers

iTunes 10 is already live or just the download button?. Update: So is the store. and Apple’s website iPod Classic is dead.

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Some notes from today’s event

Facebook is in what’s called a recruiting sweet spot right now. Out of control growth in users and revenue and a almost certain IPO run in the near future. That’s when employee growth expands at the greatest rate for a company as it grows from hundreds to thousands and then tens of thousands of employees.

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Google Making Breathtaking Counteroffers To Stop Flow Of Employees To Facebook

Facebook adores Hollywood ad dollars, except in the case of one particular film. Which would be “The Social Network,” the upcoming film ideal known as “The Facebook Movie”. As Kara Swisher pointed out in July, Facebook isn’t accepting ads from Sony (SNE) , the movie’s distributor

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Facebook Won’t Run Ads for "The Social Network", But Facebook Users Like It Anyway [MediaMemo]

Editor’s note : Guest author Adam Rifkin is a Silicon Valley veteran who organizes a networking group for entrepreneurial engineers called 106 Miles. In this post he argues that Gmail is perhaps not the ideal vessel for Google’s social ambitions

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Gmail’s Permanent Failure: Only Humans Can Build Software For Humans

People are always trying to spruce up their email signatures with funny witticisms, famous quotes, and professional information. WiseStamp is trying to innovate on the traditional email signature by allowing you to customize your message with current Tweets, links to your social network profiles and more. WiseStamp, which was incubated within Dogpatch Labs , is launching its platform to the public today

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WiseStamp Signs Your Emails With Tweets, Stumbles And Plans

Autodesk this day announced the Mac release of their professional engineering and design software, AutoCAD. The initial betas of the Mac version hit in late Might and up until then the software was a Windows-exclusive. On top of a Mac version, Autodesk is doing the whole 360 by releasing an iOS version to go along with it

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Autodesk’s AutoCAD for Mac, iOS breaks loose

According to CNET’s Greg Sandoval, iTunes previews might double in length as of Wednesday’s iTunes announcement.  Apple wants to improve the iTunes experience and the 30 seconds of music in the preview aren’t enough according to some.

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iTunes song/video previews might or might not double in length