Mark Rosenberger is in ur computer organizing ur info. 

Rosenberger is the founder of Tagle, a Calgary-based startup that wants to aggregate and connect all your stuff. Stuff meaning your emails, your various social media flotsam and jetsam and your photos, videos and documents. The trick is connecting it all when it's scattered across your hard drive, inboxes and all over the internet.  

At this point Tagle is a downloadable Windows application. The interface is simple, a sidebar and a search window. It's built in .net and Rosenberger has developers in Russia, India and China working on the project. 

He raised $500 000 in Nov. 2007. The money was raised from a couple of angel investors and friends and family. 

And while they're busy working on the technology behind it they're also busy figuring out the most important part of any new company. Monetization. 

"We're still in discovery phase. We're testing Google Adwords, trying to find a market."

While they're doing that Tagle is in the midst of starting a relationship with Drop.io (an online collaboration/storage system). Tagle would take a cut of the revenue from the people they pushed towards premium accounts. Essentially acting as a value added add-on for existing services. 

"I think we've got some great technology we just have to go out there and prove it to users. You build something cool and the people who use it are nowhere near what you think."

Rosenberger is a first time entrepreneur. A mechanical engineer by training he quit his job to start Tagle with no funding lined up. His wife wasn't working had to support his young familiy

"It lit a fire under my ass. Thinking what the hell did I do?"

They're still a ways away from figuring out how Tagle is going to make to make money but Derek Ball, the CEO of Tynt and an advisor to Rosenberger sees great potential. 

"Where Tagle gets exciting for me is it has the potential to let me know where all my info is regardless of where I store it. It's not there yet but it has the potential to do it and the potential to do it automatically."

Ball is a serial entrepreneur with Tynt being his 8th company. 

"The process that he's gone through is completely normal. 98% of the companies today are not selling the product they originally chose to make. Nokia originally sold rubber boots."

"Tynt started off doing something for teenage social networks and we've moved onto a tool for content publishers."

Tynt tracks copy and paste activity on a website and automatically adds a link back to your content when it is pasted somewhere else. 

Sept. 2008 was a wakeup call for Tynt. They had burnt through their first round of fundraising and while they had built the technology they did not have the revenue. 

"Ran the tank not quite dry to get to the point where we had change business models. We had to ask ourselves: What do we have here that's valuable?" 

And as Tynt gets ready to bring big customers online an example has been set. Where Tagle ends up is not certain but as Derek Ball said "you have to make something people care about." If Tagle can do that Rosenberger should be all right.

This online art rental business combines a social purpose with a solid business case. The idea is simple. There are artists in cities around the world creating artwork which is rarely seen. There are empty walls in businesses and homes in need of inspiration. ArtAnywhere brings the two together to create new galleries in non-traditional spaces, perhaps the one you’re sitting in right now. The option to rent makes art affordable and accessible for everyone.

ArtAnywhere is the first startup created and spun-out of Flow Ventures itself. Leading ArtAnywhere is CEO and co-founder Christine Renaud - an experienced educator and social entrepreneur who is well-known in the local Montreal startup community. ArtAnywhere is currently in private beta and is working with artists in Montreal, Toronto and New York with plans to launch in the Fall 2009.

Montreal's Flow Ventures is a tech startup accelerator that provides seed capital and hands-on operational support to early-stage ventures.

Redfin

Redfin's progressive new approach to real estate, offering a customer-focused team of real estate agents, as well as an array of online tools, aims to make buying or selling your own home easier. Given the discouraging state of real estate today, Redfin’s recent success is an audacious rebuke to naysayers of their populist approach.

"The question with Redfin has always been whether Redfin can make money while delivering fantastic service and saving consumers thousands in commissions," said Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman. "Well, in the worst real estate market in modern history, with our agents spending most of their time on work-intensive sales of distressed properties, we've built a stronger business than ever... For a company that many predicted would never make money, in an industry as battered as ours, Redfin's first monthly profit is a big milestone."

The formula they have hit on is not an easy one to finesse; countless online companies world-wide are in a fit trying to nail down a revenue model for their web market, and many are banging their heads against a wall wondering if there is a formula waiting to come out. But if it's out there, it will be found by someone, and it seems the real estate market has been ailing for such a model, one that even may help inspire confidence in the buyer's market, and cut out extra business costs to the consumer.

Redfin.com is the only major search site to feature listings direct from broker databases as well as for-sale-by-owner and foreclosure properties from across the Internet. It offers clients free unlimited home tours and one-on-one agent guidance during the home search, and allows clients to review their agents on the site. The agents are paid customer-satisfaction bonuses, not commissions, and the company surveys every client, publishing the surveys as well as details on the agent's negotiating performance and deal history. It’s an unprecedented level of customer-focused service in the industry, and it has provided Redfin with a ballooning market share and a 300+% year-over-year growth in unique visitors, making them the fastest-growing major real estate website in the U.S.

It's also nice that the folks at Redfin are interested in helping their fellow businesses, having organized The Naked Truth, a Seattle even offering pragmatic advice for startups, where industry participants are committed to share actual metrics from their businesses as a benchmark to other entrepreneurs evaluating different revenue models. Ultra-transparency and customer-focused revenue models? It's hard not to like this company. If I ever buy a house, I'm looking forward to the search interface.

The current recession is creating a challenging climate for job seekers in British Columbia. The best way to find work is to get online as much as possible – here are some tools to help.

Recruiting trusted talent can be challenging for employers in the best of times. During an economic downturn, the number of applicants for a given position can increase by 1000%. To avoid this impersonal process, many companies prefer to hire referrals from current employees.

• You can connect with a range of professionals by using the Business Datebook from Business in Vancouver – a portion of the site that does not require a subscription to access. This date book provides a color-coded look at key events where you can get offline and meet people. Building these relationships will help you access 80% of the job market that often goes unadvertised.

• Follow your favourite organizations on Twitter. Some users search for employees or leaders of a company you are interested in working for. You can gain information about the company, culture, and other latest news before it hits the paper. By following prominent leaders, you can also learn if they will be at certain conferences or other events that you could attend or volunteer at.

• Techvibes itself has a fantastic hyper-local job board. If you are looking for work in a field related to technology, chances are they have a great posting for you.

• LinkedIn can help you manage the connections that you meet offline and present a shortened resume with recommendations from previous supervisors or colleagues.

Finally, here are some portfolio and resume tools that you may want to play around with:

VisualCV creates portfolios from their customizable template. You can connect this with your LinkedIn page to increase predominance of your web image and coordinate the postings.

Prezzie allows you to create presentations that highlights your work and demonstrate the quality of your past projects with an interactive and visual twist.

Compare your Salary to other cities using the Salary Wizard. Learn if your expectations are in line with the current market rates and stay competitive with other talent.

To best prepare yourself for an interview, watch these examples and read quick tips from How to Nail an Interview. Lastly – to help pay the bills between jobs, look for smaller gigs and temporary work with oDesk.

Last month MySpace announced that they had laid off 30% of their staff in the United States (approximately 400 employees) and CEO Owen Van Natta's lay-off memo was shared across tech blogs.  “This restructuring plan crosses all U.S. divisions of the company and lowers the total number of domestic staff at MySpace to 1,000 employees.”

TechCrunch's Michael Arrington warned that MySpace wasn't done yet and that big international lay-offs were next with 100+ more cuts across the nearly 30 offices MySpace has around the world.

It turns out Arrington was right. The Canadian headquarters in Toronto is now empty and ex-employees are looking for work.

“Jott’s voice-to-text offerings have experienced a groundswell of adoption and positive industry recognition since the company’s inception, and we’re thrilled about the opportunity to expand our market reach and our voice services portfolio,” Nuance senior vice president Michael Thompson said in an announcement. “Together we will deliver a range of new services to our mobile operator and enterprise customers.”

Nuance, once called Scansoft, once called Visioneer, will now hold an existing market share and take a strong position against competitors in the phone-based speech-to-text industry, where Spinvox and Google Voice have begun to spread their toes. They did not disclose the price-tag of the deal.

Its newly acquired Seattle start-up Jott, founded by ex-Microsoft employees in 2008, built their company on a speech-to-text system that transcribes voice recordings into e-mails and web updates. They started out as a free service but eventually moved to a subscription-based model and expanded their speech-to-text capabilities to text messages, blog points, appointments, reminders and notes.

After wrestling with the trade-off between paying customers and ad-revenue, Jott will now have the benefit of Nuance’s existing sophistications in speech recognition technology, eliminating their need for human transcribers and making their existing services more efficient and scalable.

"arrington ok, really going to bed now. why do i feel like I'm going to wake up to a blog/twitter shitstorm and a possible restraining order? night all1 minute ago from Seesmic"

Tonight's meetup is at Cambrian Hall at 7pm - snacks will be provided.

Launched in May 2009, QuickPlay's PrimeTime2Go lets consumers set their mobile devices to automatically deliver full episodes of popular TV programs from leading networks including ABC, CBS and NBC as they become available.

Consumers interested in PrimeTime2Go can download the application on BlackBerry App World on their BlackBerry smartphone where they can browse the “Music and Video” category to download the service. Priced at $7.99 per month, PrimeTime2Go features an extensive catalog of content and full-length episodes of some of today’s most popular entertainment and news programs, including Grey's Anatomy, Lost, and Heroes.

QuickPlay Media was founded in 2004 by Wayne Purboo and Raja Khanna.