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Aggregate Knowledge Selected as a Supernova 2007 Connected Innovator.


SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif. -- Aggregate Knowledge, the leader in the new category of Online Discovery today announced that it has been selected as a Supernova 2007 Connected Innovator and will be presenting at the Supernova Conference in San Francisco, California “San Francisco” redirects here. For other uses, see San Francisco (disambiguation).

The City and County of San Francisco (EN IPA: [sænfrənˈsɪskoʊ] 
 on June 21, 2007. Aggregate Knowledge CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  Paul Martino Paul Martino is CEO and founder of Aggregate Knowledge. Paul is also a co-founder of social networking site Tribe.net.

Paul describes Aggregate Knowledge's mission: "To deliver the best content to people based on the aggregate behavior of everyone who has gone before them.
 will be demonstrating how millions of people use discovery to find products, content and services. Coverage of the presentation and event will be provided on TechCrunch.com.

The Connected Innovators program, a highlight of the Supernova 2007 Conference, brings together the creators of exciting emerging technologies with the industry's top technology and business influencers. Aggregate Knowledge was one of the thirteen companies selected from a record number of applicants by Supernova organizer Kevin Werbach and TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington J. Michael Arrington (born March 13 1970 in Orange, California)[1] is a serial entrepreneur and the maintainer of TechCrunch, a blog covering the Silicon Valley and wider United States technology start-up community. .

"These thirteen innovators were selected from an impressive number of exciting ventures; it's a promising reflection of the current state of innovation in our industry," said Kevin Werbach, Supernova's founder and assistant professor at The Wharton School. "Bringing this group together with industry influencers will only help drive the development and impact of technology's next big thing."

"Discovery has emerged as an exciting new category that is fundamentally changing the way companies sell products online, how media publishers deliver relevant content and how millions of people discover information on the Internet," said Paul Martino, Aggregate Knowledge CEO and founder. "We are honored to be selected as a Supernova Connected Innovator and look forward to showing how leading companies are driving business value through Discovery."

Aggregate Knowledge is powering Discovery for more than 50 million people per month for its growing portfolio of customers. Customers include major online publishing companies and retailers, such as the WashingtonPost.com and Overstock.com.

Aggregate Knowledge Discovery offerings emulate the way people naturally discover information and shop offline. By employing a super computing architecture that anonymously aggregates billions of data points in real time, Aggregate Knowledge helps its customers tap into the collective behavior The term "collective behavior" was first used by Robert E. Park, and employed definitively by Herbert Blumer, to refer to social processes and events which do not reflect existing social structure (laws, conventions, and institutions), but which emerge in a "spontaneous" way.  of their online visitors and customers to anticipate and deliver content that is both relevant and useful. Aggregate Knowledge moves far beyond traditional keyword search by dynamically modeling real-time changes in human behavior to surface new and relevant content leading to breakthroughs in both click-through and sales conversion rates. Deployed as a web service, Aggregate Knowledge Discovery offerings can be up and running on customer sites in as little as a few hours.

About Aggregate Knowledge

Aggregate Knowledge offers the industry's first online Collective Discovery Services See service discovery.  that emulate the way people naturally discover and shop for products and information offline. Built on top of a sophisticated super computing architecture, Aggregate Knowledge harnesses the behavior of users to fundamentally change the way people navigate and engage online. Aggregate Knowledge delivers significant revenue enhancement revenue enhancement

An increase in revenues, especially by way of increased taxes. Revenue enhancement includes reducing taxpayer deductions and eliminating tax credits.
 to site owners by providing real-time collective merchandising and navigation capabilities. Aggregate Knowledge was recently acknowledged as an AlwaysOn Media 100 winner as well as selected by The Wharton School's Kevin Werbach and TechCrunch's Michael Arrington as a Supernova Connected Innovator. Funded by premier venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed
5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1]
 Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and DAG Ventures, the company's management team includes veterans from Blockbuster, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Kodak, Mercury, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Sun and Tribe.net.
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