Peter Chun

British startup Naked is fundamentally rethinking online communication. Email, IM, text messaging and social networking all fall short on points and don’t work together.

Naked proposes a cross-platform alternative they call Open Messaging. There’s already an international private beta. US mobile support will be added before the end of this month.

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Yuli Ziv, previously creative director at interactive agency 360i, introduces user-generated magazine MyItThings.

Andrew Monfried’s presentation was the most interesting at tonight’s Ad Club Meetup. The founder/president of Lotame talked about advertising in social networks.

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Snooth announced $1 million in angel funding from the company’s initial backers as well as a new group of international investors. The New York-based wine review site plans to spend the money on international expansion.

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