The Y Combinator Class of Summer 2010

YC-dropshadowThis summer and fall we’re featuring profiles of selected companies participating in the Summer 2010 session at Mountain View, CA-based startup school Y Combinator. “YC S10” companies spent the summer gearing up for the program’s climax, “Demo Day” pitches to investors on August 24.

August 11: InDinero Co-founder Sees “Humungous” Market in Small Business Expense Tracking

August 16: 1000Memories Confronts Death by Celebrating Lives

August 17: The Eyes Have It: GazeHawk Introduces Low-Cost Eye Tracking Studies for Web Designers

August 18: Hipmunk, Conceived by David Pogue’s Teenage Co-Author, Embarks on Mission to Make Travel Search Easier

August 23: Rapportive’s “Social CRM” Gmail Plugin Makes E-mail Social Again

August 26: AdGrok’s Grandiose Proposition: Replacing the “Craptacular” Google AdWords Interface

September 15: The Fridge: Private Mini-Facebooks that Put Social Networking in Context

September 20: Do You Know Where Your Child (or Husband or Girlfriend) Is? Whereoscope Can Tell You

October 26: OhLife’s Daily E-Mails Motivate A New Wave of Online Diarists

Also see these related Y Combinator stories:

The Definitive Y Combinator Demo Day Debrief, August 25

How the B-School Dropouts at Bump Are Filling a Big Gap in Mobile Communications, September 13

Anybots, Y Combinator’s Housemate, Brings Remote-Controlled Robots to the White-Collar World, September 24

CarWoo Promises Car Buyers Hassle-Free Quotes Online, Raises $4.2 Million, October 13

Mark Zuckerberg Goes to Startup School [Video], October 18

Author: Wade Roush

Between 2007 and 2014, I was a staff editor for Xconomy in Boston and San Francisco. Since 2008 I've been writing a weekly opinion/review column called VOX: The Voice of Xperience. (From 2008 to 2013 the column was known as World Wide Wade.) I've been writing about science and technology professionally since 1994. Before joining Xconomy in 2007, I was a staff member at MIT’s Technology Review from 2001 to 2006, serving as senior editor, San Francisco bureau chief, and executive editor of TechnologyReview.com. Before that, I was the Boston bureau reporter for Science, managing editor of supercomputing publications at NASA Ames Research Center, and Web editor at e-book pioneer NuvoMedia. I have a B.A. in the history of science from Harvard College and a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT. I've published articles in Science, Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Technology and Culture, Alaska Airlines Magazine, and World Business, and I've been a guest of NPR, CNN, CNBC, NECN, WGBH and the PBS NewsHour. I'm a frequent conference participant and enjoy opportunities to moderate panel discussions and on-stage chats. My personal site: waderoush.com My social media coordinates: Twitter: @wroush Facebook: facebook.com/wade.roush LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/waderoush Google+ : google.com/+WadeRoush YouTube: youtube.com/wroush1967 Flickr: flickr.com/photos/wroush/ Pinterest: pinterest.com/waderoush/