A good friend of mine, Julia Johnston, just launched a new company called mEgo, which she also co-founded and is CEO. If you spend any time on a social networking site such as Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Tagged, etc., you may want to check out www.mego.com.

A couple of days ago mEgo also presented to some of the most influential people in the technology industry - from VCs to senior executives at Yahoo, Google, NewsCorp etc - at the TechCrunch40 Conference in San Francisco ( www.techcrunch20.com ). There were over 700 companies from around the world who applied to present at the conference, which I think validates the quality of the idea and the company.

Very cool, IMO. So proud of Julia. Amazing chick.

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September 17, 2007

MEGO LAUNCHES FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND MULTIMEDIA AVATAR

New Online Identity Tool to Debut at TechCrunch40 Conference in San Francisco

Deal with Tagged also Announced

Users Can Now Customize their Digital Identity and Take it Across the Web

SAN FRANCISCO, CA. September 18, 2007 – mEgo, selected to present at the 2007 TechCrunch40 conference as one of this year’s hottest start-up technology companies, today launched its flagship product named mEgo. A mEgo is a patent-pending portable multimedia profile that allows users to share dynamic, customized visual identities of themselves across the web. In conjunction with the launch, mEgo also announced a distribution partnership with social networking site Tagged and a new application mEgo is building for the Facebook platform.

http://beta.mego.com/home/press

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