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DEFINITE READS

NearVerse, which develops LoKast [iTunes] a proximity-based social network with Wharton talent backing it, has raised $1 million from Meakem Becker Venture Capital, TechCrunch reports. The funds will be used to look beyond wireless 3G and 4G network connectivity.

MIGHT BE WORTH YOUR TIME

Viddler has announced that it will support HTML5 in an upcoming version of the video player after spending the last several months developing the compatibility in anticipation of Apple’s iPad. Viddler is a few months behind some of its video platform competitors, like YouTube, understandably so, and Vimeo. Initially, the service will only be available to partner and business accounts.

PlaySay let us know that the language learning startup has been selected to participate in the DEMO tour that’s made its way to Washington, D.C. this morning. The group will present before and shmooze with investors and other startups. Last week we reported that CalendarFly was out in the Valley to present their goods at DEMO, the historic startup event.

GIVE A GLANCE

Web design firm P’unk Ave celebrated its fifth birthday last week on the 1st of the month and to mark the occasion, the crew announced that it has reshuffled its internal roles, and is porting its Apostrophe platform over to Drupal—we might have been more apt to believe the news had we read the post on April Fool’s Day. But c’mon guys, we’d predict a shift to Blogger before .NET.

Oh, and don’t miss this piece on what a pianist can teach you about entrepreneurism.

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Two high-profile, Web-based Philadelphia startups each announced more services to their products recently.

Center City-based, event-planning social network i-Meet.com announced today its partnership with PlannerNet, a service aimed at helping its nearly 10,000 member organizations to find, rate and contract for project-based labor.

That move follows a host of new add-ons to PhindMe Mobile, a mobile Web direct-to-consumer advertising company based at Drexel University’s Baiada Center for Entrepreneurship, which came earlier this month, according to a company press release.

The new service offered by i-Meet, the brainchild of 17th and Oregon’s own John Pino, is said to identify professional meeting and event skills that are available worldwide, helping to match planner experience and projects for event organizers. It’s a move Pino hinted at during an interview with Technically Philly in May.

“In this challenging, economic environment, companies are becoming more inclined to staff their events on a project by project basis,” Pino says in a company press release. “By connecting our worldwide social network to PlannerNet, we’re… delivering qualified talent”

PhindMe’s new features are more varied, ranging from native smartphone applications to Twitter functionality.

The service will be able to publish a client’s mobile Web site as a native app for the iPhone, BlackBerry and Android operating systems, a release from CEO Chuck Sacco read. Now a company’s existing blog or any other RSS feed can be easily integrated for mobile users. PhindMe additionally boasted the addition of Twitter-powered mobile pages, featuring custom Twitter feeds and remote mobile page editing. The site also announced it would now accept international payments.

If an interview we had with Sacco from April is any indication, these new features aren’t what are on his mind.

“Our future is less about cool new features and more about ensuring we have the most efficient ways to distribute our products,” Sacco told us. “Hopefully you’ll see some new distribution deals for us where we get our products into the hands of some big players and become known as the new standard for the mobile web.”