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The NZ Herald is reporting today about Wellingtonian Claudia Batten who sold her startup company, Massive, to Microsoft in a US$400 million deal. The software allows publishers to download adverts into online games which is estimated to reach a $US700 million a year industry by 2010.

Claudia isn’t revealing the exact figures but the sale has probably netted her more money than Sam Morgan did when he sold Trademe to Fairfax recently.

Link here:

• Kiwi entrepreneur nets multi-million dollar Microsoft deal – 21 May 2006

Dave Winer has just released a cool, new site called Share Your OPML. It’s such a simple idea it’s surprising that no-one else has thought of it.

Basically, you upload your OPML file or point it to your web-based one and it aggregates your feeds with everyone else who’s registered with the site and displays a list of the most subscribed feeds.

Links:

• Share Your OPML » Top 100 Feeds
• My feeds
• Feed: Top 100 Feeds