I run hot and cold in keeping up with certain sites and one of the sites that I have lost touch with for a couple of months was VenCorp – which replaced the old crowd sourcing site Cambrian House. VenCorp facilitates the formulation, presentation and ultimately angel investing in small startups. They have competitions for $50K funding prizes and the user community drives the whole things by discussing ideas with pitchers and voting on those concepts.

There has been one person on the site – Mike Brown – who is working something he calls Flow, that sounds very interesting, but very ambitious:

Information today comes to us at blistering speeds. Sometimes it comes so fast that we are unable to keep track of it all. The computer and the web browser should be the primary enablers in managing and tracking information. Instead they just appear to get in the way.

As a computer user, you want to access your information where ever you are. You want to share your information with friends, family, and co-workers. You want to be able to easily find information that you have used before. Sites like flickr, delicious, google have built their businesses around supporting those goals for specific scenarios.

The task for Stream to Me is to support these goals for everything a computer user does. Whether it’s browsing history, documents, media, or instant messaging, our software puts the user’s information at their fingertips and makes it available automatically on the internet. It also allows them to automatically synchronize across their devices. This makes it easier to share and retrieve their information.

Collaboration is the name of the game in today’s technology environment. Being able to consistently bring the collective knowledge and insight of a group together will give a company a competitive advantage over those who can’t. Stream to Me’s corporate offering will build on our community edition, allowing our customers to host their own private server for sharing corporate information. In addition the extensibility of the software allows customers to integrate their existing applications into the platform.

He has a website setup, but nothing to look at yet. He starts giving graphical hints in this blog post. I am curious, because visualization is interesting and social networking is a hot area. Sign up for VenCorp and you can vote on Mike’s idea or find some other worthy ideas. If you are looking for funding, it couldn’t hurt to check them out also.

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