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One interesting site mentioned in this morning's keynote was SearchMe.com. They are taking the same kind of idea that I've seen before--giving you a preview of the sites that appear in a search box--but to a whole new level. Rather than a small little badge preview, they show the search results in categories of Apple Cover-Flow style result sets.

Pretty cool, and something I think I'll actually use.

This is backed by Sequoia Capital, who've previously been involved with little web companies like Google, YouTube, Yahoo.

As a side note, one of the first speakers we saw after starting COGBOX in 1997 was Mark Kvamme, now one of the partners of Sequoia. This was at an AIGA brand design conference, and really got us excited about our new business. Our paths have remained almost eerily synchronous ever since. He went on to fund Google, we...ok, maybe not perfectly synchronous.