Last week on The Next Web, we saw Silicon Valleydepictedby Hermione Way as a trap for America’s brightest young minds, locked in pursuit of profit and exit strategy. Startup incubators manufacturing the software equivalents of Biebers and Gagas, lacking any social conscience. There are several problems with this portrayal. To an outsider, the incubator process is artificial compared to flashbacks of Wozniak in a garage, building computers with his bare hands in the 70s....

Celebrity is big business these days -one Tweet from Ashton Kutcher gets youlots of traffic. Silicon Valley based startup JustSpotted is a celebrity-tracking tool to give fans an idea of what their favorite celebrities are up to at any given moment. The site aggregates the latest sightings, tweets, status updates, news articles & blog posts from all over the web for thousands of celebrities around the world. The service launched in October 2010 founded by AJ Asver, Dilan Jarawardane and Benjamin Tauber....

Qwiki, the information experience startupwe covered last yearis growing up quickly; They raised a series A funding round in the form of $8million and moved out of its small Palo Alto office behind a rug shop into an impressive 6,351 square foot office in the middle of SoMa’s startup district, but co-founder Doug Imbruce tells me the thing stopping the company from releasing ‘lots of great products people enjoy is recruiting great engineers’....

This video was bought to you bySitePenandViadeo. We all love the ease and speed of shopping online, but lets face it, shopping alone is boring, especially as you can’t ask your girlfriend ‘Does my bum look big in this?’ But as more and more of us shop online, can the fun of shopping with friends in real life be replicated on the net? Que:DoTogether– a Facebook application running a mall inside Facebook....

Foodspotting, the app allowing you to share pictures and locations of your favorite food, had its one year-old birthday party last night. The company, which recently announced $3 million in funding fromBlueRun ventures, is popular not only amongst early adopters, but has 550,00iPhoneusers worldwide and over 289,539 foods shared to date. I sat down with the cofoundersAlexa Andrzejewski(Adaptive Path),Ted Grubb(Get Satisfaction) andSoraya Darabi(New York Times) and asked them how people sharing their favorite foods will amount to generating revenue....