Last week I spoke withDaniel Gross, the founder ofGreplin, aY Combinator(YC) funded startup that is generating a lot of buzz in Silicon Vally right now. Greplin allows you to search though your social-networking accounts on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and online services such as Google Docs and Email. It recently announced a $4 million venture round funding from Sequoia Capital, arguably the best VC firm in the world. Gross is one of the youngest people to launch a YC startup at the age of 18....

Finding all of your online “stuff” is difficult. You have email, tweets, and Facebook status updates. You toss them all into the internet. If you were to try and find one of these items, it could be pretty difficult. Sure, search in Gmail is pretty great, but Twitter’s search isn’t so great, and neither is Facebook’s.Greplinis a “personal search engine that allows you to search all your online data in one easy place....

Working with other people is sometimes the hardest of things that you’ll have to do. Keeping information current and readily available is just one of the many challenges involved with collaborative projects. While there are long-form options of keeping track of things, the process needs to be near-thoughtless, in order to truly work.Grexitis hoping to do just that. Think of Grexit as something like a collaborative email inbox, where you can keep tabs on what happens in a conversation....

Business incubator programs, which have proven to be extremely helpful in getting startups to launch, are booming all over the world. One of the latest to join the bunch isGrey Attic, a Malaysian-based incubator program that aims to follow the footsteps of startup accelerators such as TechStars, Y Combinator and SeedCamp. Grey Attic aims to create between 8-10 investment-ready businesses on an annual basis. Startups are matched with commercial opportunities, and teams turn these opportunities into a trading business within three months through a bootstrap experience with intensive mentoring....

Griddle.itis a nifty web app that dynamically generates a grid image for use in development stylesheets as a background image. Grid bookmarklets are a popular option for web designers, but they can be a hassle. They disappear on each reload, often requiring you to re-input parameters each time. With Griddle.it, you specify the grid’s dimensions once in the URL, make it the body element’s background image and you’re good to go — the precise grid you need, visible every time you reload....