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Online publication NEXTpittsburgh sold to local investor | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Online publication NEXTpittsburgh has been sold to a local investor who said he plans to maintain its focus on news about the region’s arts, culture, technology, and business sectors and possibly expand coverage of public policy issues. The site’s new owner, John Rhoades, said he was seeking a new venture after selling some of his stake in Beauty Shoppe, a Pittsburgh company that operates…

This week Laurie Bailey at NEXTPittsburgh featured Collected in their Business & Tech News. Check out the article below.

If you’ve ever sat at your computer, writing about something you have written about before—and wondering where that document is in your computer—Collected could be the software for you.

Collected, a new productivity tool, delivers content to an unobtrusive sidebar or window on the computer screen while the user is typing content in documents such as contracts, proposals or memos. So when you type in, say, “year-end summary for X corporation,” that content you previously wrote about will appear as a snippet on your screen. And you can then access the document to easily retrieve it.

“It allows users to uncover and reuse existing work by providing related content from the user’s cloud accounts as they type,” says company founder and developer Steve Cotter.

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Majestic Lane of JuiceUp 412.  Photo by Brian Cohen via NEXTPittsburgh