San Diego Startups — Plixi

Update: Plixi sold to Lockerz for $10-15M

Plixi

Plixi, formerly TweetPhoto, is both a service for sharing photos through social streams and a platform for developers to add media sharing capabilities to apps running on popular social networking sites. Plixi was founded and is run by Sean Callahan and Rodney Rumford. Investors include Canaan Partners, Anthem Venture Partners and Qualcomm Ventures.

San Diego Startups: Xpenser

Xpenser

Xpenser provides an easy way to track your business expenses.  Designed to work within your normal workflow, you can email, sms, Tweet, IM, etc., your expenses w/o logging on to their system.  You can even photograph your receipt with your iphone and send it off to Xpenser the way you see fit.  Cool.   Xpenser is run by Parand Darugar and is currently bootstrapped.