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Tomorrow night Silicon Valley’s Girls In Tech group will head over to Kosmix HQ for an evening of networking and career advice from some of the area’s coolest companies.

If you are looking for a job, or want tips on how to sharpen up your resume, this is the place to be.  Here are all the details from the Girls In Tech crew:

Have you ever wondered what it is, exactly, about your resume that will turn a recruiter on/off to your potential as a candidate for employment? Find out with Girls in Tech Silicon Valley, on November 19, as we invite a variety of  managers / recruiters to share resume best practices and knowledge around how to make yourself an attractive professional in today’s competitive market.

During the evening, participants will be breaking out into intimate groups to do peer resume reviews while Hiring Professionals provide valuable insight and feedback.

Professionals from the following industries and others will be joining us:

–Lizelle Baylon, Principal Recruiter at Boston Scientific (Medical Devices)

–Debbie Donovan, Sr. Manager, Practice & Hospital Market Development at Intuitive Surgical (Medical Devices)

–Kiran Prasad, CTO at Sliced Simple, Inc. Former Senior Director WebOS Emerging Technologies at Palm (Mobile)

–Cindy Wang, Product Manager at Tiny Prints Inc. (Online Retailer)

–Stephanie Lonn, Technical Recruiter at Zynga (Social Media / Games)

–Isabelle Mitura, Recruiter at Zynga (Social Media / Games)

Spots are first come, first serve. Refreshments and snacks will be provided!

Doors open at 6:45, breakout sessions begin at 7:00pm
$10 in advance (register at Eventbrite)
$15 at the door

Kosmix
444 Castro St
(Entrance on Mercy St)
Mountain View, CA 94041

Big news around Kosmix HQ today:  we’ve just acquired Cruxlux.

Cruxlux is an awesome startup that specializes in determining the relationships between people, places or things.  TechCrunch equates Cruxlux with the party game ‘Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon’, and that’s an apt comparison.  Cruxlux lets you chart each connection that links one person or thing to another.  How, for example, is Bono connected to Larry Ellison?  Cruxlux tells us that 1) Bono has collaborated with Bob Dylan; 2) Bob Dylan used to go out with Joan Baez; 3) Joan Baez lives in Woodside, California; and 4) Larry Ellison is Joan’s neighbor in Woodside.  Pretty cool, eh?

While we could spend hours playing the Kevin Bacon game with Cruxlux (and we have!), the real value of the Cruxlux technology  for Kosmix is the advanced algorithms it uses to understand relationships.  The Cruxlux team and technology fits perfectly with the work we’ve been doing in our “Related in the Kosmos” section on each topic page, and we expect to integrate Cruxlux tightly into Kosmix.  Watch this space.

This is the first acquisition for Kosmix, and we’re excited to have the Cruxlux team on board!

We had a GREAT time at SF New Tech last night–thanks to Myles and the crew for hosting such an awesome evening.

The club was packed with more than 200 movers and shakers in the local startup community, as well as a few VCs and journalists–including the New York Times’ Brad Stone, who had some hard-hitting questions for us about the future of media and the role sites like MeeHive play in a well-informed society.

If you haven’t had the chance to check out some of the other startups who presented last night, several of them are definately worth a look.   One of our favorites was Famililink, which has created a site that makes it easier for elderly people and those who aren’t technically inclined to keep in touch with family email messages, videos, pictures and calendars.  One person in the audience suggested that they should also integrate MeeHive into their offering, to add personal news to the mix.  (And, no, we didn’t plant someone to say that.)

We finished the night with a Kosmix Lucky Twit giveaway.  In the true spirit of “Wheel of Fortune,” some folks in the audience even chanted, “No whammy! No Whammy! No Whammy!”  when we’d spin the tweets to pick a winner.  Congrats to the lucky tweeter who went home with the FlipCam–enjoy!

Jennifer Simpson took some terrific photos of the event–check them out here.    Here’s a sample of some of her cool pics: