As an exercise in research outsourcing, I found a list of 2008 technology acquisitions and paid some random person on Mahalo Answers $30 to research where those companies were when they got bought. I'm going to drop them on a Google Map, but I was quite surprised at how global they really were.

I'm also going to do it for 2007 (what's another $30?).

Here's the 2008 list. Once I do it for 2007, I'll map it out. Out of 106, 81 of them were outside of the Valley. There might be a few more, as I don't recognize all of the towns clustered around the valley. It would be interesting to plot exit events over time-- I'd guess that we're trending towards LESS clustering rather than more.

Moniker - Pompano Beach, Florida, United States
Bodybuilding.com - MERIDIAN, Idaho, United States
CleverSet - Seattle, Washington, United States
Anywhere.FM - San Francisco, CA, United States
Audible - 160 employees split between its headquarters in Newark, NJ and an office in London, UK.
Maven Networks - Boston, MA, United States
FoxyTunes - Israel
Vehix- Salt Lake City, UT, United States
HotOrNot - San Francisco, CA, United States
Compete - London, UK
BlogDigger - Washington, D.C., United States
Auctomatic - San Francisco, CA, United States
BeInSync - Tel Aviv, Israel
Prospero - Burlington, MA, United States
Social Platform - Los Angeles, CA, United States
Pluck - Austin, TX, United States
Bebo - San Francisco, CA, United States
Sway - Middleton, WI, United States
buy.at - London, UK
YaData - Tel Aviv, Israel
Weblistic - Fremont, CA, United States
XIV - Tel Aviv, Israel
Apertio - Bristol, UK
Onaro - Boston, MA, United States
MySQL - Uppsala, Sweden
Trolltech - Oslo, Norway
Fraud Sciences - Tel Aviv, Israel
E-Dialog - Lexington, MA, United States
MessageOne - Austin, Texas, United States
G-Technology - Santa Ana, CA, United States
Danger - Palo Alto, CA, United States
Caligari - Mountain View, CA, United States
Twhirl - Germany
Pageflakes - San Francisco, CA, United States
Sphere - San Francisco, CA, United States
Farecast - Seattle, WA, United States
Activeweave - San Francisco, CA, United States
Fleaflicker - Tenafly, NJ, United States
Expensr - San Francisco, CA, United States
gBox - Cupertino, CA, United States
MeeVee - Burlingame, CA, United States
Inquisitor - Sunnyvale, CA, United States
Cnet - San Francisco, CA, United States
Ars Technica - Chicago, Illinois, United States
StarBrand Media - Los Angeles, California, United States
M:Metrics - Seattle, WA, United States
Celebrity Baby Blog - New York, NY
Snapvine - Seattle, WA, United States
SwapDrive - Washington, D.C., United States
Hostopia.com - Mississauga, ON, Canada
Imity - Copenhagen, Denmark
Rupture - San Francisco, CA, United States
ZYB - Copenhagen, Denmark
StarNet Interactive - Tel Aviv, Israel
Plazes - Berlin, Germany
Adify - San Bruno, CA, United States
Personifi - Fort Worth, TX, United States
Navic Networks - Waltham, MA, United States
Gracenote- Emeryville, CA, United States
Simple Star - San Francisco, CA, United States
Diligent - Framingham, MA, United States
EDS - Plano, TX
Hands-On Mobile Korea - San Francisco, CA, United States
B-hive Networks - Herzliya, Israel
OpenAir - Boston, MA, United States
Let It Wave - Paris, France
Practique Associates - Bracknell, UK
MusicGremlin - New York, NY, United States
Skywire - Las Vegas, NV, United States
Symbian - N./A
Alltel - Little Rock, Ark, United States
Helio - Los Angeles, CA, United States
Iomega - San Diego, CA, United States
Powerset - San Francisco, CA, United States
Weather Channel - Atlanta, Georgia, United States
HaloScan - N/A
Imagekind - Seattle, WA, United States
Truemors - Palo Alto, CA, United States
ContentNextMedia - Santa Monica, CA, United States
PodTech - Palo Alto, CA, United States
jkOnTheRun - Houston, TX, United States
Omnisio - Atherton, CA, United States
AbeBooks - Victoria, Canada
DailyCandy - New York, New York
Blogcritics - San Francisco, CA, United States
Ciao (Greenfield Online) - Connecticutm, MA, United States
social.im - San Francisco, CA, United States
Peerflix - Palo Alto, CA, United States
Napster - Los Angeles, CA, United States
YoVille - N/A
PartnerUp - Shoreview, MN, United States
Socialthing! - Boulder, CA, United States
ZAO Begun - Moscow, Russia
Pure Networks - Seattle, WA, United States
Jabber - Denver, CO, United States
Ribbit - Mountain View, CA, United States
PostPath - Mountain View, CA, United States
Lefthand Networks - Boulder, CO, United States
Bitwine - Tenafly, New Jersey, United States
Bill Me Later - Omaha, Nebraska, United States
DBA - Denmark
Polldaddy - Sligo, Ireland
JungleDisk - Atlanta, GA, United States
Wayport - Austin, Texas
RuTube - Moscow, Russia
Clickpass - San Francisco, CA, United States
Revolution Health - Brooklyn, NY, United States
socialmedian - New York, NY, United States
AdEngage - Los Angeles, CA, United States
acerno - New York and San Francisco based.
Lookery - San Francisco, CA, United States
Centennial - Wall, NJ, United States