I agree with Fred Wilson’s points in his fantastic post Widgets Is The Wrong Word For What We’re Doing. But perhaps it’s not really the widget that’s the problem. Perhaps it’s the widget delivery architecture. Early last year I said widgets would be big in terms of usage and adoption. Brad Feld agreed that they’d …
John Fischer is the founder and CEO of Denver based StickerGiant. You guessed it – they make and sell stickers. StickerGiant has actually been around since 2000, but it really changed focus recently. I thought it was a great example of how experimenting with your business can have a huge impact, and I wanted to …
Boulder interactive design firm texturemedia has been acquired by Crispin Porter + Bogusky for an undisclosed sum. Here are some details by the Daily Camera and Boulder County Business Report which were released today. Congrats to Andrew, Ivan, and the gang. CP+B made a great move. Silly me. I thought their Webby award last week …
Boulder’s Vermilion (a web communications and marketing company) picked up a Webby award this past week for professional services based on their work for Action Marketing Group. In his acceptance speech, which has a well-enforced 5 word limit, founder Bob Morehouse said “My second best night ever.” Webby awards are given annually to honor excellence …
EventVue is a Boulder based company that makes software for conferences to help engage and organize conference attendees. In effect, EventVue helps make conferences more participatory. EventVue starts by interfacing with the conferences existing registration system (such as Eventbrite or RegOnline). Attendees are then invited to participate in a simple targeted social network that is …
Idyllon is an massively multiplayer online game that is an “online, 3D, social entertainment platform”. Instead of a home page, users get a cottage in the woods. In short, Idyllon is trying to map the online social constructs of today onto the familiar patterns of real life. In concept, it will be like playing a …