Your attention please

It seems like there’s tons of activity in Colorado relating to capturing “clickstreams” and attention data. I’ve also been meeting some pretty amazing people lately who are involved in optimizing what I’ll call “traditional” web marketing (keyword search, opt in campaigns, etc). I thought it would fun to put these people in a room and …

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Overheard

Have you seen this Denver Water ad campaign? This stuff is great. Maybe some of you runners won’t think so. If you need to do some promotion and have a budget, take a look at Sukle Advertising and Design. They did the funny Noodles signs you’ve probably seen too. Everybody’s favorite new game. Guess what …

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Dear dad, I wish you could read this

Brad Feld’s recent post on mentors really hit home with me. My first mentor was my dad. He died nearly ten years ago, but he still influences me every single day. My father was a CPA and entrepreneur, living in DeLand, Florida, where I grew up. To this day, his partners at Cohen, Smith, and …

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Mud Springs wants to bring sophisticated mapping to everyone

There has clearly been a great deal of interest in getting simplified yet powerful mapping capability into the hands of the masses. Microsoft has tried to fill this gap in MS Office twice, first with the excel mapping tool and later with MapPoint. It’s never really worked. My experience with this sort of thing is …

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Overheard… (and overseen?)

Funding your dream (new video by Guy Kawasaki). The Domino Rally business model. Gotta make too many things happen in order to succeed? The Minority Report is real. Check out the future of UI (video). No OhioStartups.com? Maybe there should be. Too bad the squatters got to it already.

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Web Biographies – will you be forgotten?

Scott Purcell is one of the founders of a six person Denver-based startup called Web Biographies, which lets you keep your life story in one place for future generations. Scott explained to me that this is a great use of what’s called Life Caching. Like so many great companies, Web Biographies was started because the …

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