June in Boulder

it’s been a fun June in Boulder. Not just with the first 30 days of Techstars, but in general. Last week I went to the Fuser open house (I hear there are still some closed beta invites available), but had something come up right before the Lijit open house, so I couldn’t make it over …

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Lijit funded

Lijit (all my past coverage here) announced today that it has received 3.3M in funding in a round led by Boulder Ventures. The company recently turned one year old. They’re so cute at that age, aren’t they? The Lijit widjit is on the right side of my blog. It lets you search through my eyes …

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VCIR Presenting Companies

VCIR had 33 presenting companies in three tracks this year. 22 were IT related, and 11 were life sciences. Unfortunately, I only got to see about a third of them. Envysion – Broadband video surveillance. This targets food service, hotel and retail businesses who want to use the Internet to manage surveillance. They’ve landed customers …

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A tidbit on the Lijit wijit

Todd Vernon of Lijit (covered previously) just pinged me to let me know they’ve just announced the general availability of their personal network search widget. You can see that I’m running it on the right hand side of this blog. I’ve been Lijit for about 6 months now (according to my profile) and I’ve entered …

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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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BarCamp recap

Barcamp is winding down in Denver as I write this post. It’s been a fun event and I met several cool and interesting people among the attendees. I also met many people in person that I previously had only known online. Even had there been no sessions, it was worth attending for the chance to …

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