AOL has acquired Socialthing, a Techstars company from 2007 which built a popular digital life manager. TechCrunch, Somewhat Frank, and Mashable all have coverage of the news, as does the Techstars blog in case you want more details. Disclosure: Through Techstars, I was a small investor in Socialthing.
I didn’t get the chance to head down to SXSW this year, but from the sound of it Colorado was well represented. Gwen wrote a bit about her experience down there, and what follows below is a guest post by Micah Baldwin on the same subject. Micah asked if he could chime in with a …
Thanks to Eric Olson and Frank Gruber, as well as DEMO, Lijit and Threadless for throwing TECH Cocktail last night here in Boulder. I think there were about 200 people who came out from the local tech community and SocialThing, Filtrbox, Survey Gizmo, and Newsgator were there showing off their (soft) wares. Go and check …
This week’s New Tech Meetup was standing room only. It followed on the heels of a Silicon Flatirons event, which was informative and educational. The excitement in the room was palpable as Julie Penner brought the meetup to order. BpCentral started the meetup by introducing Liquid Scenarios. It’s a “suite of proprietary software technologies that …
Socialthing is a Techstars company which has not launched publicly yet. The company plans to extend their current private beta to a wider audience next week at SXSW. They showed off their integrated lifestream which aggregates the social activity of all your friends into a single spot and also lets you push out content to …
The presenting companies at next months Venture Capital in the Rockies were announced publicly today for the first time. They are: Albeo Technologies, Inc. Albeo Technologies develops and sells patented solid-state lighting (SSL) systems for industrial and commercial businesses. The products improve profits for customers by reducing energy, maintenance, materials, recycling, and cooling costs. Albeo …