As I mentioned on Friday there was some rumblings in the hallways about a contest that would start this week. Well…today is the day. The Bing cashback contest is officially live and you can now win a chance to do L.A. in style—with $10,000 in your pocket, a Hollywood makeover, a round-trip flight, hotel and serious E! studio time with Ryan Seacrest! This could not have come at a better time…some fun in the sun is just what the doctor ordered.
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Congratulations to Tech Valley startup, creator of SaaSGrid, Apprenda, on closing a five million dollar ($5M USD) round of financing! Along with seed-round investor High Peak Ventures, Apprenda has brought New Enterprise Associates (NEA) on-board for some major VC firepower!Apprenda is located about 15-20 minutes north of Albany, and uses some verrrrry cool .NET technology to automagically convert your single-tenant apps to multi-tenant without you having to change your code or data model. Sa... Read Full Story
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5 years ago, web browsing got smarter, easier to use and more open with the release of the Firefox web browser. Today, with over one billion downloads, and countless extensions developed, Firefox holds the place of being the second most used browser on the web, controlling 25% of audience share with its focus on security, performance and flexibility.
Firefox has come quite a long way in just a short period of time online. Voted as PC world’s product of the year in ... Read Full Story
Our #CrushIt contest with Gary Vaynerchuk has come to an end. Before we announce the winners, we want to thank everyone who participated and signed up for Lijit. We like working with friends of Lijit, our community and giving back so if you have any feedback or additional ideas, send them our way. We’re all ears.
Without further ado. Drumroll please…
The five winners, picked at random are:
Programming Language FAQ (http://programminglanguagefaqs.blogspot.com/)
Over U (http://ov... Read Full Story
How much of time, staffing and money does your organization spend on creating incredible experiences (vs. avoiding bad outcomes)?At the hospital, it's probably 5% on the upside (the doctor who puts in the stitches, say) and 95% on the downside (all the avoidance of infection or lawsuits, records to keep, forms to sign). Most of the people you interact with in a hospital aren't there to help you get what you came for (to get better) they're there to help you avoid getting worse. At an avant ga... Read Full Story
This is so cool: because we only look at things we want to look at, only talk about things worth talking about, the amount of fabulous in the world continues to rise exponentially.Even though we're at the tail end of the great recession, think about all the cool stuff in your life. Not just stuff you can buy, but experiences, works of art, innovations of all kinds... the bar has been raised for what you need to do to be noticed, and the market is responding.Not only do I notice more fabulous,... Read Full Story
This is the third attempt for me writing this post. This morning I woke up and read my email like I do every morning. One of the emails was a Google alert with a reference to this San Francisco Chronicle article about “Social Media Going Corporate.” In the article it stated the following:
At Comcast, employee Frank Eliason took the initiative last year to use his own Twitter account to contact customers who were tweeting about service problems. Now known as “Famous Frank... Read Full Story
When you're just starting out or when your organization is struggling or when the economy isn't hot, it's very tempting to take what you can get.You just graduated from law school and you have a lot of debt and the best job you can get is doing collections work. Should you take it?Your consulting firm is organized around providing high-value work for large corporations, but the only gigs you can get in the consideration set for are small, struggling companies looking to spend a few hundred do... Read Full Story
Last night, our CEO, Todd Vernon, and COO, Walter Knapp, were interviewed by Bloggers School on Blog Talk Radio. They discussed the history of Lijit, the business model behind our company and how our search adds value to both the publisher and the blog reader. The majority of the interview centered around questions about Lijit’s premium Ad Network and how we’re making it even easier for bloggers to make money on their blogs. Give it a listen if you want to hear more from the top ... Read Full Story
