October 31, 2008 – 10:17 am
On Wednesday night, Boulder saw its first Ignite Event with 14 presenters and over 100 in attendance. Started in 2006 in Seattle, Ignite is a style of presentation that requires presenters to use 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds while allowing presenters free choice of presentation topic. The presenters at Ignite Boulder drew from [...]
October 31, 2008 – 1:12 am
Were a person to open a retail store it’s unlikely they would trouble themselves with building the physical location from the ground up: laying foundation, wiring the walls, or installing the plumbing. It’s more probable an executive would focus on creating value important to the business, such as choosing selection and display, and simply move [...]
October 27, 2008 – 4:57 pm
Yesterday, Array BioPharma Inc. announced positive results from its Phase 2 trial of ARRY-797 for acute inflammatory dental pain. The double-blind trial enrolled 253 patients undergoing elective dental surgery on 3 or more impacted third molars and compared three different doses of ARRY-797 (200 mg, 400 mg or 600 mg) with placebo or [...]
October 27, 2008 – 4:43 pm
This evening Silicon Flatirons hosted CEO Todd Vernon and COO Walter Knapp of Lijit Networks. Founded in 2006, Lijit provides online publishers (bloggers) a free search engine as well as the potential to create a business around the blog from advertisement revenue sharing. Speaking to a group of over 100 in the Engineering Center, Vernon [...]
October 17, 2008 – 11:15 am
It is an odd start to an evening when a scientist of international renown immediately confesses that progress in his area of focus has “not been a successful endeavor.” As Dr. Barry Beaty went on to explain, his frustration is not rooted in lacking understanding of vector borne diseases, but in advancing products to combat [...]
October 15, 2008 – 11:09 am
On Monday night the ATLAS Institute (Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society) hosted a seminar on the use of social networking sites presented by SocialThing founder Matt Galligan. Between stories of Miami pool cabana escapades with Digg founder Kevin Rose and his quest to overtake his nemesis – a photographer of the same name – [...]
October 10, 2008 – 11:01 am
The women of MySpaceorYours have spent the afternoon talking about sex. Not anything naughty, but sex as in conception – seeding the crop, mak’n the bacon. They have babies on the brain due to a customer request for a personalized MySpace background: A woman in Indiana is trying to conceive and considers it apropos to [...]
October 10, 2008 – 10:48 am
“I wish I had known my cancer was hereditary when I was making my treatment decisions,” reflects Sue Friedman, Founder and Executive Director of Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered (FORCE). A vegetarian who frequently exercised, Friedman was caught by surprise by her diagnosis at the age of 33. She chose to have a single [...]
October 10, 2008 – 10:42 am
This month’s Colorado Green Tech Meetup saw the launch of the group’s website (Coloradogreentech.net) as well as four presentations.
National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL)
Wyatt Metzger of the National Renewable Energy Lab opened with an overview of solar electricity, beginning by noting that solar is an incredibly diffuse yet abundant source of power. While it takes [...]
October 8, 2008 – 10:34 am
Picture the typical driver of a hybrid vehicle over time. A decade ago what likely would have come to mind was a Sierra Club member, raised on Willie Nelson music, who thought globally and acted locally. More recently one might have imagined a professional who traded the two-ton SUV for a Prius when [...]
