Monthly Archives: June 2009

TechStars Mentors Not Afraid to Roll Up Their Sleeves

The TechStars office, sitting below street level in downtown Boulder, is affectionately referred to as “the Bunker” by those working inside. With its open floor plan and cheerful aesthetics the actual space belies the nickname, yet there is a garrison aspect to the organization as a whole, where the public watches as young startups begin [...]

CSIA Event Discusses Promise and Pitfalls of the Cloud

CSIA’s breakfast event hosted at the Denver offices of Holland and Hart brought together experts to discuss “Cloud Computing – Perspectives and Applications.” The discussion featured Alan Gin, CEO of ZeroNines, and Jake Smith of Intel. While both offered glimpses into their deep technical knowledge, both of the presentations focused more on the [...]

The IT Week Ahead: June 22-29

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Tue, June 23: Boulder .NET UG, 6:00, ECCR-200, CU Boulder
Tue, June 23: Front Range Blogger Meetup, 7:00, Gordon Biersch, Broomfield
Wed, June 24: Front Range PHP UG, 7:00, Rockrimmon Library, CO Spring
Thu, June 25: BMA: Latest Trends in B2B SEO, 7:30 am and 3:00 pm, Denver Club Building
Thu, June 25: CSIA: Cloud Computing, 7:30 am, 555 [...]

Orchestr8 Releases Major Update to AlchemyAPI Text Mining Service

Orchestr8 announced upgrades to its AlchemyAPI Service that allows web publishers to enrich content by providing automated tagging, categorization and semantic analysis. This service provides many benefits including improved indexing of web pages, opportunities to improve filtering, and the potential to extract specific types of information from text (e.g. hCard-formatted contact information). The [...]

June New Tech Meetup – Denver

June’s New Tech Meetup in Denver saw a large crowd in the Tivoli Turnhalle on the campus of Metro State. Robert Reich was in good form and the crowd was treated to a variety of presentations, ranging from social networking applications to databases and software design.
Techoshark discussed its recently launched iPhone application, Hoozat, which [...]

The IT Week Ahead: June 15-22

The IT Week Ahead: June 15-22
Tue, June 16: BD New Tech Meetup (Denver), 6:00, Tivoli Turnhalle, Denver
Thu, June 18: Drive Traffic to Your Website, 8:00am, Longmont Chamber, Longmont
Thu, June 18: Denver SEMPO Meetup, 4:30, Lure Lounge, Denver
Thu, June 18: Interactive Meetup, 4:30, Imulus Design, Boulder
Thu, June 18: Denver SEO Meetup, 5:30, Lure Lounge, Denver
Thu, June [...]

CSIA Hosts Panel on Access to Capital

Before the gala Apex awards on Tuesday CSIA hosted panel discussions covering “Access to Capital,” a topic CSIA President Su Hawk noted is currently “one of the most important issues, and always has been and always will be.” The panels offered broad knowledge on the variety of debt and equity alternatives available to business.

CSIA’s Apex Awards Celebrate Individuals, Corporations and Volunteers

The Colorado Software and Internet Association’s annual Apex Awards was kicked off by evening Emcee Tim Higgins, who described the event as “the Oscars of Colorado technology.” Higgins briefly reminded the sold-out crowd of a few impressive statistics, including the fact that there are over 175,000 IT professionals working in Colorado at over 5000 software [...]

Mentors Prove the (not so) Secret Sauce of TechStars

Kevin Mann, Managing Director of Take Publishing, sits before a laptop where a high color comic has exploded across the monitor. The resolution is crisp; the screen toggles between a single comic frame and a panel perspective depending upon how Mann manipulates the mouse. Next he clicks on the form of Vincent Price and a [...]

The IT Week Ahead: June 8-15

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Tues, June 9: CSIA: Access to Capital, Infinity Park, Glendale, CO 2-6
Tues, June 9: Software Quality Assoc of Denver, PPA, 4-6
Tue, June 9: Boulder Java UG, Wolf Law, CU Boulder, 6-9
Tues, June 9: CSIA Presents 2009 Apex Awards, Infinity Park, Glendale, 6-10
Wed, June 10: Windows Small Biz Server UG, Microsoft, Denver, 3-5
Wed, June 10: [...]