San Francisco’s Hottest Companies awards announced

Posted by Tom Blue on May 18, 2010 under Companies, Funding, Technology | Be the First to Comment

Lead411 has announced its list of “Hottest Companies in San Francisco” –  The full press release and list of companies can be found here.  http://www.lead411.com/san-francisco-companies.html.  In addition, names of the companies are below.

Congratulations!

AdGent 007, Mashable Inc, Aravo Solutions Inc, Clickability Inc, Sugar Inc, Sportgenic, Inc., Mocana Corporation , Delivery Agent, Inc, Roost, Inc., New Relic, VirtuOz Inc, SuperSecret, Inc, Reddit , Allvoices, Inc, Zenprise Inc, Voxify, Inc, Groundwork Open Source Solutions, Inc, Accept Software, Blurb Inc, AlterG, Curse Inc, TripIt Inc, Read more of this article »

Updates: Twitter Hacked and Freemium Article

Posted by Tom Blue on July 15, 2009 under Companies | Be the First to Comment

“Hacker Croll” has obtained hundreds of confidential documents from Twitter employees. Apparently he has sent them to multiple sources including TechCrunch whose first post on the subject already has 400 comments.  Many people are upset and asking them not to release the confidential information, but this isn’t stopping them. They have wisely set it up so that they will be releasing the different documents one at a time which will really increase their viewership over the next few days. I even stopped by their site earlier today and it was down which was a first for me.

MarketingProfs just published an article I wrote on the concept of Freemium. Thanks!! Hopefully there will be more to come.

Top Bloggers/Twitter Users/Authors for Traffic

Posted by Tom Blue on May 19, 2009 under Companies, Executives, Marketing, Technology | 3 Comments to Read

If you are like me, you are constantly looking for ways to get more traffic to your site and more mentions of your company within the press. Below is a list of bloggers/writers/twitter users that A) Regularly discuss WEB startups & profile them, and B) have enough focused traffic to make a difference. The list is based on the type of site they write for, their number of Twitter followers, and traffic at their home sites. We used their traffic numbers from Compete.com.

Twitscoop 10 Minute Review

Posted by Tom Blue on May 12, 2009 under Companies, Marketing, Technology | Be the First to Comment

I just checked out Twitscoop for the first time.  I have heard of it before, but never took a look.   Apparently they have just had a makeover.   Anyway, the site is very interesting.  If you go to their home page, there is a live popular keyword map on the right hand side.  It is showing what words are being tweeted and retweeted about.  The greatest thing is that it is live.  Currently the most popular words are Clemens, errands, Scamming, and Trends.  Roger Clemens just released a book today, many people talk about running errands in the morning, and there is a popular Blog post called Scamming Twitter Trends on Mashable today.  They exclude Twitter for obvious reasons.

Another really cool feature is their Daily Graph.  If you search for a specific keyword and click on graph you will be able to see how many tweets about that word in the past 24 hours, etc.  Do a search for pancakes and you should see a rise in the morning and a falloff in the evening.

The only negative I have about their site is that it is slightly messy.  Besides that I think they have some really cool features.