Olson’s Observations

TECH cocktail Boulder has been a long time in the making. In fact, my friends at lijit have been nudging me for a while and I am glad they did because TECH cocktail Boulder was a blast. Everyone here has been so welcoming that I honestly wish I had another week or two to spend in Boulder to see all there is to see and to hang out with all the awesome folks I met. There is a thriving tech community here as is evidenced by all of the great web apps coming out of the Boulder area.

Speaking of web apps, four local companies were on hand last night showing off what they have been working on. Here are some brief descriptions of the companies so you can see which ones you may like to try:

Filtrbox: Business grade content monitoring and filtering for professionals and small businesses.

Newsgator: Consumer and enterprise feed reading and collaboration software.

SocialThing!: Digital life manager. Get all of your online “stuff” in one place.

SurveyGizmo: Survey creation tool.

Of course we wouldn’t be able to put on these events without the help of great sponsors and we had two outstanding ones for TECH cocktail Boulder.

First up was lijit. I am lucky enough to be able to call some of the lijit folks friends and they certainly made things happen in terms of helping us get TECH cocktail Boulder off the ground. If you’re looking for a great search widget for your blog please check them out. I love my lijit wijit. It is probably the most useful widget out there.

Second, last and certainly not least was skinnyCorp (threadless). These guys are friends from Chicago and they decided to not only make the trek down to Boulder for the event but also to sponsor the event for the benefit of the Boulder tech community. If you’re a t-shirt junkie like me make sure to check out threadless if you have a chance.

Along with these great sponsors we also had the benefit of some helping hands from DEMO. These guys helped us out with some logistics which made it much easier for us to plan the event from afar.

If you want to learn more about any of sponsors please head to their websites or check out our write up on them from a little while back.

Thank you again Boulder for having us. Frank and I had a great time and we hope to be back soon.