If the rumor is true, Former client Adify has been acquired for an estimated $300 million. We worked with Adify for a year and a half, helping to launch the company and evangelize its pioneering vision for vertical advertising networks. Congrats to Russ, Larry and the rest of the Adify team!
Monthly Archives: April 2008
Entriq Catches the Online Video Wave
April 25, 2008 – 12:21 pm
You know a trend is hot when one day you wake up and realize it’s become a part of your life and you didn’t even notice it. Take online video. Only a few years ago, YouTube was starting to catch on as the place to check out stupid pet videos. Now, we tune in to [...]
Happy Enterprise RSS Day of Action!
April 24, 2008 – 9:52 am
We here at LaunchSquad are huge fans of RSS. Most of us use it personally to keep up on our daily news and reading, and we also use it as a company to keep up on coverage and intelligence for our clients, as well as sharing information internally and externally. Having a constantly updated stream [...]
Online Video Advertising on a Roll
April 11, 2008 – 9:51 am
For years, television advertising was hailed as the most effective way to reach a large, targeted audience. Seeking out young males? Look to sports channels and run your ad during halftime. Women 30-45? Place your spot between “Days of Our Lives” scenes. The Internet, along with television advances like Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) have made [...]
Honey, I Shrank the Files
April 10, 2008 – 8:31 am
Ocarina Networks made a splash this week, officially launching itself and introducing its key product at the Storage Networking World conference in Orlando, Florida. Ocarina’s technology offers relief from the mounting storage nightmare that threatens to swamp Internet data centers—especially those for sites that offer free, unlimited storage of photos, email or other web content. [...]
Get Your Evernote Invites!
April 7, 2008 – 8:43 am
Evernote, a note-taking application that recently unveiled a private Web beta is flying hot off the pan. The program allows users to instantly capture and recall information across any device or platform and effortlessly search for it using Evernote’s advanced text and image recognition technology. Bloggers and mainstream media alike have been swooning over the [...]
Vivaty Brings Your Web to Life
April 4, 2008 – 11:44 am
Vivaty, a new client here at LaunchSquad, just came out of stealth mode this week, kicking off the private beta of their first product, Vivaty Scenes. Backed by investors like Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV), Vivaty has been building a platform that changes the way we experience the web [...]