The MIT Entrepreneurial Forum, one of the more interesting groups of smart people on the East Coast, met Wednesday night to discuss one big question: “Is there still money in the advertising revenue model?” Our own Jeff Sable, VP of Publisher Sales, was invited to sit on the panel, speak, and answer questions. Video was taken. Answers were given. Awesomeness was achieved. Enjoy the video!
For more information on the event, head over to the event page, and make sure to check out the MITEF if you’re anywhere near New England and are interested in entrepreneurship.
Jennifer Slegg of JenSense.com was one of four star panelists who judged a search application contest sponsored by Chitika at SES NY, Chitika|SearchAppalooza.
The video below captures her contribution as a contextual advertising expert, critiquing the app developers on how well they were able to create search app’s that have what it takes to stand out in today’s competitive market for creative tools.
Once again, Chitika managed to uphold their reputation for thinking outside-the-box by putting one of our Chitika-ites in an owl costume at SES NY 09. He was featured in video interviews filmed by me, @KarlaChitika during the conference (which will be featured on the blog very soon), as well as put a smile on everyone’s face who came to the Chitika booth.
SearchAppalooza Mania!
Tuesday afternoon many gathered in the Grand Ballroom for our much anticipated SearchAppalooza ‘Search Apps Contest’ where 5 finalists presented their apps to Jennifer Slegg (CEO Jensense.com), Larry Cornett (VP Search Yahoo!), Rob Griffin (SVP Search Marketing MediaContacts), and Don Dodge (Business Development Emerging Business Team Microsoft Corporation).
All of the apps were really great. If I were judging it would have been a very difficult decision, but the judges (who are clearly more thourough than I am) found some flaws and a winner was closen rather fast. The winner of the “Kick-ass Search App Contest” was:
The coolest thing about Tom’s app was how it created a way to take, otherwise unsearchable, video content and convert it into searchable text. This could ultimately make way for a whole new outlook and marketing perspective centered around search content in video. Amazing!
**The SearchAppalooza video will also be featured on the blog early next week- so be on the lookout for that, which features all the presentations from the app finalists.
Twitterers also had the chance to participate by Tweeting their favorite app finalist to be in the running for a Kindle2 sponsored by Chitika. That winner was:
And lastly, Chitika hosted their near-legendary, 3rd-Annual “Cookie Eating Contest” at the end of SearchAppalooza to win an HP 1000 Netbook. Eleven contestants gathered to eat as many Oreo (double-stuffed) cookies as they could in 2 minutes. There was a tie! 12 cookies ate by two people (who would of thought)- so they then challenged eachother to a Oreo face-off. In the end, 18 Oreos was consumed by our winner! You can watch it all go down in our video here:
Some have been asking what Hooty the Search Owl will look like. I mean there will be so many 6′4″ owls at SES New York it’s clearly important that you know which Frisbee loving owl knows the way to a free beer tonight.
Send us a note if you are coming–we are offering all Chitika friends 20% off SES full conf passes, and free exhibit passes.
What’s in store?
Our SES “SearchAppalooza” workshop will feature Chitika’s “Kick-Ass Search App” contest…“Think American Idol for developers, with Yahoo! and Microsoft as the judges.” Read more…
Stop-by our SES booth (#230) and meet “Hooty the Search Owl” –a 6′4″, fluffy owl who loves to play frisbee.
Can’t attend?
You can win cool stuff & watch SearchAppalooza from your couch.
SearchAppalooza Twitter Contest for an Amazon Kindle2!
To enter, click here to post a SearchAppalooza tweet.
Calling All present and future Chitika Publishers in the San Fransisco Area - we want to buy you a drink!
Come have a drink and a chat with Alden DoRosario (CTO) and Vik Chhabra (Publisher Sales Specialist) tonight at the Buena Vista Cafe in San Francisco. They’re at the end of their wild voyage to the Bay Area, and they’d love to meet up with you to chat about… well anything that’s on your mind!
Happy hour will take place from 6-8pm, and all drinks are on Chitika. Come say hi!
Buena Vista Cafe 2765 Hyde St.
San Francisco, CA (415) 474-5044
Yeah — Chitika is growing and we have a bunch of positions open at our Marlborough, Massachusetts offices. If you know of anyone who might be interested, please do send his/her resume to alden [at] chitika [dot] com or drop me a tweet @adorosario
Here are some of the positions that are open with links to more details. All positions are in-house full-time at our Marlborough, Massachusetts office.
Please note: These are all current positions with approved budgets. Hiring for these positions is immediate. To apply, please send your resume to alden [at] chitika [dot] com or drop me a tweet @adorosario
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