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Jennie White

OnMedia Awards features 11 Boston Companies

Jennie White | January 11th, 2010

AlwaysOn, the leading open media blog announced the winners of the 2010 OnMedia 100 Top Private Companies Awards. The award goes to technology companies making an impact in the worlds of advertising, media, marketing, branding, and publishing.The five primary categories the companies needed to excel in were: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value creation, and media buzz.

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Hubspot is a winner for the OnMedia awards

Here are the Boston companies that made the list:

1. See Why-See Why follows up with customers who left a shopping website without purchasing anything in real-time.

2. Lattice Engines-Lattice Engines helps their clients maximize their return on sales and marketing investments using analytical software. They can anticipate market opportunity, allocate resources, and improve execution efforts.

3. Skyhook Wireless-Skyhook combines GPS, Cell Tower triangulation, and Wi-Fi positioning to determine your exact location. They promise zero wait time and one-hundred percent accuracy. (more…)

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Jennie White

Exclusive Look into SCVNGR’s Future

Jennie White | January 8th, 2010

Editor’s Note: We wrote about SCVNGR’s $4 M funding from Google Ventures last week. BostInnovation is dedicated to providing non-biased coverage of the local tech scene as a whole, and we’ll continue to spread coverage around to as many of the most exciting companies as possible. We just couldn’t keep a lid on this recent development at SCVNGR. Here’s an exclusive update:

SCVNGR's 4M in funding will help them take it to the next level
SCVNGR’s $4M in funding will help them take it to the next level

When we contacted CEO Seth Priebatsch about SCVNGR‘s big Series B round of funding last week, he said that while SCVNGR got offers to move out west, they were, “excited to stay in Boston.”

He hit us up via email to share some new news that’s even more exciting yesterday. (more…)

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Sarah Merion

Hot to Trot? Share Travel Plans with Friends on gtrot

Sarah Merion | January 8th, 2010
gtrot was dreamed up at Harvard

Dreamed up at Harvard

If you’re anything like my friends and me, keeping track of who is where and when they’re there is as hard as getting up in the morning without coffee (AKA very hard). But thanks to two Harvard grads, your life has just become easier with a new social travel website called gtrot (yes, all lowercase).  Co-founders Robert Corty and Zachary Smith officially launched the website three weeks ago to let users book and share travel plans. (more…)

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Matt Fellows

Convertiv: Preparing You for the Social Revolution

Matt Fellows | January 7th, 2010
Convertiv: The new kid on the social media block

Sound insights from the new kid on the social media block

At this point it’s a given that SEO and social media are valuable tools for a businesses’ marketing team, but with more and more users signing on, is your company ready to utilize these resources effectively?

I talked with founder Chris Pollara, 28, about Convertiv, a new services boutique that helps Boston businesses get the most out of search, mobile, and social media resources as these technologies reform the business world.

His advice? Stop thinking about SEO and social media as the marketing team’s territory and get everyone involved.

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Kyle Psaty

Hire 5: Boston IT Companies Making Additions

Kyle Psaty | January 5th, 2010

It’s not just a high five; it’s the Hire 5.

Bring on the fun! ...I mean money!

Bring on the fun! ...I mean money!

Okay, maybe the name is a little cheesey — we can admit that — but the news isn’t.

As we reported last month, Boston’s IT sector has been steadily growing since 2004 despite the recession. That means people have been joining IT companies in Boston at a steady rate, a trend that appears to be continuing. This is the first in an ongoing series of posts about cool Boston companies looking to grow, and what positions they’re hiring.

Without further adieu, here are today’s Hire 5: (more…)

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Jennie White

Wistia: Making Online Video a Two-Way Street

Jennie White | December 17th, 2009
Wistia helps your videos gain traction

Wistia helps your videos gain traction

If you have a YouTube account, you know how exciting it can be to monitor traffic on your videos. Well, Wistia is taking that excitement a step further with a MUCH cooler analysis of online videos.

Wistia enables users to track the engagement of their videos online. Clients use their software to share, collaborate, and organize videos. So what sets it apart from websites like YouTube and Vimeo? Wistia’s Video Heatmaps track how viewers watch a video — where they get bored, what they watch again, and where they call it quits. A color-coordinated timeline depicts these rewind, fast-forward, and stop actions and compiles them across viewers.

The age of video interaction is upon us. (more…)

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Matt Fellows

Prisoner to the Restaurant Waiting Room? Textaurant Sets You Free

Matt Fellows | December 16th, 2009
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A text message when your table is ready? I wish I'd thought of that.

Look out Boston; it may be that the way we reserve tables is being revolutionized right across the Charles River.

Textaurant is a new area startup that makes restaurant wait times a thing of the past. The SMS based notification system has already been installed in two restaurants in the Boston area, so you can check it out for yourself. (Who would have thought being an early-adopter could taste so good?) (more…)

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Kyle Psaty

MITX Awards Go to Local Talent

Kyle Psaty | November 18th, 2009

The 14th Annual MITX (pronounced My-Tex) Awards happened last night, and the podium was crowded with lots of local talent.

Zipcar (on First St. in Cambridge) took home awards in the Applied Technology category and was also singled out for Best Use of Targeting and Best User Experience. Dunkin’ Donuts took home the people’s choice award for Interactive Marketer of the Year. The euphoria surrounding Dunkin’ precipitated as a result of their project titled “Create Dunkin’s Next Donut,” which won Best Cross Media Campaign thanks in part to the local crew at Studiocom (on Summer St. in Boston).

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