I met Ross when we were first getting Triggit off the ground when I crashed the Web 2.0 Summit back in ‘05. Our table at one of the dinners had a great round of buzz word drinking games as various industry luminaries spouted off web 2 jargon, it was great fun. Ross is easily one of the coolest guys in the industry and has a really great company called Social Text. He was nice enough to write about Triggit today on his blog. Thanks Ross.
Blogging for Good in the Modern World also has a nice post about us today: Triggit: Add Content and Monetize your Blog with Ease
SAN FRANCISCO, April 25 /PRNewswire/ — TechWeb (Formerly CMP) and O’Reilly Media, Inc., co-producers of the annual Web 2.0 Expo, today announced the winner of the Launch Pad start up program. Triggit, one of six on-stage presenters, took home the title of People’s Choice Winner on Thursday, April 24th during Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco at Moscone West.
This year Web 2.0 Expo hosted a Venture Capital Edition of the Launch Pad program, showcasing the best Web 2.0 startups and providing a unique public forum for unveiling new companies and products. Web 2.0 Expo, in its second year, is the leading global gathering of developers, designers, marketers, and business professionals building the next generation Web. http://www.web2expo.com/sf.
Triggit (http://www.triggit.com/), the winning startup, helps bloggers and small website owners make money. This simple WYSIWYG editing tool uses just one line of JavaScript to enable instant drag-and-drop publishing of AdSense, Amazon and other affiliate programs and ad networks. Triggit can source, integrate, optimize and track ads on the site, making ad management and monetization pain-free.
“We are thrilled with being titled People’s Choice Winner at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco,” said Zachery Coelius, Triggit CEO. Voting was conducted at Launch Pad via a real-time SMS system where the audience was asked to play the role of VC and select the company of their choice.
“Competition was tough this year because of all the interest in the new Launch Pad: VC Edition format,” said Brady Forrest, Web 2.0 Expo Co-Chair. “Triggit was one of 160 companies that vied to be on stage this year so they deserve a big round of applause for winning over the VC judges and audience with their live demo presentation. We’ll be watching this promising company.”
I am super excited to announce that we were picked as the winner of Web 2.0 Expo Launch Pad. It was awesome! The audience picked us as best of show. Thanks to everyone who came and voted for Triggit.
Techcrunch has an article about it here: Triggit Wins Launch Pad
TheNextWeb covers it Triggit: Easy Website Monetization
and a number of overseas posts including this one:
bilig.blogspot.com
Some What Frank has a short post about Triggit: Triggit Affiliate Links Toolbar For Publishers
You can see CMP and TechWeb’s Official Press Release here: TechWeb and O’Reilly Announce Triggit as Winner of Web 2.0 Expo Launch Pad
There was also great buzz about Triggit on Twitter here and here. It was a wonderful show for us.
Jackie took a short video about what we are up to with Triggit (Thanks Jackie!): Maximising the long tail of advertising
Scott Wainner has a great post about Triggit at the Web @.0 Expo here: Triggit: Easy Embedded Ads for Non-Developers
PC World: New Web 2.0 Services to Try Out Now
EightBlack: Web 2.0 - Launch Pad
The photo was taken by James Duncan Davidson and can be found here
Happy Earth Day everyone. It is a beautiful day in San Francisco today just to remind us what a wonderful planet we all live on.
I am very excited to announce that Triggit has been selected to be part of the Web 2.0 Expo Launch Pad next Thursday. We get to present Triggit in front of the whole Web 2.0 audience and show them what we are up to. It should be a great opportunity to talk about helping small publishers monetize their websites and client side editing of websites.
Triggit had its coming out at Ad Tech this week. It was awesome, our booth was crowded the whole time. Sue, Bobby and I all nearly lost our voices from giving so many demos. We couldn’t have asked for a better reception.
One of the first publishers we ever worked with was Alder over at Vinography. Last week he won the America Wine Blog Award as the Best Wine Blog of the Year. Very exciting. Well done Alder
Brad Linder over at Download Squad has been messing around with Triggit and just wrote a nice post about us. He also made a video that shows just how easy it is to use Triggit. You can check it out here