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Something Simpler will be trawling the aisles of Web 2.0 in San Francisco, and we’ll also be in situ at the Blogtropol.us Blogger Lounge for the first two days of the Expo. We’re giving away an Apple 23″ Cinema HD Display, and there are plenty of other fabulous prizes available, including a Nikon D80 Digital Camera and (rumour has it) a MacBook Air.

It’d be great to see you there… you can pre-register to join us at http://blogtropolus.eventbrite.com. There’s also a Ustream Channel for those of you who won’t be here in San Francisco. More info below…

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Last week, Ian presented at New Media BC’s Fusion Forum, an event which played matchmaker between investors from both sides of the border and startups from all across the country. Like our earlier pitch at the Canadian Financing Forum, this gained a lot of attention and notoriety for the company. We were edged out of first place by game-maker HotRocket who won a free trip to San Francisco to pitch some Valley VCs. Still, second place is no slouch. Thanks to the investors and media who voted for us!

Last week, Weston Demo’ed Pulse, our Facebook Music Reccomendation App (and soon other stuff) at DemoCamp in Vancouver. You can check out the video on our Pulse web site, thanks to local Tech Tsar Bruce Sharpe, who video’d and cut together a nicely produced experience for your viewing pleasure.

Something Simpler’s CEO, Ian will be presenting on February 20th and 21st at the Vancouver International Film Centre in Vancouver, BC. This is as a part of the 2008 Fusion Forum, put on in part by New Media BC. Our presentation is @ 1130AM, on Thursday the 21st. Attendance is limited. Offer available while supplies last. Please keep your tomatoes at home.

This almost escaped our gaze, but last week Something Simpler (that’s us!) made RocketBuilders‘ 2008 “Emerging Rockets” list, along with 49 other companies from the Web, Cleantech, Biotech, Wireless and IT industries. According to their site:

“The Emerging Rockets list profiles technology companies from multiple technology sectors with great potential for investment and market breakthroughs in the coming year. Both lists are predictive of future success making them unique in approach and unique in value for our business audience.”

VANCOUVER, BC–(Marketwire - January 21, 2008) - Something Simpler, a leading developer of vertical search and content matching technologies, is pleased to announce that it has received the “Best Early Stage” award at the 11th annual Canadian Financing Forum held in Vancouver, B.C. on January 16. The Forum is a respected resource for technology entrepreneurs and North American investors who seek to recognize and facilitate partnerships with companies based in Canada. Read the rest or post a comment »

Jan 16th was a big day for us. We presented @ the Canadian Financing Forum’s Vancouver event and I was shocked to be voted the winner of the “Best Early-Stage” award by the venture capitalists, angels, and tech luminaries in attendance. I believe the field was about 15 companies deep, and to be honest I was shocked (but grateful) to receive this acknowledgment of all of our hard effort. In receiving this conveniently-sized (it fits in your back pocket, honest!) award I was greeted by BC Minister of Economic Development Colin Hansen, whom I am sure was so humbled by the experience of meeting such an unwashed tech entrepreneur as myself that he’s still talking about it. Read the rest or post a comment »

Pulse, our Facebook application, quietly went live on Facebook today.

You can add it yourself by first visiting http://pul.se and installing it in your profile. What does it do? Glad you asked, actually. Pulse profiles you and your friends, develops an understanding of the things you’re liable to be interested in, and then begins to recommend things like CDs, downloadable music, and Concerts in your area.

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