Right now at the Search Engine Strategies Conference in New York, Chitika is hosting SearchAppalooza - a power-packed, one-hour face-off featuring some of the movers and shakers in search. Two startups with Canadian connections are among the finalists - Toronto-born BackType.com and Vancouver's own Middlespot.com.
The SearchAppalooza session is going to feature the “Kick-Ass Search Apps Contest“, which is kind of an American Idol for search geeks, with judges including Jen Slegg and executives from Chitika, Yahoo, & Microsoft.
Out of the multitude of developers/companies that have applied (from small developers to multi-million dollar VC funded startups),
six finalists have been chosen by Chitika to face off in the Kick-Ass Search Apps Contest, showing off their apps and their ‘outside of the box’ approach. The lucky winner, picked out of thesesix finalists, will receive a Kindle2, sponsored by Yahoo along with recognition throughout the search and app development industries.
BackType is a service that lets you find, follow and share comments from across the web. Whenever you write a comment with a link to your website,... [more]
middlespot.com is a visual search interface that lets you see, save, and share your search results with your peers. [more]
Rob Lewis
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His diverse background includes stints in International Trade Finance, Web Development, and Enterprise Software and he is a graduate of the University of British Columbia, British Columbia Institute of Technology, and Simon Fraser University.
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