We did a quick podcast with Larry of w3w3.com the other day talking about getting startups funded and a little bit about Filtrbox. Podcast link is here (will open new window)
Thanks to Mark Weakly of HRO for bringing us all together!
Filtrbox is proud to announce a partnership with Guy Kawaski’s Alltop to provide as-it-happens news on the worlds most interesting people.
Alltop helps people explore their passions by collecting stories about “all the topics.” It is, in effect, a “digital magazine rack” of the Internet. At each Alltop site, Alltop displays the headlines of the latest stories from dozens of sites and blogs.
This approach works well from a topical perspective but is less effective in aggregating news about individuals. As Guy put it “The bulk of our topics are organized by subjects like politics, autism, iPhone, and food. Filtrbox was the best technology we found to cover specific people that do not fit into typical categories. VIPS.alltop would not exists without Filtrbox.”
VIPS is unique to Alltop because the feeds are based on our persistent search technology, rather than being blog/publisher driven. This allows readers to track news and information about specific individuals from any online source rather than just a few! Take a look for yourself here.
The Olympics start tomorrow and in support of Team USA’s bid for Olympic gold we have released new widgets to keep you up-to-date on news and buzz surrounding your favorite events and athletes. The widgets are powered by the same technology as the Filtrbox.com media monitoring service and can be customized by sport and/or athlete. There is a desktop widget that runs under Adobe AIR, and a Flash widget for your blog. Both are totally free and easy to install. Get them here.
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Filtrbox is excited and honored to be selected as a finalist for the ninth annual Boulder Country Business Review IQ Awards. The IQ Awards recognize the most innovative new products and services developed by companies in Boulder and Broomfield counties. Past winners of the IQ Awards include Crocs, Webroot and Rally Software Development. The winners will be announced Thursday August 14th, so wish us luck! Congrats to our co-nominees for the Consumer Internet category; Socialthing! and Intense Debate. Its cool that all three of the nominated companies came out of Techstars. Although Filtrbox probably should have been in the Business category rather than Consumer, we are in great company regardless.
Now you can monitor online video content for critical mentions with Filtrbox. As of today, the service automatically searches sources such as The New York Times, Bloomberg, AP Business, Fox News and many others for fresh video content related to your Filtrs. You don’t have to do a thing to enable this feature, but you might want to add a few more Filtrs for some popular topics to see it in action! Content found in video clips will be included in your Dashboard, Daily Briefing and FiltrFeeds just like any other source.
We have partnered with ClipSyndicate for this content. They have been great to work with, BTW. Note: video content may take a few minutes longer to appear in your dashboard after adding a Filtr than text content, so please be patient!
Today we also released an improved Filtr editor. We got some great feedback from all of you and have made it easier to create and tune Filtrs. The changes should help eliminate some common mistakes and improve the quality of your results. Several enhancements to the persistent-search logic were also made to help improve results quality and consistency.
Also in this release:
look for these buttons in the dashboard to show/hide major content sources - they were under a tab before and not always visible. Since they control what you see in the dashboard, we wanted to improve accessibility.
is for “mainstream” sources such as New York Times, Mercury News, Reuters, etc. and 
is for blog sources such as GigaOm, Feld.com, Filtrbox blog, etc.Hooked on your Filtrbox daily briefing? Here are three tips to keep them flowing.
1) Always have articles. If you have very specific search terms, is it possible there will be no new articles in your account. If that is the case, we will not send you a blank email (remember - it’s all about more knowledge, less noise).
2) Monitor your FiltrRank threshold to make sure you get the right number of articles. For your daily briefing you set a FiltrRank threshold and we send only articles that meet or exceed that threshold. For example if your FiltrRank is set to 9 you will only get articles that score 9 or 10. You adjust this threshold by going to the Accounts tab (top of page) and “Notify and FiltrFeed” (center of page). Don’t forget to click save after any adjustments.
3) Tell your spam filter hands off. Occasionally we will get caught in an overzealous spam filter. Adding noreply@filtrbox.com to your address book and asking your IT team to add it to your email white list should solve this problem.
If you are still having issues, give us a shout at support@filtrbox.com.
Just created a killer Filtr but not seeing any results? What gives? Below are a few suggestions to help you get your result set dialed in.
1) Adjust the Date and FiltrRank sliders
The two sliders at the top of the article pane are designed to help you restrict your view and see just the relevant information. They work great and any changes are shown immediately but be careful because being too restrictive can leave you with no articles in your view.
2) Select or de-select sources to help control the noise. The more sources you selected the more articles we will find. Twitter and Friendfeed can be controlled at either the global or filtr level. They can both be a bit noisy so include them at your discretion. Sources can be de-selected by clicking on each radio button to uncheck.
3) Selecting Filtrs - Make sure you have only the filtr topics you wish to view enabled by selecting their radio buttons. In this example I will see only the articles for Red Sox, Mac and money.
4) In the case of too few articles, you may have overly restrictive search terms. Remember the system is designed to persistently search for the key word or words in your filtr. In the example below I will only see articles that include all 5 terms biology, marine, whales, dolphins and plankton. To be more general you could replace the ANDs with ORs in which case you would get articles that have (biology and marine) or (biology and whales) or (biology and dolphins) or (biology and plankton).
5) Filtrbox is still searching for new articles. Unlike web search engines Filtrbox performs persistent search. This means that Filtrbox will continually search for articles that contain your Filtr until you modify or delete it. Our searches may take a little time to search the far ends of the internet and start bringing results back to you.
If you have tried these adjustments and you are still not seeing the results you think you should, give us a shout at support@filtrbox.com.
Filtrbox went public last Monday, and has been getting some nice pickups in the press and blogworld in the last week. Thanks to everyone for your support and feedback so far! The team really turned themselves inside-out to pull the feedback into the release and get it ready in time (thanks guys!).
It has been wonderful to hear from so many people and see the coverage. We love talking to customers and learning how people use Filtrbox to deal with Information Overload and monitor important topics. If you haven’t had a chance please login to your account to see the newest version and keep the feedback and suggestions coming - we are listening!
Some of our recent coverage:
Inc Magazine - Searching for the next Digg
Network World - Managing the information flood
VentureBeat - Got information overload?
Mashable (podcast) - Offload your Info Over-Load
Fortune Small Business - Saving Small Business from Information Overload
We are excited to announce the addition of Patrick Cameron to the Filtrbox team. Patrick will be heading up our Sales and Marketing efforts going forward is just as psyched as we are about joining us at this important time. With our public debut barely in the rear-view mirror, you can bet there is plenty for him to do!
Patrick has a broad base of experience in sales, product management, and marketing and shares the same entrepreneurial passion as the rest of the team. He was at Akamai and Accenture during the go-go days for both companies and understands how to take great care of customers and grow a business. Bonus: He can keep up with Ari on a bike too 
