Another first Tuesday, another New Tech Meetup. Each month I am inspired by the talent that seems to take root in the Boulder community, and I love how we have a common place to share it with each other. Thanks to Robert and Julie for all of their hard work on this event.

Five awesome companies presented their ideas to the community this month, amidst a bit of good-natured heckling from the crowd. In this order:

Gnip - doing really cool stuff aggregating datastreams for web services - none of which I understood entirely. Lots of <cmd3?> fdne <###**7>fdlsd

mobileXware - demo’d ‘xfit’ which is a set of exercises you can download to your phone. Interesting idea…way too pricey.

Dizgo, Inc - second time I’ve seen this company. Integrates local advertising with your mobile phone - like adwords for iPhone. Cool idea but needs a critical mass before it will gain enough traction to be relevant to people. Love the logo.

DandyId - badass new company that aggregates personal identifiers in one place for use by third party sites. AWESOME t-shirts Sara, Arron and Anthony!

mShopper - missed this one (on a wine run), but I gather they have something to do with mobile shopping.

Lijit - one of my favorite sites ever. Introduced their new ad platform for publishers. Ads will display in search results just like they do in Google.

blitzlocal - very interesting overview on Facebook’s ad platform. Seems like a good option for advertisers wanting to reach that specific demographic - especially now since it’s early in the game and it’s not being widely used. Loved Dennis’ use of acronyms…..CPM + PCR =… huh?

The night was entertaining as usual, but the grand prize undeniably goes to Micah for his absolutely priceless retort when somebody challenged the usefulness of their sponsored ads….

“Well, all the advertising is contextually relevant. So you’re not going to see an ad about Horse Porn in the results.”

Um, yeah. Just what I was afraid of seeing…..