Launches and changes

BusOps alum, Steve Cohn, has a launch – http://www.irrive.com/site/team.  Go Steve.  I’ve been pinging with him for  early beta access, I’m confident I’m on the short list!

Some birds have left the roost, from marketing: Campbell Foster and Jon Nevitt.   With CAB coming in a few weeks, feels timely that they are leaving.

In other news, I had lunch with Tom Shields yesterday, founder of Yieldex, which now employs a handful of Thornton ex-Clickers.  Tom and Yieldex are doing great!

 

Huffington Post Names Former Spotify Engineer its CTO

Well, there goes the only person I knew at Spotify.  I did help get one  bug fixed when Pav was there.  Now I’ll have to pass him new tips?

Huffington Post Names Former Spotify Engineer its CTO.

yieldex and it’s roster of ex-clickere are hiring

They just added Andrew Rutledge to their ranks.. and there’s more!  Andrew is currently looking to hire Account Execs (NYC and SF) and Solutions Consultants (NYC) – and they can email him at arutledge {at} yieldex(.)com for more details.

Bender cracks top 40!

No, not a hit song.. Crain’s top 40 under 40.  I’m 43, so not eligible.  Good photo Brad!

Innovid ex roster

Not sure why, but I noticed Innovid had a few ex-Clickers.. James Weinberg, Sarah Masters, and advisor named Rosenblatt.  Frank Morgano too, but I didn’t work with him at DCLK.  Diddy used to be there, but he’s bolted.  Not sure how well Innovid is doing these days, I’ll listen out for tid-bits.

Collective hires an ex-Clicker

Collective, no stranger to ex-Clickers, just hired another, Lewis Rothkopf, as GM.  Congrats Lewis!

News.. what there is

As has been the consistent trend  for some time now, ex-Clickers end up at direct competitors, trying to be the foil to the GOOG and the remnants of DoubleClick.  Most recently, Eric Rosenthal ended up as GM over at OpenX.  OpenX is boasting about 1 trillion requests, in all 2011.  I can’t disclose what the DFP/DFA stack is doing, but let’s just say, they have some room to grow to catch up.

Also, MongoDB continues to make news with tying SQL to Google’s own mapreduce.  Mapreduce and Hadoop are now full-blown businesses, good to see MangoDB tying things together.

 

AdMeld

Watching a video of Brian Kane explaining AdMeld to a bunch of Googlers.. this story is so interwoven, I don’t know the right word to describe.  Great to have Brian, Joe, and Nicole Pruess back in the fold!!

Mojiva adding Clickers

Mojiva just added Frank O’Donnell to their ranks.. they, apparently, have other ex-Clickers.. like Tony Nethercutt – who, sorry, I don’t remember much.

Catchpoint Becomes First in the Industry to Offer Performance Monitoring from the Google Chrome Browser

Great innovation coming out of Catchpoint..