Fits and Starts

Upgrading a web app comes with challenges, some anticipated, others unforeseen. Since upgrading last week we’ve been working relentlessly to keep up with – and prevent – server errors and service outages.

As of the time of this post Appengine (the platform that hosts our platform) is down, in a big way. We do know that whenever you encounter an error, regardless of where the problem originates, that your data are tucked away and aggregating safely

We apologize for the inconvenience and hope the problem is rectified soon. If you have any questions please contact us or email us directly at support[at]looxii[dot]com.

Startup Riot 2010 – Thanks!

We really can’t do Startup Riot 2010 justice in one blog post. From Looxii’s perspective it was a great opportunity to spread the word about our beta release, meet new people and get some quick feedback. That said, it was a truly humbling experience getting to share the stage with so many amazing startups. We owe countless thanks to Sanjay Parekh, Brandy Nagel, Jacqui Chew and the dozens of sponsors, volunteers and staff for making the event great for everyone involved.

We will now defer to those who were responsible enough to provide thoughtful, thorough analysis and coverage of the day’s events… [more…]

A look at Looxii Beta

After several months of intense development and design, Looxii moves from Alpha to Beta today.  As our new home page states, Looxii offers a simple method for users to Sort, Track, and Analyze social media data.  The Looxii platform is a feed based system that allows individuals and businesses of all sizes to start monitoring social media quickly and easily.  The search based system offers three views of a user’s data: the overview dashboard, the feed, and the graphs view. [more…]

Looxii to Launch Private Beta at Startup Riot

Link to looxii-beta press release pdf

Looxii is taking their app from Alpha to Beta at the third annual all-day pitch event for startups, Startup Riot 2010. After several months of development and design, Looxii is releasing a private beta version of their social media analytics platform. [more…]

Looxii on Bold Ventures Radio

We appeared on Atlanta’s Bold Ventures Radio a couple of weeks ago to talk about Looxii and social media trends in business. It also gave us an opportunity to talk about our experience in Shotput Ventures and give some advice to prospective applicants Be sure to have a listen. We’re on right after host Jean Creech’s interview with Don Rainey of Grotech Ventures.

If podcasts aren’t your thing you can check out video of our appearance. A BIG thanks to the folks of Bold VenturesTV for recording, editing and posting videos of us on YouTube!

Looxii on Bold Ventures Radio

Looxii on BoldVenturesTV

Profile in Tech Journal South

Looxii was just profiled in a piece from Tech Journal South! Fun! Check it out and let us know what you think…

Looxii aims at providing easy to use social network monitoring tools
– Allan Maurer

The 411: 08/09 – 11/09

It’s been quite a while since we’ve posted anything as we’ve been crazy busy. That’s a good reason right? Here is what’s been going on with Looxii:

Working on Looxii Beta

We recently closed a round of funding, which is probably the biggest news. This funding makes it possible for us to continue to completely devote ourselves to rolling out the beta app. The app itself is going to feature many more data sources and give businesses – and individuals – an extremely simple means of interacting with, and making sense of, the massive amount of information floating around on the social web. Look for that in January.

Interview with Gravity Free Radio

Back in October we had the privilege to sit down with Stephanie Frost of Gravity Free Radio for an interview about our experience with Shotput Ventures. Sanjay Parekh was also on hand to talk about SPV from the investors’ perspective. Definitely worth a listen if you’d like to learn more about SPV, Looxii or Atlanta startups. [more…]

Another Week, Another App

Earlier this Summer, and largely inspired by this post from Fred Wilson, we started work on a twitter app to pull links from twitter feeds. We also wanted to show other users who had tweeted the same link. The idea was to provide an interface to the (possible) social links that exist around urls shared on twitter. Ultimately, we built Twinqs for users to get all of the links from their feed as well as suggested content and new people to follow (if they choose). [more…]

Post Demo Day World

As you may know, Looxii is part of the inaugural class of Shotput Ventures. This past Monday was the program’s demo day and all eight Shotput companies presented to an audience of 120+ investors, entrepreneurs, and members of the press. The experience within the accelerator was nothing short of amazing. While Daniel and I have a good deal of experience rapidly producing apps and presenting to decent-sized audiences, we’ve never done these things within the context of a business. [more…]

One Week In

It’s been a great week since launching the alpha dashboard last Monday. Despite the massive hacking of Twitter, our primary data source, we attracted close to 300 visitors with an average hang time of two minutes. Not too shabby! [more…]