Its been a busy few weeks (or months) for me and I haven't had much time to write here (not for a lack of desire however). Lots going on but these are the highlights that I can share... Filtrbox announced some funding and a new version, Filtrbox G2. To me, the biggest news was that we cut the price in half and are offering UNLIMITED use. The team did a great job and reworked quite a bit of the platform to accomdiate what we want to do with G2 and the new usage model.  Sign up for a free trial here http://www.filtrbox.com/signup.html Recent coverage... TechCrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/17/filtrbox-raises-14-million-launches-revamped-market-intelligence-tool/ WebWorkerDaily: http://webworkerdaily.com/2009/02/19/filtrbox-g2-expands-service-and-cuts-pricing/ AppGap: http://www.theappgap.com/filtrbox-provides-market-intelligence-for-the-rest-of-us.html Filtrbox blog: http://www.filtrbox.com/blog/2009/02/18/filtrbox-launches-g2-proactive-market-intelligence/ VCIR I'll be up at VCIR Winter next week Tuesday through Thursday. VCIR is an awesome event and I always look forward to it. Filtrbox pitched last year and it went very well for us. This year I'm just there to network and support the presenting companies. I set up a FiltrFeed to track news and buzz around the presenting companies. This FiltrFeed can be added to any RSS reader and will automatically update when Filtrbox finds a new article that mentions the company name AND VCIR. I turned off Twitter monitoring for this feed to keep the noise down.  http://www.filtrbox.com/rss/WUuPMw8dtTUIz4G10SlTSg== VatorTv I was just out in SF with the Filtrbox team for a few meetings and we got to stop by the Vator.tv offices. Meeting the team was great and I was able to record a new video pitch for Filtrbox. You can check it out here: http://vator.tv/pitch/show/Filtrbox?document=aris-pitch. We'll be doing more with them in the near future, so stay tuned! Thanks to Bambi, Kedric and Meliza for all the help. Techstars Techstars-for-a-day is coming up on Tuesday. Its a great even that helps shed some light on the process and creates an opportunity for the candidates, or those thinking about applying, to meet the mentors and graduates. Seeing as how the Techstars office is about 50 yards away, you can bet I'll be there to mix and mingle. SocialLeverage, LLP. Congrats to Howard Lindzon (a Filtrbox investor) and the rest of the team at SocialLeverage - they just announced a new seed fund for social apps. Howard has been great to work with and is a prolific entrepreneur and invesor so I can't wait to see what they get involved with. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/howard_lindzon_and_friends_lau.php