The entire team Lookery, as many of you have read, are heading over to Boulder, Colorado this week. Should be a fun week meeting the Lookery East crew, who I have yet to meet in person. I’ve met some of the Lookery West crew, but we here at Lookery are growing and hiring good people - like crazy! Many new people have joined us since our humble beginning last July (2007).

Once again - if you are in Boulder, Colorado this week - come join us on Thursday September 4th for some fun with all of us.

Technically Speaking, I need to probably pack, and actually look up how to get to the hotel and off site location where Lookery will be for the rest of the week.

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Music business. It’s dog eat dog, or big dogs eat small dogs. Something like that. Now here is a band that has long paid it’s dues now and is deserving of a big break. I actually shared a stage once up in Rapid City, SD many moons ago with the almost original lineup. They just released the new CD entitled Path of Totality - and Cessation Of Life only keeps defining metal the way it should be - not your Dad’s cooperate rock here! Of course they are on MySpace!

Speaking of Palm Coast, FL - if you live there and need some house cleaning done by honest, trustworthy and hard working people - you need to give Dust Bunny House Cleaning a try! One half of the team there is who taught my son how to play drums. Never met him before until I went to visit in March, yet I know people - and I could tell from our initial contact - he was one to be trusted without a doubt. Good people, great business - and this company of theirs will go far and the extra mile to earn your business.

Heading out to Boulder, Colorado this week. It appears there will be a few of you at the event I talked about, and we’re glad that you’ll be attending. Nothing like a few free drinks and good conversation with some interesting people.

Technically Speaking, enjoy the rest of the holiday weekend - no more holidays where people are off until November (unless you work in a bank or the federal government - than you have Columbus Day in October!).

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Since it appears they are rolling along into pre-production and casting of this from what is being said online, I do agree that Micheal Cera should be playing the role of Mark Zuckerberg. It probably wouldn’t be a far stretch for him to play that role.

The question though is still “Why?”. I mean why not make a movie about TechCrunch? Or GigaOM? Or ReadWriteWeb Or VentureBeat? - heck, why not just title the movie “Blogs Of the New World Order“. You could slap all four in there, and have Allen Stern of CenterNetworks play the raving video maniac from NYC calling out all those wrapped up in the silliness of Valley madness. Allen, you know you have always dreamed of playing the heel, and here would be your chance.

Seriously, why don’t we just create another movie about the little ad data network that could. Yeah, my company Lookery. I already know who our CTO wants playing him, quite obvious by his twitter icon. As far as the rest of us, our CEO would be an interesting casting call, and our VP of Marketing would probably be pretty easy to cast. What about me? What about who freakin’ cares!

The point being, a movie about anything online will hold the interest of so few that live every day lives, that you’d be lucky to make any kind of money from it. Do you really think that most of the world really cares that Zuckerberg prefers Mt. Dew over Coke or that he picks his nose with his middle finger? No. And that is the kind of stupid personal stuff they are going to write into this.

Back to my example of “Lookery: The little ad data network that could” movie. The movie about us would be so trivial and interesting to so few that no one in their right mind is going to want to watch what we do or how we did it.

Same goes for Facebook the Movie, the interesting stuff is right here online; there isn’t a need to put it on screen anywhere. I mean social networking is cool - online. Social networking translated to a movie is kind of dumb. Same goes for the blog movie idea above, as well as the Lookery Movie. Just not right for movie or television movie.

If you want to meet with the real live people and in person - team Lookery, than you have to hook up with the entire crew in Boulder, Colorado next week. Now that is real life, and if you think that a movie deal should be in the works for every online company or social network, we’ll entertain you in person and entertain your offer. I think Lookery in the real will be more interesting than any movie version could translate.

Technically Speaking, yes - team Lookery is in Boulder, Colorado next week - we hope to see you not in a movie but in reality!

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Hell froze over this week! Mike of Microspaces who I met at a STL startup meeting a few months back, well quite a long time ago actually, as right after I was able to make it to one of them - Lookery took off like a rocket - ie - too damn busy keeping things smooth if you get my drift.

Not to digress into other things - just wanted to congratulate Mike and his persistence to make his startup Microspaces framework something useful. Useful enough that TechCrunch thought so. Great job, and yes, a real TechCrunch’d startup right here in the STL. There is hope after all for those entrepreneurs who are living in the 21st century right here where I live - the STL.

Surprising, as most in the STL are going downtown to the city today for the Cardinals, Rams, Springsteen and Black expo! That’s my point - most of the interest here in the STL are Sports, followed by concerts and some event that has nothing to do with technology or startups.

Or better yet, here is a comment from that linked story about the happenings today in downtown STL:

JBoyd024 August 22, 2008 8:13PM CST
You can also come to the insideSTL.com 3 year anniversary @ Lumen tomorrow night. Live broadcast of “The Morning After” with guests like Todd Wellemeyer, Kyle Lohse, Joe Mather, Kelly Chase, Felipe Lopez, Penthouse Pet Cali Taylor, WSOP chip leader Dennis Anderson and MORE. Alos, there is a Girls Next Door lingerie contest after the broadcast. Dont miss out!

Interesting. Now this is more of the point on why my bud Trashy had to make the move to the land of subways and brick as he called it. Chicago, sweet home Chicago as he calls it.

Well earlier this past week, I found out that social networking on MySpace really does work. My old guitarist from a band many moons ago finally found me on MySpace. Crazy! We haven’t spoken to each other in probably 12-14 years, and yet when we did get on the phone that afternoon, it seemed like yesterday was only just a few minutes away. The point is that MySpace is still the biggest social network on the planet, as I don’t think he would have found me on Hi5, Bebo, or even Facebook. Don’t let the press out hype the reality; now if they can get their sh*t together, maybe their numbers will matter!

Technically Speaking that is enough rambling for the moment. One last thing I forgot to mention - didn’t get a ton of fanfare was our Lookery feed looks even cooler now! Go stare at it, you’ll see what I mean and want to sign up for your own JS Code to put on your web site.

And oh yeah:

Full Disclosure: Rex Dixon works for Lookery in Publisher Relations - if you don’t have a Lookery account - sign up today!.

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