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Lijit’s Holiday Wish ListDecember 23 2008

You would think, that with all the good things happening here at Lijit, we couldn’t want for anything more. While basically true (we’re healthy, have funding, and mostly like one another), there’s always room for dreaming. And after asking around the office, it turns out there a few things that Lijit wants for Christmas. File these under “publishers we want to be using our search” and enjoy the list!

Design*Sponge features the absolute best in home and product design, including product reviews, new designer profiles, trend forecasting, student design and global design shows. Lijit could help Design*Sponge by searching everything they’re doing so wonderfully on the web: their press and accolades, their Flickr photos and featured podcasts, each contributor’s content, and their newest video collaboration via YouTube with the New York Public Library. Not to mention, with design in mind, they can use our WordPress plugin and not change their current blog design and layout.

The World According to PipDecember 22 2008

This is another in our series of guest posts written by Lijit employees. Mike Pritchard is bestowing the honor on us this week and if you like what he has to say, you can find more of his writing (and photography) on his blog.

So, what is a day in the life of Lijit like? My name is Mike “Pip” Pritchard, I’m the tech lead for the ad server team, and if you’re been following the blog here, you’ll realize that we’ve been pretty busy. Crazy busy, in fact, but we’re excited that we’re working on projects that are helping grow Lijit and create revenue for both Lijit and our publishers. And we have some great projects in the pipeline that you’ll get to hear about as we roll them out!

I’ve been at Lijit since October and I came to Lijit from a non-traditional background for a web startup. You see, I’ve come from a strong AI background and have spent most of my career building robots for either the DoD or NASA! Weird, but true.

I’ve built tiny robots, flying robots, crawling robots, industrial robots. So how did I end up at Lijit and why? Well, I love working in the AI field. The more we learn about biological int

A Lijit Holiday CelebrationDecember 18 2008

A few nights ago, the Lijit crew gathered to celebrate the season. We met in the back room of a local tavern, located just a few blocks from our office. There was food, merriment and poker chips dressed up as drink tickets but it’s safe to say that the highlight of the night was the Lijit band taking the stage. After practicing for weeks, their debut performance was impressive and they easily wowed the crowd with their talent. Thanks to Micah for all the pictures and to everyone at Lijit for the fun!

Don’t you want to be Lijit?December 17 2008

Despite what everyone else seems to be doing, we’re hiring! Lijit has experienced incredible growth over 2008 and we are now in need of two crucial people to join our team. Read on if you think you have what it takes to hang with the Lijit crew of superstars.

The first position is what we’re calling a Publisher Support Engineer. This job is unique because there are several technical and communication aspects to it, including product support, collaboration with Software Engineers, publisher troubleshooting and a load of creative problem-solving. You can read all the specifics in our job description. One perk of the job is the fact that you get to work very closely with this guy, who is much funnier than he looks here…

And the second position we’re looking to fill is an Advertising Sales Catalyst. This person will be responsible for evangelizing our ad network, building strong relationships with advertisers, and assisting Lijit publishers in selling their ad inventory. In this role, you’ll be able to help establish Lijit as an industry leader in keyword-based search advertisin

Google Alert: Google Alerts BrokenDecember 16 2008

I don’t know if anyone else has noticed but in the last month Google Alerts has slowly (and now quickly) deteriorated.

Lately I have been seeing people talk about how Google Blog Search has lost its way, and how it’s now returning links from blog sidebars. Now, just a few minutes ago I got my normal Google Alerts report on “Lijit” and it contained about 50 items, most of which are references to our widget in blog sidebars.

Google must have some new crawler code going that isn’t quite as smart as the prior version. Weird.