Dog Friendly Tech News

And the winner is… Fido Factor. We are very happy to report that Fido Factor recently walked away with two big technology wins. In late October we demoed the website and free iPhone application at the technology summit FailCon and were awarded with the audience choice selection for best overall company. Then, this past week Fido Factor was chosen from 60 competing submissions to demo the iPhone application at the Under the Radar conference on Microsoft's Silicon Valley Campus. Recognition from the technology community is critical to the success of Fido Factor and winning awards like these assures we are able to continue offering this great service for free to the dog community. We couldn't have achieved this without you, thank you!

Now that we've buttered you up we want to share how you can personally keep the momentum going by helping us to a third win. To participate all you need to do is follow this link to submit Fido Factor as the best "bootstrapped" or privately financed Startup Company for the TechCrunch awards - "The Crunchies". No need to download, research, or write anything, just click "nominate" and you're done. Entries can be cast daily through 12/6/09 so vote early and vote often.

And lastly because we never get tired of talking about ourselves, we'll leave you with a brief update of some recent and upcoming Fido Factor media coverage. Due in a large part to your early adoption and interaction with the site, Fido Factor was recently covered in social media outlet Mashable and Fido Factor CEO Justin O'Neill was featured in two video interviews, one on bnetTV.com and one on Nerdstalker.com. Additional upcoming coverage includes a feature story on ABC Bay Area at 6 PM PT the day after Thanksgiving on Friday, November 27, and a San Francisco Chronicle Article scheduled to run during the first week of December. Keep an eye out and give yourself a pat on the back helping us achieve this success.