A modicum of self-promotion here: NewsGator has just been named to the inaugural class of "Colorado Companies to Watch" by the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade in association with private and public organizations dedicated to supporting second-stage businesses in the state.

The awards program honors 50 second-stage Colorado companies "that demonstrate high performance in the marketplace or exhibit innovative products or processes."  Second-stage refers to companies beyond the startup phase and facing growth, rather than survival, issues.

While you may know NewsGator for our content syndication services that proliferate published content to consumers, boosting public revenue, you may not know that we're also responsible for:

• FeedDemon, one of the most popular Windows RSS readers on the planet
• NetNewsWire, an RSS reader for the iPhone and one of Time Magazine's Top 10 iPhone apps of 2008
• Social Sites, an enterprise computing environment that lets companies activate "Facebook for the Enterprise"
• the internet's single largest repository of free RSS content -- as we add 9.1 million new articles to the repository every day, indexing and aggregating 4.6 million feeds and archiving 4 years of historical content

We're honored to have received this recognition.