iThink will be center stage on November 13, at an event called “How to Monetize Applications on Social Networking Platforms”.

Members of the Minekey Team will be presenting iThink to an audience of entrepreneurs, technologists and investors at the PlugandPlay Tech Center in Sunnyvale.

Other developers of social applications will also be presenting — as will be Ramu Yalamanchi, CEO of Hi5.

Please join us — it’s Free!

To Register, CLICK HERE.

For Directions, CLICK HERE.

If you’re in the Bay Area, please join the Minekey crew at our Sunnyvale offices for a Lunch 2.0 on Thursday, September 6.

Started as an informal and regular gathering of Silicon Valley tech workers in corporate cafeterias, Lunch 2.0 has rapidly evolved through word-of-mouth into a national series of events.

As told in the Wall Street Journal today, Lunch 2.0 “has grown into a social-networking phenomenon that now draws hundreds of engineers, venture capitalists, and even summer interns to various companies for free meals and conversation.”

Come out and learn more about Minekey, network with a really interesting mix of people, and enjoy the delicious lunch provided by our co-host and landlord, the Plug and Play Tech Center.

To RSVP, go to either the event listing on Upcoming.org, or search for the Minekey Lunch 2.0 event listing on Facebook.

This past weekend Delip Andra and Alex Gault took part in the Palo Alto Barcamp — a self-organizing two day conference for technologists and startup companies, with programming supplied ad hoc by the attendees themselves and a schedule devised on the fly. There was an amazing exchange of energy and new ideas between the 1,000+ participants.

Several companies located around the same block in downtown Palo Alto — including Socialtext, IDEO, Edgeio, Searchspark and EchoSign — donated their offices as meeting spaces.

Alex gave a 5 minute presentation at DemoCamp on Saturday evening, the one pre-scheduled session at the conference. First, Alex demo’ed the widget installation process, emphasizing how easy it is to customize and install the widget onto a blog. Then he demonstrated how the widget works on a blog — dynamically presonalizing content, as he clicked on blog entries or links in the widget itself.

This neighborhood in Palo Alto is densely populated with startups. Just around the corner, Facebook will be hosting the Facebook Developer Garage on August 25, which Minekey will also attend.

Indeed it sounds like a fairy tale!

It all began 18 months ago when an entrepreneur from Silicon Valley went in search of solving the Information Overload problem and ended up teaming with his alma mater to bring to market some of the academic research and innovations. Over the past 18 months we have devloped some cool technology that would help Internet users navigate through the Information Jungle easily.

In a few hours from now Minekey technology jumps out from the exotic jungles far in the east (read “IIT Research Labs” :-)) into THE REAL WORLD. Over the past 18 months we have conducted extensive tests in the Lab with our limited data and the data from a few early pilot customers. Now we are ready to take this forward and serve real customers in real time.

It is indeed a moment of excitement and deep gratitude for all of us at Minekey that every thing fell in place in time! Past 2 weeks have been very hectic for all of us at Minekey getting our production set up ready, completing the last minute tweaks and refinements etc.,

Today we are rolling out a FREE content recomendations service targeted at content rich web sites and blogs. Yes, indeed it is free! Bloggers and webmasters can deployMinekey’s Recommendations Widget on their web site or blog in 2 easy steps and in less than 5 minutes. We will continue to keep this service free. We may serve ads in the Recommendations Widget and we will also offer a premium service targeted at the Large Publishers. So why hesitate? Try It Now.

While we are quite confident that our technology can deliver content recommendations that are most relevant to the users in the context of the web pages or blog posts they are viewing; we are still not promising you the world yet. As we continue through the Beta phase of our Journey, we would like to work with the customers like you to improve the Quality of our Recommendations and the Quality of our Service over all. Please feel free to email us at feedback@minekey.com. Happy Minekeying.