I love working with technologies and companies I actually find really useful. Back at Raindance I would do web conferences from time-to-time but the value was only in that certain and controlled circumstance. It was cool, but I didn’t use it everyday. Conversely, I have been using Lijit all the time.

Last week we found out that Lijit has been selected to present at Venture Capital in the Rockies. As a result I have been working on my presentation, between snow shoveling and present opening. In doing so, I have been doing a lot of ‘Searching”. Some of the items I have been researching are company related, some are market related and others are a function of the conference itself.

Simultaneously, I have been playing with some stuff I found on Feedburner Networks. Feedburner Networks can export OPML. For fun the other day I constructed a Lijit Personal Network Search engine using the data from over 50 of the most influential bloggers on Venture Capital.

As a result I have started to be a fairly large consumer of the Lijit PNS Engine for Venture Capital.

It’s been so useful in fact I used the ‘stick in my browser search” feature so I could do it right from firefox.

Here are some searches I did today…

Search the Venture Capital Network for business plan, VCIR, Google Adsense, elevator pitch…

Pretty cool…

What would it be like if you could search “through” a person?

Last night Lijit released our first version of Personal Network Search. We have been heads down for a month or so on a really cool strategy to make people, their online identities, and the people they know vertically searchable. It’s an amazingly powerful concept. In the following weeks we will review more about this strategy but for now you can try the concept right here on my blog.

In fact anyone can try it on their Blog if they have a Lijit account. First run our identity wizard to grab your other online personas and map them into Lijit, then turn on your Personal Network Search functionality from your Profile page.

Thanks to a cool Typepad integration you can one-click your search Wijit onto your blog..

Give it a try and shot me some feedback.. Interesting things to “Search My World” for that demonstrate the power here…

Search “me” for “tivo”
This results in a combination of bookmarks about Tivo that I have made in del.icio.us as well a entries from my blog that talk about Tivo’s.. Also mixed in there will be some hits of PVRBlog that I read on a regular basis..

Search for “Niel SAP”
I read Niels Blog Parallax and he is the most knowledgable person I know on SAP.

Search for “term sheet”
Returns a wealth of information from multiple sources close to me on building Term Sheets for startups..