Over 100 people participated in the second meeting of SF Tech Sessions last night at the Westin St. Francis. The crowd was a mix of bloggers, journalists, developers, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs all interested in learning about new products, people and ideas. Each presenter had about 15 minutes to engage the audience with a product demonstration. The first three presenters had launched within the last two weeks and Songbird launched about six weeks ago. Below are my brief summaries of each presenter. Skobee Noam Lovinsky of Skobee was the first presenter of the evening. Skobee helps plan meetups with firm…
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SF Tech Sessions tonight!
The next SF TechSession is tonight from 7-9 p.m. at The Westin St. Francis hotel next to San Francisco’s Union Square. We’ll be on the 32nd floor with free food, drinks, WiFi, and a nice view of the city through some 15-foot floor-to-ceiling windows (might be a deck too). Thanks to Blish.com for providing an amazing venue for this month’s meeting. Presenters Skobee, online event planning and local search through your social network. Noam Lovinsky, product guy, will present.Vast.com, an online classified search engine. Founder and CEO Naval Ravikant will present. Noam is a serial entrepreneur and you may want…
SF Tech Sessions: communities and new methods of interaction
SF Tech Sessions is back! This month’s event will feature 4-6 companies that may change the way you view search, communities, and online social interaction. All products are from small startup companies who have launched within the last 2 months. Details Wednesday, March 29 7:00-9:00 p.m. Westin St. Francis hotel Alexandra room, 32nd floor Union Square, San Francisco Full details for the event are available on the SF Tech Sessions blog. Add to iCal I learned a few things from the first SF Tech Sessions events: shorter presentations and more time for socializing and Q&A. Our meeting room features rows…
GRiD Computing event
Last night I attended a talk at the Computer History Museum about the early history of portable computing highlighting GRiD Computing as one of the pioneers in the space. Some interesting facts: GRiD was one of Silicon Valley’s first stealth companies (back in 1981). Most employees did not know what they were working on until after they were hired. Co-founder Dave Paulsen told a story about sourcing parts from all over the world to try and find already manufactured components that could work in a small form-factor PC. They found their electro-luminescent displays while flipping through a Japanese electronics…
SF Tech Sessions next Thursday
The first SF Tech Sessions is less than a week away! Joyent, Kerio, and Zimbra will each present their groupware product and introduce their company to a room full of 100 bloggers, journalists, and small business owners. It all starts at 6:30 p.m. next Thursday, February 23, at CNET headquarters in San Francisco. More details are available on the SF Tech Sessions blog. Tom Bridge is flying in from Washington D.C. just to attend the event! The event competes with a billionaires dinner alongside the invite-only $5000 TED conference in Monterey. After you see Einstein the talking Parrot at TED,…
SF Tech Sessions
Companies should not have to pay tens of thousands of dollars to present their product to a technical and knowledgeable audience. Everyone is burned out on big conferences, big ticket prices, and we want to create more interesting in-depth experiences. I am proud to announce SF Tech Sessions, a new free monthly event that will highlight the latest technologies, products, and companies live and in-person in the San Francisco Bay Area. Every month a small crowd of journalists, bloggers, small business owners, and other interested individuals will gather to learn about a new industry from a small group of companies…
Python event on the 25th in Santa Clara
SD Forum is hosting a half-day session all about Python on Wednesday, January 25 from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. in Santa Clara. For just $25 you can spend your morning learning about Python from Guido van Rossum, Greg Stein, Bram Cohen, Alex Martelli, and active startups using Python. $25 for all that and $10 less if you are already a SD Forum member. Tags: sdforum, python…
Tag spam and ranking at Tag Tuesday
Tag Tuesday takes place this Tuesday, November 29, at AOL’s Mountain View campus starting at 6:30 p.m. Tag Tuesday is a developer-focused event with lead developers of products and companies involved in tagging come together to share their experience, code, and best practices. Edwin Aoki, chief architect at AOL, will talk about tag spam and some of the existing spam countermeasures at AOL. Kevin Burton, founder of TailRank, will introduce us to tagging of news items within his ranking system for blog posts. Some food and drink will be provided. Our past events have been in San Francisco and hopefully…
Microsoft Technology Preview
I am covering the Microsoft Technology Preview this morning in San Francisco. Microsoft is launching their “Live” software initiatives that include software as a service, synchronization, and even peer to peer. The biggest news to me so far is Bill Gates announcing that Microsoft will build advertising as a service for software development. Developers can call a web service and receive Microsoft advertising content targeted to their users directly in their applications. As the application grows in popularity it can provide different monetization options, but advertising is a good bootstrap model. Microsoft is announcing Windows Live and Office Live…
Tag Tuesday with HP and Technorati
Tag Tuesday is back! If you are in the San Francisco area come out to Varnish Fine Art this Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. Scott Golder from HP Labs will talk about his recent research paper on collaborative tagging and Kevin Marks of Technorati will talk about the design and implementation of Blog Finder. Tag Tuesday is a developer-centered event. If you are working with tags or related methods of user classification and would like to present, let me know. Tags: hp, blogfinder, tags, tagtuesday…