SF New Tech

When high school sophomore Andrew Sutherland needed a good way to study a list of 111 French animals for his French class, he came up with an ingenious idea. A FlashCard site online that he could use to learn the french animals himself and share it with his friends anywhere in the world.

And so Quizlet was born. Since then Quizlet has spread to millions of students around the globe!

Quizlet - The best way to study languages, vocabulary, or 111 French Animals

Quizlet is a fun, free, way to study languages, vocabulary, or almost anything. It is the largest and fastest growing educational flashcards site on the web, providing powerful online study tools and games to millions of students.

Tonight at SFNewTech, Quizlet will be showing off the latest in educational technology, with its online study games and tools used millions of students.

Frustrated with the information overload (that we all face) while browsing or searching for information online, the husband & wife team Sameer Yami and Sanika Shirwadkar created WikiSeer, a service that finds the most informative sentences in any web page instantly and automatically; shrinking the original by upto 99%

WikiSeer provides a faster and smarter searching and browsing experience. By simply hovering over any HTML link, you can gain insights into web pages without leaving the current page or without spending too much time on it.

Get Keynotes and Summaries from WikiSeer!

How do they do that? With a lot of complex Natural Language Processing, mathematical linguistics, statistical analysis and mathematical modeling.

Tonight, at SFNewTech Sameer and Sanika will be showing off the WikiSeer frontend, which is a Firefox Addon. Don’t miss it!

Online tickets are sold out but we will have tickets at the Door!

After working on some other web publishing projects John Pettitt and Tim McElreavy realized that no matter how good a site is the vast majority of web users will never see it and that bare links are just not a compelling way to share. So they went out and created Curate.Us

An SFNewTech article on a new Facebook App gets clipped on Curate.Us!

Curate.Us gives end users a simple and visually compelling way to repost content, instantly boosting the impact of blog posts, e-mail, websites, and social networks. The visual clips and formatted quotes generated by Curate.Us drive a 5x greater click-through to the original publisher than content distributed via traditional links.

See it to believe it! Tonight, at SFNewTech, Curate.Us will be presenting their awesome service live to a Bar full of Geeks and Technology lovers! They will show you how clips drive 5x more traffic than a bare link and tell you where readers are engaging with content.

The Geo-location War just got hotter! If you thought FourSquare, Gowalla and Facebook Places are cool, wait till you see Wondershake, a brand new geo-location iPhone App that promises to help you “visualize your inner taste, and connect you with other like-minded people around you in the REAL world!”

Wondershake iPhone App - See it at SFNewTech tomorrow!

Conceived in California and raised lovingly in Japan, the WonderShake iPhone App is set to hit the App Store in December. But as you know, SFNewTech peeps get to see it before the rest of the world! So tomorrow, at the Nov 10th 2010 SFNewTech event WonderShake Founder and President Satoshi Suzuki and his Team will present this exciting geo-location App.

Satoshi promises that

With WonderShake your everyday lives will be filled with fresh encounters with people and discoveries of new places!

Come and find out what all the hype is about tomorrow! Satoshi will also be giving out stickers of their cute dolphin mascot.



Hint: “You Are Now Entering A World Of Sharing”

While the process of making Red Vines hasn’t changed much since it’s parent company American Licorice was founded nearly a century ago, the way it is marketed to consumers certainly has!

The “World Of Sharing” program is the latest in a series of consumer outreach programs that Red Vines is currently conducting, to build brand awareness and generate positive “social chatter” about this much loved candy!

Using a mashup of Google Maps and tight integration with Twitter and Facebook,the “World Of Sharing” site enables users to easily log in using their email or Facebook Connect and leave whatever short positive message comes to mind. Each positive message adds a new section to the giant Red Vine circling the planet. As the Vine goes around the world, it will award users 240 4 lb. jars of Red Vines Licorice, 24 Prize packs with Red Vines Candy and Gear, and one grand prize of $5,000 to be used for a trip around the world.

That’s all we can say right now. To learn more about this innovative social campaign come on over to our SFNewTech event tonight and enter the “World Of Sharing” with a live demo from Red Vines.

My positive message to the World?

Make Apps, Not War!

"Make Apps Not War" - My Positive Message on the "World Of Sharing".

Freebies At SFNewTech?

Red Vines will also be giving out schwag (yay!) to SFNewTech peeps tonight! Michael Kelly of Red Vines says

There will be Candy and T-Shirts!

Forget messy paper printouts, scans and faxes. Go green and digitally sign your documents from anywhere in the world using the EasySign iPhone App.

The idea for EasySign was born in a remote beach in Riviera Maya, Mexico when EasySign founder Sunil Patro had to sign some paper documents for a new job offer. Sitting on the Beach, he wondered

How awesome would it be, if I could sign and return this job offer right here, right now, right from my smartphone.

It was at this moment of clarity, that Sunil decided to create this green, paper-free, signature-on-the-go mobile app.

Fast forward a year later, EasySign was launched as an iPhone app at the Apple AppStore in August of 2010. Since then, the EasySign app has received (and continues to receive) great reviews from its users who use it for signing business as well as personal documents.

Sign Documents from your iPhone/iPad Using the EasySign App

This Wednesday, at our Oct 20th 2010 SFNewTech event, Sunil will show you step by step, how you can sign any document using your iPhone/iPad from anywhere at anytime without the hassles, costs and environmental hazards of printing, scanning and faxing paper documents.

Don’t miss it! Mother Earth will thank you!

It is every advertiser’s dream to generate maximum returns on online advertising investments. With it’s easy to use, highly effective and proven display advertising platform, AdRoll promises to deliver that dream and more.

AdRoll will take stage this Wednesday at our Oct 20th 2010 SFNewTech event and show you step by step, how to create a retargeting ad campaign for your product, brand or service using the AdRoll display advertising platform, and how to measure the results.

Unlike a majority of the existing advertising platform where you can’t do anything without requesting contact from a salesperson first, AdRoll includes plenty of self-service options, transparent reporting, and the ability for marketers to manage their own campaigns much in the way they manage their Search Engine Marketing (SEM) campaigns.

Under the hood, AdRoll uses several state-of-the-art technologies including a 100% geo-distributed cloud based infrastructure. If that is a mouthful and the geek in you just has to know, then ask Adam Berke, AdRoll founding member and VP of Business Development to explain it to you in layman terms when you meet him at the event on Wednesday.

Meanwhile here he is, explaining what AdRoll can do for your business in a short simple video.

Freebies?

AdRoll will also be giving out schwag (yay!) to SFNewTech peeps. For the first 3 to 5 questions from the audience, they will give away their ever popular “Roll with me” T-shirts. (Hey, I like how you guys “Roll”!).

I already know what I am going to ask Adam.

What hair gel are you wearing in the what AdRoll can do for your business video?

I am not sure this question will win me a coveted “Roll with Me” (size M please) T-Shirt. We’ll see.

When Benjamin Bérubé was working on a Web project that needed to capture video using a webcam he thought it would be a cakewalk. However, he quickly found out that there was no easy solution to accomplish this.

Instead of complaining on forums and blogs like the average web developer would do, Benjamin did something completely different and innovative. He went out and created Nimbb, a site for recoding and sharing videos from your webcam.

Nimbb is easy, fast* and free**.

My First nimbb Webcam Video Recoding. 30 seconds, 4 clicks, under 1 minute!

Benjamin will be showing off nimbb’s features and capabilities this Wednesday at our Oct 20th 2010 SFNewTech event. Come and check it out.

Benjamin is based in Montreal, Canada. He has recently moved to San Francisco to spread the word about Nimbb, because as he said it himself…

After just one week of marketing in Montreal, I decided to come to San Francisco – where all the action is – to promote Nimbb.

Well, we told Benjamin

You have arrived at the right city and at the right event!

Benjamin loves SFNewTech peeps so much, that he has pledged to give away one full month of Nimbb subscription free to anyone of you that tweets about the service during the demo and follows @nimbb on twitter.

A developer at heart – with over 15 years of experience in application software development – Benjamin will likely answer any questions you may have about the underlying technology that powers the nimbb webcam video recording and sharing service.

So don’t be shy. Come on over!

*fast = I recorded, saved and shared the above 30 second video using my webcam on nimbb in under 1 minute!
** free = Basic membership is free. For a full list of subscription types and price, see the subscription page.

VideoGenie is revolutionizing the way brands connect with their customers. Founder and Stanford Graduate Justin Nassiri will take stage this wednesday (20th October 2010) at SFNewTech so we can say hello to VideoGenie.

See Videogenie in Action this Wednesday! http://oct20sfnewtech.eventbrite.com/

We asked Justin what’s in store for SFNewTech peeps, and he told us that he will show you how VideoGenie

• captures your customers on video naturally (unscripted),
• removes the need for complicated editing, and
• displays these videos in a targeted and socially relevant way and
• drives customer conversion and increases your brand reach.

Obviously there is lot more to it than this, but we promised Justin not to steal his thunder, so if you want to know more about how VideoGenie can help your brand and also meet Justin himself, head over to our SFNewTech event this Wednesday!

Sometimes you never know who’s in the crowd trying to scoop a hot news story.

On Tuesday, Tim Hay, reporter for the Dow Jones Venture Wire and Wall Street Journal Blogger was in the house … and he nailed a great story about the Belgians breaching our shores in search of fame, fortune and Web 2.0 love.

It’s an excellent piece… especially when he mentions SF New Tech.

Here’s the link: http://bit.ly/OymVh

Thanks Tim!