On July 2nd, we’ll be right smack in the middle of summer in San Francisco… the perfect time for an old-fashioned Big Summer Geek Out!

Come on down to Mighty, grab a drink, meet cool people, see live 5-minute tech demos, ask questions, grab the mic, have fun… and geek out!

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Tickets on sale NOW:   http://bigsummergeekout.eventbrite.com
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Demos on tap …

SnappyStuff
Brook Eaton, Founder/CEO
SnappyStuff provides a snap shot of what you own and a system to help sell, trade and share it.  http://www.snappystuff.com

MyDogSpace
Robert Yau, Founder/CEO
MyDogSpace is a social network for … dogs!   http://www.mydogspace.com

Govit
Taylor Norris, Founder/CEO
Govit brings direct democracy to US citizens, helping voters learn about, discuss, and vote on active legislation.  Members can vote on active legislation and have their vote sent instantly to their elected representatives.  http://www.govit.com

Lefora
Vinnie Lauria, Top Dog
Lefora brings forums from the dark ages to the present by providing easy to use free forum hosting, forum software, forum installation,  and help promoting your forum.  http://www.lefora.com

Spongecell
Nik Bonaddio, Creative Director
Spongecell makes online media more engaging, by applying vertical solutions to standard marketing techniques.  Spongecell’s new Rich Media Ad, allows promoters to embed social, viral, and event-based functionalities into their ads. http://www.spongecell.com

Backblaze
Gleb Budman, CEO/Co-Founder
Backblaze provides the "easiest" online backup service to enable everyone to backup. TechCrunch says Backblaze provides “Online Backup With Time Machine’s Finesse” and Ars Technica writes the company is “Making off-site backups brainless." http://www.backblaze.com

 
Before the demos …

    * Enter the drawing to win a 16GB iPod Touch from Sun Startup Essentials while registering for your ticket to the event or by dropping your card at the door. (You must be present to win!)
    * Enjoy a free tasting of Haamonii Smooth , simply the world’s smoothest shochu.  (It’s the best!)
    * Munch on some kick ass sushi in the back room. (Early bird gets the worm!)
 
After the demos …

    * Grab the microphone and speak to the room on the famous 60-Second Soapbox. Express that need, want or desire in 60 seconds — GO! (Each one is logged online so people can find you later!)
    * Hang out and keep the conversation going…

Tickets:
$15.00 online @    http://bigsummergeekout.eventbrite.com
$20.00 at the door, if not sold out
Mighty is a 21+ venue.

Schedule:
6:30 pm - Doors open
6:30 -7:30 pm - Schmooze
7:30 - 9:00 pm - Demos
9:00 - 11:00 pm Schmooze

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Tickets on sale NOW:   http://bigsummergeekout.eventbrite.com
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   July is around the corner and given certain travel and vacation considerations (mine!) — I’ve flipped the free  Belly Up bar schmooze to the second Wednesday in July (7/9) and moved our ticketed  demo event — The 2008 Big Summer Geek Out  – up to the first Wednesday of July (7/2), just before the holiday break.

Please don’t let the date flip flop confuse you!

We’re also very excited to welcome Haamonii Smooth, simply the world’s smoothest shochu, on board as a cocktail sponsor for our Big Summer Geek Out!   This shochu is quite possibly the best you’ve ever tasted.  And if you haven’t tasted shochu yet, you’re in for a real treat.  

Big thanks to James Lim for bringing the booty — we can’t wait to raise a glass with you.

Join us for …. Widgets up the Wazoo!

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Moderated by Sexy Widget ’s Lawrence Coburn

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Tickets available now:
http://widgetsupthewazoo.eventbrite.com/
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Geek out to 5 Minute Live Demos, Q&A, Bar, Munchies and 200 of your favorite new tech buddies.

If you haven’t already guessed, this month’s event is all about widgets!

Widget demos on tap:

Seeqpod
Mike Muldoon, CTO
SeeqPod helps people find, discover, play, and enjoy "Playable Search" with an array of easy-to-use tools to make playlists, share, embed, and purchase results. From video to audio, slideshows, and Adobe Flash, SeeqPod accesses the vast multitude of rich media files and applications that exist online. http://www.seeqpod.com

Clearspring
Mike Harkey, Director, Business Development
Clearspring offers a media platform that provides widget distribution, analytics, monetization and advertising solutions.
http://www.clearspring.com

Gydget
Gerardo Capiel, CEO
Gydget provides a social marketing platform that allows music groups, sports teams, non-profits and other organizations to reach their audiences on social networking and fan-based Web sites. Its core product, gydget, is a stand-alone, viral web application (widget) that can be created by anyone, for free, without needing to know complex design or programming languages.
http://www.gydget.com

Triggit
Susan Coelius Keplinger, Co-Founder & COO
Triggit makes it quick and easy for web publishers to monetize their sites with advertising. Using a cross platform web application, publishers can now drag and drop ad units directly into their pages, optimize efficacy and track the results. Triggit takes the pain out of monetization.
http://www.triggit.com

Add to Any
Pat Diven II, Founder & CEO
Add to Any’s "Share/Save" and "Subscribe" widgets help your website visitors share, save and subscribe to your content using any service. http://www.addtoany.com

Disqus
Daniel Ha, Co-Founder
Disqus is an embeddable blog commenting system that makes your comments more interactive for readers and easier to manage for you - all while connecting your community with other blogs.
http://www.disqus.com

Sprout
Carnet Williams, Founder & CEO
Sprout is the quick and easy way for anyone to build, publish, and manage widgets, mini-sites, mashups, banners and more. Any size, any number of pages. Include video, audio, images and newsfeeds and choose from dozens of pre-built components and web services.
http://sproutbuilder.com

After the demos …

* Lawrence Coburn (Sexy Widget) will bring the presenters back up on stage for a quick round-table panel discussion.

* Sun Microsystems will be giving away a 16GB iPod Touch to one lucky attendee. You can register to win when you secure your ticket or by dropping your business card at the door on the way in. But remember, you must be present to win!

* And … as always, we’ll end the evening with the 60-second Soapbox. Grab the mic and go!

Tickets:
$15.00 online
$20.00 at the door, if not sold out

Schedule:
6:30 pm - Doors open
6:30 -7:30 pm - Schmooze
7:30 - 10:00 pm - Demos
10:00 - 11:00 pm Schmooze

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Tickets available now:
http://widgetsupthewazoo.eventbrite.com/
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Spring is definitely here!

It’s time for a briefing on Wine, Women and a whole lot more…

On May 13th, come down and check out where the beauty of the female form is headed online, a wicked-handy web app to pick the best bottle of vino every time, the latest and greatest from "Silicon Valley’s phone company", how to make your photos talk and say funny things, and more.

Tickets are available here .

Demos on tap:

Nirvino
Christian Schroeder, Founder
Nirvino is a free, website and mobile wine resource that aggregates wine critic reviews into a single score. Users can quickly find or confirm great bottles of wine when they are on the go as well as receive food pairing tips specific to that wine. http://nirvino.com

Zivity
Cameo Wood, Product Manager
Zivity is a community-powered showcase of female beauty. http://zivity.com

Razz
Jeff Malkin, Co-Founder
Razz is creating and leading a new category in photo enhancement called "audio-enriched photos." Users can mash well-known pop-culture audio clips and user-recorded voice with their favorite photos. With simple-to-use creatiion and consumption tools, Razz aims to be the YouTube of Talking Photos. http://razz.com

MyMeemz/Skollar
Alex Trolley, CEO / Founder
Skollar is a Web 2.0 tool that collates web documents, tagging and annotating both text and images in key idea context for research. http://www.mymeemz.com

Ribbit
Chuck Freeman, Director of Developer Platform
Ribbit offers an open platform for developing phone, voice and VOIP-based applications, making it easy for Web developers to integrate voice as an object into social, CRM, and 2.0 applications. http://ribbit.com

As always, the 60-second Soapbox is yours for the taking! Grab the mic and go!

Plus, Sun Microsystems invites you to learn more about their Sun Startup Essential Program and the upcoming Startup Camp on May 4-5 in SF- and will be giving away a 16GB iPod Touch to one lucky attendee.

6:30 -7:30 pm - Schmooze
7:30 - 9:00 pm - Demos
9:00 - 11:00 pm Schmooze

Hope to see you all there!

Geek out to 5 Minute Live Demos, Q&A, Bar, Munchies and 200 of your favorite new tech buddies.

We’ll be mixing it up with a handful of some pretty interesting web tools, including how to rent  — or put up for rent — anything online, a search-within-video engine to help you better target ads; and a service to view that conference that you missed (or encode the conference you’re holding); and an IT search tool that can index and digest data like a champ.   

And, we’ll get hand’s-on with the world’s smallest computer and we’ll meet Pleo — the famous robotic dinosaur!   Touch him. He loves it.  Let him rub up against your leg.  He’s got feelings too.   It’s going to be fun!

Like I said — it’s a mix — and it’s all good.  

On tap:

Zilok
Jeff Boudier, Vice President, Business Development
Zilok an online rental marketplace where anyone, individual or professional, can rent or offer for rent anything in a few clicks.

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Soma Media
Romy Randev, CEO / Founder
Soma Media specializes in recording and distributing conference presentations via the web and DVD. splunk.com…
 

And …

Ugobe & Pleo
Sarah Lefton, Marketing Manager, Online Strategy
Ugobe introduces "Pleo", its first robotic life form. Pleo is a one week old baby robotic dinosaur, and he comes with a social website where Pleo owners can connect, create and share behavior modifications for their robots, "plog" and post media about their pets. oqo.com…
 

As always, the 60-second Soapbox is yours for the taking! Grab the mic and go!

Plus, Sun Microsystems invites you to learn more about their Sun Startup Essential Program — and will be giving away a Garmin GPS unit to one lucky attendee.

Tickets:
$15.00 online here and now
$20.00 at the door, if not sold out

Schedule:
6:30 pm - Doors open
6:30 -7:30 pm - Schmooze
7:30 - 9:00 pm - Demos
9:00 - 11:00 pm Schmooze

SF New Tech "Belly Up" is shaken, not Stirred.

It’s more SF Alpha than SF Beta; more TechCream than TechCrunch.

Some Valleywags think it’s Bub.blicio.us…!

Instantly find yourself in a bar, right smack in the center of the SF tech scene.

It’s true — just RSVP and show up.

No MC. No name tags. No presentations. No pressure.

(And no real help for those who have trouble introducing themselves to strangers. Sorry!)

Just belly up to the bar, hangin’, talkin’, drinkin’, and maybe playing pool.

About The SF New Tech Belly Up Meetup:

The Belly Up Meetup isn’t meant to replace our regular SF New Tech events where you see and hear from the latest and greatest new tech. This is just a celebration of the community. Why not a regularly scheduled hang-time over cocktails with no pressure? Cheers! Now there is, on the first Wednesday of every month. Enjoy.

Belly Up Buzz:

"I enjoy meeting a bunch of interesting people in such a short a time." — SB

"This was my very first BellyUp! Great people with great attitudes! Nice laid back time." — LS

"Great people, easy to get to know. Super Connections!" — SS

"Great people!" - LZ

All very nice friendly people" - XV

This Wednesday, we’re holding a very special, exclusive and intimate event at Dolby Labs’ world-class screening room to showcase some of the latest strides in the online video space.

We’ll see and hear from Seero, Seesmic, Mesmo, YourTrumanShow and Blinkx.

The discussion will be moderated by the affable Rafe Needleman, editor of Webware.

Tickets are $25.00 for this special event. Light beverages and hors d’oeuvres will be served.

You can see more information and secure a seat for 3/19 @ http://031908sfnt.eventbrite.com

The March Geek Out

Consider this a little March madness.Geek out to 5 Minute Live Demos, Q&A, Bar, Munchies and 200 of your favorite new tech buddies.

On tap:

GoGrid

Paul Lancaster, Business Development 

GoGrid is the world’s first multi-server control panel that enables you to deploy and manage on demand server hosting, allowing you to scale your server hosting quickly and easily from any web browser. http://www.gogrid.com

Surf Canyon

Mark Kramer, CEO / Founder 

"Using next-generation semantic personalization, Surf Canyon is developing Queryless Discovery™ for Search. The patent-pending post-query disambiguation technology sits atop virtually any third-party search engine and assists users in finding relevant information buried within the often overwhelming results." http://www.surfcanyon.com

Xeequa

Axel Schultze, CEO / Founder

Xeequa is a social network for business that allows business people to create a partner network and collaborate immediately without any of the time-consuming implementation processes common to traditional enterprise software. http://www.xeequa.com

Askpedia

Yong Su Kim, CEO / Founder

Askpedia is an online knowledge marketplace powered by Questions and Answers. Instead of searching for static published information, users can ask questions to benefit from the collective knowledge and experience of real people. We also provide a knowledge marketplace where users with knowledge get recognized and earn money by answering questions with monetary rewards. http://www.askpedia.com

More!

As always, the 60-second Soapbox is yours for the taking! Grab the mic and go!

Tickets:

$15.00 online here and now $20.00 at the door, if not sold out

Schedule:

6:30 pm - Doors open

6:30 -7:30 pm - Schmooze

7:30 - 9:00 pm - Demos

9:00 - 11:00 pm Schmooze

Make way—it’s time to get belly up to the bar to talk tech! SF New Tech “Belly Up” is shaken, not Stirred. It’s more SF Alpha than SF Beta; more TechCream than TechCrunch. Some Valleywags think it’s Bub.blicio.us…! Drop on by the Mars Bar on Wednesday night for some good old Belly Up Meetup action. RSVP here.