Turns out Vinnie from Lefora was called away on a very important business trip and can’t make it on Wednesday.
But no fear!
In Vinnie’s place we’re thrilled to welcome Ivan Kirigin, Co-Founder/CTO of Tipjoy.
Tipjoy is a micropayments service that makes it easy to leave tips for stuff you love online.
So, the good people who attend SF New Tech events are a smart, connected, well-heeled, and influential bunch.
They like new tech and they like to talk about their experiences back at the office and on their blogs.
If you’d like to buddy up to them, you may want to consider jumping on board as an official "drinking buddy" sponsor and buy them some drinks. It’ll be worth your while!
SF New Tech is always on the lookout for great sponsors… and a stable drink sponsor missing from our family.
Do you want to gain muster with the SF New Tech community? Become a drink sponsor!
Email me (myles) at myles at sfnewtech.com… to learn more!
So last night was quite an adventure!
As many of you know, most of Potrero Hill was in the throes of a power outage most of yesterday afternoon.
Derek from Mighty called me while I was enroute — speeding down Van Ness — to notify me that we may have a challenge on our hands… I arrived at 4:45 and the whole neighborhood was dark.
PG&E was rumored to get the lights on in "30 minutes". So, with that intel we were all systems go… we set up in the dark and crossed our fingers. 30 minutes came and went. And then another 30 minutes. Still dark.
I twittered out our status and word about the power outage bubbled through the twitter universe like wildfire.
People started to arrive only to learn that we were in a holding pattern.
I had to make a decision to choose a time that would be the make it or break it time of whether we’d have to cancel — and I chose 7pm. If the lights weren’t on by 7pm we’d have to cancel the event that over 200 people RSVP’d for. Wonderful. A SF New Tech first.
More people arrived — and we brought the sushi outside for all to enjoy while we waited. It wasn’t looking good. T-minus 5 minutes before pulling the plug and then, boom! At 6:56 the lights came on! Yeehaw!
We scrambled to get everything in order (now that we could see!) and started to let people inside. The event started a little late but folks were happy to belly up to the bar and hang out. The demos began @ 8pm and by that time we had a VERY full house.
To keep things interesting, our famous 5 minute clock decided to fritz out for the night. It was par for the course! In all, though the event was one of our best.
I want to thank everyone for hanging in there … and I want to thank the good folks from Nirvino, Zivity, Razz, Mymeemz, and Ribbit for their most excellent demos.
Rock on SF New Tech! (Stay tuned to the Flickr box to the left for photos!)
Another great night had by all.
Here are some relevant links …
1) Check out the Qik Video of Pleo!
qik.com… (Thanks to Kevin Rose!)
2) 60-Second Spots from 4/8. Track ‘em down here:
sfnt.wufoo.com… .
3) 4/23: Chi.mp and Mashable Present: EVOLVE (with a little help from SF New Tech!)
evolve.eventbrite.com… (Comp code for SFNT peeps: "chimpme")
4) 5/4-5: Time to go to camp!
Join Om Malik, Pete Cashmore, Matt Marshall, Jonathan Schwartz, and others at Sun’s Startup Camp!
It’s FREE: www.sun.com… .
5) 5/7: Belly Up! @ Mars Bar!
RSVP: maybellyup.eventbrite.com… (it’s also FREE)
6) 5/13: Wine, Women, and … SF New Tech!
See next month’s line-up is hot, hot, hot!
On tap: Zivity, Razz, Ribbit, Nirvino, AddtoAny… and more.
Details, coming soon!
Just added to the Tuesday event (4/8)…
Splunk
Kord Campbell, Splunk Evangelist
Splunk is inventing large-scale, high-speed indexing and search technology for IT infrastructures. Splunk indexes and makes it possible to search and navigate data from any application, server or network device in real time. Logs, configurations, messages, traps and alerts, scripts and metrics. If a machine can generate it - Splunk can eat it. splunk.com…
AND
OQO
Shane Bediz, Enterprise & Strategic Accounts
OQO invented the umpc, the smallest computer in the world that runs full windows XP or Vista w/ embedded cellular broadband. "Best of CES 2007" oqo.com…
Yes!
See you there!