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Just in time for the 4th of July weekend, SF New Tech is here to help you get in the festive mood with the Big Summer Geek Out event. Taking place on 7/2/08 at Mighty (as usual), SF New Tech promises to deliver a fresh round of technology and Web 2.0 companies for your listening pleasure and demo experience. Tickets are $15 in advance online or $20 at the door (21 and over only). The event starts at 6:30 pm and goes till 11:00 pm.

This event is sponsored by GoGrid & ServePath. Come visit our table and get $100 off your next GoGrid Cloud Server!

Demo companies at the July ‘08 New Tech include:

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 functionality 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

Hope to see you there! Be sure to drop by the GoGrid booth for instant savings on your next GoGrid Cloud Server!

SF New Tech is tonight (4/8/08) and the theme is “Dinosaur Robots and more!” This ServePath-sponsored event has the “special mix” of 5-minute Live Demos, Q&A’s, social time, and food and drinks.

Event details:

Cost: $15.00 online / $20.00 at the door
Date: 04/08/08
Location: Mighty (119 Utah St @ 15th)
Time: 6:30 pm PT - 11:00 pm PT

Be sure to come by the ServePath table and get a demo of our latest product, GoGrid, which allows you to create, deploy and manage load-balanced on-demand Linux and Windows servers, all through a web interface within minutes.

Other companies doing demos (5 minute and hands-on):

Zilok - Zilok an online rental marketplace where anyone, individual or professional, can rent or offer for rent anything in a few clicks.

Pluggd - Pluggd has developed an innovative and proprietary platform for searching within video and contextually serving ads to online video in a non-obtrusive manner

Soma Media - Soma Media specializes in recording and distributing conference presentations via the web and DVD

Splunk - 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.

Ugobe & Pleo - 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 - 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″

Schedule:

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

See you there!

Another solid SF New Tech meetup took place last night at Mighty in San Francisco, and once again, ServePath was there, and, as a sponsor. Companies doing demos included: Utterz, Triggit, Blogbard, ClickTale, Tripit and YowTrip.

A full photostream is now live on Flickr and here are some highlights.

Myles Weissleder (founder of SF New Tech) getting ready for the demos

Paul Lancaster & Steven Buelow (ServePath) talking to Devin Holmes (Startupers.com)

Denise Vardakas (TheConversationGroup) and Alexandre de Boni (ServePath)

Harris Loeser (ServePath) & Zach Coelius (Triggit - a ServePath customer)

A captivated audience

Zach Coelius (CEO - Triggit) giving a very impressive demo of the technology

Paul Lancaster gets interviewed by Vator.tv

Paul talks with Meliza Solan (Associate Producer - Vator.tv)

After a successful interview!

Check out the rest of the photos on Flickr.

It’s that time of month again. Time for the glorious SF New Tech Meetup, a ServePath sponsored event. There are two subjects at hand: “Pimp Out Your Blog!” & “Take a Vacation!” which definitely sounds like an interesting combination (I may take some tips for pimping my blog…can’t afford a vacation right now).

So if you had a good time last week at the SF New Tech Belly Up or at last month’s SF New Tech, I encourage you to come to this month’s Meetup.

This Meetup is at the Mighty (located at 119 Utah @ 15th Street in San Francisco). Date & Time: Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 @ 6:30pm.

Here are the companies taking advantage of the 5 Minute Demos (and if you don’t know what this is, essentially you are given 5 minutes for an elevator pitch and demo on your company or service) - descriptions taken from the Meetup page (thanks Myles):

PIMP OUT YOUR BLOG!

Utterz
Randy Corke & Simeon Margolis, Co-Founders
Utterz is the first way for you to instantly share your thoughts and experiences with the world — or just your friends — using all the capabilities of your cell phone; voice, video, pictures and text.
http://www.utterz.com

Triggit
Zach Coelius, CEO
Triggit is a brand new web application allows you to place media and ads on your blog with simple clicks and drags.
http://www.triggit.com

Blogbard
Manoj Bist, Founder & CEO
Blogbard is a browser based product that turns any blog to a personalized radio.
http://www.blogbard.com

ClickTale
Tal Schwartz, PhD, Co-Founder & CEO
ClickTale captures and analyzes customer interactions inside web sites, revolutionizing traditional web analytics that measure activity between pages.
http://www.clicktale.com

TAKE A VACATION!

Tripit
Gregg Brockway, Co-Founder & CEO
TripIt is a personal travel assistant that automatically organizes all your travel plans.
http://www.tripit.com

YowTrip
Felipe Coimbra, Founder & CEO
YowTrip is a social network site that connects you with other world travelers in your town or wherever you’re traveling.
http://www.yowtrip.com

And, if you feel up to it, you can take your chance at the 60-Second Soapbox.

Look for the ServePath table at this event. Also, I will be roaming the crowds taking pictures. Find me and give a good pitch on your company or service and I might write it up on the ServePath blog.

Hope to see you there!