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Once again it’s time for SF New Tech, a meetup in San Francisco for technologists, VCs, geeks, social media pundits and other interested peoples. To quote: “Come on down to Mighty, grab a drink, meet cool people, see live demos from great companies, ask questions, grab the mic, have fun… and geek out!”

GoGrid and ServePath are sponsors of this event. Be sure to come by our table and learn about Cloud Computing. With all the recent hype around Windows in the Cloud…it’s important to remember that GoGrid has been providing Windows in the Cloud (both Windows Server 2003 & 2008) for over 1/2 year now and that we are a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Drop by our table and get $100 off your next GoGrid server!

The format has not changed. Each of the companies below get 5 minutes to showcase their product or service. Be the first person in the audience to ask the famous questions “How are your monetizing?” This question is especially important in these trying times. If you are a struggling startup, I recommend reading this post for some tips and tricks on how to survive this recession.

Demo Companies

Apture
Tristan Harris, CEO
Apture helps bloggers and publishers turn flat web pages into rich, multimedia experiences by empowering them with a point & click interface to create deep links to media from a wealth of different sources.
http://www.apture.com

Lefora
Vincent Lauria, Co-Founder & Product Guy
Lefora is forums made easy and has been called the “Blogger for forums”.
http://www.lefora.com

chi.mp
Anthony Eden, Co-Founder & CTO
chi.mp gives you ownership and control of your digital life on your very own domain.
http://chi.mp

Reframe It
Brian McKinney, Founder & CTO
Reframe It lets you comment in the margins of the web as easily as you can write in the margins of a book.
http://reframeit.com

Goldmail
Tom Hakel, Co-founder
Goldmail lets you create powerful messages in just minutes, combining audio and visuals.
http://www.goldmail.com

Snappr.net
Philip Stehlik, CEO
Snappr.net allows mobile interaction with 1D and 2D Barcodes.
http://www.snappr.net

PBwiki
Brian Klug, Director of Engineering
PBwiki is the world’s largest provider of hosted business and educational wikis.
http://www.pbwiki.com

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!)
• Stick around to see who won the solar powered cell phone charger from Sun Startup Essentials. (Register online or at the door!) All attendees are eligible to win — but you must be there to claim your prize.
• Hang out and keep the conversation going… meet you at the bar for shots!

Tickets:

$15.00 online here and now
$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

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!

This was a very special SF New Tech for us at ServePath. Last night we demo-ed our new product, GoGrid, to a packed crowd. It was actually the world’s first public demo of the new instantly scalable, on-demand, web-based hosted server offering (whew, lots of adjectives there).

At SF New Tech, companies sign up to give 5 minute demos of their product and service. The list of companies presenting were: GoGrid/ServePath, Surf Canyon, Buddy Fetch, Xeequa, and Askpedia.

GoGrid was the first demo to be seen with Paul Lappas (VP of Engineering) and Paul Lancaster (Business Development Manager) showing how a server could be created and a series of servers load balanced within the 5 minute demo window. To make matters even more interesting, “Murphy” was in the audience somewhere, causing the Internet connection to crawl, thus chopping a minute off of our demo time. That hiccup didn’t prevent the demo, and actually Lappas was able to not only initiate the creation of a server, but also clearly demonstrate how an F5 BigIP load balancer could be created and load balance 2 existing web servers in less than a minute!

I also spoke with a few people who have already signed up for GoGrid trial accounts, including one user who had successfully deployed 5 servers. The general consensus was that the service was “great” and the user interface and ease-of-use “fantastic!”

After the successful demonstration of GoGrid, Surf Canyon, a ServePath customer, showcased their powerful search-engine “enhancer.” Surf Canyon creates a “tiny browser extension that is installed in the user’s browser – either FireFox or Internet Explorer.” When a search is initiated on either Google, Yahoo! or MSN, much more targeted and relevant results are presented to the user, enabling them to truly see the results that they wanted, significantly accelerating the search process.

There were several photographers on hand for this event. My photos can be found on ServePath’s Flickr photostream.

SF New Tech is right around the corner, and this time it is fortified with a demo of our very own NEW product, GoGrid! The theme for this month’s meetup is “Geek Out!” which will hopefully resonate with many of you techies out there.

This should be a really action-packed event. Obviously, showcasing GoGrid is our main mission, however, many ServePath “geeks” will be on-site to answer questions about GoGrid or any of the other products and services we offer.

This Meetup is at the Mighty (located at 119 Utah @ 15th Street in San Francisco). Date & Time: Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 @ 6:30pm.

To plagiarize from the SF New Tech site, here are the companies doing the 5-minute demos for the night:

GoGrid
Paul Lancaster, Business Development Manager
Paul Lappas, Vice President of Engineering
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. Come see the “world premier” of GoGrid (at least within a public audience)!

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.” Surf Canyon is a customer of ServePath.

Buddy Fetch
Craig Stadler, CEO / Founder
BuddyFetch is a search engine that allows people to search for fellow IM, social networking, and Internet dating users. BuddyFetch was created because there was no central directory that allowed searches for IM/Social Networking/Dating users across multiple providers (AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, Skype, Paltalk, Myspace, etc.) in conjunction with the fact that some directories would only allow you to search for screen names of IM users that were only presently online.

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.

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.

Don’t forget about the 60-Second Soapbox where you have a chance to talk for 60 seconds about just about anything!

Apart from the GoGrid demo, ServePath will also have a table so come by and chat.

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!

While, unfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend last night’s SF New Tech Belly Up at Mars Bar, others from ServePath, a sponsor, were there and we got a few photos. Turnout was pretty high (over 100 people) showing up.

Without further ado, here are some snapshots.

Marko Gargenta (Marakana), Meli James (Nirvino) & Noel Chandler (Mosio)

Steven Buelow and Paul Lancaster (ServePath) at old ServePath building

Pascal Guinchard, Erin Clark (Eastridge Infotech) and Steven Buelow

Not sure who these guys are (anyone?)

Justin Kitagawa (ServePath), a guy from “down under” and Paul Lappas (ServePath)

Paul Lancaster (ServePath) and Liz Dizon (Doppleganger)

Pictures are also viewable on Flickr for all events and other photo ops. This event is here.

Hope to see some of you at next week’s SF New Tech meetup “Pimp Out Your Blog and then Take a Vacation”!

Mars Bar in San Francisco will be hosting the next SF New Tech Belly Up Meetup on Wednesday, Feb 6th at 7:00 PM.

This is one of those events that is a bit less “structured” in nature, unlike the plain ol’ SF New Tech Meetup that has formalized product demos and mini-demos. The Belly Up is all about just bellying up to the bar, throwing down a few drinks, and getting up the courage to give your elevator pitch on your company or service.

It’s like all the other meetups, just without the pressure! To quote:

“SF New Tech “Belly Up” is shaken, not Stirred. It’s more SF Alpha than SF Beta; more TechCream than TechCrunch.”

All you have to do is RSVP and show up. No cost aside from your bar tab! A few people from ServePath will be there so look for us!