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“Technology has changed artist behavior and you must acknowledge it”
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Tat Wza is the Super Geek behind InFlexWeTrust.com, a destination site for HipHop artist. He and his co founder Funk Master Flex ventured out from NYC to attend their first Silicon Valley music tech event! We welcomed them to SFMusicTech with open arms.
Between app launches, API interludes, record breaking downloads, and oh the actual music itself, Tat still finds time to geek out at popular radio station HOT 97.
A nerd so loves music, it doesn’t get any better than that!
His insight on scaling your music into a viable brand while cultivating an active breathable fan base is a talk every artist or music tech startup should hear. Follow him for more insight on how to take your project to the next level.
So lets see what it is like in the life on an internet browser!
You get a sense of personality!
We all know that some Internet browsers are more fashionable than others, but Viktorija Pashuta decided to make those trends more literal with high fashion interpretations.
Pashuta had been itching to do this series for a while, but as she explains it, the series was a lot easier to dream up than actually do. “It required a lot of pre production and preparation,” writes Pashuta, “since every Internet browser had to have very specific elements, colors, features.”
Looks like she found exactly what she was looking for.
At Prezi, we’re all about helping people share ideas and understand each other better. Prezi is a cloud-based, zooming presentation software that lets you arrange your ideas on to a single virtual canvas and see how they relate, helping you connect with your audience and tell your story more effectively. Zoom out to see the big picture and zoom in to see the details—and never settle for a boring slide deck again.
Your website, a whole lot faster. BitBalloon is a new way to deploy websites. Simply drag and drop your site onto the app. In one fell swoop, it’s optimized for performance and uploaded to the fastest cloud servers available. And, your forms just work.
SaaSMAX is to the SaaS landscape what the Realtor Multiple Listing Service (Realtor.com) is to the Real Estate landscape, bringing together sellers, brokers and buyers and providing transaction and marketing tools. http://www.saasmax.com | @WiseSaaS
SituGlobal
Tom & Tina Sjogren, Founders
The (patent pending) SituGlobal software/hardware solution allows an incident command team to rapidly assess location and status of individuals during a disaster utilizing a cloud based situation platform and open a direct two way communication to its members.
San Francisco based tech giant,Twitter, has registered to lobby on Capitol Hill and will form a political action committee, dubbed Twitter#PAC.
The #PAC will basically lobby to bring the government up to speed with the rest of the world. Their topics include Internet freedom, patent reform, government access to user data and net neutrality. Others who are already out front are Facebook, Google and Microsoft . The company has registered William Carty, its manager of public policy, as its official lobbyist. Carty was hired by Twitter in 2012 after serving as policy director of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation.
Why should you care? Everything they are lobbying for or against will affect you personally and directly! Welcome to the digital age!
At the top of Friday so many people were asking me “What are you doing this weekend”?! That is how every conversation started after word from Supreme Court on Friday at 4pm
It was like Juneteenth hit San Francisco! (If you are a Texan or Southerner you get it)
Well not quite that exciting but it was CRAZY in The Bay Area all weekend. You couldn’t walk 10 feet without seeing someone in a tutu or a wedding dress or tuxedo. It was just excitement everywhere! I am beginning to think people were marrying random people just to be a part of the festivities!
And there was no way the technology capitol of the world wasn’t going to chime in!
Mark Zuckerberg, of Facebook fame, lead the way to “Like” the decision on Prop 8. Prop 8 allows gays to legally marry in the state of California. He and his team of Facebook investigators printed special shirts for the occasion and joined thousands in the historic pride parade in San Francisco. #ThatTechGirl
A unique museum highlighting world-class design, engineering, and technology
Explore hands-on exhibits that show how people use technology to imagine, design, and create a better world.
Autodesk Gallery
1 Market Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco Open Wednesdays 12-5 p.m. Guided tour begins at 12:30 p.m.
Free admission
Exhibits include:
• Mercedes-Benz Biome Concept Car
• Nike: The Past, Present, and Future of Product Design
• Bay Bridge: Massive Engineering and Distinctive Design
• 3D Photo Booth: Make a 3D Model of Your Head
And much more! Visit Wednesdays, 12-5 p.m. Free admission.
Here’s the pitch bill for the upcoming SF New Tech on 3/20. You will see pitches from Evernote,
Litterati, Townten, Open Garden, Sensus, Shoplocket, WeFile.it, and Herdmark.
Nerd Stalker will be there as SF New Tech’s media partner. Tickets are still available here.
Rafe Needleman of Evernote
Meet Rafe Needleman – the Platform Advocate at Evernote. Rafe will be one of the presenters pitching at SF New Tech’s March 20 event. Evernote makes it easy to remember things big and small using your computer, phone, tablet and the web. We all need help with that, right? Well, Evernote has been known for the great apps that it connects to and Rafe will tell you more how you can get involved.
“On Wednesday I’ll be talking about the Evernote platform and the DevCup competition for 2013, which we just kicked off. I will also discuss a new prize we’re doing with the guys from Honda Silicon Valley Lab.”
Meet Jeff Kirschner – Founder of the Litterati. Jeff will pitching at SF New Tech’s event. For those who don’t know Litterati, they are an organization dedicated to cleaning the planet one piece of litter at a time. Basically, instagram a piece of garbage that you have found, throw it away(they trust you) and become a member – pretty simple. Their organization has already rid the planet of more than 6,000 pieces of garbage.
“I was hiking in the Oakland Hills with my two kids. My daughter Tali (4 yrs) noticed that someone had thrown a plastic tub of cat litter into the creek. She looked at me and said, “Daddeee, that doesn’t go there.” That was the eye-opening moment. “
Meet Matt Pacyga – the Chief Strategist at Canopy. He will be pitching Sensus and its API for developers at SF New Tech’s 3/20 event. If you haven’t heard about Sensus, it is a touch sensitive case for your smartphone that expands the functionality to your smartphone experience. Think of it as an accessory that enhances your apps. Gamers – watch out! You will probably see them on iPad – Tall & Grande and Android in the future.
“we heard from the development community… We want MORE! Developers told us that they wanted more inputs from the case into the phone. We created Sensus.”
Meet Manuel Acevedo – the CEO at Townten. He will be pitching a local search engine called Townten. If you haven’t heard about Townten, Townten.com is a local search engine that helps you find better quality restaurants, bars and venues in San Francisco and the local Bay Area. It is currently in private beta and will be launched at SF New Tech.
“There are plenty of high-quality places to be discovered in town, but unfortunately, current local search engines use a flawed star-rating algorithm that favors large standardized places instead of higher-quality authentic local businesses. With our new technology we get rid of star-ratings and we help people discover the true topten places in town.”
On pitch day you can find them here | Twitter – @townten |
Micha A. Benoliel of Open Garden
Introducing Micha Benoliel – Co-founder and CEO of Open Garden. Micha was born into technology where he learned to code in basic on a Zenith PC. Well, back to Open Garden. Open Garden leverages crowdsourcing to create seamless connectivity across 3G, 4G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. It enables users to create their own ad-hoc mesh networks with other Open Garden-enabled devices including smartphones, tablets and PCs. What’s a mesh network? Read a little about it here.
“The density of smartphones has attained a critical mass; there are now more devices to connect to the Internet than people. The ecosystem of applications gives developers access to hundreds of millions of users instantly. Open Garden is leveraging mesh networking and peer-to-peer technologies to turn everyone’s phone into an Internet node in a few clicks. With Open Garden everyone can be connected everywhere as if they were at home.”
Meet Katherine Hague from ShopLocket – SF New Tech’s 3/20 presenter. Katherine oversees the day-to-day ops of Toronto-based ShopLocket and makes sure customers keep coming back to their service(aka Biz Dev). ShopLocket lets anyone start selling professionally online in minutes. Simply publish a product, embed it in any website, Facebook page, or blog post, and start seeing the green pile – well, maybe start to mound at the very least.
“ShopLocket was born out of an opportunity that I saw in the market while developing themes for Shopify. I realized that as awesome as storefront solutions are they require you to leave behind whatever platform you had originally been using and start from scratch. Quick alternatives like PayPal buy buttons and marketplaces just seemed unprofessional.”
Meet Mathew Guiver, the “life-long entrepreneur” and tax-time friend at WeFile.it. He will be pitching us at SF New Tech’s 3/20 event on their new service WeFile.it. WeFile.it makes filing easier and more affordable by cutting out the middlemen, and connecting clients directly with experienced Tax Pros. All Tax Pros are screened by a member of the WeFile.it team before their profiles can go live. They verify the experience and specialties, and also ensure they are responsive and friendly.
“I started WeFile.it to do something disruptive in the tax space. A majority of the clients at the consulting firm I started after college were in the tax and finance industry. It gave me a first hand look into how outdated their products are, and quite honestly, the amount of corruption that runs rampant in the industry.”
Meet C.J. MacDonald, one of the founders at Herdmark. He will be on the bill for SF New Tech’s 3/20 event on their new collaboration tool – Herdmark. Herdmark allows you to create a library of great resources that you can use, share and add.
“We thought that there was no good way to share bookmarks with your team. There are bookmarking tools, like delicious, but they don’t do anything for groups of collaborators. And there are team collaboration tools but they don’t have much if any support for bookmarks, and anyway, they do so many things that we believe that they are not used for bookmarks. We think that bookmarks hold a sort of “corporate knowledge” in an organization and for subgroups in an organization. We wanted to make a focussed tool for bookmarks
“I was fired today. If you’re wondering why… you haven’t been paying attention. From controversial metrics in our S1 to our material weakness to two quarters of missing our own expectations and a stock price that’s hovering around one quarter of our listing price, the events of the last year and a half speak for themselves. As CEO, I am accountable.”
The Take away: Have a FREAKIN AWESOME QUOTE next time you are fired!
Tell me what you said to your employer/partner/client the last time YOU were fired!
Ill start….
“Yea this wasnt working out for me either, I was going to contact you next week to end this relationship, I wish you the best!
This male dominated field is poised for disruption!
Join other Disrupters in San Francisco on Thurs Oct 18,2012
Zendesk presents: Can the tech industry disrupt the status quo of women at work?
October is “Innovation Month” in the city of San Francisco, and the Mayors Office of Civic Innovation has launched an initiative to spotlight the organizations and entrepreneurs that make up today’s generation of innovators.
As part of this initiative, Zendesk, along with sf.citi, is hosting a lively conversation on Thurs, Oct 18, featuring Jon Erlichman of Bloomberg and execs from Zoosk, Vayable, BlackGirlsCode, Zendesk, and Women 2.0.
From Marissa Mayer’s rise to Yahoo CEO (while pregnant), to Anne-Marie Slaughter’s controversial Atlantic Monthly article, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All”, and the heated presidential campaign underway, the debate about what it is to be a 21st-century woman continues to be hotly debated.
Can the tech industry rethink the traditional workforce and put women on an even playing field?
Join us for a conversation about how some of the leading stars in San Francisco’s startup community see the evolution of the workplace within the tech industry.
Moderator:
– Jon Erlichman, Sr. West Coast Correspondent, Bloomberg
Panelists:
– Kelly Steckelberg, CFO & COO, Zoosk
– Jamie Wong, CEO, Vayable
– Kimberly Bryant, Founder, BlackGirlsCode
– Sepi Nasiri, VP, Women 2.0
– Saroj Yadav, Sr. Software Engineer, Zendesk
Date:
Thurs, Oct 18, 2012to be held at Zendesk, 989 Market Street.
Schedule:
6:00-6:30 pm, registration & networking
6:30-7:30 pm, panel presentation and Q&A questions
7:30-8:00 pm, drinks
We encourge anyone from the tech industry or other professionals to join us for this conversation.
More about Innovation Month:
The Mayors Office of Civic Innovation has launched in partnership with Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA), Office of Economic Workforce Development, sf.citi, San Francisco Travel, and Golightly House to spotlight the organizations and entrepreneurs that make up today’s generation of innovators.
Innovation Month helps tell the story of San Francisco as the best place to live, work and play. More than any other city, San Francisco is uniquely poised to innovate and invent the future right here, right now, by capitalizing on our greatest resource – our people. And innovation isn’t just about technology – it’s about a different way of thinking and approaching our problems. It is through innovative approaches to crime fighting and community involvement that San Francisco remains one of the safest big cities in America. It is through new ways to make it easier for companies to do business in SF.
Info www.sfciti.com
