The 60 second spots from 5/13 can be viewed here:

https://sfnt.wufoo.com/reports/513-60-second-spots/

The password is "blackout" .

Go follow up!

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!)

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!

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!

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

If you (or someone you know) are interested in doing a demo at a future SF New Tech event — we’re building out the schedule for the next few months.

Dates for future SF New Tech events @ Mighty in SF are:

4/8
5/13
6/11
7/8

Interested? Please hit the simple form at the link below and tell us more about what you’re up to! (In your description you can state a date preference if you have one.)

http://www.sfnewtech.com/demo

Also — if you’re interested in sponsoring our events, please email me @ myles@sfnewtech.com… for more information.

What some folks are saying about SF New Tech (March 2008):

"I had a great time last night and met lots of wonderful people. The new tech meetup is a great networking tool; I look forward to the next one! I also want to mention that I downloaded the surfcanyon product and it’s wonderful!" — Heather Dorso (Mar 13, 2008)

"It’s the best tech event in the Bay Area for staying abreast of new software startups and networking with others. It’s also reasonably priced." — Mariva (Mar 12, 2008)

"Very well run. Excellent organization." — Mark Cramer (Mar 12, 2008)

"Always a worthwhile, entertaining, and educational event and the best way to socialize and broaden your mind while networking with technology industry colleagues. Keep it up!" — Scott P. (Mar 12, 2008)

"Glad I came to my second SF New Tech Belly Up Meetup. Great people and great startup tech ideas! I enjoyed telling contacts about our new tech at www.gogrid.com… and hearing about other startups." — Richard (Mar 10, 2008)

"I enjoy meeting a bunch of interesting people in so short a time." — Shannon -jj Behrens (Mar 7, 2008)

"This was my very BellyUp! Great people with great attitudes! Nice laid back time." — Lydia Sugarman (Mar 6, 2008)

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