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Adolfo and Greg talks  Segway smart watch airpod Trello blackmagic?   Photo image courtesy of Pablo by Buffer Adolfo Foronda and Greg Viloria talk about the Nerdy things on their mind like Segway, ToDoist, Mac Boo Pro, Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera and more!

We talk About Tech stories of the Week - Deadpoolers, Deep Learning and Data Science Learning for Free Nerd Stalker Tech Week Podcast (photo courtesy of Pablo by Buffer) Adolfo and Greg talk about the week's tech. Listen or Watch now!

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Check out what our hosts Greg Viloria and Karynn Ikeda SF New Tech's post event thoughts featuring Porter Gale, Stained Glass Labs, Stagedom, sf.citi, and more!

Photo Courtesy of Jennifer Morrow How about some robotic latte art? Our Nerd Stalking eye caught some video of great Robot-ware including some science turned Latte Art maker and how robots see the 2013 Bay Area Maker Faire . Enjoy the video and if you want a latte art maker, you can build one here ! Thanks Oleskiy!

Our Greg Viloria (aka "SocialGreg") and Liberty Madison (aka "That Tech Girl") chooses the their favorites from SF New Tech's Event in April. Join them as they talk live from the Mighty nightclub for SF New Tech.

Videos are not just about views, it is all about what you want the videos to do for your brand. Viewbix helps bring interaction to videos by creating a layer above your video for better reach which in turn to lead to better business. We were able to catch up with Jonathan Stefansky from Israel and talk about his web app that hopes to increase you engagement and help your conversions.

SF Japan Night is back. btrax  is bringing 6 semi-finalists from the February event in Tokyo who will be pitching on March 5 at YetiZen . These promising startups will be judged by group of great tech community leaders like Shirley Lin of 800birds , Ahmed Siddiqui of SignalFire , Edith Yeung of Right Ventures and Dolphin,  Ray Grieselhuber of Ginzamarkets, Inc and  Igor Shoifot investor with TMT Investments and chairman of  HappyFarm . Always a great turnout and interesting startups to view. Order your tickets here .

We were honored to attend and cover PingWest' s "China Pings Silicon Valley-Redefine Chinese Tech Startup Ecosystem" event tonight at the Rocket Space . Thomas Luo and his PingWest team put together a great agenda of Keynote speech, panel discussion, and demos . All this was centered on the Chinese tech startup ecosystem. We summarized the demo pitches below.

Vertical social networks seem to be hitting the social network scene more often. We did a food social network recently and we now look at nightlife or "clubbing." In this interview, we talk with Artin Nazarian, co-founder of SocialNightlife about his new vertical social network. Artin discusses the parallels of Social Networks to the TV industry and offers a place where vertical social networks can exist.

At Macworld/iWorld 2013, we came across an interesting company. ESET provides malware protection for Macs. Huh? What? Macs need malware protection? Well, yes, they do according to ESET. In this interview, we sat down with Stephen Cobb, Security Evangelist for ESET. Stephen discusses why ESET believes you should be protected from Mac Malware.

UI design seems emphasized these days, especially on portable devices. How about hardware working with iOS devices? Eventide shows that their new product, H9 Harmonizer, was carefully designed taking a product that had 11 knobs and boiling it down to one and putting the rest on the iOS device. We talk with Tony Agnello, president of Eventide as he talks about some of the challenges in designing with iOS and redesigning an existing product.

In December, HP quietly released an iPhone App called Live Photo . I know what is going through your mind "Another Photo App". Before you make judgement on this app - This app is very unique. This is not a photo app and not a video app. It merges the two to bring you a personalized photo/video journey. We talked with Elaine Yuan, product manager at HP about their new app - Live Photo.

We love stalking music nerds. At Macworld/iWorld 2013 we found plenty of them. Larry Fishman and Fishman Transducers  nerds have fulfilled a promise - to bring Guitar MIDI or Wireless Guitar Controller to the market called TriplePlay . We interview Larry on the development of the first successful MIDI guitar and discusses how he maintained a company for 32 years.

Home Automation is some ways is a "home brew" or "maker" type of world. All of us techies were searching for the holy grail of home automation control. Enter Crestron Electronics . At Macworld/iWorld 2013, Crestron introduced to us commoners a unique control package called Crestron Control Everything which features total control from your iOS device. In this interview, Delia Hansen,  Crestron Solutions Manager , Residential   explains their home automation control concept.

Jam for iPhone is a fun app. You sing into your iPhone, select a theme and publish a song. How simple is that? A personal Karaoke machine or an Instagram for music as the founder states. We sat down with Sam Russell, developer of Jam for iPhone, to discuss his App, Australian VC/Angel investors and starting a business with his brother.

On Day One of Macworld/iWorld, I looked for interesting applications in the health area and found Mark Hollis of MacPractice. Nerd Stalker also found a posture app called MacPractice is a Lincoln, Nebraska - Silicon Prairie company committed to providing personal client service.  MacPractice provides an integrated tool for a primary care health professional to manage your records and information. We talk with Mark about managing health records over a patient's lifetime. Managing Various Types of Data is the Challenge "The federal government has created incentives for doctors to adopt EHR or Electronic Health Records" "...just think of the doctor that you go to that gets your CT Scan data(on CD), makes an opinion and puts it your Mom's folder" "My primary person as a developer allows a doctor to be more efficient, allows the doctor to focus more on the patient, allows him to improve the quality of care, and that's my intent" In th...

At Macworld/iWorld people are focused on the latest app or latest accessories and there were not a shortage of those items. Tucked away in various corners of Moscone West were three music pioneers displaying their music gear at Macworld/iWorld 2013.  They are not the household names connected with Fender, Gibson or Yamaha but after our Nerd Stalker interviews with each of them, they need a due mention. Have you heard of Larry Fishman, Robert Godin or Tony Agnello? and why should we? Well, they have created their companies from nothing to a sustained business with over 100 years of business experience combined.

We start the MacWorld excitement today. Nerd Stalker is live from Moscone West Exhibition Center in San Francisco where MacWorld/iWorld 2013 is being held. Today is the media preview Nerd Stalker wanted to give you a preview of what to expect.

From promoting events to trying to get on everyones tablet news reader, Hashtags seem to be the way of life. We talk with Saul Fleischman , founder of RiteTag , a hashtag optimizing web application. Saul discusses being a distributed startup in different time zones, how to find the right partners and has an interesting story tying the 2011 Tohoku earthquake/tsunami  with the creating of his new web application.