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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.

Another Nerdstalker interview from the 2012 O'Reilly Maker Faire. Greg Viloria aka SocialGreg interviews Kazu Terasaki of GlueMotor. Typical maker, Terasaki does it for the love of his hobby. GlueMotor is an Open Source interface from KTLaboratory. No need for rubberband power anymore when you have an interface as easy as this.

Our Social Greg at Maker Faire 2012, interviews Clay Reber with a research group from UC Berkeley who has created an application turning your iPhone into a microscope called CellScope. It is fascinating to see the iPhone turn into a applications engine. Applications of CellScope can be mobile disease diagnosis, water analysis, and field research. Hear Clay's take on how their device can change the world.

Our SocialGreg interviewed Kurt Opsahl with the Electronic Frontier Foundation at the 2012 O'Reilly Maker Faire. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is " Protecting Freedom Where Law and Technology Collide."  Kurt gave some insight on the foundation and how their organization protects online privacy rights of the individual.

Greg Viloria aka @SocialGreg tests Iris, from Dexetra and Speaktoit Assistant from Speaktoit LLC. I tested the the apps with basic questions like What is the weather like?, Where is the nearest Chinese Restaurant?, and Calling a friend and more. Check it out my review and listen what some of the responses to the questions and who came out on top. [Note: Several updates have been published since and we will update this in the next month]

Yoxi (YO-see) is a creative competition and a social game. Teams of problem solvers battle to deliver the best solutions to social issues. You vote, comment, pledge and play along online. The winning team gets the funding opportunities and positioning to make their idea a reality. The more stuff you do, the more your voice is heard. That way, you play to support great ideas brought to the real world.

“Were seeing 16 almost 17 minutes per day of engagement" those numbers are stratospheric. Launched in 2008, ItiBiti delivers a private-label consumer engagement platform for the computer desktop (with a mobile version in development for Q1 2011). This app provides an all-in-one social media entertainment and communications platform that is fully customized for each client, providing the ability to launch with their own exclusive content, promotions and advertising. The app is designed to instantly connect the brand with consumers the moment they log-on to their computer. Clipped from: www.itibitisystems.com ( share this clip ) This creates a truly unique custom branded environment that offers exclusive content, sophisticated communication tools and access to their favorite online communities, providing our clients a powerful opportunity to create deeper and richer relationships with their customers. This customized private label communications platform extends the reach of tradit...

CALinnovates.org is a statewide coalition focused on championing the conversation about the future of California’s critical technology sector. CALinnovates.org brings together industry experts, thought leaders, tech innovators, policy makers and consumers in a non-partisan mission to promote innovation, create new jobs, spur investment and support tech-friendly policies. Adolfo Foronda of Nerd Stalker interviews Director of CALinnovates.org Lane Kasselman at this years SF New Tech summer social. CALinnovates.org leads the discussion on technology and innovation throughout California by seeking insight from vested membership and counsel from our advisory board. CALinnovates.org does not focus on every technology related issue facing our state, but will champion the most pressing issues concerning technology companies, end users and our communities. CALinnovates.org is a resource for policy makers in California and beyond as they grapple with policy that affects the innov...

Nerd Stalker interview with founder of OliveWoo , Alex Levy. Their mission is to help couples build better relationships. The focus right now is on creating a repository of cool date ideas to encourage couples to go out on more creative dates. 4mins Episode 87

Adolfo Foronda of Nerd Stalker interviews CEO of Clp.ly , John Pettitt at the recent SF New Tech Summer Social. What does clp.ly do? clp.ly allows you to make both visual clips and formatted quotes from web content that you can post on your blog or web site. Clips are screenshots that provide both back links and trackbacks to the original source. Quotes made with clp.ly extract relevant passages from any web content, format them, and also provide both back links and trackbacks to the original source. Clp.ly also creates short links that are easy to tweet and email. The visual clips and formatted quotes generated by clp.ly drive a 5x greater click-through to the original publisher than content distributed via traditional links. From clp.ly ( share this quote ) You can clip any public website or web page with clp.ly. Clicking on a clip will bring you back to the original source of the clip. Your clip will show the format and content of the site or page at the time you creat...

Nerd Stalker iPad bag review / unboxing of the boa push by booq . Who am I kidding it's my new man/purse or as I like to call it " Murse ". It's amazing how many crappy iPad bags are out there and booq seems to be one of the few companies that are finally coming forward to nail this space. The Boa push iPad messenger provides one of the most compact ways to carry your iPad, iPhone, Droid X, credit cards, a notepad and pens wherever you need to go. Crafted from durable Twylon and genuine Nappa leather, the slim Boa push is equipped with a wide, super-comfy seatbelt nylon shoulder strap and a sturdy snap button flap closure. Each Boa push is tagged with a gunmetal-framed Terralinq serial number. Once registered, the booq Terralinq service may help reunite you with your lost and found bag. External: • 1 pocket on main outer flap for iPhone • 1 large slip pocket on back for flat item storage • 2 pen holders on sides Internal: • 3 credit card slots and 1 ...

Ramine Darabiha interviews Finnish startup Videolla . Videolla allows you to upload videos for free but what is interesting about the about the not yet live service is that they allow you to apply custom fees to the uploaded videos. Key examples would be for educational videos but the possibilities are obviously vast. Videolla is accepting signups for a public beta (come on hurry up guys).

Adolfo Foronda of Nerd Stalker interviews Chintu Parikh , CEO of SachManya about his wysiwyg web application called Yapper . YAPPER is an award-winning, easy and affordable online service for publishers bloggers, newspapers, magazines, video-casters, band, celebrities, and pod-casters to create their own mobile optimized, rich and branded apps that work across iPhone, Android, Blackberry and iPad devices without writing a single line of code! 3.5mins Episode #83

TEEspy , Inc. is a social networking company focused on building an online community for golfers. Adolfo Foronda of Nerd Stalker interviews TEEspy CEO, Andrew Armenante at a recent PlugAndPlay Tech Center expo. The website, TEEspy.com, offers users the ability to find and book tee times from a selection of regional courses. The system directly integrates with golf courses’ computers, allowing for instantly confirmed tee time reservations. Along with bookings, golfers can find other players, track scores, record statistics, and create tournaments within the TEEspy network. TEEspy.com provides golfers with a branded online destination for booking and score reporting. TEEspy is in position to become the combination of Facebook® and OpenTable® for golf.  f51c5891833d424b98c9e5a2a469e119

WebGreek is a simple to use, but powerful management solution for all levels of the Greek system. Isn't this how Facebook started? Nerd Stalker interviews CEO Patrick Allen at a recent Plug And Play expo in Silicon Valley. With WebGreek, Greek letter chapters and councils will be able to collect and manage money for rent and more online, increase event attendance, share files with ease, stay in touch with instant SMS/email tool, and easily manage their website. In addition this technology can be easily white labeled for use in any type of collaborative or group scenario.

Just when we thought ecommerce could not be improved comes the most important change to the space yet from a San Francisco company called Payvment . For the consumer what Payvment boils down to is an internet wide shopping cart, for the developer and businesses it means the potential to greatly increase revenue with virtually no overhead, did we mention it's free ? We think this is a huge disruptor technology, no longer is one tied to some ecommerce specific site, if I owned a company like Shopify I might be very worried. Adolfo Foronda of Nerd Stalker interviews CEO Christian Taylor at a recent PlugAndPlay expo in Silicon Valley. Facebook's #1 E-Commerce Solution Launch an enterprise-grade storefront on your Facebook page with Payvment's Facebook e-commerce solution. Payvment's Facebook app gives you everything you need including a full-featured admin area built directly into Facebook to manage your storefront, products and sales. Plus, when you launch your Facebo...

In his first book, "Delivering Happiness" by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, he shares the different lessons he has learned in business and life, from starting a worm farm to running a pizza business; through LinkExchange (acquired by Microsoft for $265 million), Zappos, and more. We will give a free copy of the book to the first viewer who can tell us what company Nerd Stalker interviewed in Episode #1. You must @nerdstalker us on Twitter with the answer to win.

Nerd Stalker contributor Ramine Darabiha interviews founder of FinderBase Petteri Kontio . FinderBase.com is a community where the members help each other find their lost belongings. That means FinderBase.com is a social search engine for anything physical you've lost or found. This service is in beta testing stage.

Nerd Stalker contributor Ramine Darabiha interview with Finland based startup LucSens founder Lulian Florea. LucSens uses state-of-the art technology in computer vision, revealing you the possibility to get instant translation from Chinese or Japanese to English by taking pictures with your mobile device.

Nerd Stalker interview with Urban Pre-Game Founder, Ben Fisher in NYC. Urban Pre-game is the first online service to let you buy drinks at a steep discount before you even get to the bar. The more your group buys, the deeper your discount. It's all about ganging up on the price and making the most of your night. Urban Pre-game lets you drink in bars at grocery store prices by buying in bulk with your friends. Pre-buy as a group, but pay for your portion online. The price-per-drink drops as your group's drink total increases. And everyone in your group gets the final low price. Everyone. Pre-gamers collectively saved about $500 at their New Years Eve event. Beer and mixed-drinks at one price that's easy to swallow. Please drink responsibly.