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SF New Tech Announces the 2016 Crawl Though SF Techtopia Our Nerd Stalker with Myles (photo courtesy of ABC 7 News) Last week, our beloved SF New Tech announced that this year's SF New Tech Crawl will be on November 4. What's the SF New Tech crawl?  This annual tech love fest allows many of us to see the insides some of SF's tech companies by hopping from company to company to see what each company persona is all about. Many use this for recruiting, job seeking or just inspiration. This year, The SF New Tech Crawl features GoPro, Imgur, Zendesk and others. If you want to participate, sponsor or even volunteer,   Click here . This year, the crawl will be starting in Fi-Di (Financial District) and end at WeWork Transbay. Featured on

FoodBytes! By Rabobank is Heading to Boulder Showcasing Innovative Startups in Food and Ag Tech Food and Ag Tech (photo courtesy of Pablo by Buffer) Rabobank,   a premier bank to the global food and agribusiness industry, has announced that   FoodBytes !  is coming to  Boulder, Colorado  this fall. FoodBytes! Boulder will be held at the  University of Colorado Boulder  at Folsom Fields’  Byron R. White Club  on Wednesday, October 26 and will bring together food, tech and agriculture startups alongside agribusiness executives and industry influencers. FoodBytes! Boulder invites startups interested in presenting their ideas to apply  here  by Monday, September 12 11:59 PM MT . Ten companies will be announced as the FoodBytes! Boulder finalists and will give a five-minute pitch, while 10 runners-up companies will give 60-second pitches.

Marc Canter and Ben Werdmuller Discuss 'The Open/Indie Web' Live at SF New Tech  The Open Web (courtesy of SF New Tech) Do you know what the 'The Open Web' or The Indie Web' is? Apparently, this movement has been around a while spurred on by the desire for content to be uncontrolled by big company buyouts and silo'ed social networks but to let everyone co-exist big and small and have the users of the web in charge of their content. The Open or Indie Web is a place where my searches and identity is not co-mingled or controlled by big entities like Google, Facebook and Twitter. Basically, the Indie Web makes the choice is ours  and is distributed and decentralized. Listen to Marc Canter and Ben Werdmuller at a recent SF New Tech event discuss "The Open Web". Check it out.

FoodBytes! Announces Judges Choice, People's Choice and Highly Commended Awards FoodBytes Award Winners (Photo by SF New Tech) Rabobank, a premier global food and agribusiness bank, has announced that  Seamore ,  Imperfect Produce  and  Foodfully  took home the top awards during  FoodBytes! San Francisco , a pitch competition meets networking event that brings food, agribusiness and tech startups together with investors, executives and industry leaders. The finalist demo companies that presented during FoodBytes! San Francisco included Salty Girl Seafood, HarvestPort, Soliculture,  Chapul , New Wave Foods, Olakai, Byte, Imperfect Produce, The Salad Bar and Seamore. The event also featured 60-second pitches from nine companies – a group that was hand-selected from 200 applications to open FoodBytes! San Francisco. These companies included MeWe, Six Foods, Willow Cup, Foodfully, ShopWell, Hazel Analytics, Charborn, genuine grub, ...

Edith Yeung of 500 Startups brings a night of VR together at SF New Tech for the SF tech community. Our Adolfo Foronda joined 200+ people to see some innovative VR companies like LucidCam , Mattel , Occulus , Cheetah Mobile , Agora.io , Cryworks and Codame pitch at the Mighty nightclub. His pick of the night was Mattel. Check out the social communities reactions!

Adolfo & Greg Talk About Trending Weekly Tech News Adolfo Foronda and Greg Viloria discuss the weekly tech news in their mind's eye. Check it out!

Adolfo & Greg Talk About Trending Weekly Tech News Adolfo Foronda and Greg Viloria discuss the weekly tech news in their mind's eye. Check it out!

Our SocialGreg sums up the SF New Tech End of Summer show on 8/27 at the Mighty Nightclub. The night featured pitches from Waze, HashtagSell, DocSend, CloudHQ, ComfortWay and Alynd. Check out SocialGreg's favorite of the night.

Check out the 6/26 SF New Tech Event Post Show with our SocialGreg - Greg Viloria . We recap the Belgian Web Mission demos from  E ngagor , C ube , Tappctrl , PresentiGO , Odoo . Social Greg picks his pick of the night. Give it a view.

Check out the 6/11 SF New Tech Event Post Show with our SocialGreg - Greg Viloria and That Tech Girl - Liberty Madison . We recap demos from  BrainBot , Kindr , Infrastructure Upgrade, Inc. , PresentiGO , Contract Live , Antidot and Squid Solutions with special guest Marc Lewis from Merriman Capital .

Microsoft announced a program where you can interact directly with Microsoft developers. Lisa Abdilova, product marketing manager at Microsoft, announced at SF New Tech last night a way for Microsoft product engineers/developers to "hear" and "interact" with their audience called Microsoft's Idea Lab . Lisa came up with this idea as she has been interacting at different tech meetups in the area and told us at Nerd Stalker was that "(Microsoft) is finding other avenues to connect with the tech community and bounce some ideas off of." You can even become a certified Product Expert and earn gift cards. Check out her announcement at SF New Tech last night.

Check out the SF New Tech Post Show with SF New Tech's Myles Weissleder and our Nerd Stalker writer  Greg Viloria . We are a long time media sponsor of SF New Tech, which is one of the oldest pitch events in San Francisco. Our duo talk about their favorites and not-so-favorites of the Consulate General of the Netherlands and  SF New Tech 's Amazing Dutch Tech 3.19  Event with  Elemental Water Makers ,  Eternal Sun ,  e-Traction ,  SRB Energy ,  Peerby , and  Hansje Brinker .

At the SF New Tech / MacWorld|iWorld "Old Tech / New Tech" holiday event, the Nerd Stalker crew asked the attendees - "What are you grateful for in Tech in 2013?" Here are their responses. Enjoy!

Photo by Marie Domingo Check out the SF New Tech Post Show with #ThatTechGirl Liberty Madison and our Nerd Stalker writer Greg Viloria. They talk about they favorites and not-so-favorites of the 11.20 SF New Tech Event with  Mosey ,  Polkast ,  Tame ,  AirPair ,  SkyDrive  and a date challenge with #ThatTechGirl via  Mosey . Watch to learn more.

Check out what #ThatTechGirl Liberty Madison and our Greg Viloria aka SocialGreg says about the pitches from the SF New Tech 10.16 show.

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.

Crowd sourcing social good? Isn't that what the higher being's job is? At Nerd Stalker, we talk a lot about the coming of vertical social networks - social networks for specific topics and socially responsible apps - ones that help the overall good of the society. We had the pleasure at SF New Tech last month to see an organization that combined the two - Litterati . Our SocialGreg aka Greg Viloria sat down with Jeff Kirschner of Litterati and got a little more in depth on the beginnings of the Litterati idea, simple workings of the application,  and just being an entrepreneur.

We were grateful for attending the last SF New Tech event who quietly celebrated their 7th year informing tech audiences of the latest tech on the street. View or listen to our Greg Viloria and Life With Technology's Liberty Madison on their take on the March 20 pitches by Sensus , Litterati , Evernote , Shoplocket , Open Garden , Herdmark , Townten and WeFile.it .

Our nerd stalker's Adolfo and Greg's summary of the SF New Tech 's February 2013 event. For those who are new to the SF tech scene, SF New Tech is the oldest startup meetup in SF. Nerd Stalker is proud to be SF New Tech's media partner. This event featured the likes of  Pedicine App ,  WalkMe ,  Blipboard ,  LoYakk , and  Bizzabo . Adolfo shares his picks of the night.

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