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Photo by Marie Domingo Check out the SF New Tech Post Show with #ThatTechGirl Liberty Madison and our Nerd Stalker writer Greg Viloria . SF New Tech is one of the oldest pitch events in San Francisco. Our duo talk about their favorites and not-so-favorites of the 2.19 SF New Tech Event with  MotionPortrait ,  Orbeus ,  Sortly ,  Whobert's Path , Fiverun , Reverb and Floqq with the winner going to " 6 About to Break " at the 2014 MacWorld/iWorld.

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Nerd Stalker interview with Storify co-founder, Xavier Damman. Storify is a way to tell stories using social media such as Tweets, photos and videos. You search multiple social networks from one place, and then drag individual elements into your story. You can re-order the elements and also add text to give context to your readers.

Nerd Stalker has the honor of being a longtime media partner for SF New Tech and during that time we have seen many a startup present. Sure there have been a few flops but for the most part we’ve been blown away by great demos. Increasingly startups are approaching us asking how best to present for the format. I finally got around to writing some observations on what seems to work vs. what (in my opinion) does not. Although this is specific to the 5 minute SF New Tech format, we think that some of this can apply across the board. We hope some of you entrepreneurs who take the brave leap to present can gain some value from this post. Be warned if your not the first presenter, chances are your going to swap in a laptop, ipad or some device to an external display. This tends to work quickly about 70% of the time so try to nail it. Make sure your battery is fully charged and bring your own dongle(s) you'd be amazed how many presenters miss these basic steps. If your relyi...

If you don't know by now we flat out love SF New Tech, yes we do have the honor of being a media partner but even if we didn't we would beg, borrow or steal to get in to their events. It's just flat out the best meetup in the bay area, we are amazed by how many (and how often) quality startups they showcase. The next meetup on 10/20 is no exception we will most definitely be at Mighty and if your there find us and say hello. Get tickets Red Vines Mike Kelly, Consumer Communications Manager American Licorice Company began making Red Vines in San Francisco in 1920. While the process used to make Red Vines hasn’t changed much in nearly 100 years, the technology used to market the brand is changing dramatically. Introducing the Red Vines World of Sharing, a social media platform engineered to spread goodwill and happiness from the Bay Area to the world. http://www.redvines.com EasySign Sunil Patro, Founder EasySign enables you to sign any document using you...

“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...

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 interview with 3 French startups Green Ivory , All My Apps , and Grand Tweet at a recent SF New Tech. Grand Tweet Grandtweet.com is a service that allows you to send an email to any Twitter user. GreenIvory builds e-marketing tools and technologies and offers solutions that improve the efficiency of your communication on the Internet. Our customers embrace communications agencies (traditional agencies, web agencies...) and companies for whom the web is an essential media for their activity (pure player). AllMyApps Install all your applications in one click.

Nerd Stalker interview with the founder of Napstay at a recent SF New Tech. What is Napstay? With more space, amenities, privacy and savings up to 50% compared to hotels - Napstay claims to be a better way to travel. * Rent nightly vacation homes, condos, villas and apartments * Book online with credit cards or paypal * View user reviews, ratings and photos * Get a cancellation guarantee with every booking Post your rental for FREE * Post only once, listing does not expire * Accept credit cards or paypal online * Manage availability online * Market to Facebook users

After years of frustration trying to quickly book last-minute services and being met with voice mails and unavailability, Sarah Chapman was inspired to create a solution to make it easy for anyone to book appointments quickly and easily based on their requirements. Smedule provides a way to book personal services(haircuts, massages, facials, manicures, waxing treatments, etc) based on your criteria; time, location price, even vendor rating. In turn, businesses attract new customers and generate revenue based on their published availability. Smedule went live in Denver late 2009 and is coming soon to an area near you! For more see: http://smedule.com or contact info@smedule.com

(5mins) Nerd Stalker interview with co-founder of Newton Software, Joel Passen at a recent SF New Tech. Newton provides a streamlined approach to recruiting with all the essentials built-in including an easy-to-edit careers page , free job advertising, space to collaborate , a rock-solid recruiting process , and a powerful analytics dashboard . Newton works the way recruiting works, anticipating your next steps and capturing valuable information along.

I had the pleasure to interview Samantha Howe of Blurb in a very dark back room at a recent SF New Tech event. Blurb is a company and a community that believes passionately in the joy of books – reading them, making them, sharing them, and selling them. The work they produce is quite stunning, you actually get a professional final product and the best part is that anyone can produce one or many more. They have a key partnership with flickr, support pdf uploads, and have a wide array of book layouts to choose from or customize yourself.

(5 mins) Nerd Stalker interview with Jason Aiken of 99designs at the SF New Tech meetup. I wish we would have known about this company before we were hunting for a designer (although we did get lucky on Craigslist). 99designs allows anyone to prepay a small fee to launch a design "contest", for instance lets assume you need a new logo. The army of designers in the 99designs community submit designs for you to choose from, once you select the winner they facilitate payment and all the good stuff. It's one of those web solutions where you slap yourself in the face for not thinking of it yourself, just a great service. Or watch this video at YouTube , Yahoo , MySpace , Metacafe , DailyMotion , Blip.tv , Veoh and i2TV