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 .
Here's the pitch bill for the upcoming SF New Tech on 3/20. You will see pitches from Evernote, Litterati, Townten, Open Garden, Sensus, Shoplocket, WeFile.it, and Herdmark. Nerd Stalker will be there as SF New Tech's media partner. Tickets are still available here .
Download MP3 This week Adolfo Foronda and Greg Viloria discusses their tech picks of the week. Adolfo talks Death of the personal car, Samsung's Android Escape Plan, Get Your Hater App and more. Greg aka SocialGreg talks about Japan Gets an Energy Breakthrough?, Human Body Password and Improve Your Android Battery Life with Apps and more.
We believe in startups. Our SocialGreg had the opportunity to sit down with Taffy Williams, the author and voice of the Startup Blog. So, what would you do if you are a founder of a startup and got suddenly ousted by investors? As a leader, Do you listen to enough to understand and respond to the right things? Do you listen to trusted people you hired? In this episode, Taffy talks about how his experiences is reflected in his blog, a recent column written about listening leadership and finally the five stages of mourning people go through when suddenly ousted from a company.
We attended the 5th SF Japan Night by btrax on March 5. Six great startups from Japan presented and gave us a glimpse of what Japanese startups are all about. Learning seemed to be the hot button. ShareWis took top honors as people's choice and Judge's choice at this event. ShareWis is a free "causual learning experience" as described on their website. ShareWis let's visually tracks you learning via a concept map or knowledge map and allows you to add to the learning community with your own video lectures. You can go from subject to subject and each lecture is free. Check it out.
Having a hard time keeping up with contacts. How about having your friends and colleagues help you manage those contacts? That's what Ringya brings to the contact party. Ringya is an app that helps your create and manage groups of contacts for better contact management and collaboration using a combination of technology and "friend sourcing." We were happy to chat with Gal Nachum , CEO of Ringya. Gal discusses Ringya's concept of contact management and also gives some advice to entrepreneurs.