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Wednesday, August 25, 6:30pm

In an event similar to our SF App Pitch during WWDC, we’re hosting the App Faceoff.

Developers will get 5 mins to show off their app to the crowd and the group of judges. The judges will provide feedback to developers and select the top apps.

Our judges:
Amit K. Gupta, founder, inMobi
Anthony Ha, Assitant Editor, VentureBeat
John Malloy, BlueRun Ventures
Tom Montgomery, IDG Ventures
Shobeir Shobeiri, MobClix
Eddie Marks, Inedible Apps

We have thousands of dollars in prizes for the top apps, as named by the judges, and some great schwag to give out to attendees. Prizes include $500 of in network spending from inMobi, targeted survey taking, and more.

Drinks (beer and pariSoma’s famous sangria), snacks, and networking will happen between 6:30 and 7:30. At 7:30, we’ll have developers present, judges judge, and prizes given. Following the formal event we’ll have more drinks, snacks, and great networking.

Currently, we are looking for developers who want to pitch their app! Fill out the form here to be considered.

Pitching apps will include:

Bee.TV is a smart navigation guide for content that’s available on the 3 screens: TV, the web and mobile. With over 10 million TV show and movie options available monthly (that’s right, 10 million choices per month across TV, online and mobile), Bee.TV helps you find great shows to watch by generating personalized recommendations based on your tastes and preferences. So if you’ve ever wondered “What’s On TV?” – Bee.TV can help. Launching in September 2010: online at http://www.bee.tv and on the iPhone, iPod Touch and the iPad.

BreezyPrint provides mobile printing that Just Works. The software is incredibly easy to use, takes about 2 minutes to set up, works with practically every printer ever made and lets you print anything from your mobile device in just a few clicks. Over 1,200 BlackBerry users have printed over 3,200 documents with BreezyPrint since April, and we’re now launching an iOS beta with an Android version coming soon.

DataTap™ is a mobile application that captures your GPS/location data using the handset’s internal GPS. High-level features include:
– Turns on internal GPS automatically when application is open
– Automatically uploads location/position and media using AptoTrak
– Data-logging of Continuous and Point GPS data
– Uses the handset’s GPS or an external GPS device
– Geo-tag pictures and videos
– Compass that provides “true north” direction, bearing in degrees, and speed
– Social networking features: Car/Find Car (car’s location), and I’m Here (your location)
– Units in both English or Metric systems
– Selectable interval/frequency to save logged data

CameraSafe lets you easily protect your valuable and secret photos from prying eyes and data thieves. Even if your iPhone is lost or stolen, your photos remain private and cannot be viewed by anybody. CameraSafe uses military grade encryption, and is a vital tool for activists, celebrities, corporations, journalists, law enforcement, whistle-blowers… anybody who values their privacy. Find out more about CameraSafe and what’s coming soon in future updates, exclusively at App Faceoff!

Learn more at http://www.camerasafeapp.com

Footfeed is the first location-based checkin aggregation platform and multi checkin app. With Footfeed, users can check in to Brightkite, Foursquare, Gowalla, Facebook and Twitter simultaneously, while still earning points, badges and rewards. Footfeed is powered by an advanced location matching algorithm and crowdsourced system that matches locations across the different networks. Using our public API and white label service, Footfeed also helps companies multi checkin enable their existing apps.

Mayor Maker allows you to choose your favorite venues to automatically check-in on Foursquare. The app optimizes battery life on the iPhone through use of Geofencing Powered by Location-Labs, http://location-labs.com. Users can broadcast their checkins through Facebook and Twitter. In addition, the app introduces the concept of checkouts, allowing users to make automatic shoutouts when leaving a venue. Use Mayor Maker, and you’ll become the mayor in no time!

Liberate your media with Pixelpipe and get your media off of your iPhone and out to your favorite social network, micro-blog, photo/video and blog services. With over 110 supported destinations from around the world to choose from the choice is really yours. Free your media and share your life.

Tilt HD gives players the experience of how they can make a difference just by changing their perspective through a beautiful and fun game. As easy as choosing between paper and plastic players clean up the environment of Shady Glen. Then through the power of tiny actions player’s TiltPoints add up with thousands of players on a world wide score board to fight back the Blight on a global scale. For example Tilt, a #1 free app, players tilted together across the globe earned 350,000 TiltPoints for our Earth Day TiltMOB challenge. The game takes this one step further where players can take a picture of how they Tilt the Real World, then tweet about it with a link to a photo and a tag for the game. Other players vote whether they think it is Mighty or Blighty.

Available on the iPad, iPhone version coming soon. See it in action on http://TiltWorld.com

WTFAY is the fastest way to find your friend.

With WTFAY, you grab your phone, ping the other person, and in seconds, you are both looking at your two locations on a map. Either of you can get driving directions to the other person and avoid making a series of calls or texts asking “Which direction do I go?”, “How long will you take?”, and of course, “Where The F*** Are You?”. But if you do need to call or text, it’s just a click away. WTFAY’s location sharing is fast and easy, but also private and temporary. Only a telephone number is needed to locate your friend, and you two are only sharing your location with each other, not the world. WTFAY works on lots of other phones so you can use it with all your friends and family. If your friend doesn’t have our app on their phone already, they can use the mobile web page to get the same information.

WTFAY is powered by Huddle Mobile, a platform to create and manage private, temporary, mobile huddles using only your phone number.

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Wednesday, September 8, 6:00pm

In the first of a series of events co-hosted by pariSoma and Founder’s Space, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the story of David Hu, the founder of the startup Special Fork.

Special Fork was created for just-in-time decision-making at the supermarket to meet the needs of the everyday cook. These are people who decide what to make for dinner the day of — usually at the last minute – the ones looking lost as they push their carts aimlessly from aisle to aisle. In this desperate moment, supermarkets and brands can step forward with solutions, winning the shopper’s gratitude and loyalty.

David Hu is the CEO and founder of Special Fork. He has over 10 years of experience in the high tech industry focusing his last three years in the mobile space. As a Product Manager and Analyst at Mmetrics, a mobile media research company, David was instrumental in defining the core handset device specifications database and contributed to the highest consumer handset identification rate in the industry. Most recently David was the Manager for Mobile Devices at Virgin Mobile USA where he oversaw special edition handsets accounting for $12.8M in revenue and contributed to overall handset selection accounting for $13.8M in revenue. David earned a BA in International Relations and a BA in French from Tufts University. He earned his MBA graduating magna cum laude from Babson College’s F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business, ranked #1 in entrepreneurship by US News and World Report for the 17th year in a row, and Top 5 Worldwide MBA programs in entrepreneurship 7 years running by the Financial Times. You can visit Special Fork by going to www.specialfork.com.

Tuesday, September 21, 6:00pm
Let’s come together and build teams to build great businesses!

Are you looking for a strategic business partner – perhaps someone in a business complementary to yours, where you provide a different product or service, but you both target the same customer demographic. Why not work together for the benefit of both of you?

Or maybe you’re ready for growth, but lack the skill set to take you to the next level – are you great at managing operations, but not so great at marketing – and gee, wouldn’t it be great to find the missing skill in a partner who also needs your management expertise, and both of you can rise to the next level?

Maybe you’re doing fine and dandy and just need a sounding board for the next great idea – shared in complete confidence of course!

Targeting a big contract and need a variety of skills in your portfolio? Find them here. Our members encompass many diverse business backgrounds and there is sure to be someone who can offer support, advice or time.

JOIN US TODAY!

About this meetup:
Network like you mean it!
(Mark your calendar for the 3rd Tuesday of each month!)

Learn superior networking strategies for growth!

General Agenda
6:00 p.m. Registration & Casual Networking
6:15 p.m. “Drop in the Bucket” – Everyone writes down one business need & we draw a slip; the group brainstorms solutions
6:30 p.m. Presentation by Jill Lublin
7:30 p.m. “Tri-Tips” (Biz tips from the audience at large)
7:45 p.m. Casual Networking
8:15 p.m. Exit Stage Left!

Presentation
Jill Lublin is an internationally renowned speaker on the topics of publicity and networking. As author of her best-selling book Get Noticed…Get Referrals(McGraw Hill, 2008) and co-author of the best-sellers Guerrilla Publicity (Adams Media), and Networking Magic (Adams Media), Jill is a master strategist on how to capture the attention of the media and increase your visibility in the marketplace.

Tomorrow’s Web is back and coming to San Francisco this July 31st. The event will witness young entrepreneurs from across the world come together to discuss and explore the web and it’s future. Eight young entrepreneurs will take the stage to keynote on topics such as; building your company, future development tools, strategy, and more. You’ll also see sessions with some of the industry most renowned names. It’s all here at this year’s Tomorrow’s Web Conference 2010. Grab your FREE tickets now.

Keynote Stage
The industry is changing, and we’re all apart of it. Tomorrow’s Web represents the future of the industry, it’s CEOs, Developers, Designers and everyone else involved in creating world-changing companies.

Tomorrow’s Web is here to provide a platform for young entrepreneurs to meet, and engage with other like minded individuals whilst exploring the future of the web.

Sessions
Explore the future of the web from the perspective of the people creating it in 5-10 years time. Inspire and engage with the tomorrow’s leading entrepreneurs, developers and more. Learn about future trends, technologies and everything else in between.

Exhibition
Want to connect with the brightest, most ambitious young minds in tech? Explore the future of the web, with the people splitting building a world-changing company between high school.

Get yourself and your brand face to face with the real future of the industry, only at this year’s Tomorrow’s Web Conference.

Wednesday, August 4th, 6:30pm

pariSoma will be hosting a Mobile Mixer for startups in the mobile industry. Startups will be demoing at tables throughout the space and will include a mix of apps, hardware, and accessories. If you are creating mobile tech, we want to see it!

Attendees will mix with hot bay area startups while enjoying sangria, beer, and snacks.

Want a demo table? Register here to reserve one!

Demoing companies include:

appbackr allows iPhone and iPad developers to sell wholesale copies of their applications to finance development. appbackr buyers profit when the apps are sold on the iTunes store. Check it out at www.appbackr.com

Apsalar provides marketing tools for mobile apps. We aim to bring the efficiencies of conversion marketing to the mobile ecosystem (iPhone, Android, Mobile web).
Apsalar’s newly released tools are:
-ApFeedback: In-app customer survey tool
-ApBuzz: Social promotion plug-in for Facebook & Twitter
-ApScience (coming soon): In-app conversion analytics

Learn more at www.apsalar.com.

audio perfume surrounds you with subtle sound waves, creating occasional acoustic ambiance with your mobile device.
audio perfume runs invisibly in the background, this lets it come to life at any moment, no matter what applications are running, even while your mobile device is sleeping. audio perfume is an exciting new platform for artists, musicians, and more. audio perfume, adorn yourself with sound. Learn more at www.audioperfume.com

BreezyPrint provides mobile printing that Just Works. The software is incredibly easy to use, takes about 2 minutes to set up, works with practically every printer ever made and lets you print anything from your mobile device in just a few clicks. Over 1,200 BlackBerry users have printed over 3,200 documents with BreezyPrint since April, and we’re now launching an iOS beta with an Android version coming soon.

Dial Well helps clinical research organizers keep in touch with their study patients using their mobile phones. Today, the pharmaceutical industry and academic institutions rely on outdated paper based journals or expensive efforts distributing Palm Pilot devices with specialized software. Dial Well moves the industry forward into an age of cloud computing, text messaging and smart phones. Using Dial Well, research administrators can easily create a regular survey process for all their study subjects. Dial Well runs in the cloud so there’s no hardware to buy.

Econtact Pro is the premier tool for your business card scanning and contact management needs. Why entrust your most important business card to unreliable text-recognition technology and not a person? By using manual transcription rather than slow, undependable text-recognition software, Econtact Pro ensures your business contacts and leads make it quickly, safely, and accurately into your address book overnight.

eigoMANGA is a comic book publishing company that specializes in manga, anime, and J-pop productions. Visit http://www.eigoMANGA.com.

Expensify does “expense reports that don’t suck!” They do this by importing expenses *and receipts* from credit cards and mobile phones, submitting expense reports through email, and reimbursing entirely online using QuickBooks and direct deposit. It’s the expense report you always wanted, now on your iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, or Palm Pre. Completely free for individuals and very small businesses, only $5/submitter/mo after the first 2. PCI-compliant security, free live technical support, try it today at http://expensify.com!

Footfeed is a new geo-location check-in aggregator. Built from the ground up as a check-in service, Footfeed integrates APIs from Brightkite, Foursquare, Gowalla and Facebook so that users can check-in to all of the services using a single app. To make this possible, Footfeed developed an advanced matching algorithm that is able to match locations across the different services. The result is that people who like to check-in to multiple networks can now do so using a single app, while still earning points, badges, rewards and mayorships offered from the other check-in services. Check out www.footfeed.com.

iSpy is a mobile location based twist on the popular kids game “iSpy with my little eye…” It’s a global, crowdsourced, never ending scavenger hunt game you can play anytime/anywhere on your iPhone. Visit http://iSpyApp.com to play!

With junaio, the most advanced mobile augmented reality browser, you are instantly informed about things around you – places, events, bargains or even objects. The unmatched ease of use, great choice of content and superior features make junaio your smart companion wherever you are. Learn more at: www.junaio.com

Retronyms is a small software studio that makes various music applications for iPhones, iPads, and iPods! Two of the most popular and fun are Synth and FourTrack. Synth is a full featured polyphonic synthesizer with a sampler that will bring back memories of the Casio SK-1. It comes packed with over 40 instruments, the ability to create new instruments, and a variety of other effects. Tweak the Mod wheel to adjust LFO or filters, while the delay and distortion knobs create a wide range of great sounding effects. Sample anything with the iPad mic, and play it back on the keyboard! FourTrack is an awesome multitrack audio recorder that was recently used by The 88 to record their song, “Love is the Thing”! In this demo, we’ll cover both apps and answer your questions about mobile music. Check us out at www.retronyms.com

XEOPlay creates games that unlock human potential to improve quality of life through play. Tilt HD is a successor to the first game for the iPhone to use the accelerometer developed at iPhone Dev Camp by Nicole Lazzaro and Joe Hewitt at iPhoneDevCamp. Tilt gives the players the experience of how they can make a difference just by changing their perspective. As easy as choosing between paper and plastic players clean up the environment of Shady Glen. Then through the power of tiny actions player’s TiltPoints add up with thousands of players on a world wide score board to fight back the Blight on a global scale. For example by tilting together players across the globe earned 350,000 points for our Earth Day TiltMOB challenge. The game takes this one step further where players can Tilt the Real World, take a picture, then tweet about it with a link to a photo and a tag for the game. Other players vote whether they think it is Mighty or Blighty. Available on the iPad, iPhone version coming soon. See it in action on http://TiltWorld.com.

Sponsored by:

InMobi is the world’s largest independent global mobile advertising network.

InMobi provides advertisers, developers, and publishers with a uniquely global mobile advertising solution. InMobi, who doubled its network size quarter-over-quarter, delivers the unprecedented ability to reach 179 million consumers in over 100 countries through over 14 billion mobile ad impressions monthly.

Here’s the video from our last Dorkbot! Check it out.

Jeremy Bornstein & Lenny Raymond, The Mongoliad, Dorkbot-SF, 2010-06-09 from pronoiac on Vimeo.

Allan, Nori, and Jeff, pariSoma co-workers for 11 days, just launched a beta version of their new website: web2mobi.com.

Web2mobi allows website owners to create a mobile landing page that provides a better mobile web experience. Mobile visitors see a special optimized page that offers quick access to critical information, while the experience for non-mobile visitors is unaffected. The mobile landing page can be used to show address (with location-based direction), phone number (with click to call), hours of operation, current specials, and links to important parts of the non-mobile website.

The current version is free and anyone with a website can sign up: www.web2mobi.com. Email capture and other forms of engagement coming in the next version.

Congratulations guys!

Thursday, July 22, 12:30pm-5:30pm
Antone Johnson, founder of Bottom Line Law Group, will host “Ask The Startup Lawyer” office hours again at pariSoma on Thursday, July 22 from 1230 to 530.

A veteran business and intellectual property lawyer, Antone has served as an attorney and executive for technology and media companies at all stages of growth, from incorporation and seed funding through venture capital financing rounds, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions.  As the former head of worldwide legal affairs for eHarmony, and one of the original lawyers at MySpace, he is particularly well versed in legal and business issues related to social media, Web 2.0, digital media, e-commerce, online advertising and marketing.  pariSoma startups and San Francisco community members are welcome to sign up for free consultations.

This event always fills up quickly, so reserve your spot now!

Wednesday, July 21 @Mission Bay Conference Center
The Geo-Loco conference is coming to San Francisco!

Geo-Loco 2010 focuses on what the new breed of Geo-Location-enabled services and applications is doing for brands, for businesses and for consumers. Speakers will include those on the cutting edge of Geo-Location businesses and technologies, including Gary Gale of Nokia, Andy Ellwood from Gowalla, Othman Laraki of Twitter, and many more.

If you have any interest in location-based technology and want to learn about how to use it as a business or as a feature for your business, this event is not to be missed.

Use discount code parisoma50 to get your tickets at half price.

Tickets are available at Eventbrite.