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The Future of Work? The Human Cloud.

Net:Work 2010 will bring tech giants and startups together to discuss how broadband, cloud computing and mobile technology can power the workforce of the future: the human cloud.

Friends of pariSoma sign up today to get $100 off your ticket.

The Next Wave of Collaboration Tools

What equipment and software does a distributed workforce need? How will products and services – from social media to CRM systems to storage – evolve to power a completely virtual organization?

Case Studies. Industry Forecasts.

Featuring editorial and analyst insights from GigaOM, WebWorkerDaily and GigaOM Pro. Net:Work’s speakers will uncover the trillion-dollar market opportunity created by the modern, virtual workplace. Beyond tools and technology, what are some of the major organizational shifts occurring? How is the workplace adapting? See the preliminary agenda here.

Thursday, November 11, 6:30 –8:30 pm
InMobi, PapayaMobile, and Adknowledge’s Super Rewards cordially invite you to join us at an Android Game & App Monetization Session. This event will provide an in-depth look at monetization strategies on Android, and the various tools available to developers for implementation. InMobi, PapayaMobile and Super Rewards will share brief presentations, followed by a Panel QA session with all three participants.

Come by for hot pizza and plenty of cold beer. See you there!

PROGRAM
6:30 – 7 P.M. Registration and dinner
7 – 7:30 P.M. Speakers:
GREG KENNEDY, In-Mobi: Monetizing Games & Apps Using Display Banners
PAUL CHEN, PapayaMobile: Optimizing Game Mechanics for Monetization
CHRIS SMUTNY, Adknowledge’s Super Rewards: Monetizing Games & Apps Using Offer Wall
7:30 – 7:45 P.M. Panel Q&A
7:45 – 8:30 P.M. Networking

GREGORY KENNEDY
INMOBI, GLOBAL MARKETING
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, which more than doubled its network in the first six months of 2010, delivers the unprecedented ability to reach 185 million consumers in over 125 countries through more than 21.2 billion mobile ad impressions monthly. Recently InMobi was selected to the 2010 AlwaysOn 250 as a company to watch in the global Silicon Valley. InMobi is venture-backed with marquee investors including: Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers and Sherpalo Ventures. The company has offices in London, San Francisco, Bangalore, Tokyo, Mumbai and Singapore.
PAUL CHEN
DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, PAPAYAMOBILE
PapayaMobile is an open, mobile social network for Android focused on casual gaming and virtual currency. Papaya offers developers a fast and easy way to reach more than four million users worldwide and improve monetization on Android. Android users love Papaya because they can play multiple games and experience a complete social networking experience all in one, easy to download and use app. Founded in 2008 by Si Shen and Wenjie Qian, Papaya is headquartered in Beijing and has an office in Menlo Park, California. For more information, please visit: www.papayamobile.com.
CHRIS SMUTNY
VP OF VIRTUAL CURRENCY AND ONLINE GAMING, ADKNOWLEDGE SUPER REWARDS Adknowledge’s Super Rewards is a leading provider of monetization solutions for online games and social networks. The Super Rewards “offer wall” delivers highly-targeted advertising offers to millions of global Web site and social network users. The platform seeks to maximize revenues for developers while allowing users to earn virtual currency in
exchange for signing up for free products or trial offers. For more information about Super Rewards, please visit www.srpoints.com.

Date & Time: November 10, 6:30-8:30pm @ pariSoma

Are you an entrepreneur, developer, inventor, tech-lover, or part of a start-up? Or perhaps you just enjoy learning about new tech applications while sipping a glass of great French wine. If that sounds like a good night to you, come out to pariSoma for Web Wine & Wisdom, a networking event made especially for that purpose! The two start-ups attending the event are: Tango and VidCaster. Tango is an app which enables you to give video calls with your mobile wherever you are to every place around the world. VidCaster is an easier way to publish your videos online. It gives you a custom video website on your own domain — and automatically distributes your videos to top video sharing sites. Because we love new Web apps and because we enjoy discovering new wines, it seemed natural to mix it all in one event!

For this event, we’ll be focusing on 2 bay area startups:

Tango is an app which enables you to give video calls with your mobile wherever you are to every place around the world.

VidCaster is an easier way to publish video online. It gives you a custom video website on your own domain — and automatically distributes your videos to top video sharing sites.

Tickets: members: 20$ / non members: 30$ / at the door: 30$

Tuesday, October 26, 6:00pm

ideakickSF is a meetup where you can come to kick around ideas you have about a new product, service or company. Whether you’ve been working on your idea for a while or you thought of it today, IdeakickSF is the place where you can pitch it to a knowledgable group of startup enthusiasts and get some feedback. Think of it like SF New Tech but minus the requirement that you already have a company or product built.

ideakick meets biweekly to pitch ideas they’ve been thinking about. Think of it as “happy hour meets intelligent conversation” (more info here about the format).

We’re working to build a community of people who are passionate about new ideas and are interested in turning them int actual products and companies. If you’ve ever had one of those “I’ve got a great idea…” moments, this meetup is targeted at you.

• This is a pretty casual event and no one takes themselves too seriously
• There’s no such thing as a bad idea here, just ones that haven’t been done yet
• We’ve got a bunch of cold beer on hand (it helps with creativity )
• We video all the idea pitches so you have something to take with you and show to your friends and whoever else you want
• This is a fairly new organization (since August) so if you have an idea for how we can make it better, by all means speak up!
• We ran out of space here, so please see our website for additional information. You can also read the reviews here to see what other “Kickers” (our word for attendees) have to say about ideakick.

With that background in mind, please RSVP and join us for ideakick!

Thursday, November 11, 6:00pm

Please join Papaya Mobile, Super Rewards and InMobi for an Android App Monetization Session. This event will focus on monetization strategies for app developers and promises to be very in-depth. We will have three short presentations followed by a round table QA session with all three presenters. Come by for hot pizza and plenty of cold beer. We hope you can join us.

PapayaMobile:
http://www.papayamobile.com
PapayaMobile is an open, mobile social network for Android focused on casual gaming and virtual currency. Papaya offers developers a fast and easy way to reach more than three million users worldwide and make more money instantly. Android users love Papaya because they can play multiple games and get a complete social networking experience all in one, easy to download and use app. Founded in 2008 by Si Shen and Wenjie Qian, Papaya is headquartered in Beijing and has an office in Menlo Park, Calif.

Super Rewards:
http://www.srpoints.com
Super Rewards was established in the summer of 2007 shortly after the Facebook platform launched. It was an in house tool at first and was officially launched to developers in December of 2007. Shortly after launch we experienced explosive growth and have quickly become the largest CPA network on Facebook, Myspace and beyond.

InMobi
http://www.inmobi.com
is the world’s largest independent global mobile advertising network. InMobi provides advertisers, developers, and publishers with a uniquely global mobile advertising solution. InMobi, which more than doubled its network in the first 6 months of 2010, delivers the unprecedented ability to reach 185 million consumers in over 115 countries through more than 21.2 billion mobile ad impressions monthly. Recently InMobi was selected to the 2010 AlwaysOn 250 as a company to watch in the global Silicon Valley.

Saturday, October 20, noon-6:00pm

Designers work best in a collaborative, studio based environment. But, as team sizes have gotten smaller, many designers are now acting as the sole designer on a project. This is bad for designers & bad for the profession of design.

The Product Design Guild is a space where designers bring in the work they’re doing in their everyday jobs and engage in a collaborative design process with other designers. It is a place where you can brainstorm ideas, receive informed critique, engage in ideation, get help in improving your comps and all the other activities that are only possible in a group environment.

pariSoma is hosting the pilot of this project to prototype the idea. If you are interested in participating, please sign up (form is at the bottom of the page) and the hosts will get back to you promptly.

This event is sponsored by 500Startups

Please note: registration does not guarantee you a ticket to this event. Invites will be sent early next week.

Free gourmet appetizers, full service bar, and live startup demos focusing on the theme of Data & Analytics? What could be a better way to spend a Tuesday evening? SF Beta is San Francisco’s best and biggest startup mixer, attracting founders, innovators, investors, and executives from Silicon Valley and beyond. The loosely structured event attracts over 500 people, and sometimes many more. We provide tasty gourmet appetizers and a full cash bar, along with live startup demos throughout the night.

Important information:

• Tuesday November 9th from 5pm-9pm @ 111 Minna St. San Francisco
• Free appetizers from 5-6pm
• There are no formal presentations or talks. Instead, startups give demos at tables across the venue, throughout the night.
• 21+ venue; no minors admitted
• Tickets are non-refundable, but can be transferred
• For more information, visit the website at www.sfbeta.com

Early bird tickets are already sold out! But bring a friend and you both will receive a discount!

HR & Tech SF continues to explore the quickly merging realms of social media and recruiting.

Sourcing candidates online has been status quo for the last 15 years. Recruiters and companies post jobs, search databases, and find candidates—pretty simple. But social networking has changed the rules of the game.
We’ve entered an age when our personal and professional lives intersect. So what challenges does that present to recruiters? How do we interact with candidates where they live?

Join us as Mike McTaggart from Dice delves into some of the emerging ways to attract the socially connected technology professional. Mike will present insightful data about candidate behavior online and what it means for employers and recruiters.

On the menu: ideas, exchange, drinks and light snacks.
This event is free, but space is limited. RSVP please.

About Mike McTaggart
Mike McTaggart has over 25 years of recruiting experience, entrepreneurial success and industry leadership. Mike spent time on the front lines in Silicon Valley in the 1990s working with top employers as the online recruiting space was developing and defining itself. He joined Dice seven years ago.
In his role as a senior sales person at Dice, he works with a wide variety of companies and helps them implement their recruiting strategies. Mike helps guide these organizations through the wide variety of Internet offerings and at the same time he is on the front lines of what may be the single most exciting change in sourcing tech candidates since the inception of job boards – the Dice Talent Network.

Tuesday, October 26, 12:30pm-5:30pm
Antone Johnson, founder of Bottom Line Law Group, will host “Ask The Startup Lawyer” office hours again at pariSoma on Tuesday, October 26 from 12:30 to 5:30.

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!

Join us for the Founders Space San Francisco Roundtable, where founders gather around a table to share knowledge and work together to solve problems.  In order to join a Roundtable, you must be a founder or C-level executive at a growth-oriented startup or emerging company.

Questions?  Contact us at sf@foundersspace.com

Founders Space brings together founders, angels, VCs, advisors & innovators to help startups rock the world www.foundersspace.com

WavePlay produces and manages all Founders Space meetings, events and sponsorshipswww.waveplayllc.com