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The “City by the Bay”. Now the unofficial capital of new technology and social media “Go Giants!”

“Urban Technology Review” The Update

Aug 7, ’12 6:34 AM

The Publisher of The Coolness Factor has been professionally approached and inspired to create a technology news byline titled Urban Technology Review intended for reprinting in major market newspapers aimed primarily at english and Spanish speaking Urban communities domestic and worldwide we will also show up in several Nationally distributed print magazines as well as online.

UTR’s first cities will be in California, namely San Francisco, Oakland, Richmond, San Jose, San Pablo.

The first UTR articles were to become available launch day August 26, 2012 but the project has proven to be alot more intense and involving than I first imagined.

PROJECT UPDATE: Despite the hiccups I am still working on UTR. a few fits and starts that have delayed my overall progress on Urban Technology Review but regardless I am moving forward. Sometimes it is the choices and changes that can stimey or deter progress. Sometimes the technolgy chooses the exact wrong time to peter out, fail to function, or emerge as the best solution. Success is plowing through all that and arriving at your destination without blowing a gasket or totally flipping out. The last time I ventured out there on the limb it brought me  a stroke that it has taken me over four years to recover from. Pressure and stress are killers!.

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TechDisrupt SF

Sep 13, ’11 12:25 PM

 

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SF- Sept. 12-14

If you are an entrepreneur with brilliant ideas there is no bether place on Earth to be right now than sunny San Fran at TechDisrupt.

The information on ideas and funding floating around is thick and plentiful. The talent roaming the aisles if canned could reinvent society given the chance and capital. If it too short a notice, not in your plans and you can’t get there you can be there virtually by checking out their UStream broadcast. You can also peek in at stream by visiting the Chill Lounge.

Being a SF native I may be locally prejudiced but I firmly believe that San Francisco is the perfect location for holding “a startup wonderland”.

That’s exactly what TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2011 is. So, for 2 beautiful sunny weather days and one cloudy day in the city-by-the-bay hundreads are busy downing coffee and chatter. If you manage to bypass the Rice-a-roni, sourdough and seafood you get to step into a concourse full of venture investor types, eager innovators, self-satisfied movers and shakers, and media moguls looking for the next big thing.

Ideas and innovation are simply flowing from the foreheads of young brainiacs and would-be Steve Jobs types. On the show stage powerful presentations are judged, reviewed and by rule kept brief and to the point with Q&A.

AGENDA:

  • Startup Battlefield
  • Startup Alley
  • Hackathon
  • Industry Leading Speakers
  • Exhibitor Booths
  • Live UStream Broadcast
  • After Parties and Affinity Meetups
  • Speakers: (Kevin Rose, Ashton Kutcher, and many many more)

One of the best features of this conference is the International flavor. With attendees, exhibitors, presenters and speakers from far flung places around the world this is an excellent chance to learn what else is happening in areas outside the USA.

I have to make an admission. I totally misjudged actor/investor Ashton Kutcher. I thought he was just another over-rated pretty-boy (that gets to sleep with one of the sexiest women in the world). Wrong, he is a brilliant, caring man/child, deep and profound, wise and effacing. I should know better than prejudging others and this is just the reminder I needed to straighten out my act.

There are quite a few greying-haired millionaires wandering the aisles and taking the stage of Disrupt looking to sink eary investments into promising projects and talented people. Former TechCrunch mogel Micheal Arrington brought hard-edged attitude to the podium seeming to challenge or irk them into revealing secrets and admissions regarding investment decisions.

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Dreamforce ’11: SF 8/30 to 9/2

Aug 19, ’11 6:58 PM
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Dreamforce '11

San Francisco is preparing to host yet another big time tech media event. This time its billed as the Cloud Computing Industry Event of the Year.
Dreamforce ’11, happening August 30 to September 2, 2011 at Moscone Center, San Francisco.
It really seems a little strange to me that an event about the cloud is not held in the cloud. If ever there was any event that should be virtual, this is it!
Sponsor Salesforce has been long been waiting for this level of industry confirmation of their belief that online services and software is the only true way into the future and It turns out that they were dead right, just ask HP and IBM.
Take a moment to visit the event site at http://dreamforce.com/ready and get a discount on keynote and Expo passes.
By the way Salesforce is another leading San Francisco-based company.
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COOL EVENT: GDGT Live S.F. Fri. May 6th, 2011

Apr 21, ’11 7:38 AM

I feel really blessed to live in San Francisco especially after my work-related stroke that has side-lined me and limited my mobility. Because I live in San Francisco, now the heart of new technology I can still keep my hand in.

This was no more evident to me when I realized that GDGT Live is coming to town on Friday May 6th. 7-10PM at the Metreon – City View (Top Floor) on 101 Fourth Street at Mission.

If you missed it last year here is a good opportunity to see and play with some of the best products in or coming to the marketplace.. Also expect announcements, giveaways, networking opportunities, prizes, parties and more.

Get there early! They will have free gdgt t-shirts and cellphone cases for the first few hundred people who show up, plus a bunch of cool giveaways (and, of course, a ton of hot new gadgets to play with).

When: Friday, May 6th from 7 – 10pm

Where: The Metreon City View (top floor)

101 Fourth Street at Mission

Tickets are free if you follow the link below and RSVP soon.

http://features.gdgt.com/2011/03/20/gdgt-live-returns-to-san-francisco-on-may-6th-/?utm_source=gdgt+newsletter&utm_campaign=88d885818f-Newsletter+%2F+2011-04-21&utm_medium=email

They now have a listing of the two dozen companies that will be there

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Ad Tech: San Francisco April 11-13

Apr 2, ’11 6:21 PM
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If you’re in the City-by-the-Bay anywhere between Monday April 11th and Wednesday the 13th make sure you have time on your agenda to stop by Moscone Center West to attend the largest gathering of digital marketers going. Ad Tech: San Francisco promises to be a bigger event than MacWorld and the opportunities will be lurking behind every attendee badge and at every exhibitor booth.

They have a bottomless plate of conference events complete with top-notch speakers and high-ranking online Digital Marketing industry movers and shakers. Join in a big Networking Bash for all attendees Tuesday the 12th, a long expo list of 241 exhibitors is set for the 11th and 12th. Here’s the Ad Tech schedule: “See you there!”

Conference:
Mon, 04/11: 2pm – 6pm
Tues, 04/12: 9am – 6:15pm
Wed, 04/13: 9am – 4:45pm		 Exhibit Hall:
Tues, 04/12: 10am – 6pm
Wed, 04/13: 10am – 4pm

Here’s the site link: http://www.ad-tech.com/sf/

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C|Net TV

Mar 28, ’11 8:26 AM
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c|net has been a favorite media site of mine for years. I even enjoyed daily their San Francisco AM broadcast radio station. My other favorite was ZDnet. Fast forward a few years. In some way I still don’t understand they are both joined or at least friendly and after a world of new trends good old c|net is hanging in there tough. Their roster of spirited hosts and bring levity and expertise to what could otherwise be dull and drab tech banter. c|net has above all been consistent in professionally covering the width and bredth of new technology in unique ways that no one else has.

If you are new to the web or plain tired of just about everything else out there, do yourself a turn, bop over to c|net and give it a try. Also, whenever you are interested or motivated to purchase a new product you should consider researching the product and compare it by looking through c|net reviews and analysis.

http://www.cnet.com

http://cnettv.cnet.com/

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San Francisco: Capital of Social Media

Mar 19, ’11 2:19 PM

- TCF Declares San Francisco The Unofficial Capital of New Technology!

It is true that Silicon Valley remains the center of where development of a lot of the hardware devices we use are built. However, over the past couple of decades San Francisco, “The City-by-the-Bay” has emerged as “THE PLACE” where social media en=treprenuers are panning gold. For Instance Twitter was birthed in S.F. Other S.F. players are finding talent and ready markets in the city. Hundreds of S.F. companies have “blown-up” from ink and pencil business plans drawn on napkins and then nurtured into successful businesses and appealing sources of investor investments maturing into wealthy money pots. The steadily growing long list of “web 2.0 goldmines” born in S.F. proves this to be true. In fact it is a sure bet that if you walk into almost any hip or trendy cafe or casual restaurant in S.F. you’ll find busy intense small groups of tech/geek types, mapping out future designs and plans for the next potential Facebook or Google, you’ll also notice too eager fleet fingers flying across the keyboards of heavily-stickered laptops. Strangely enough most of this was unplanned. Even the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce has been slow to realize this. Convinced? if you are, and are considering possibly relocating to S.F. to get in the middle of the action. The city is even considering tech tax breaks in an effort to retain fleeting companies discouraged by the high cost og living in S.F. If you have eyes for moving here consider subscribing to the S.F. Business Times, talk to a city native, and spent a week here to get the real feel of The City, and see if you like it. How could you not!

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    Meego Conference May 23-25, 2011

    Mar 17, ’11 10:37 AM

    The MeeGo Conference is only two short months away and is taking place from May 23 to 25, at San Francisco’s downtown Hyatt Regency at the Embarcadero Center. This is a great opportunity to find out what’s up with the Harmattan Platform and Nokia’s newest Maemo devices. The relationship between Harmattan and the MeeGo project is expected to be clarified. A Call for Proposals is still open here. Bring your umbrella, just in case. San Francisco in May, you understand.

    http://meego.com/

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    MacLife Magazine

    Mar 14, ’11 8:09 AM

    Survival for somewhat smaller niche market magazines is tenuous and steadily losing retail rack space.  San Francisco-based MacLife has thankfully managed to hang in there. First by merging with MacHome Magazine, and then by getting acquired by the Future Publishing Company. The overall print quality has benefited by the later move and the content by the first. I still miss MacHome’s bonus CD’s that were shrink-wrapped with each month’s issue and accompanied by online free resources, product trials and shareware. The current publication stands tall among Mac Mags. It also looks like it is morphing onto the web under the names DigitalLife and MacLife and as an iPad/iPhone app as MacLife.

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