3 Jul

Supernova 2007 Interview Series v4


Adriana Gascoigne with Tantek Celik of Technorati

Adriana Gascoigne and Nandor Fejer of bub.blicio.us tv attended the Supernova conference to meet with some of the most connected innovators defining the new web.

In v4, Adriana interviews:

Nir Ofir, BlogTV

Tantek Celik, Technorati

The Supernova conference, organized by Kevin Werbach and The Wharton School, is where technology and business influencers, leading investors, top innovators and thinkers came together to debate the future of the connected world.

3 Jul

Girls in Tech – Club H, San Francisco

 

 

Girls in Tech recently held its second event to bring the women of tech together for an evening of networking and technology discovery. 

Athena von Oech, product manager of Ning, introduced the company’s DIY solution for building and hosting dedicated social networks, which is a killer app for creating a community around GIT.

Sarah Meyers was alo in attendance and stepped in for bub.blicio.us tv to interview a few of the attendees, including: 

Leah Culver, Pownce

Donna McGahan, Atlassian

Alison Covarrubias of Ladies Who Launch

Created in February of 2007, Girls in Tech was founded by technology marketing and PR mavens Adriana Gascoigne and Laurie Anne Lassek.

GIT was born to further support girls in an industry that, traditionally, has been primarily, well, mostly full of guys.

Girls in Tech is an organization which caters to intelligent, professional, and influential young women working in the technology industry. The organization is a membership driven group, which aims to provide tools and information to empower, encourage innovation, inspiration and involvement among its members, while seeking to collaborate with like-minded men in the industry.

The group offers a variety of resources to women to supplement and further enhance their professional careers in technology. Some of these resources include networking functions, round table discussions, conferences, dinner engagements, and recruitment events.

 
Sarah Meyers, Adriana Gascoigne, L.A. Lassek


Cindy Phung, The Forbin Group


Cathy Brooks and Rene Blodgett

For more pictures from Girls in Tech, please visit Brian Solis’ album on flickr.

 

2 Jul

Simply Hired Hosts Lunch 2.0 Picnic ‘Shoot Em Up Style’

By Victor Karamalis

It was a beautiful day in Mountain View Friday and for those who did not want to wait in line for Apple’s iPhone, the staff at Simply Hired compound was the place to be for Lunch 2.0 (which also held a San Francisco event this month). Simply Hired is a vertical search engine company whose goal is to “make finding your next job a simple yet effective, enjoyable journey”. Simply Hired boasts 5 million jobs on their site, much more than Monster.com and Yahoo! HotJobs.

The event brought together different crowds in the tech start-up space, from entrepreneurs to angel investors. A large tent was set up for roughly 300 people to sit down and enjoy some great Indian food, including delicious naan, tasty chicken makhni and plenty of basmati rice. The festivities even had some gun play as innocent bystanders were squirted with Simply Hired schwag in the form of Squirt guns. As the schwag was distributed to the attendees, more and more people were quickly filling and pumping the triggers of their plastic pistols. It was a enjoyably raucous.


Photo credit: Ben Hartshorne


Photo credit: Jeremiah Owyang

In addition, Simply Hired was looking for talented people to join their growing company. The CEO of Simply Hired, Gautam Godhwani, gave a small speech stating that job hunting will always be an issue throughout a person’s life. Creating a free account is easy to do and the pool of jobs seems much more tech-focused.
Simply Hired isn’t the only startup at 2513 Charleston Rd. I spoke with Sameer Patel from ZAPTXT, a free text service in the mobile space to keep track of RSS feeds in real time (think of it as a contextual Twitter on your mobile phone). I also spoke with Lee Diamond who is starting StartUpAgents.com, a service that will focus on finding qualified people specifically for start-up companies.

The main importance was to showcase that Simply Hired is serious about getting jobs for people that use their site. So, when their staff isn’t squirting bystanders for Lunch 2.0 events, they are definitely aiming to get people hired.


Photo credit: Jeremiah Owyang


Photo credit: Jeremiah Owyang


Photo credit: Jeremiah Owyang


Photo credit: Lucas Mast

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2 Jul

Supernova 2007 Interview Series v3

Adriana Gascoigne and Nandor Fejer of bub.blicio.us tv attended the Supernova conference to meet with some of the most connected innovators defining the new web.

In v3, Adriana interviews:

Jyri Engestrom, Jaiku

Frank Gruber, Somewhat Frank and AOL

Nick Carr

The Supernova conference, organized by Kevin Werbach and The Wharton School, is where technology and business influencers, leading investors, top innovators and thinkers came together to debate the future of the connected world.

Visit Brian Solis’ photo sets on flickr for more from Supernova.

Challenge Day

Day One

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2 Jul

Supernova 2007 Interview Series v2


Adriana Gascoigne

Alison McNeill

Adriana Gascoigne and Nandor Fejer of bub.blicio.us tv attended the Supernova conference to meet with some of the most connected innovators defining the new web.

In v2, Adriana interviews Max Levchin of Slide.com.

Alison McNeill interviews Alex Iskold of AdaptiveBlue.

The Supernova conference, organized by Kevin Werbach and The Wharton School, is where technology and business influencers, leading investors, top innovators and thinkers came together to debate the future of the connected world.

Visit Brian Solis’ photo sets on flickr for more from Supernova.

Challenge Day

Day One

Follow us on Twitter and Pownce.

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