Stickis Launch Party

By Brian Solis

As we arrived at 461 2nd Street (aka The Clocktower Building) for the Stickis launch party, we were greeted by a beautiful, Stickis-uniformed model. The first question from our group was, “Are you Sticki?” Her answer was, “yes.” And that’s how the whirlwind evening kicked-off.

Victor Karamalis, Ms. Stickis and Greg Narain After winding through a never-ending maze of hallways, stairs, elevators, and countless turns, we found the activeweave HQ. It is a beautiful, spacious, well-lit loft in the South of Market (SOMA) district of San Francisco, near the Giants Stadium, and the bub.blicio.us headquarters at 625 2nd Street.

Get Sticki!

It’s simple and stylish interior was decorated with an amazing array of gourmet appetizers, wine, beer, cocktails as well as a loft-full of Web 2.0 entrepreneurs, tech influencers, fellow bloggers, flickrazzi, French ambassadors, and wall flowers.

The bub.blicio.us team was is full force, with Greg Narain, Joanne Wan, and myself running sparking conversations, snapping killer photos, and learning about activeweave’s new product Stickis – it is after all, why we were there right?

Greg Narain and Brian Solis

One of the most interesting and commonly asked questions of the night was, “who are you?” It seems as though the party was hosted as an open evite, which was forwarded among friends and business associates. This luckily not only filled the room, but also maintained a decent caliber of noteworthy tech professionals.

Marc Meyer, Photo Credit: Mark Meyer’s camera

Stickis CEO, Marc Meyer was an exceptional host and made us feel right at home. We received a personal demo of the product, which I will cover in more detail over at PR2.0. But in short, you can add a “sticki” to any web page with your notes, which can be in the form of text or dragged in images. Every time you return to that page you can pull up your sticki, and those notes can also be shared with friends or kept private. Stickis offers much more than marking up a single page, it allows surfers to create and subscribe to channels of these notes and other data sources.

The demo, I might add, was running on a gorgeous, 42-inch flat-panel TV.

Back to the party…

The soundtrack for the Stickis Launch Party was provided by a DJ who kept the ambiance perfectly suited for conversation as well as maintaining a coolness vibe.

Jeremy Toeman, Jean Sini

Rafe Needleman of CNET’s Webware

Thor Muller

Xenophan Giannis of AboveNet

Sanford Barr of STIRR

As the night progressed, the headcount continued to multiply. I couldn’t possibly meet everyone, but I tried. Notable conversations with very cool people included:

Rafe Needleman of CNET’s Webware
Jeremy Toeman of LIVEdigitally
Andrew Kippen, market analyst for the Embassy of France in the U.S.
Thor, Amy and Alexandra Muller Rubyred Labs
Sanford Barr of STIRR
Xenophan Giannis of AboveNet
James Yu and Joel Sacks of BuzzShout
Tara Hunt of Citizen Agency
Jean Sini of Stickis
Khalid Shaik, serial entrepreneur (most recently co-founder of Yousendit)
Victor Karamalis, Research Analyst at FutureWorks
Lorna Li
Karin Meyer
Monika Mazurkiewicz
Irina Sini