schmoozd

Schmoozd is today. See you there!

The Crew — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:00:04 +0000

Schmoozd is happening today, July 29th, 2010 at the Wokcano in Santa Monica, CA.

Drop by and chill with us… Register here.

oDesk dropping by to hand out $100 credit to try their services

The Crew — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:00:40 +0000

oDesk, an online job marketplace for remote workers is offering companies interested in hiring oDesk talent a fantastic deal – a $100 credit to try the service, no strings attached. Every freelancer sets his or her rates, and $100 can actually buy a fair amount of developer time from our thousands of highly skilled professionals in India, Pakistan, the Phillippines, Russia, etc.

oDesk is the best place to find meaningful work and top-flight talent. More than doubling in size each year since 2004, oDesk is where companies are building their entire organizations online and is the primary source of income for thousands of contractors. oDesk is truly changing how the world works.

This is awesome! I can definitely use one…

NetworkAutomation to demo a killer business process automation app

The Crew — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:00:35 +0000

Network Automation is the mid-market leader in automation software that streamlines and integrates business processes without expensive programming. Founded in 2004 and based in Los Angeles, the company provides business process automation solutions to more than 9,000 small, mid-market, and Global Fortune 1000 clients in over 40 countries. The firm’s AutoMate and AutoMate BPA Server platform span automation development, deployment, and management with a drag-and-drop environment that substantially reduces the total cost of the automation lifecycle. Common uses include automated FTP/SFTP scheduling, application integration, job scheduling, automated software testing, batch processing, report automation, automated scripting, GUI automation, and more. Network Automation’s customers include NASA, IBM, Kaiser Permanente, Verizon, FedEx, and many regional, state, and federal government offices.

So, if you want to increase process speed, reliability, and control so you can provide better customer service, increase productivity, and capitalize on new revenue opportunities – Network Automation can help you do that. Come find out how… Schmoozd baby, schmooze…

Stroome to demo at Schmoozd this Thur (7/29)

The Crew — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:00:53 +0000

Stroome co-founder, Tom Grasty, will be joining us this week and demoing his new startup, Stroome.

Stroome is a unique video editor that hinges on the collaboration of a community of video editors, hobbyists, and novices to collaborate online. This browser-based app allows you to upload, edit, and share thousands of clips from different users in real-time. Then you can push your projects out across the web to the major social media sites or share them on Stroome with other users so that they can open and edit your clips, too.

But the real strength of Stroome is the ability to access material from their large pool of clips that you can use for your project. So if you are looking for a series of clips that you otherwise can’t make on your own, the app’s clip library and its powerful search tool.

Monday Stroome announced a partnership with the Friars Club 2010 Comedy Film Festival that will utilize the Stroome editing platform so that aspiring content creators and comedians can create and upload collaborative, 3-5 minute comedy shorts directly to the Festival.

So come to Schmoozd and check out this cool new app from Stroome. Schmooze baby, schmooze….

Ad.ly to demo at the upcoming Schmoozd

The Crew — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:00:13 +0000

Another hot new tech startup is doing a full demo at this month’s Schmoozd on July 29th. Ad.ly will be at the Wokcano sharing all their ad serving wizardly, so that you can learn how to monetize the valuable content you are producing in streams like Twitter, MySpace and Facebook.

Get this: Ad.ly pays you to send an ad to your followers on behalf of brands you love (like an ad unit placed inside your stream). Yeah, it’s marketing and promotions – but if you’re smart and know your audience, you can really add value to the conversation. Pretty cool.

And – heads-up to bloggers, designers and developers – if you build apps, have a website, or just your own blog, Ad.ly can help you make the money you need to keep the content flowing. They’ll show you how Ad.ly for Apps and sites can help you deliver relevant ads targeted to your users by context, location and interest.

So check out this in-stream advertising platform. It really is the next frontier for marketers – and is guaranteed to shake things up a bit. Plus, they just want to hang out with you, share a drink or two, and Schmooze Baby, Schmooze.

Make it happen. Sign up today.

Will Ballard, CTO of Demand Media is joining us

The Crew — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:49:40 +0000

Whoa! When we started Schmoozd back at the beginning of the year, we had no idea we’d be attracting some of the best in the biz. But word has gotten out – and the SME’s we have at Schmoozd 3 are without a doubt some of the most insightful people in the industry. The latest coup? Will Ballard will be joining the already prestigious team of Tony Karrer, Erick Herring and David Subar as CTO’s hosting our TECH table.

Will is responsible for technology development across all aspects of Demand Media — from the Studio algorithm to the industry-leading social-media platform, including managing a large team of engineers responsible for the company’s software architecture, design, development and quality assurance. The customers he has directly been involved with include some of the biggest in the world, including Gannett, Hearst Magazines, NFL.com, NPR, The Washington Post, and Whole Foods – to name just a few.

So the mission is clear: if you want to talk to the best and brightest technologists in So. Cal – join us at Schmoozd 3 this July 29th at the Wokcano in Santa Monica. From programming to running large organizations, they are there to chat it up.

In other words – Schmooze Baby, Schmooze. Sign up today.

(SME) 3 Elite CTOs to host our Tech table at Schmoozd

The Crew — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:00:25 +0000

It is a great pleasure to announce that our hosts for our Tech table at the upcoming Schmoozd event will be Tony Karrer, Erick Herring and David Subar. Each is a CTO of their respective companies. But the story does not end there. These CTOs are highly recognized and top notch in their fields. By them hosting the Tech table, it provides a great opportunity to chat and get to know them and for all to find out the latest in what’s happening in technology.

A Chief Technology Officer (CTO), is an executive-level position in a company or other entity whose occupant is focused on scientific and technological issues within an organization. It typically involves overseeing Research and Development (R&D) activities, and formulating long-term visions and strategies at the officer level. Source: Wikipedia (here)

Here they are…

Tony Karrer, CEO/CTO TechEmpower
Dr. Tony Karrer is works with early stage startups as a part-time CTO helping to define technical strategy. Tony has twenty years’ experience as a CTO, including being the initial CTO for eHarmony. He taught Computer Science for eleven years and has worked with many larger firms on innovative initiatives including Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, HP, Sun Microsystems, and Fidelity. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science.

Erick Herring, CTO, Feedback.com
Erick has been wrangling infrastructure and building systems on the Internet since it was the ARPAnet. Erick has over 20 years experience in the technology industry and has performed most of the jobs in a technology company, including system administrator, programmer, architect, product manager, VP of Engineering, Chief Security Officer, and CTO. Erick has been a founder or key executive at five startups over the last decade.

David Subar
David is a senior technology executive who has held positions as CTO, running Product Management and served five years as CEO of his own start-up. Among David’s experiences includes CTO of Oversee.net, a $200M a year Internet company. He also spent five years consulting to venture capitalists helping with investments and as in interim executive who was parachuted in to accelerate the growth of portfolio companies. Currently David is consulting to several Internet companies to help accelerate launch, growth and liquidity

Schmooze baby, schmooze!

(SME) LAVA.org to host our VC/angel table

The Crew — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 05:39:18 +0000

At this month’s Schmoozd event on July 29th, we’re introducing a new format to add even more value for our participants. This time around, we’re having four tables hosted by SME’s (Subject Matter Experts), so you can dial in on what you want to learn, who you want to meet, and come away from the event with gained insight and contacts in hand.

Our second SME? The Los Angeles Venture Association (LAVA) is on board to host the VC/angel table. LAVA is without doubt the ‘Go To Organization for Capital Raising’ in Southern California – and will be available to share their ideas on what makes a good business and how to attract capital in a troubled financial market. The organization is a select group of business executives and professionals dedicated to the success of our region’s emerging growth and middle market companies – so if you have the next BIG IDEA – they want to hear it.

In other words: Schmooze Baby, Schmooze. Make your pitch count in front of seasoned pros who know a lot about what it takes to rise above the fold and make it happen. And if you’re business idea makes sense, you could walk away with a lot more than business cards. Who knows what the night might bring?

Make it happen. Sign up today.

TweakEats to demo a simple nutrition calculator app at Schmoozd

The Crew — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:00:26 +0000

Tired of the hassle involved in trying to count calories when cooking at home? It’s easy if you only eat pre-packaged foods, but time consuming and difficult if you want to keep track of nutrition when cooking from a recipe.

Enter Tweak Eats: whether it’s a recipe found on the web or one you enter, Tweak Eats automatically calculates the nutritional content and shows you how each change affects the results. Whether you want to reduce calories, fat, sodium, or to just save your modifications to your favorite recipes, Tweak Eats can help. It even simplifies finding recipes on the web by searching all of the major recipe sites and showing the nutrition for those recipes right in the search results.

Craig Ogg and Keith Bussell, the founders of Tweak Eats, will be schmoozing with us 7/29 at Wokcano. Schmooze baby, schmooooooz!

Dather to demo a slick media collaboration app at Schmoozd

The Crew — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:38:18 +0000

Dather helps you bring all your photos, videos, posts and tweets together in one place. It takes a normal calendar app and goes the extra mile. What makes this product so nifty is that it acts as a hub between social media apps such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and even RSS feeds. Dather allows you to create events on a timeline that you can send to your friends on other social media apps.

Creating an event is as easy as selecting the relevant content from all of your sources. You can invite your friends to these events and they can add their photos and videos too — thus making any event a truly social thing. The app allows you to view your events on a daily, weekly and monthly basis along a sliding bar at the top. Easy and intuitive, this app represents the next step in social apps bridging other social apps.

Come find out how Dather can help you organize, collaborate and share all your media at the upcoming Schmoozd event at the Wokcano in Santa Monica on JULY 29.