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Network your heart out at the upcoming Social Media Week – Los Angeles opening party

john — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 15:34:44 +0000

Network your heart out peeps – anyone and everyone in Social Media in Los Angeles is dropping by the SocialMediaWeek Opening Party on Monday, Sept 19, 2011 at the vLounge in Santa Monica.

Social Media Week has grown exponentially since its first launch in New York in 2009 and continues to expand in size and scope. Social Media Week’s most recent event in February drew 30,000 registered participants to live events and over 80,000 viewers to watch via live streams. This year Social Media Week will focus on the impact of how societies, cultures, and economies around the world have evolved and changed through the way individuals connect and communicate.

This biannual event will be held September 19 – 23 simultaneously in twelve cities across the globe, including Los Angeles, Chicago, Milan, Berlin, Glasgow, Vancouver, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Beirut and Moscow.

The September 2011 Social Media Week will be the biggest conference yet, with an expected reach of hundreds of thousands of participants all over the world through social and mobile media.

Come celebrate with us at the upcoming opening party on Monday, Sept 19, 2011. Join the social gurus from DIRECTV, Saatchi Saatchi, Wells Fargo, FijiWater, LampsPlus, Union Bank, Hulu, CODA, LegalZoom, and much more…

Another great event produced by the team at Schmoozd.

tool: Collaborate with your team from inside Microsoft Office with Versly

john — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:29:34 +0000

Versly integrates with Word, Excel and Powerpoint making it easy for groups to stay organized and on track – Anytime, Anywhere. With just a click you can share a document with anyone in your address book. Even better, they won’t need a Versly account to receive the document, comment on it or even update it. Give and receive feedback on the document you have in front of you, while it’s in front of you so don’t have to keep switching between Office and your inbox. And, your documents are safe since every version is archived so you can easily restore to any point as well as see what was added or removed in the process.

tool: Easy-to-use, automated quoting software from Socket

john — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:10:00 +0000

Socket is an automated, online quoting system that lets companies build quote forms, sell products/services online, and track and manage leads. Socket’s simple copy/paste website integration lets you choose to embed a customer-facing, instant online quoting system directly into the pages on your website.

Key Features:

Automated, instant online quoting system
Reduce time spent on the quoting process by 90%
Incredibly easy and simple to use interface
Simple copy/paste website integration
Generate leads and funnel into your existing CRM
Increase sales with easy online payment processing
Super fast, secure, and reliable cloud-based hosting

tool: Optimized social coding with Fluxflex

john — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:50:26 +0000

Fluxflex is an auto-scaling cloud hosting platform for web service developers. The servers are automatically scaled out and down according to your traffic, and your project will be dynamically distributed to number of servers. The service is easy to use, you can start using the service for free.

Key Features:

Share your applications and Install them with one-click
Highly integrated with GitHub
Fluxflex supports many languages and frameworks such as PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl, Node.js, Haskell and more
Easy-to-use with no learning curve

tool: Hassle-free candidate screening from Ovia

john — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 03:27:30 +0000

OVIA is a video interviewing platform that makes your candidate filtering and selection process more efficient and personal. Recruitment is all about finding the right people, not just the right resumes. Use the power of competency based video selection to evaluate candidates faster and more effectively.

Here’s how it works:

Create your video interview
Record questions you would typically ask in a phone interview or first-round interview. OVIA walks you through the creation process allowing you to easily create and customize your video interview. You can even add a promotional video that provides candidates with more information about your company’s culture.

Invite candidates to take your video interview
Add candidate contact details to automatically invite them to take your interview. OVIA sends your candidates a customizable email with a link to your branded interview. The candidates complete your interview on their own time.

Evaluate candidate responses
OVIA sends completed video responses to your secure company account so you can review candidate videos when it best fits your schedule. No more unnecessary interruptions for hiring managers.

Make a decision
Use our collaborative, web-based evaluation tools to make quick decisions on who to move forward to the next stage of your process. OVIA provides more transparency and visibility for recruiters and hiring managers, which enables them to significantly reduce the time to hire.

tool: Build cross-platform mobile apps with PhoneGap

john — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 04:30:12 +0000

PhoneGap is an HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications with web technologies and get access to APIs and app stores. PhoneGap leverages web technologies developers already know best… HTML and JavaScript.

Schmoozd – Startup Demo + Mixer – August 25th, 2011

john — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:00:05 +0000

Schmoozd is scheduled to make another go-around at the Wokcano in Santa Monica on Thursday, August 25th. Please join us for an evening of fun mingling with other startups, VCs, entrepreneurs, and technology enthusiasts, as we host the Schmooozd Demo+Mixer event in Santa Monica.

The last event had over 300 people from a variety of fields: technology, entertainment, media, marketing, VCs, Angels, the press and many more.

Here’s what you can expect:

Access to successful people who are doing things right in the tech space – up close and personal. Ask them any question you want.
See the latest technology and trends at the Demo tables.
Appetizers. If you eat enough, you can call it dinner and spend your $ on a Schmoozd martini.
Drink discounts – just show the bartender your Schmoozd sticker.
A chance to converse, share ideas with, and potentially be seen by some of LA’s hottest movers and shakers.

The Detail

What: Startup Demo and Mixer Night
Where: Wokcano, 1413 5th Street, Santa Monica, CA
When: August 25th, 6:00PM – 10:00PM
Parking Details: Valet services offered from 5:00pm to 2:00am. There is also a parking garage behind the building.

tool: Securely store your bills, statements and important documents in one place with Doxo

john — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:17:02 +0000

Doxo is a business-payments tool with a digital file storage cabinet and relationship management application bolted on. So not only can you track and store your payments, you can keep tabs on whom you’re paying, too.

Key Features:

Securely store your important documents in your digital file cabinet.
Access them anywhere. Banish paper clutter.
The “Quick PIN” sign-in feature helps safeguard accounts for mobile users.
iPhone users can take snapshots of receipts to import them into the system.
Backup tools help safeguard users in case the Doxo cloud ever goes down.
Whether you’re at work, home or on vacation, you can access your important documents from a computer or your iPhone.
You can connect your file cabinet to select providers to receive and pay directly on doxo, as well as turn off paper mail.

tool: Express thoughts quickly with your team on Markup

john — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:09:26 +0000

Markup lets you draw on any webpage with a variety of tools to express your thoughts, make a point or just simply edit.

Express thoughts quickly and easily on any webpage. Share ideas with coworkers and friends. Markup works in your browser, there’s nothing to download and install. Just drag the Get Markup icon into your bookmarks bar. When you want to make notes on a webpage, click your bookmarklet to load the Markup toolbar. Publish when you’re ready to share your thoughts.

tool: Cloud CMS for web designers from Webpop

john — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:29:41 +0000

Webpop makes it easy to create custom designed websites that your clients can keep up to date. No creative limitations and no hosting hassles.

Everybody can make a website today. There are hundreds of site builders making it a trivial job to grab a template, change a few colors, add a custom logo and have a website running. Professional web designers need to adapt to this reality and make sure they offer a value above that of a template-based website with a few custom colors. Webpop lets you make this difference.

Often a CMS will require you to build a site as if working with Lego, putting together small blocks of ready-made html. Just like a professional craftsman would hardly choose Lego as his material of choice, professional web designers prefer to hand craft their own HTML and CSS.

Webpop makes this easy. No pre-defined blocks of HTML, no drag and drop interface requiring you to go through lots of clicks to get the result you require. Just plain and simple HTML and a few custom tags to make the content dynamic.

Webpop is a fully hosted CMS. Webpop runs on the Rackspace Cloud and every part of its infrastructure has been designed to be fast, scalable and redundant.