Video: TECH cocktail RACING Preview
May 16, 2008
Saturday… Saturday … Saturday! Start your engines as Threadless.com, a Chicago-based skinnyCorp operated company and TECH cocktail supporter, will be hosting a Pine Wood Derby race called the THREADLEMANSS. Unfortunately, Eric and I won’t be able to attend as we are pretty busy right now getting ready for TECH cocktail CONFERENCE (did you sign up yet?!). But thanks to twitter we found out that TECH cocktailer Carlos Pero of coloring.com has a son that was recently undefeated in his Cub Scouts Pine Wood Derby. We leverage the power of twitter technology (follow techcocktail on twitter) to see if Carlos would like to lead the TECH cocktail RACING effort and thankfully he accepted.
Carlos is featured this week on episode 25 of SOMEWHAT FRANK TV video (below) as he previews our TECH cocktail RACING car and shares some Pine Wood Derby knowledge. Thank you Carlos for your help and good luck on Saturday! You can cheer on the TECH cocktail car this Saturday, May 17, 2008 as Threadless will be streaming the derby live.
Lijit Post TECH cocktail DC 2 Breakfast Videos
May 14, 2008
For those of you that may have missed it, Lijit Networks hosted a breakfast after TECH cocktail DC 2 at Busboys & Poets in Washington, D.C. on April 25, 2008. The event was a lot of fun and offered a great opportunity get to know several of the DC TECH cocktailers better over coffee, OJ, eggs and bacon.
If you missed it and you are interested in finding who was there and what happened - no worries because Scott Stead was on hand and interviewed most of the attendees. His videos are shown below.
Additionally, SOMEWHAT FRANK TV offered up a video (below) which find Scott breaking it down with a little geek rap sweetness!
TECH cocktail DC 2 Video
April 28, 2008
TECH cocktail DC 2 took place last Thursday evening in Washington, D.C. showcasing six startups from the local area along with a number of sponsors. The event united over four hundred guests for an evening of conversations and fun. SOMEWHAT FRANK TV was able to capture some of the evenings happenings on video as episode 22 of the video podcast (below).
The Coolest TECH cocktail Photo Video Mashup
April 25, 2008
Nick O’Neill, a D.C. native and founder of Social Times, has leveraged Animoto, a product we played around with previously, to create the coolest TECH cocktail Photo Mashup. To date, it is one of the best I have seen. Check it out the TECH cocktail DC 2 Photo Video Mashup on Social Times. Thank you Nick, that video rocks!
Video: TECH cocktail Accepts CityLIGHTS Award (A Somewhat Frank Take)
April 6, 2008
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The Illinois I.T. Association CityLIGHTS 2008 Awards Gala took place in Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, April 3, 2008. The event was held at Union Station which you might recognize from the epic scene from the movie The Untouchables where Kevin Costner saves a baby carriage while also shooting up the Al Capone gangsters on its marble steps. While we did not save any babies, TECH cocktail was nominated for the CityLIGHTS Award for its positive impact in connecting the Illinois technology community. I am please to report, that TECH cocktail took home the hardware. I was deeply humbled by winning the award as it serves as validation that all the long hours and hard work is truly helping to sculpt a better connected local technology community while helping to amplify that same community to the world.
Eric and I were both unprepared for winning the award as we were up against some stiff competition. But we one of our supporters was able to capture the moment on video and I have used for the episode 19 of the video podcast SOMEWHAT FRANK TV. I have included the video below for your viewing pleasure. Thank you to everyone that has supported TECH cocktail over the past two years. We could not have done what we have without your support - thank you. Also we not done with what we have started as we look to continue to work to help the local technology communities and startups. If you have not already you should be sure to sign up for the TECH cocktail CONFERENCE on May 29th in Chicago as it should be a great event to further help anyone in business with taking a "no nonsense" approach. Use the promo code: techcocktailers to save $25 on your ticket. Sign up today.
Check out the photos from the 2008 CityLIGHTS event as well as the video below as TECH cocktail is awarded the 2008 CityLIGHTS Award.
TECH cocktail Boulder 1 Video
March 8, 2008
TECH cocktail Boulder last Thursday was a lot of fun and I got a chance to capture some of it on video for the latest installment of SOMEWHAT FRANK TV. Each demoer at TECH cocktail Boudler got a chance to chat with me about their product. You can watch the TECH cocktail Boulder 1 video below.
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TECH cocktail Chicago 7 Video
March 5, 2008
The MetroBlurb video podcasting team from MetroProper was on the scene of TECH cocktail Chicago 7 on February 21, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois. They captured this video at the event as they talked to some of the happy TECH cocktailers. Thank you to MetroProper for pulling this together.
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Also don’t forget to sign up for the next TECH cocktail in Chicago which is actually a full day conference scheduled to take place on May 29, 2008. Join us at TECH cocktail CONFERENCE.
Bring CES To Chicago
January 10, 2008
CES, the largest consumer electronic trade show, is taking place this week in Las Vegas. It was reported by an NBC affiliate today that CES may be leaving Las Vegas! Yes, just like the movie title. Thanks to our friend Blagica Stefanovski on giving us the heads up on this one. We thought it would be great if we could help bring CES to Chicago. Why not? Chicago is a world class city with the facilitates to host a huge event like the World Fair or Olympic games. Not to mention Chicago has lots of tech companies. So we have decided to help initiate the ‘Bring CES to Chicago’ movement. If you are interested in supporting the cause let us know in the comments below or email us directly. Also join the Bring CES to Chicago group on Facebook.
We think lot of groups including folks in the Mayor’s Office, the ITA, the CEC, World Business Chicago, etc will need to rally around the idea of bringing CES to Chicago. So we wanted to kickstart bringing everyone together in an effort to make CES in Chicago a reality.
Eric Olson and I just did a quick BlogTV video episode video discussing bringing CES to Chicago (below). Admittedly, the video is a little choppy since I was on the west coast and Eric was in the east so bear with us. We will be working out the kinks in upcoming video episodes.
TECH cocktail Photos Bump With Animoto
August 21, 2007
I recently discovered a new application called Animoto that converts photos into a short length video. I pulled in some previous TECH cocktail photos and created this video which highlights some of the events, fast cars and bling that makes up a TECH cocktail. Ok, ok, I am just kidding about the fast cars and bling but Animoto did bring the TECH cocktail photos to life. Check out the video titled TECH cocktail Bumps & Blings (below).
My oh my … myAOL
June 19, 2007
As many TECH cocktail’ers know I moved out to DC last September just a few months after our first TECH cocktail in Chicago to take on a new role with AOL and have been flying in for the Chicago TECH cocktails every since. I have not been able to really talk about what I have been working on until now. Check out this sneak peek video of the new myAOL.
There are more details on TechCrunch and Somewhat Frank - I hope you all check it out when it launches soon.
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