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- Last Call for Labs (Foodspotting Proves It Can Work)
This Saturday marks the last day to apply for the pre-incubator Labs program through Women 2.0, but fear not: men and women can still qualify for the five week program for engineers, designers, and “business and marketing mavens” looking to start developing high-growth technology ventures in SF. Labs doesn’t require company equity or require that [...]
- The OpEd Project Returns to SF
It comes as no surprise that opinion journalism seems troubled on the financial front (with fewer dollars for newspapers meaning less space for community editorial), but a lack of diversity of the part of those who author them largely goes unspoken. If the OpEd Project gets its way, however, women will start to contribute dramatically [...]
- Mashable >> 5 Resources for Female Programmers
I’m grateful to social media news resource Mashable for helping highlight the work of notable organizations that are offering outside-the-classroom access to computer science education. Read on… What happens when “equality in the workplace” is simply a numbers game? The ratio of women trained in computer science education is even lower now than it was [...]
- Ignite Bay Area Talks Tonight
We hope you’re able to join us for the next Ignite Bay Area on Monday to celebrate Web 2.0 Expo. The following presenters will be sharing a series of 5-minute speed presentations on everything from social network sabotage, democratizing planetariums and hungry, hungry hippos: Derek Dukes | Chris Hutchins | Kim Lembo | Ola Helland [...]
- Pick.im Released to Make Freelance Hiring Simpler
Anyone who’s experienced the contractual back-and-forth and mutual scheduling headaches that can accompany freelance creative and project selection may be excited about this week’s unveiling of Startup Weekend founder Andrew Hyde’s new undertaking Pick.im. The freelancer portfolio database enables talent-seekers to search for copywriters, developers, and other specialists in their geographic area and price range. [...]
- SFIFF Shares Filmmaker Award Plans
The lineup and special tributes for this year’s SF International Film Festival were announced this morning, and I won’t waste time relaying the handful I’m most looking forward to after a few well-selected 2009 premiers including advertising industry retrospective Art & Copy and (Untitled)‘s satirical look at the modern art market. Starting in April, the [...]
- What You Love, Want, Need? Welcome Ladywood
I had seen a porn for gals book a few years ago that was almost vision-straining in the eye rolls it induced in me. A clean sink and a Baby Bjorn are nice and all, but their turn on potential is…far-fetched for most women at best. Enter SF-by-way-of-Boulder designer Jamie Panzarella, an online experience creator [...]
- You Should Eat Something. Clooch First.
While still in alpha, the SF-based restaurant and dish finder Clooch is a helpful new local food guide whose pro and con breakout provides quick visual understanding. Husband and wife team Gene and Yelena Drabkin started the site when they thought that user review sites were too clogged with “who cares” information (according to Gene, [...]
- Blog It Forward >> Inspiration Edition
In celebrating San Francisco designer Victoria Smith (Ms. SFGirlByBay) and her endeavor to encourage dialogue about personal inspiration, I’m taking today mention the organizations, projects, and ideas by women I admire and am motivated by, SF or otherwise. The Blog It Forward project, which includes 300 design aficionados discussing their inspiration, is a kind of [...]
- Finance Platform IndieGoGo Acquires Distribber
On the morning of their South By Southwest soiree, artistic project fundraising platform IndieGoGo has announced that their San Francisco-based company has acquired Adam Chapnick’s digital distribution service Distribber. The deal, which will allow creators posting projects on IndieGoGo to sell completed works on Amazon and NetFlix from the platform, comes weeks after the founders [...]
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