Silicon Valley NewTech Meetup

With over 100 people in attendance, the Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs, VCs, IT professionals, bloggers all congregate each month to not only network with one another, but to also see the latest in the online frontier. First up boorah.com - Eric Moyer, co-founder Boorah.com makes it easy to find a great restaurant by presenting a summary of user and professional reviews in a way that has never been done before. The service offers a unique, searchable database of restaurant locations, cuisines, cost, and hours of operation coupled with the ability to make online reservations. Boorah supposedly simplifies the process of dining out whether you're a "foodie" or just an average Joe looking for a fresh new place to eat. The Boorah system uses patent-pending Natural Language Processing technology to find, summarize and present information from across the web in a way that is far more useful than it's ever been before. I guess we'll see if NLP outweighs P2P (peer to peer with sites such as Yelp.com) stickydrive.com - Sol Lipman, co-founder I met Sol at a recent Structured Wiki, typically used to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool, on an intranet or on the internet. Web content can be created collaboratively by using just a browser. Users without programming skills can create web applications. Developers can extend the functionality of TWiki with Plugins. DLA Piper Wine provided by: mepath.com - health advice meets web2.0 Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Furl Bookmark Murdok: Brian Solis is principal at http://www.briansolis.com, and regularly contributes to many industry trades. He is also frequently quoted in articles relating to technology trends and Marketing/PR strategies.