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• TECH cocktail Boston Coming Soon

  Published: August 6, 2007, 12:06 am

  Tags: Community, Event, Food Drink, Fun, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Tech Cocktail, Techcocktail, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Boston, Techcocktail7, Techcocktailboston

  TECH cocktail, the tech mixer aimed at amplifying the technology signal in under served communities and having fun doing it, is going to be stopping in its third city soon - Boston.  Ironically, GigaOm recently published an article highlighting some of the startup activity in Boston and that is exactly why we have decided to make it our

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• Gary The Vlogging Wine King On Conan

  Published: July 31, 2007, 3:33 pm

  Tags: Blogging, Blogosphere, Blogs, Business, Celebrity, Community, Cork D, Entertainment, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Event, Food Drink, Fun, Gary Vaynerchuk, Media 2 0, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Tech Cocktail, Television, Video

  demo'ed and sponsored at TECH cocktail DC 1. Gary's love for wine and charismatic personality has created quite a following on the Web which has resulted in being profiled by the Wall Street Journal and Time Magazine and now he has landed spot on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on Wednesday night (August 1, 2007). Aside from the Wine

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• Text2Store Local Deals Widget Launches

  Published: August 29, 2007, 7:02 pm

  Tags: Business, Businesspov, Cellular, Chicago, Local, Mobile, Mobile Wireless, Shopping, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Tech Cocktail, Techcocktail, Technologies, Technology, Text2store, Tool, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Widgets, E Commerce, Coupons, Sms, Text Mess

  showed off its stuff at TECH cocktail 4 in Chicago on April 12, 2007 and BusinessPOV had  a chance to catch up with them on video (shown below).  Add Somewhat Frank Product Demos to your page I configured a Text2Store Widget (below).

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• TECH cocktail Boston Was Wicked

  Published: September 8, 2007, 12:13 am

  Tags: Business, Community, Compete, Entertainment, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Eric Olson, Event, Fafarazzi, Frank Gruber, Fun, Geezeo, Local, Small Business, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Success, Tech Cocktail, Techcocktail, Technolog

  great event. Subscribe to TECH cocktail Boston updates if you want to find out about upcoming Boston events. For additional coverage check out the following posts: TECH cocktail Boston: Thanks & Wrap-Up Tech Cocktail Boston Rocked Tech Networking Nirvana on Lansdowne Street Do You KNOW TECH Cocktail? Tech Cocktail Offered...Cocktails

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• Fafarazzi: Celebrity Fantasy Leagues

  Published: September 10, 2007, 12:33 am

  Tags: Blogs, Business, Celebrity, Dirt Locker, Fafarazzi, Fun, Games, Humor, Media 2 0, Social Media, Social News, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Tech Cocktail, Techcocktail, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Widgets, Boston, Techcocktailboston

  as he demo'ed the product at TECH cocktail Boston. He mentioned their goal was to become the "place for fantasy leagues on the Web." So it sounds like they are going to look to duplicate Fafarazzi's success by creating leagues for other verticals or categories. They already have started by recently launching Dirt Locker. Dirt Locker

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• Fafarazzi: Celebrity Fantasy Leagues

  Published: September 10, 2007, 12:05 am

  Tags: Blogs, Business, Celebrity, Dirt Locker, Fafarazzi, Fun, Games, Humor, Media 2 0, Social Media, Social News, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Tech Cocktail, Techcocktail, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Widgets, Boston, Techcocktailboston

  as he demo'ed the product at TECH cocktail Boston. He mentioned their goal was to become the "place for fantasy leagues on the Web." So it sounds like they are going to look to duplicate Fafarazzi's success by creating leagues for other verticals or categories. They already have started by recently launching Dirt Locker. Dirt Locker

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• TECH cocktail Boston Was Wicked

  Published: September 7, 2007, 11:54 pm

  Tags: Business, Community, Compete, Entertainment, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Eric Olson, Event, Fafarazzi, Frank Gruber, Fun, Geezeo, Local, Small Business, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Success, Tech Cocktail, Techcocktail, Technolog

  great event. Subscribe to TECH cocktail Boston updates if you want to find out about upcoming Boston events. For additional coverage check out the following posts: TECH cocktail Boston: Thanks & Wrap-UpTech Cocktail Boston RockedTech Networking Nirvana on Lansdowne StreetDo You KNOW TECH Cocktail?Tech Cocktail

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• TECH cocktail Chicago Six Is Coming

  Published: October 23, 2007, 11:47 pm

  Tags: Chicago, Community, Event, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Tech Cocktail, Techcocktail, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web 2 0 Culture, Web Tech, Eric Olson, Frank Gruber, Fun, Tech Cocktail Chicago 6

  am pleased to announce that TECH cocktail Chicago 6 is coming soon and tickets are going fast. Just as a refresher, TECH cocktail is the social mixer founded by Eric Olson and myself in May 2006. This will be our sixth Chicago event and eighth overall (DC and Boston). Here are the details: Venue: John Barleycorn Wrigleyville (Map) Time:

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• A Trend TV Somewhat Frank Interview

  Published: November 3, 2007, 9:50 am

  Tags: Aol, Blogging, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Eric Olson, Frank Gruber, Internet, Interview, Media 2 0, Podcast, Social Media, Social News, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Tech Cocktail, Techcocktail, Technologies, Technology, Trends, Video, Video Blog, Wash

  I got interviewed by trend junkie and entrepreneur Greg Cangelosi of Trend TV this week while at the The New New Internet Conference. Greg is a podcasting expert and just authored a book titled The Business of Podcasting. I cannot wait to get my hands on a copy. Greg and I sat down and chatted and he captured the casual interview on Trend TV.

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• Dawdle Video Game Search & Marketplace

  Published: November 19, 2007, 10:57 pm

  Tags: Business, Dawdle, E Commerce, Personalization, Personalized, Search, Shopping, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Tech Cocktail, Techcocktail, Technologies, Technology, Tool, Video Games, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Chicago, E Commerce, Gaming, Sale, Video Game S

  Dawdle demoed last week at TECH cocktail Chicago 6. According to Dawdle CEO Sachin Agarwal:"We make it simple for buyers and sellers to create listings, place bids, and buyers are automatically matched to sellers who have exactly what they want or better. With our unique, proprietary matching system, buyers don't have to fear being

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• Dawdle Video Game Search & Marketplace

  Published: November 19, 2007, 10:53 pm

  Tags: Business, Dawdle, E Commerce, Personalization, Personalized, Search, Shopping, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Tech Cocktail, Techcocktail, Technologies, Technology, Tool, Video Games, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Chicago, E Commerce, Gaming, Sale, Video Game S

  Dawdle demoed last week at TECH cocktail Chicago 6. According to Dawdle CEO Sachin Agarwal:"We make it simple for buyers and sellers to create listings, place bids, and buyers are automatically matched to sellers who have exactly what they want ??? or better. With our unique, proprietary matching system, buyers don't have to fear being

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• CES Should Move to Chicago

  Published: January 10, 2008, 7:58 pm

  Tags: Chicago, Community, Eric Olson, Frank Gruber, Social Media, Social News, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Tech Cocktail, Techcocktail, Technologies, Technology, Video, Video Blog, Web 2 0, Web 2 0 Culture, Web Tech, Campaign, Ces, Conference, Geek, Las Vegas

  mention Chicago has lots of tech companies and hotels, restaurants and bars to accommodate the 200,o00 attendees. So TECH cocktail co-founder Eric Olson and I 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

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• Microsoft Backs DataPortability, Facebook Translates, Digg Tweaks, YouTube Mobile, Widget Kings, Mahalo Examined & Davos

  Published: January 27, 2008, 2:06 pm

  Tags: Digg, Facebook, Kevin Rose, Marshall Kirkpatrick, Mike Arrington, Mobile, Mobile Wireless, Social Media, Social Networking, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Tech Cocktail, Techcrunch, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Weekly Tidbits, Youtube, Heat

  of change in its algorithm. TechCrunch's Heather Harde on the GigaOM ShowThe lovely TechCrunch CEO, Heather Harde appeared on this weeks GigaOM show to talk about the Crunchies, her role at TechCrunch, and general merger and acquisition movements in Web 2.0. Facebook Starts TranslatingFacebook is in the process of translating their site into

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• TECH cocktail Chicago 7 Announced

  Published: January 22, 2008, 2:06 pm

  Tags: Chicago, Eric Olson, Event, Frank Gruber, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Tech Cocktail, Techcocktail, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web 2 0 Culture, Web Tech, Business, Midwest, Startups, Tc Chicago 7, Tech Cocktail Chicago 7

  interested in supporting the TECH cocktail movement - become a TECH cocktail sponsor today! Contact us ASAP. Find out some of the details from some of the past TECH cocktail events: TECH cocktail Chicago 1 TECH cocktail Chicago 2 TECH cocktail Chicago 3 TECH cocktail Chicago 4 TECH cocktail DC 1 TECH cocktail Chicago 5 TECH

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• EveryBlock: A Hyper-Local News Aggegator

  Published: February 2, 2008, 4:40 pm

  Tags: Aggregator, Ajax, Chicago, Community, Content, Craigslist, Data, Everyblock, Innovation, Local, Mashup, Media 2 0, News, Resource, San Francisco, Social Media, Social News, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Tech Cocktail, Techcocktail, Techcocktail5, Tec

  up with Adrian Holovaty at TECH cocktail Chicago 5 in July 2007 and we talked about EveryBlock when it was just a new project. He was just getting rolling on and I am happy to see it has launched - it looks super. Check out the Adrian Holovaty video interview (below). Related EveryBlock stories include articles on TechCrunch, Signal vs.

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