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SiliconValley NewTech Meetup - February 2009

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vinnie

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A great superbowl on sunday right? What's funny, is thing I heartalked about most around the valley is not the touch down scored viasome Steealer's head, but what advertising budgets looked like and howthis was not a strong year for commercials :P

So there's a new item at the bottom of the newsletter that goes outeach month. Even as optimistic as I love to be, the effects of theeconomy have definitely hit Silicon Valley with lay-offs (thetech-sector globally has seen more then 1/4 million lay-offs in thepast year). I think 2009 will be an interesting year and I havenothing but high expectations for solid companies to really shinethrough this time. Benjamin Hill had the great idea of including a jobboard on the newsletter - so that our community has another outlet tohelp each other out. A new member from nyc, Chris Hutchins, isorganizing http://laidoffcamp.pbwiki.com. In addition to the newsletter, I'll post a copy at on our forum at: http://forum.newtechmeetup.org/forum/category/job-postings/

On Deck for tonight

adhearsion.com- Write a mobile voice feature for your website. This is Open SourceTelephony on a full featured framework. Go multi-modal and add voicecapabilities to your website or mobile app. [Jason Goecke & JayPhillips]

alphagrade.com- Help teens take a break from facebook! AlphaGrade is a tool to linkschool grades and chores to their weekly allowance. [Mahesh Hinduja]

peanutlabsmedia.com- New ways to make money on your site - From cell phone payments (forthe kids that don't have credit cards) to creating markets with virtualgoods. [Murti Hussain]