SF Beta

SF Beta is pleased to welcome Apsalar as our latest sponsor!

Apsalar is driving a new market as the leader in Mobile Engagement Management (MEM) for mobile apps. App developers and publishers are using Apsalar’s rich analytics to gain actionable insights into engagement, retention and monetization for their apps. With user-level analytics as the foundation, combined with Apsalar’s behavioral targeting capabilities, app publishers are doing in-app testing and delivering personalized user experiences and content, as well as generating actionable recommendations, promotions and offers. App developers and publishers need to focus on engagement to keep their existing customers, win new customers and maximize revenue per user. Without meaningful engagement, far too many apps will languish in mediocrity.

Apsalar provides the most advanced Mobile Engagement Management solutions in the mobile apps market. The company is bridging the gap between analytics and behavioral targeting in mobile with advanced in-app and cross-app analytics, anchored in user action-based conversion funnels, deep cohort engagement, retention, monetization analysis, and advanced levels of segmentation.

SF Beta is pleased to welcome Depositphotos as our latest sponsor!

Depositphotos is the fastest growing stock photo agency in the world. Founded in 2009, it soon established itself as an economical alternative for stock photos and vector illustrations. Presently Depositphotos offers over 4 million stock images sold under royalty-free licenses. The stock photo library increases daily by thousands of images, carefully checked and selected by moderators.

Depositphotos proved itself as the first stock photo agency to offer bonus payments without hidden withdrawal conditions for every single image photographers uploaded for sale. Its photographers receive up to 60% royalty on image sales.

Depositphotos serves customers worldwide and is the best source for royalty-free photos and vector art. If you are a designer, advertiser, marketer, photo editor, content manager or blogger, Depositphotos has millions of high-quality images available at affordable prices to fit all your artwork needs. Visit Depositphotos at www.depositphotos.com to explore its extensive library of high-quality stock photos, images and vector illustrations.

SF Beta is pleased to welcome Presdo Match as our latest sponsor!

Presdo‘s mission is to increase the value of people’s social networks through face-to-face and real-time interactions where valuable relationships develop. Presdo Match, the company’s industry-leading event social networking platform, creates an invitation-only “social network” for your events where attendees,exhibitors and sponsors connect with each other based on matching interests and do business at your events. Available in both mobile and web experiences, Presdo Match enables event attendees to effectively connect pre, during and post events.

Presdo Match has an innovative Social Invites feature which enable event attendees to promote the event to non-attendees through personal social media accounts including LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and also with email addresses. Social Invites motivates the right audience to apply for the event and gets attendees to register for an event sooner.

By leveraging its background in professional social networking from LinkedIn, Presdo has chosen to focus on delivering the most exciting promise that technology can bring to events in the last decade—crafting a user experience that effectively connects attendees online and offline in the context of events.

SF Beta is pleased to welcome Getty Images as our latest sponsor!

Getty Images is one of the world’s leading creators and distributors of still imagery, footage and multimedia products, as well as a recognized provider of other forms of premium digital content, including music. Getty Images serves business customers in more than 100 countries and is the first place creative and media professionals turn to discover purchase and manage images and other digital content. Its award-winning photographers and imagery help customers produce inspiring work which appears every day in the world’s most influential newspapers, magazines, advertising campaigns, films, television programs, books and Web sites.

The Getty Images expanding family also includes iStock photo, the web’s original source of royalty-free stock images; Thinkstock.com and Photos.com, Getty’s royalty free subscription service sites; a curated Flickr collection and more.

Additionally to producing high-quality visual and audio content, Getty Images is a proud innovator in distributing that content. Through Getty Images Connect, Getty Images’ API (application programming interface), clients gain the benefits of seamlessly integrating Getty content directly with their own internal technology systems.

Visit Getty Images at www.gettyimages.com to learn more about how the company is advancing the unique role of digital media in communications and business, and enabling creative ideas to come to life.

SFBeta is pleased to welcome Sincerely as our latest sponsor!

Sincerely makes it easy to send real photos in the mail from your phone.

Sincerely created the popular Postagram and PopBooth apps for iOS and Android. Postagram sends a real postcard anywhere in the world for 99c. Users create custom postcards using photos from their phone, Instagram or Facebook. PopBooth is a real life photo booth for the iPhone and iPad 2. Set up an iPad at your next event and send real photo strips in the mail to your guests.

Most recently Sincerely launched their Ship Library for iOS. Sincerely is enabling developers to add Print & Ship functionality to their apps. Developers can send postcards, earn revenue, and engage their customers in real life. Interested developers can learn more at http://www.sincerely.com/developers.

We’re pleased to welcome HPM Networks back as a returning sponsor!

HPM Networks is a leading Business Solution Provider for Enterprise IT Solutions and Professional Services.

They supply and integrate, industry standard, Best-of-Breed solutions for companies that require true technical expertise to meet their goals.

Going on 19 years strong, they are the Bay Area’s trusted advisor for best practice infrastructure, networking, virtualization, cloud and technical service needs.

SFBeta is pleased to welcome StreamZoo as our latest sponsor!

Streamzoo is the ultimate photo and video sharing app! Love to take photos and record videos with your phone? Is your camera roll full of interesting and beautiful captures?

Streamzoo helps you share, organize, and discover #streams of mobile photos and videos.
Connect with people all over the world, discover interesting content, and organize your mobile photos and videos into #streams. Add special filters, borders, and tilt shift effects for quick photo enhancements.

Streamzoo is a must have app for anybody looking to have some fun with their mobile photos and videos! Join our fast growing community!

★ 9 Filter Effects ★
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- Improve your photos with 9 stunning photo filter effects
- B&W, Sepia, Lomo, Vibrance, Old School, Masterpiece, Sunshine, Classical, Industrial

★ 13 Border Effects ★
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- Add special borders to your photos
- White, Black, Film, Old Film, Gritty, Fancy, Vignette, Viewfinder, Vintage, Dusty, Retro, Paint, Throwback

★ Tilt Shift ★
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- Add tilt shift to your photos to create a miniaturized scaling effect with a shallow depth of field
- Featuring rectangle, parallel lines, circle, and ellipse shapes for focal points

★ Social Networking ★
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- Login and share with Facebook and Twitter
- Follow your friends and interesting people
- Like and comment on photos and videos
- Stay updated with activity notifications
- Direct message other users

★ Social Gaming ★
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- Earn points for sharing and likes received
- Compete on the leaderboard (weekly and monthly)
- Get more exposure for your captures

★ Content Discovery ★
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- Follow #hashtags to receive real time feed updates (Exclusive only in Streamzoo)
- Trending, popular, and most recent #streams (Exclusive only in Streamzoo)

★ Simple UI and Navigation ★
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- Simple user dashboard (home screen) for quick navigation
- Personalized user profiles with access to #streams and uploads
- Fast buttons to add #hashtags you recently used
- Full gallery view with pinch and zoom, and landscape view

★ Web Experience ★
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- View content, interact with users, and engage with content on the web through www.streamzoo.com

★ More Features… ★
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- Turn on GPS location for your photos and videos
- Background uploads for your convenience
- Cross platform (iPhone, Android, Web)

We’re pleased to welcome Daily Gourmet, who demoed with us at our July event, as our latest sponsor! They’ll be providing food for our September event, so be sure to register now to secure your opportunity to nibble delicious treats while checking out the latest in video and photography startups.

Daily Gourmet is a way for foodies to discover delicious, high-quality foods from around the country and connect with the passionate producers that make them. We feature time-limited offers on gourmet foods and provide their producers with the tools necessary to gain exposure, bring in new customers and grow their business sustainably over the long term.

We’re pleased to welcome the first Evernote Trunk Conference as our newest sponsor!

The Evernote Trunk Conference (ETC) is a full day of sessions, workshops and discussions designed to help you take advantage of the Evernote platform. You’ll learn how to kick off your API project, hear success stories from fellow entrepreneurs and discover ways to improve your daily use of Evernote. Sign up today for a 50% discount off the ticket price: http://etc2011.eventbrite.com/?discount=SFBETA Use promo code: SFBETA.

We’re pleased to welcome Viadeo as our latest sponsor!

With 35 million professional members, Viadeo is one of the world’s largest professional social networking platforms. Founded in 2004, Viadeo’s network spans five continents including Asia, where membership is expanding rapidly in emerging economies such as China (Tianji.com) and India (ApnaCircle.com). Viadeo currently has offices in Paris, London, San Francisco, Beijing, Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Dakar, New Delhi and Mexico City. Headquartered in Paris, Viadeo has 260 employees.

The interconnection of platforms is at the heart of the next generation of social networks. Innovative developers are shaping the future of the social web by creating web applications that connect services together. Therefore, Viadeo has recently opened up its API to developers to bring a professional social context to websites, applications and services. Viadeo gives developers quick and efficient tools for integrating with Viadeo and a means for creating independent applications. The API uses RESTful calls and responses are formatted in XML and JSON.

Viadeo will officially launch the API platform in the US and Mexico on September 7th, 2011, but developers can already access the Viadeo API platform and the technical support team. For more information, please check out http://dev.viadeo.com/.