SF New Tech Night Out: a Mobile Education

Looking forward to SF New Tech’s event in San Francisco in this second week of the New Year.  The focus is on emerging mobile apps.

What will be exciting to know about are the more practical apps that are coming onto the scene.  Things like Rx Personal Caregiver (a reminder to take medications!)  and RadioWeave (which gives you access to radio on the go as well as social channels like Twitter.  Hmmm).  There is also an app which will allow you to record your health progress as you undergo a health intervention, called Polka, and a game that will set up a scavenger hunt scenario for you as you explore a city.  Since I’m developing something for people visiting places like San Francisco, I’m hoping for some interface between actual city spots and the scavenger app.

What I also like about SF New Tech besides the high energy in the room for things newly emerging is the fact the Myles, the organizer, makes himself available for email and follows up each presentation with a brief survey using Wufoo that also tabulates your answers immediately, giving anyone who completes it an idea of how your response compares to the rest of the people attending.  I think it’s fabulous — a small but important gesture not to lose audience feedback around a shared activity.