SILICON VALLEY FORUM (SVForum) Web Apps & E-Commerce - Special Interest Group (SIG) WeCommerce Blog - http://wecommercesig.wordpress.com Web Apps & E-Commerce - Special Interest Group provides a forum for web app & e-commerce developers, product, finance, and marketing professionals to interact and discover ways of growing their ventures. The SIG welcomes experienced professionals and new entrants. The agenda features speakers from companies, VCs, financiers, product managers, and marketers …

Future of PHP Web Apps is a Hacker Social event for PHP developers developing the future of Web Apps. We're about knowledge sharing, technology exploration, and ad-hoc collaboration on PHP. Come to have fun, learn things, build things, and meet fellow developers. Lightning Talks will be held towards the end of the evening - so come demo your exciting PHP projects!

The PhoneNews.com Monthly Mobille Meetup is an informal mixer, aimed at people who have a passion for mobile gadgets, devices, and technology. Enjoy free food, drinks, networking, and giveaways!

  NetSquared - Silicon Valley: NetSquared-SV is part of Netsquared International Technology group. You can find a local N2 group in most major cities around the world from this page: http://www.netsquared.org Here at Silicon Valley chapter, We focus on  Mobile, Social Media technologies, Innovation and Start-ups. For mobile developers and start-ups, mobile innovations should not be limited to any one technology or to one shop when there is a great potential to reach out all other customers a …

Bay Area Web Performance is focused on making the Web faster and smarter! Our members are passionate about the user experience and the Performance community here in Silicon Valley. We'll meet regularly to discuss, delight, and inform ourselves on the hot topics and industry happenings in the Web Performance world! Join us!

The Big Data Analytics Speaker Series is an Adobe/Omniture sponsored speaker series that is open to the general public. Meetings will be conducted monthly in a workshop style meet-up at Adobe's downtown San Jose headquarters and present expert speakers from academia and industry to discuss topics related to the analysis of big data sets and range from tutorials to expert roundtable discussions and cover analytical models to best practices. There will also be specific topics related to mobile, so …

Traditionally, businesses have leveraged print coupons, newspaper ads, and direct mail to advertise their products and services. Our organizer, Bill Belew, is The Traffic Professor = his primary source of income is from blogging AND he pays his sizable Silicon Valley mortgage from his blogging revenue. He is also the author of the best-read How to Blog for Money and Web Traffic series. How effective are these advertising and marketing channels for small businesses today? We will explore modern, …

… Our events are monthly: Life 3.0 - Startups That Change The Way You Live (Demo of early-stage startups) You Pitch, Angels Teach (Startups Pitch to Investors) Startup School (Learn from Investors and CEOs how to build your startup) We also  cover the following topics:  disruptive startups, pitching your startup, investor relations, startup law, augmented reality, and mobile development. Take a look at our community here, and join us to build successful start-ups.    Visit our web site: www.fnf. …

… Although the main focus will be web application and the related user experience problems and solutions, we're open to all kind of topics related to User Experience and Information Architecture (and the management of the UX-IA process). The group is 100% volunteer, and is not affiliated with any professional organizations. Come as you are! Recruiters are MORE THAN WELCOME to join us on our Linkedin group!   To apply for a demo, please use the on-line form.  

Welcome to Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs & Startup Group! Meet other local entrepreneurs /founders/Hackers, VCs, and leaders for the mobile / Internet industry, including Android, iOS, WP, blacberry, HTML5 , Facebook, Chrome, and cloud! Come to our events to network and share your stories. Hear how others have overcome hurdles and achieved success. All are welcome! This fast growing Entrepreneur community is the the place to network with the like minds. And also, its a great place to help individ …

Greetings web, social, console, mobile game and application developers, game designers and entrepreneurs. You will recognize the Silicon Valley, San Francisco, East Bay IGDA Chapters and other Bay Area Game and application developer group friends here. All are welcome. Join us to grow and present your games and apps and related tools and platforms. Find other game developers for your projects. Get or give advice on design, funding, art, technical architecture, careers for your game or applicatio …

Learn how Appcelerator's Titanium platform empowers Web developers to take their existing Web skill sets and build fully native applications for both iPhone and Android. Developers without knowledge of Objective-C or Java -- the languages traditionally used to code iPhone and Android apps -- can still create native apps quickly and easily using the JavaScript, HTML and CSS knowledge they already have. Attendees will walk away with a larger understanding of how these new aspects of Titanium are s …

Here you can track MeeGo related activities in San Francisco Bay Area. Propose genuine MeeGo meetups or casual meetings after interesting events. MeeGo is a platform for mobile devices developed under the auspices of The Linux Foundation - see http://meego.com

Samsung's bada is a new smartphone platform that allows developers to create feature-rich applications that elevate the user experience in mobile spaces. Long story short, Samsung is aiming to bring the smartphone experience to every mobile phone user in the world with a robust, feature-rich, yet affordable mobile platform. With over 1M Samsung bada powered units sold worldwide in just 4 weeks, Samsung's Bada mobile initiative is off to a great start!

… Computer Vision Techniques for High-end Visual Effects by Chris Bregler and Kiran Bhat, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the VFX branch of LucasFilm Mobile Visual Computing by Kari Pulli and Radek Grzeszczuk, Nokia Research Center Unity Technologies - Taking the pain out of game development by David Helgason, Unity Technologies Sirikata: Open Source Virtual Worlds by Daniel Horn, Henrik Bennetsen. Stanford Graphics Lab, Stanford Humanities Lab Ray Tracing with the NVIDIA OptiX …

On a Hackternoon, Mobile meets Web meets Cloud. Use this Meetup to fill gaps in your personal tech stack. This Meetup has a strong educational focus through project deployment. We have no presentation; instead we learn by watching, asking, listening, and doing. We use a combo of Paired Programming, brain power, and a project deployment to help you stay caught up.  Usually we meet at a WIFI cafe or a co-working location like Ground Floor, Hacker Dojo, or NextSpace.