Anyway the best teams from round the world are battling out right now. Last night, the US team were knocked out by the Czechs & only today the favorite Canadians were bundled out by the Russians. Seems like the cold war all over again, but this time the Eastern Europeans have won! There has been mad hysteria this past week in many Nordic & European countries with people meeting up everywhere at Beer Gardens & watering holes to down some beers & follow the action.

Check out some of the ice hockey action below:

Now we want to know: Who will YOU be watching the Ice Hockey finals with?

We just chucked up a Question on our Facebook page – go to it & let us know who you want to watch the finals with:

Jaromir Jagr, Your Grandma, maybe even Megan Fox?

So check out our Facebook page, answer our question & meet up with your friends more easily this weekend by downloading our app. Oh while your at it follow us on Twitter . Good luck to the teams in the finals & guys let us know how you celebrated!

Catch ya later!

SO who do you think’s going to take the title? The Chinese team going to steamroll the competition again or will a European come through with the goods?! Its exciting stuff & the action is heating up. Even I feel like playing a quick game; more so when I watch this:

Were hanging with the top players at the champs, so any Qs or requests for tips, contact us. Oh yeah of course like our Facebook page & follow us on Twitter, so you can keep updated on whats happening. Finally get the app that people & players alike are using here at WTTC to meetup: Who’s Free.

Who’s Free for Table Tennis?

Well Table Tennis (for the pros) is an Olympic sport, with world calibre champion athletes but for you & me, it’s still a damn fun game to play socially with your friends.

So I ask: Who’s Free for Table Tennis?

Forget scout halls & churches, the sport is hip again with celebs like Ed Norton, Matthew Broderick, the actress Susan Sarandon & rapper 50cent turning up bat in hand, at clubs all round the world wanting a hit!

This Table Tennis fervor is building towards this weekends start to the World Table Tennis Championships in Holland. The top players in the world will all be battling it out for 7 days, May 8-15, for bragging rights on who’s the fastest & of course who’s the world champion. We’ll be getting some exclusive player content, interviews, tips & video, so stay tuned to our Facebook page & follow us on Twitter to keep up with all the action.

Game on!!

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Of Course we also met some awesome fans, VIPs, other startups, with seemingly the whole SanFran startup scene having moved to Austin for the week!

Real cool!!

We also threw a Master of Geolocation Startup party with other awesome location based startups like Yobongo & Domo. As the Japanese earthquake & Tsunami had just occured, we also raised funds for the disaster relief.

In all it was a great week at SXSW: we even tried out the new iPad2 on release night…..& Who’s Free’d it!! :

We had a massive response at SXSW, with great media interviews with CNN, Washington Post & NHK. Due to this our server was overloaded. We are trying to fix this ASAP!

Its a great problem to have (as more of you are using Who’s Free), but it sux!

Will let you all know once fixed, so please hold on & be patient.

Thanks guys!

We dedicated the night to help save victims of the Japan earthquake & tsunami. Our CEO, JD, was a Japanese TV celebrity, lived there for over 10 years & LOVES Japan. So this was a cause dear to everyone’s heart.

We raised some much needed funds to save Japan on the night.

We, along with our great pals over at Domo, are joining together & helping a SXSW Save Japan Fundraising Night to help the earthquake & Tsunami victims of Japan.
The fundraiser will be on Monday 14th, with official announcement taking place during the Japan Mobile Panel on Monday morning at 11am at the Hilton:
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP8378

Come & help the victims of the Japan earthquake & Tsunami at the Save Japan Fundraising Night Monday evening.

You can also make donations at our official Red Cross Fundraising page. Make a quick $10 donation to help Save Japan: http://www.sxsw4japan.org/whosfree

Keep up to date with the fundraiser by following Who’s Free on Facebook & Twitter.

Our Masters of GeoLocation party on Sat night with Domo, Yobongo, Gatsby & Soundtrckr was awesome. Had a great time & met some great people over a beer or 2.

Check out some of the pics below:

With a buzzing audience of tech heads, app lovers, Angels, VC’s & startup enthusiasts we duked it out with 9 other early-stage startups to see who would come out champs!

CEO, JD blew the crowd out of the water with his ‘Dynamic’ presentation of the app. Coupled with the great response from those attending & the judges positive reaction, we were a seemingly hot crowd favorite!

We even had some local & international media crews interview us directly after hoping down from the stage. Below you can see a snap of when NHK TV Japan came across & interviewed JD.

Anyway, here’s how the Vator Splash comp worked:

- Welcome speeches, 1st 30min keynote, then the 1st 5 startups present (we presented in this bunch).

- 2nd 30min Keynote, then a 40 minute dinner break.

- Last 5 startups present, then the remaining attendees start to vote via SMS.

What was pointed out to us, was that many people left at the dinner break without getting to vote at all. Also the SMS vote system is open to manipulation by people not actually at the event. It wasn’t a true indication or snapshot of the 400 people who attended & heard the presentations.  The voting process could be improved in the future, by allowing all who listened to the presentations to vote (before they leave).

Well, we came up short, but, there’s always next year!?…..next time the first 5 presenters need to tie down the attendees with ball & chains so they can cast their vote before they leave!

JD’s presentation video (shot with our own camera) is below. We’ll put up the final polished video once Vator sends it & the NHK TV Japan probably in a week or so.

And here is another presentation from the night. More will come up as they become available.

I-Build: http://vator.tv/pitch/show/ibuildapp?document=vatorsplash_shortmp4

In any case, we’ve had a busy couple days being back in San Fran. We worked out our new mini-home: Rocket-Space. A brand new co-working space with a tonne of startups like us there.

SO now its off to New York & Social Media Week. That’s right: bagels, hot dogs & NYC pizza coupled with some great SM events across the city that never sleeps!

Can’t Wait!!

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter & Facebook, to keep up to date on our news & all our travels!

Catch ya!!

We’ve been judged as a TOP 5 up & coming startup, with our brand new mobile app: Who’s Free.
With this esteemed tag, we now get to duke it out with a handful of other startups at the Vator Splash event in San Francisco next Thursday, Feb 3.

Over here at meebeeland (our Google-inspired name for HQ), we are real stoked & cant wait to get to Vator & really rock their socks off with our presentation. We’ll be busy over the weekend going over final preps & polishing it all, so we can amaze the crowd in attendance!

Anyway we got notice of our placing & confirmation of us presenting, while out at the local bar testing with some folks. We had a beer & a platter of wings to celebrate!!

We really appreciate all your support! Without you guys voting for us, we wouldnt have got a chance to be in the TOP 5 & present at the event. So CHEERS to you all!!

Also dont forget to continue to check us out on all our social media networks that we’re on out there. Thanks again!

Here’s what you can do to help spread the Who’s Free goodness:

Help us! We REALLY want to win this one!

1) SIGNUP: Visit http://vator.tv/registration
2) CONFIRM: Check your email and click the link in the email from Vator.tv
3) VOTE: After clicking the link in your email, go to: http://bit.ly/dYSTrD Find: Who’s Free (blue logo) and click “Vote for this Company.”

We really appreciate your support! Without you guys, we wouldn’t be able to keep going. We need our users, and hopefully you’ll continue to show your support by voting for our company as well as continuing to check us out on all the social media networks that we’re on out there. Thanks again!