The San Francisco New Tech MeetUp is a premiere networking community sponsored by the New York Times & Mashable. The MeetUp attracts the likes of VCs, journalists, hackers, techies, recruiters, CEOs, and bloggers, with a running total of 5 thousand active members.

BBC News describes SF New Tech as “a networking event in which the -next big thing- in web developments meets the audience looking out for the hot new tip.”

Last night was an event to remember, SFNewTech set a personal record with 7 companies presenting and LeapFish had the opportunity to close out the event and end the year strong with a very interactive demo!

Key influencers in the media attending the MeetUp were excited to engage and discuss LeapFish. In the end LeapFish received a positive response and the question of the night was “Are you hiring!?” The Team at LeapFish is proud to say we are hiring, growing and will continue to innovate your search experience online.

In closing our team at LeapFish would like to extend a big thank you to Myles Weissleder, for putting on another successful San Francisco New Tech MeetUp. We would also like to congratulate Twilio , Cubetree , PSD2CSS Online , Useful or Waste , Zuora , & Fido Factor on great presentations. Great Work and we’ll see you all in 2010!

PLEASANTON, CA – (December 14th, 2009) – LeapFish, a new multi-media and real-time search, communication, and sharing platform, announced today the integration of four new services.  The search platform now includes results from Digg, Facebook, Crunchbase and Scribd, expanding its reach for consumers on every search.

Perform a topic search and get news results from Digg.  Perform a company or person search and see profile results from Facebook and Crunchbase.  “LeapFish will continue to integrate more services and valuable content to equip users with a search engine that does an extensive search of the web,” said Ben Behrouzi, LeapFish CEO.

LeapFish’s latest release includes :

• Digg – Digg is a social news website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet with over 527 Million Digg recommendations and 14 million submitted stories.

• Facebook – Facebook is the largest social networking user database with over 350 million users worldwide.

• Crunchbase – Crunchbase is a free directory of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit with over 20 million page views each month.

• Scribd – Scribd is the largest social publishing network in the world with over 10 million documents published.

For more information on the recent release, visit http://blog.leapfish.com

About LeapFish:

LeapFish is an evolved search engine that captures the traditional, multi-media and real-time Web, through a single, connected search platform for both searching and sharing content.  LeapFish is a privately held, 100-person corporation headquartered out of CARR America Corporate Center in Pleasanton, California. For more information, visit blog.leapfish.com.

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The Tweet-a-Cause for the Greater Bay Area Make-a-Wish Foundation is officially over.  Thousands of Tweets were generated by thousands of individuals supporting the cause and although the number Tweets fell short of the goal, LeapFish will be making Jacob’s wish come true anyway.

LeapFish has donated $10,000 to the Greater Bay Area Make-a-Wish Foundation and is sending Jacob to Disneyland with his family for a week!

Thanks to all of who Tweeted, published Facebook posts & made mention of the Tweet-A-Cause in blogs.  Jacob’s family is full of gratitude and thanks.

A Thank You From Jacob’s Mother:

Gratitude to all the special Angels at Make-A-Wish,

This will create a memory that will last a lifetime; bringing much needed healing and joy to our hearts.  As Jacob’s mother, I witnessed the reflection of joy and wonder in Jacob’s eyes I will never forget when he found out.  You provided a magical haven, a world away from daily cares and challenges that life threatening heart disease can bring; letting go of the emotional, mental, social challenges that Jacob faces in his life. Gratitude from the bottom of our hearts for everything!

LeapFish was proud to team up with the Greater Bay Area Make-a-Wish © Foundation in its first social media fundraiser and hopes more of such causes take form in the future.

The San Francisco Chronicle’s technology blog, The Tech Chronicles, describes the recent trend in charity fundraisers fueled by social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.  The Chronicle discussed the growing trend of social media for community causes and recognized LeapFish’s recent Tweet-a-Cause campaign that empowered Twitter users with the ability to Tweet a little boys wish to go to Disneyland true.

The article covered the partnership between The Greater Bay Area Make-A-Wish Foundation and LeapFish that raised $10,000 to send a 4-year-old ill boy to Disneyland.

Excerpt from the Article:

Regarding the use of Social Media to promote Charities, ” It only takes a couple of moments a day to change the world…LeapFish, a Pleasanton search engine, has pledged to donate $10,000 if 100,000 Twitter messages are generated.”

Click here to read the article on SFGate.com:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=52391

Excerpt from the Article:

“The core functionality of LeapFish is still search, but the search box now has two buttons: ‘Real Time’ and ‘Search Web.’ The ‘Real Time’ button leads to a mosaic of real time results: News, trending topics, relevant top stories on Digg, fresh tweets and video results. In spite of the large amount of information, the search results are easy to navigate.”

Click here to read the entire Pandia Search Engine News article:

http://www.pandia.com/sew/2250-search-the-real-time-web-with-leapfish.html

The hosts of Webmaster Radio’s Townhall Radio podcast spoke with Ben Behrouzi to learn about the new LeapFish social search engine.  Behrouzi unveiled LeapFish’s multi-media and real-time search, communication and sharing platform, and discussed why and how search needs to change to keep up with today’s living, social web.

Excerpt from the Podcast:

“This is a major leap forward in the way we look at major applications we use everyday. I use web search everyday, I use social media, I am looking for video, audio and social media results. In my world, having it at my fingertips immediately is critical and finally someone has done something about it… LeapFish.”

“You’ve worked around the information overload problem. You guys are packing a ton of information on the page and it doesn’t feel too busy.”

“Having the real-time search features that give me direct access to breaking information.”

Listen to Part 1 of the interview here:

Listen to Part 2 of the interview here:

Listen to Part 3 of the interview here:

Click here to hear the entire Webmaster Radio podcast:

http://www2.webmasterradio.fm/townhall-meeting/2009/leapfish-launches-real-time-social-search-engine/

Excerpt from the Article:

“It is irritating that many searches, especially those with commercial implications, are increasingly dominated by ‘search engine optimisers’ paid to get their company’s results at the top of the stack. Sometimes we don’t just want to see what’s at the top of the haystack but the needle that is buried somewhere inside that no one has linked to. In recent weeks I have been impressed by LeapFish (which) combines real time search with sharing over social networks.”

Click here to read the entire Guardian article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/11/searching-beyond-google

Excerpt from the Article:

“The site offers some very interesting possibilities. It has some similarities to iGoogle but has managed to integrate social media faster than the search giant ”

Click here to read the entire Search Engine Watch Article:

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/091112-224356

SEM Synergy, Bruce Clay, Inc.’s weekly podcast on WebmasterRadio.fm, recently featured an interview with LeapFish CEO Ben Behrouzi addressing the significant changes on the Web in the past few years, thanks to social networking and community platforms.

The broadcast covered the current state of the Web, consumer behavior and LeapFish’s new offering in the Search space.  SEM Synergy reported “The recent public launch of LeapFish boasts a number of features that help users search and share content across popular sites, locate real-time content and create a custom search experience fitting of online life today.”

Excerpt from the Article:

“LeapFish has been designed with the new Web in mind, culling content from traditional, social and real-time Web sources into a customizable interface that acts as a dashboard for the Web”

Click here for the Bruce Clay radio broadcast and article :

http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/archives/2009/11/information_con.html

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