Lunch 2.0 in Palo Alto tomorrow!
Just a quick reminder that we’ll be having lunch in downtown Palo Alto, sponsored by Cornish & Carey tomorrow! RSVP over at upcoming.org
June 24, 2009
June 21, 2009
Woof 2.0: Lunch 2.0 with Fido Factor and The San Francisco SPCA
No, the reason there haven’t been Lunch 2.0’s in the bay is not the economy, it’s our laziness. Hot on the heals of Palo Alto’s Lunch 2.0, San Francisco is barking up a storm with their first summer Lunch 2.0!
Lunch 2.0 is going to the dogs! Join Fido Factor at The SF/SPCA on Friday, June 26th @ Noon PT for the launch of fidofactor.com, a new technology service designed to ease the constraints of owning a dog in the city. See demos of Fido Factor across three platforms, learn how your use of Fido Factor supports homeless animals in SF, and lunch on amazing sandwiches from Petite Deli. [Ed: As a former North Beach resident, I can vouch that Young uses only the best ingredients]
June 26th is also National Take Your Dog to Work Day, so guests are welcome to bring their on-leash pup to the event – marking the first cross species Lunch 2.0 event. Attendees will have the chance to win giveaways from local San Francisco businesses! Get your RSVP in soon; due to space limitations the guest list will be capped at 150.
Hosts: Fido Factor & The SF/SPCA
Where: SF/SPCA - Leanne B. Roberts Animal Care Center 201 Alabama Street San Francisco CA 94103
(Free lot parking at Alabama and Treat St – mention Fido Factor)
When: Friday, June 26th, 12:00PM - 2:00PM
RSVP on Upcoming
June 13, 2009
Downtown Palo Alto Lunch 2.0
Dive into summer at Lunch 2.0 in Downtown Palo Alto. The weather is heating up, and Palo Alto is one of the hottest places in the country for tech companies to locate. New to the market sublease space in downtown Palo Alto is offering companies more opportunity to locate here economically.
Lunch will be catered by Facebook’s renowned Chef Josef DeSimone and there will be a raffle for gift certificates at Palo Alto hot spots.
Host: Cornish & Carey
Location: 285 Hamilton, 4th floor, Palo Alto, CA
Thursday, June 25th from 12-2pm
RSVP on upcoming
Come to mix, mingle and learn why Palo Alto is the place to be this summer!
Cornish & Carey has represented the technology community in their real estate needs since 1935. Contact Liz at ehart@ccarey.com or Jack at jackt@ccarey.com for more info.
June 12, 2009
Sleepless - Action Plan
Got the signals. Today is the day. You’ve arrived.
Brad Pitt:
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Your code name is Crown
Get your iphone ready
Get your Mac ready with iTune account
Get WiFi card
Gather all of your architect contacts
Meet with our CA Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to assess situation
Announce your Twitter acct to media
Follow Twitter @savetheweb
@Reply to Twitter @savetheweb from your Twitter with “Save The Future”
Find and add me on your Twitter
Do this fast before I can’t continue to stay on this blog
My code name is Bear
Palo Alto downtown is the most ideal location for 1st contact for safety and privacy. You can easily blend in without notice in late night. It’s 35min from Oakland. Make it before July 4th. Roughly 2 months to sync up the resources on Master Rescue Plan. I am clearing road blocks here.
Appear major TV show interview and mention “Future” at least 3 times. Be sure the TV interview will be featured online and mentioned on the news. Wave your hand with “ok” sign with 3 fingers up representing “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. Be sure photographers capture your hand signs. This will be the signature of “Thomas Crown” opening act to gather public support.
Time is clicking.
Bess
SVWB Founder
June 4, 2009
Sleepless – Back To The Future Part I
Sleepless. Not just a few nights. Honestly I don’t want to write or else I would have written many weeks ago. Everything I write here will affect billion of dollars as if I am writing the Future.
First of all, thank you very much for those who flash signs to show support including showing superman sign, Michael J. Fox TV interview appearance, Back To The Future DVD release, etc.
I am not here to polish the present and decorate the future like politicians and business executives. I am here to reveal the truth preparing us to bravely face the present and create our future.
I am not here to fix the stock market. I am not here to fix the economy. I am just an ordinary geek who inherit the leadership in web community. It takes tremendous of courage to speak out in this sensitive historical time.
Looking around. I don’t have the choice. I have to keep my words. Yes I am looking at the stock market everyday tracking the market movements. I have made a deal with hedge fund traders and investors around the world. So far it meets no.1 & no.2 conditions. Yahoo stock cross above $15 many times. We can take a short breathe.
DEAL:
Stop shorting US stocks based on this blog (Checked)
OR
Allow Yahoo stock to recover in the healthy price range of $15-$20 (Checked)
Our IPO toilet in Silicon Valley is broken. Agree with many experts. Stock market is not a true reflection of economy. We’ll have to look beyond the daily and weekly stock market trends. To prepare more startups in Silicon Valley to pre-qualify for IPO and stay healthy after post-IPO, I would like to make a deal with Wall Street Investment Banks that underwrite IPO. This is fair as Investment Banks no longer retain the same reputation and creditability. The cost of IPOs is at the alarming level as increasing health care cost. It is bad for companies, startups, consumers, investors, retirement, and government. Let’s fix the broken toilet.
DEAL:
Drop Investment Bank 7% for 90% of the IPOs to at least 50%
Everything across the board in every industry is in very bad shape. I would like to request our government to delay or reduce the scope of Antitrust until our economy recover. Put more efforts in regulating Investment Banks and Accounting Firms that control the IPO underwriting fee and process.
I would ask every startup in Silicon Valley to work on a solid business models that foster healthy revenue, requirement for M&A or IPO.
One thing I am certain. Netbook is not the Future. Star Trek “PADD” (Personal Access Display Device), a hand-held computer interface with touch screen device is the Future. Future PADD will contain an universal connector that plug into a wall, desk, case, public stand, car or even chair. PADD keyboard is part of hard cover, or carry case, or embedded in desk, or integrated into wall Digital Frame. You fold down the Wall Digital Frame to access the keyboard for PADD for standing use or detach it from wall for comfort use. Rentable PADD will replace text books reducing educational cost, save more trees to protect our environment. PADD will reduce administration cost & errors in hospital by digitalizing records from the entry point of patient visit.
Our future relies on sensitivity and accuracy of mobile devices. Accelerometer on the mobile is not sensitive enough to achieve critical functions. Our infrastructure is lacking to support accurate altitude.
Future Specifications:
A open standard on mobile profile must be created. This is not the same as Open ID, Facebook Connect, MySpace ID, Google Friend Connect. This mobile profile is designed to save lives dealing with aging baby boomers, shortage of health care professionals, increasing cost of healthcare, reduction of government budget on police, firefighters, state and city workers. This mobile profile captures major age group such as senior citizen with health condition classifications. The m profile is stored on mobile with protected password and only reveal permission-based public code on the phone. It stores minimum data in determining healthcare decision at critical times when medical records are not accessible. The m profile details can be revealed by ER or rescuing authority in saving life situations. User can change state from “normal” to various danger levels depending on health or disaster situation like flood, fire, earthquake, mud slides, etc, sending alerts to assigned personal and preferred local authority.
Next generation accelerometer has to be sensitive enough to detect a sudden drop beyond normal use. If user doesn’t response within 10-30 sec, mobile will send warning signal to personal contact, within a few min mobile will send signal to preferred healthcare professionals. If there are massive signals within same area in proximity at the same time, it will alert local authority such as nearby firefighters or hospitals.
Accuracy in altitude is fundamental in research & science, as well as business applications. We must go beyond 2D data visualization, distribution and mapping. Ability to hook html/XML tag, CSS class and JS div to accurate and reliable accelerometer or geological coordinates will enable 3D functional applications. Any rescue team can quickly mount mobile devices with data plan only sending timely data, periodic images or videos to monitor disaster areas. I hope to witness web advance going toward the greater human man kind, rather than surfing the web.
Deal:
I’ll reveal and explain more. So much more must be done. CA is in serious critical state with very tight timing. I’ll be watching Wall Street news on Investment Banks.
Personal Note:
I personally would like to ask everyone’s cooperation, not to make me nervous about who I should or should not invite or what I should or should not cover in coming events. If I feel it is necessary to arrange another meeting like Browser Wars or JavaScript Battle or HTML6, just gracefully and openly accept the ideas. I don’t need any extra unnecessary pressure to my existing nervousness. It takes a lot of guts and nerves to describe what it takes to build the FUTURE.
Time is limited. Clock is clicking for CA. These few days I am reading “rescue” signs from our CA governor.
Mr. President: It is wise to act quickly on healthcare reforms between now and August.
Brad Pitts: Your name has been coming up many times. Get ready. Clean up. Put yourself back to the Golden American look. You’ll play a very important role in rescuing CA state, part of bigger future. Get your Twitter account ready to receive timely clues. You can find me via SFCutters.
Angelina Jolie: I used to look up to you. I just didn’t see your name. I would just ask you not to interfere the rescue effort.
JJ Abrams: I’ll need your help related to Star Trek.
Back To The Future: I’d like to see a different time line, McFly’s next generation. A geek girl with long hair riding a scooter, twitter with iphone, and hack codes. Put that little hamster in the ball. Include Feng Shui Master Guide.
JavaScript Jedi: Can we pass the congressional Republican type of debates on JavaScript spec? Look beyond DOM level. Ease the pain and cost of AJAX.
Lunch20: Sorry guys about taking the space on the blog. When the world is getting better, we’ll get more free lunches!
Bess
SVWB Founder
May 29, 2009
Reminder: Lunch 2.0 @ PnP tomorrow!
A quick reminder that we’ve got lunch 2.0 going down at Plug and Play Tech Center in Redwood City tomorrow! Come on out for some free food, info about 3 interesting startups, and great networking!
May 28, 2009
Lunch 2.0 @ Plug and Play Tech Center
Plug and Play Tech Center in Redwood City is hosting us this Friday for lunch and a triple header!
Hosts: Plug and Play Tech Center
Where: 370 Convention Way, Redwood City, CA
When: Friday May 29, 2009 from 12:00pm to 2:00pm
RSVP on upcoming.org
Plug and Play Tech Center is a community 240 startups across three campuses in Silicon Valley including Sunnyvale, Palo Alto and Redwood City. The community is consisted of companies in the Web 2.0, software (SaaS), systems and telecomm verticals. Since its inception in January 2006 the center has helped the startups raise in excess of $400 million in venture funding. The start-up companies have created a cumulative value of $2 billion.
We’ll have three presenting companies:
1. JUDOBABY, a private company and authorized Nintendo Wii developer, nearing launch of a revolutionary new home entertainment product within the fastest growing sector of the casual gaming industry.
2. SERPengine provides to marketers a productivity platform and recommendation engine for search engine optimization. SEO isn’t black magic and, using our application, any marketer can lead a powerful SEO
effort for their company.
3. InfoAxe is a new Real Time Search Engine which leverages the browsing wisdom of crowds (completely anonymized) to offer fresh results based on what people have actually found useful while browsing the Web.
April 29, 2009
Lunchooooo! Lunch 2.0 @ Yahoo (Santa Clara)
Sorry about the last minute invite!
The grass is green and the sheep are back to graze on the wetlands. It must be time for another Lunch 2.0 at Yahoo!. Join us in Sunnyvale at noon, on Thursday, April 30, for a first look at some exciting new features of YQL (Yahoo’s Query Language ). YQL lets you Select* from the Internet — query, filter, and join data across web services from anywhere on the net. Apps run faster with fewer lines of code and a smaller network footprint. Come see how sweet it is, talk to the YQL developers, see what what’s coming up next.
The YSlow team will also be on hand to show the latest release of YSlow, now with Smushit integration.
Note: Seating is limited, so get here on time!
http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/
Hosts: Yahoo
Where: 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA
When: Thursday April 30, 2009 from 12:00pm to 1:30pm
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2386024/
April 28, 2009
Lunch 2.0 with The Rackspace Cloud in Austin, TX!
Lunch 2.0 is on its way to Austin! Join The Rackspace Cloud on Friday, May 1 at Noon CT for the first Lunch 2.0 in the Austin community. Rackspace’s Emil Sayegh, Lew Moorman and other Rackers will be hanging out at the Iron Cactus looking to talk cloud computing.
Come feast on fajitas with us, learn more about the “cloud”, chat with some other smart folks from the Austin area and keep the tech scene alive and well in Austin.
Hosts: The Rackspace Cloud
Where: Iron Cactus North, 10001 Stonelake Blvd., Austin, TX 78759
When: Friday, May 1st, 12:00PM - 2:00PM
RSVP on upcoming!
Also, the folks at SXSW Interactive are offering a free registration to the 2010 SXSWi for one lucky door-prize winning Luncher! But you got to be in it to win it!
April 26, 2009
Sleepless in Silicon Valley – Save the Future Save the World
It is difficult to break the long intended silence as a geek superhero. I almost want to take a superman break to explore my planet.
It takes me weeks to decide when to write again. I figure out there is no perfect time to write. This is the time. The world is watching.
I knew about the chance of flu related epidemic a few months ago. Feng Shui Master warned about the possible flu related epidemic and food poisoning would hit US this year. It arrives in US officially.
Our President Obama and I have a few things in common. I’ll share this one. Perhaps both of us have watched the movie “Back to the Future”. Mr. Obama becomes Mr. President against all odds. Everything about the future is about to begin from here.
Before I continue to share, I need to make a deal with hedge fund traders and investors around the world.
DEAL:
Stop shorting US stocks based on this blog
OR
Allow Yahoo stock to recover in the healthy price range of $15-$20
Last time I ask the community not to beat up Yahoo randomly. Yahoo is getting very close to the target price $15. Yahoo! Developer Network (YDN) has contributed to the web community for years in the background from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0. This is a company contributing and share significant amount of their research and learning to make the web better. In the most recent OAuth API incident on Twitter, once again, Yahoo! demonstrates its leadership pouring their resources to fix it without asking any return. When Yahoo can overcome its way to $20-$25 price range, it will ease up the Silicon Valley. Yahoo is more likely to acquire startups.
I would need our White House to spend less money on Antitrust and more on IPO policy. Our past policies for Silicon Valley are too focus on Punishment. Punish the big companies when it gets big. Punish the startups when it gets closer to IPO. How can we innovate and fuel the economy in this kind of punishment culture?
I would need our Government and Congress to look forward, not backward. Forward back to the Future, NOT backward back to the Past. We simply can’t afford it as a nation. There will be a lot more bigger things coming.
Our toilet in Silicon Valley is broken. It requires to unplug and flush the toilet before the cash flow back to the market. The last Administration did something causing the IPO plumbing to a halt. Big companies and startups are squeezing every penny with massive layoffs as VCs and angels are stuck with the broken toilet. We are losing future assets on human intelligence and technology advancement in Silicon Valley. Change the policy today. Allow as many startups to pre-qualify for IPO. Pair startups with experience executive advisors from public companies and coach them on business models during the pre-qualification period. Allow qualified startups to IPO when all the signals are strong and it is ready for market. Companies like Skype, AOL, Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, etc must graduate from startup status.
Is it in our best interests to force our public to invest in old companies? Railroad is replaced by automobiles. If we force our public to invest only in Railroad, our automobile industry will never take off as well as our stock market. Perhaps many are waiting to invest in the next economy.
When the toilet is fixed, the massive layoff will slow down and hiring will slowly come back. Startups will be the ones lead the hiring, spending and expanding. Big companies will have to follow to stay competitive.
May be our government should consider stop printing money tree and start growing money tree. Go for modern light rail system across the country. Invest back to the future. It will bring new business along the entire rail system. Our old big automobile are designed for big American family.
Consider building mobile app for government instead of building new server infrastructure. It saves bandwidth, maintenance, energy, security on servers and consumer computer’s energy, on web contents that don’t change any often. Allows States and Counties to roll out their mobile apps. Provides both free and paid app. Paid apps that save administration in the long run and also bring revenues to the States and local districts.
Netbook is not the Future. Star Trek “PADD” (Personal Access Display Device), a hand-held computer interface with touch screen device is the Future.
I’ll explain and describe what must happen for Back to the Future. I’ll be watching the stock market to see if traders and investors around the world are keeping the deal.
Save the Future Save the World!
Note: If Goggle stock plunges, it is not related to me. I have nothing to do with this.
Bess
Founder of SVWB
Apr 29 Wed 6:00pm-9:00 PM
Toy Story on Social Mobile UXP Design:
Using Fun to Drive Social Distribution of iPhone Games
Event Title: Toy Story on Social Mobile UXP Design - Using Fun to Drive Social Distribution of iPhone Games
Date: Apr 29 Wed 7:00pm-9:00pm
Speaker: Nicole Lazzaro, Founder and President at XEODesign, Inc
Location: Hurricane Electric
Address: 48233 Warm Spring Blvd, Fremont California 94539
Food & Drink: Sponsored by Hurricane Electric
Registration: http://socialmobiledesign.eventbrite.com/