Lunch 2.0

Join hi5 at its first ever Lunch 2.0 event on September 9th at noon. They are celebrating their company expansion and upcoming product launches. Their offices are conveniently located at 55 2nd Street (b/t Mission and Market Sts.), 3rd Floor.

Please RSVP to: Melissa Tinitigan at mtinitigan [at] hi5 [dot] com by September 3rd.

We hope to see you there!

Best,

The hi5 team, Lunch 2.0 crew

Hosts: hi5
Where: 55 2nd Street (bteween Mission and Market), 3rd Floor
When: Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 12:00 - 2:00PM
RSVP by e-mail

About hi5

Launched in 2003, hi5 is now one of the world’s largest social networks — ranked as a top 20 website globally and the #1 social network in 25 countries across Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. According to comScore, more than 56 million individuals every month visit hi5, which is currently available in 24 language options (with more to come). We are a privately-held company, headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Upcoming Events

• Thursday August 21 - Spongecell, SoMa, SF
• Friday August 22 - Sogeti, Netherlands
• Friday August 22 - Apature, Seattle
• Wednesday, August 27 - TBA, SoMa, SF
• Tuesday September 9 - Hi5, SoMa, SF <–THIS EVENT
• Wednesday September 17 - SplashCast, NW Portland
• Thursday September 25 - TBA, San Mateo SV
• Friday September 26 - Health Solutions Group (Microsoft), Redmond Seattle
• Thursday October 2 - TBA, Santa Clara, SV
• Wednesday October 15 - Art Institute of Portland, NW Portland
• Friday, October 10 - Codesta/scanR, Toronto, Canada
• Wednesday November 5 - Eclipse Foundation, SW Portland

Oops, the facebook event has been up for a few weeks but we forgot to update our blog!

Spongecell is hosting us for Lunch 2.0 this week.

Hosts: Spongecell Ads
Where: 5 Lucerne St. #1, San Francisco, CA
When: Thursday, August 21st, 2008 12:00 - 2:00PM
RSVP on facebook

Upcoming (and some past) Events (since the last time we bothered posting)

• Wednesday, July 9 - Zecco, Burlingame, SV
• Wednesday, July 16 - souk, Portland
• Thursday July 17 - Pyramid Alehouse, Seattle
• Thursday July 24 - Evri, Seattle
• Friday, August 1 - whitepages.com, Seattle
• Friday August 8 - iDiDiD, Netherlands
• Friday August 8 - Artistforce, Los Angeles
• Wednesday, August 13 - Sun (Drinks 2.0), Beverly Hills, L.A.
• Wednesday, August 13 - CubeSpace, SE Portland
• Thursday August 14 - MySpace, SoMa, SF
• Thursday August 21 - Spongecell, SoMa, SF <–THIS EVENT
• Friday August 22 - Sogeti, Netherlands
• Friday August 22 - Apature, Seattle
• Wednesday, August 27 - TBA, SoMa, SF
• Tuesday, September 9 - TBA, SoMa, SF
• Wednesday September 17 - SplashCast, NW Portland
• Thursday September 25 - TBA, San Mateo SV
• Thursday October 2 - TBA, Santa Clara, SV
• Wednesday October 15 - Art Institute of Portland, NW Portland
• Friday, October 10 - Codesta/scanR, Toronto, Canada
• Wednesday November 5 - Eclipse Foundation, SW Portland

For all Lunch 2.0 fans out there, we’ve submitted a panel idea for SXSW. We’ll be talking about the Lunch 2.0 story, all the tools we use to run Lunch 2.0, and hopefully spread the word and get more Lunch 2.0s going. If you’ll be at SXSW next year, or if you’re just a big fan of free food, head on over and vote for us!

Like Chuck, Jared M. Spool is one of the visual images in my memory database. This is the story I will tell slowly over time. Jared is one of the legends in User Interface and Internet History. Our web will look very different without his contributions.

Like Chuck, I am running around busy living both a day-time and night-time lives. I couldn’t inform the publishers about his coming. I would list his books here to celebrate his contribution to the web. Many UI professionals are making very important decisions based on his research.

Handbook of Usability Testing: Howto Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests by Jeffrey Rubin, Dana Chisnell, and Jared Spool

User-Centered Web Site Development: A Human-Computer Interaction Approach by Daniel D. McCracken, Rosalee J. Wolfe, and Jared M. Spool

Web Site Usability (Interactive Technologies) by Jared Spool, Tara Scanlon, Carolyn Snyder, and Terri DeAngelo

Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks by Luke Wroblewski, Jared Spool, Caroline Jarrett, and Peter Wallack

Bess
SVWB Founder

Client Side Story: Enhancing Experiences with Ajax, RIAs, and Browser-side Intelligence
Browser-side development capabilities, such as Javascript, Ajax, and Rich-Internet Applications (RIAs), (along with the latest additions: Adobe’s AIR and Microsoft’s Silverlight,) presents developers with tremendous power. We can create more fluid interactions, moving away from the dreaded page refresh, giving users an experience more like the desktop applications they are used to.

As more sites move to using these capabilities, developers are exploring the canvas — seeing what works and what doesn’t. Through this exploration, we’ve discovered patterns and principals to help guide us to make better designs going forward.

In this presentation, Jared will talk about the different approaches developers have taken with these new capabilities. He’ll discuss:

+ What smart clients bring us, such as enhanced progressive disclosure, visualization, and effeciency capabilities?
+ What we can learn from game design for creating immersive experiences?
+ What are the common traps developers fall into when they start playing with these technologies?

He’ll show examples from Flickr, Google, Yahoo!, Netflix, Lands End, Gap, and LA Times, deconstructing their use of these new development capabilities to help us understand how we can apply them to our own designs.

7/30/2008 Wed 7:00-9:30pm
Client Side Story: Enhancing Experiences with Ajax, RIAs, and Browser-side Intelligence
Jared M. Spool, Founding Principal of User Interface Engineering
Location: Hurricane Electric “The Matrix” Building
48233 Warm Spring Blvd, Fremont California 94539
Registration URL: http://clientsidestory.eventbrite.com
FREE if register online

8/28/2008 Thu 6:30-9:30pm
Celebration of Web 2.0 Trends & Culture

9/24/2008 Wed 7:00-9:30pm
UI 2.0: Bringing SEXY Back

10/29/2008 Wed 7:00-9:30pm
The Chronicles of Web Standard: the HTML5, the Comet, and the WebSocket

When: August 8, 2008 @ 12:00 - 2:00 PM

Where: 7021 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA

RSVP: On this online invitation

Jonathan Romley, Founder & CEO of ArtistForce, wants to do a different kind of Lunch 2.0. We’re intentionally keeping the details of this event quiet. If you’re anywhere near LA on 08/08/08 RSVP and come. If you know anyone in the area, send them this online invitation.

MySpace is hosting a Lunch 2.0 next month on August 14th. So be sure to come by and check their space out.

Meet people from the many teams that work out of the local office, including:
- MySpace Developer Platform
- MySpace Photos
- MySpace Data Availability & OpenSocial

Due to space restrictions, we’re capped at 150 people, so please RSVP to the Upcoming link below. Feel free to bring your friends, but please have them RSVP too.

(PS: If your plans change and you can’t make it, please come back and change your status so we can offer your invite to someone else. Thanks!)

I’ll be there, Terry and Mark will be there and we’ll get to schmooze around. So come on by!!!

Myspace

4th Floor, 625 2nd Street
San Francisco, California 94107

RSVP : http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/921850/

MySpace Lunch 2.0 SF

Alibaba, Alibaba… “Open sesame”

Like the One Thousand and One Nights Story about “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves”, our story night is about the detective game. The story is around DTrace. DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework created by Sun Microsystem for troubleshooting system and application problems in real time.

Our story teller Jason Hoffman will share his story on how he uses DTrace to track down the “bad dudes” and to become the “heros” behind the scene. DTrace is the secret key for scaling Rails.

7/16/2008 Wed 7-9pm
Unofficial Ruby Gathering
Night-time Story: Learning From Early Success of One Thousand and One Rails Applications
Speaker: Jason Hoffman, CTO at Joyent
Location: Google Campus
Address: Paramaribo Tech Talk Room Building 42, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043
Registration URL: http://rubytwitter.eventbrite.com
FREE

7/30/2008 Wed
Client Side Story: Enhancing Experiences with Ajax, RIAs, and Browser-side Intelligence
8/28/2008 Thu
The Celebration of Web 2.0 Trends & Culture
9/24/2008 Wed
UI 2.0: Bringing SEXY Back
10/29/2008 Wed
The Chronicles of Web Standard: the HTML5, the Comet, and the WebSocket
11/8/2008 Sat
Ruby Track
11/9/2008 Sun
Hackathon 4 Kids

What says summer better than Top Dogs and beer? Come visit the Zecco Lunch 2.0 TODAY in SFO (Burlingame, San Francisco).

Show, but try to RSVP on Upcoming so they can get an accurate head count.

Hosts: Zecco
Where: 500 Airport Blvd, Suite 320, Burlingame, CA
When: Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 12:00pm - 2:00pm
RSVP on Upcoming

Upcoming (and some past) Events (since the last time I bothered posting)

• Friday, May 23 - XS4ALL, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Friday, May 29 - Vidoop, Portland
• Thursday, May 30 - Wishingline, Toronto
• Wednesday, May 30 - Topix, Palo Alto, Silicon Valley
• Friday, June 13 - gWave, San Diego
• Friday, June 13 - Blue Gecko, Seattke
• Monday, June 30 - PDX, Portland
• Friday, July 4 - Spill Group Asia, Shanghai
• Wednesday, July 9 - (meetup), D.C.
• Wednesday, July 9, ZECCO, Burlingame, San Francisco/Silcon Valley >–THIS EVENT
• Wednesday, July 16 - souk, Portland
• Thursday, July 17 - TBA, Mountain View, Silicon Valley
• Thursday, July 17 - Pyramid Alehouse, Seattle
• Thursday, July 31 - TBA, SF
• Thursday, July 31 - Evri, Seattle
• August 27 - TBA, SoMa, SF

In an undisclosed, all-stock deal, the Silicon Florist, Portland’s one-stop shop for all that is technology in the Rose City, Southern Washington and beyond, acquired the Portland chapter of Lunch 2.0 today.

This basically means all the Portland Lunch 2.0 related content, announcements and recaps mostly, that used to be posted here will now be posted over there.

This makes sense, since the Florist is quickly becoming the place to get information about Portland tech companies and the Portland tech scene. And not just Portland, the Florist covers Vancouver, down to Corvallis, over in Bend, all over Oregon and Southern Washington.

Rick’s posts about Lunch 2.0 usually garner way more comments than posts I do here, which tend to attract spam comments in high numbers.

Thanks to Joseph, Mark, Terry and company for letting me post here, and for helping me get the Portland chapter rolling. If you do come here for Portland information, please check us out over at the Florist.

You may have caught the folks from Zecco at a number of Lunch 2.0 events. It’s about time they decided to host one of their own! And they’ve got hot dogs! Not just any hot dogs - Top Dog hot dogs. And beer. And a $500 prize to a lucky Lunch 2.0-er!

Hosts: Zecco
Where: 500 Airport Blvd, Suite 320, Burlingame, CA
When: Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 12:00pm - 2:00pm
RSVP on Upcoming

Here’s a blurb about the event:

When Zecco first launched, we picketed on Wall Street with signs saying “There Is Such Thing as a Free Lunch,” and handed out free hot dogs to passers-by from the famous New York hot dog stands. The point was to prove to the Wall Street elite that a revolution was coming – one that injects community, transparency, and free services into an industry that is based on just the opposite.

Zecco has grown wildly since, and to stay true to our message about free lunch, we’re hosting a Lunch 2.0 at our offices. Come by for some free hot dogs (the good kind, catered by Berkeley’s favorite Top Dog), some beer, and to meet our team.

What’s more? There’re giveaways! A lucky Lunch 2.0-er will win a Zecco Trading account pre-funded with $500. And if you join our Lunch 2.0 group in the Zecco community, we’ll hook you up with some schwag.

Zecco’s offices are at 500 Airport Blvd, Suite 320. Burlingame, CA 94010. Meet us out back if it’s sunny - or in our offices if there’s a freak rainstorm in the middle of July. See you there!

For more info, check out Zecco’s blog post, or careers page.