Lunch 2.0

How do you wrap up something like this?!

Here are some sites and sounds of those who missed the event. Thanks again Hitachi & Jeremiah!
Note: The view counter is broken for now, but it’s still keeping the count. I’m told it will be turned back on in the next few weeks.

For the 200+ people who came out to the Hitachi Lunch 2.0 blowout, hope you guys had a good time and thanks for making Lunch 2.0 what it is

Thanks to Jeremiah and Hitachi for hosting us at their phenomenal facility. Jeremiah, you really did a fantasitic job getting things set up and organized this time; I hope we’ll be able to come over to your neck of the woods again sometime.

In addition to the links that Jeremiah posted, here are some of my pictures from the event:

Yeah, that place is AWESOME!

Wow! This event WAS a blowout. Hitachi Data Systems (If you need Data Storage) was very happy to host the web community, there was a reported 200-250 folks that came out to the hi-tech headquarters in Santa Clara. Rather than rave about this event, this post will serve as an index of all the voices of the attendees!

Companies in Web Expo:

• Box.net
• Pandora
• Plaxo
• Podtech
• Riya
• SimplyHired
• Zazzle
• Zooomr
• Zvents

Images:

• Zooomr pics!
• Images on Flickr

Blog Posts:

• Robert Scoble: Lunch 2.0
  
• Scott Beale: Lunch 2.0 photos
• Thomas Hawk: had a blast
• Damon Billian: Lunch 2.0 a Roaring success
• Chris Salazar: Lunch 2.0 ended with an Exclamation!
• Julio Garcia: Lunch 2.0 is a wrap!
• Holly: Hitachi Lunch 2.0
• Shel Israel: Hitachi Lunch 2.0 Flickr Clickrs and Artists
• Brian Solis: Killer Photoblog
• Anil Gupta (Who didn’t attend but supported the event, see his pics!)
• Brian’s thoughts
• Daniela Barbosa: Great summary
• SimplyHired’s VP of Marketing Phil Carpenter says “Simply Thanks”
• Jeremiah Owyang: Community Manager at Hitachi Data Systems Thanks for coming!
• Joe Suh: Scored lots of goodies!
• Hu Yoshida, CTO of Hitachi Data Systems
• Yenweng Fang from Taiwan! (from Taiwan)
• Mark Cornes
• Leave a comment if we’ve missed someone!

Videos:

• Holly’s video, great music.

The first ever Lunch 2.0 “Web Expo” blowout is coming this Tuesday, Sept 12th from 11:30-2:00 at Hitachi Data Systems in Santa Clara. You’ll be encouraged to eat as much as you can “store” while meeting ten data-intensive companies showing their stuff. Relax as Pandora Dj’s the event and school your friends on a variety of games to play. Sign up here, or risk missing out:

It’s bound to be an international affair since signups are already coming in from folks as far away as Ireland, United Kingdom, Japan, and Taiwan. The guest count could easily exceed 200 folks!

Many a luminary have helped spread the word, read what they wrote: Robert Scoble, Adam Darowski, Martin McKeay, Marc Cantor, Mario Sundar, Anil Gupta, Thomas Hawk, Damon Billian, Scott Beale, and the Zooomr gang. Last but not least, the host bloggers at Hitachi Data Systems are also helping to spread the news, such as CTO Hu Yoshida, Chris Salazar, Julio Garcia, and Community Manager Jeremiah Owyang.

See you there!

Wow Lunch 2.0 has done it again. A packed house at Mozilla Foundation. It was so great to see the place where our beloved Firefox is being built. Thank you for hosting!

You can click on the image/video below to watch it. The talking bits start about 40 seconds in and lasts for about 2 and a half min. They gave us a tour of the diggs and also had some special prizes, which you can see towards the end of the video =).

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Jeremiah (host of the upcoming Lunch 2.0 Web Expo Blowout at Hitachi Data Systems) just pointed me to an article in The Register about Tim Berners-Lee complaining that “Web 2.0″ is all hype and nothing new. As evidence that the “2.0″ suffix has become trendy and meaningless, the author Gavin Clarke writes:

We have: SOA 2.0, enterprise 2.0, grid 2.0, VoIP 2.0, voice 2.0, BPM 2.0, Office 2.0 and – outside of pure technology – advertising 2.0 and marketing 2.0 (both – naturally – taking advantage of Web 2.0’s social networking technologies), business development 2.0 and – subverting the genre – hidsight 2.0 and lunch 2.0.

I don’t know what to be prouder of–the fact that we were included in this article, or that we’re apparently “subverting the genre”!  

But actually, when I think about it, Lunch 2.0 really does embody a lot of what (with all due respect to Sir Berners-Lee) makes Web 2.0 special: connecting people to people (meeting fellow valley folk and seeing how they work), user-generated content (all of the work is done by companies choosing to host lunch 2.0 events–they even write the announcements!), and customers as active participants (if you didn’t come to lunch 2.0, it wouldn’t exist, and it certainly wouldn’t be as fun and colorful as you always make it!). So in response to Mr. Clarke, I’d say if anything, we exemplify the genre!

Thanks to you all for making lunch 2.0 what it is, and regardless of what happens to web 2.0, we’re here to stay!

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Since Mark is uploading Bangkok pr0n to his Flickr account, I actually had to post my photos this time. (Yeah Mark, we’re going to believe that you hit your 2GB upload limit just taking “vacation” pictures. We’re on to you!)

Today was the first Lunchzilla 2.0 and everyone was invited!

Welcome to the center of the browser revolution:

So, I think after this Lunch 2.0, another term needs to be added to the Open Source lexicon. We have “Free as in Speech” and “Free as in Beer”, but clearly after this Lunch 2.0, we need a “Free as in Food.”

Remember Lunch 2.0 is about “Food as conversation”:

Did I mention “Free as in LOOT”??

I did some corporate espionage:

Some of our gracious hosts:

Remember to thank to Myk Melez for inviting us and the whole crew at Mozilla!

There were some video cameras there so expect to hear more soon:

In the meantime you can view all my Lunchzilla pictures. (Flickr map of Lunch 2.0)

By the way, Mozilla has updated their hiring page to reflect the new jobs they mentioned at Lunch 2.0!