Lunch 2.0

We are so excited to be starting the summer! This Friday we’ll be having lunch with Brad Garlinghouse, President of Consumer Applications at AOL (our generous hosts at our 401 Ellis office), and Mike Arrington, founder and co-editor of TechCrunch. We’d love to see you there!

What: Brad Garlinghouse + Mike Arrington fireside chat
When: 11:30am -2:15 Fri, June 25 @ AOL West Coast Headquarters
Where: 401 Ellis St., Mountain View, CA 94043

Head over to their blog post and comment there to RSVP!

Just a quick reminder that Xobni is hosting us for Lunch 2.0 tomorrow! Head over to upcoming to RSVP (we’ve opened up a few more spots )

Xobni is hosting us for the first summer Lunch 2.0 of 2010 next Tuesday! Come on out and mingle with the tech community in their cool loft space and learn about their developer platform.

Host: Xobni
Date: 12:00 – 2:00pm, June 22nd, 2010
Location: 539 Bryant St, San Francisco, CA 94107
RSVP on upcoming!

Join Merced Systems for a Lunch 2.0 event on April 21st. Take a break and connect with fellow software professionals over food and drinks.

Host: Merced Systems
Date: 12:00 – 1:30pm, April 21st, 2010
Location: 333 Twin Dolphin Drive, Suite 500, Redwood Shores, CA 94065
RSVP on upcoming!

Join Motally for April’s Lunch 2.0 next Wednesday, 4/7! Take a break from the daily grind and come out for good food and mingling. Be sure to follow @Motally for more details as the event approaches.

Host: Motally
Location: 300 Brannan St. , Suite 410, San Francisco CA, 94107
Date: Wednesday, April 7 from noon – 2 p.m.

Tickets are going fast so sign up now at http://motallylunch20.eventbrite.com/.

It’s Social Media Week SF next week and Lolapps is hosting us for lunch. Come on out and connect with the SF tech community as well as people from around the world in SF who love Social Media!

Host: Lolapps
Location: 116 New Montgomery St., San Francisco, CA 94115
Date: Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 12:00PM – 2:00PM
Get you ticket at http://lolappslunch20.eventbrite.com/

Bing is in town to celebrate the past six months since the launch and our recent partnership with Twitter. Eat lunch on us and meet folks from the Bing team at Powerset’s office (the third Lunch 2.0 to be held at this legendary location), where we’ll have tasty grub, beer and other beverages, and Bing swag to take home with you.

Host: Bing (Microsoft)
Location: 475 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
Date: Monday, November 9th from 12-2pm
Please RSVP on Upcoming to reserve your spot – they’ll fill up fast!

quick reminder that we’re doing Lunch 2.0 @ Kosmix tomorrow along with a panel with awesome guests.

In case you can’t make it, but want to see the panel, it’ll be webcast live at:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/lunch-2-0-with-kosmix-mozilla-and-friendfeed

Also, if you RSVPed on Upcoming but aren’t able to attend anymore, please take yourself off the list to make room for others.

Our friends at Kosmix are hosting a lunch 2.0 and special panel discussion with some pretty cool people!

• Anand Rajaraman – Kosmix Co-Founder
• Bret Taylor – Friendfeed Co-Founder
• Chris Beard – Mozilla Chief Innovation Officer
• Panel moderated by Louis Gray

Host: Kosmix
Location: 444 Castro Street, Suite 109, Mountain View, CA 94041
Date: Thursday, August 6th 12:00PM – 2:00PM
RSVP on upcoming!

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.