Lunch 2.0

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/

Lunch 2.0 alumni Wetpaint and Yahoo will be joining Silicon Valley Web Builder on a “late lunch 2.0” Discussion Panel (actually a Silicon Valley Web Builder event cross-posted here) on wikis. SVWB’s moderator will give a 15 min presentation on wiki usability vs. functionality. Each wiki speaker will give ten minute presentation showing off their the Beauty & The Beast features, following with a lively discussion on Usability, Interface Design, and Product Design.

This year Wetpaint, Atlassian, Zoho, BrainKeeper & Mindtouch will be sharing the table for the discussion panel. We’ll certainly miss Lunch 2.0 alumnus, Jotspot:
Discussion Panel: Wiki of Beauty & The Beast: Usability & Functionality
Host: Silicon Valley Web Builder (SVWB) and Hurricane Electric
Location: Hurricane Electric Building Two “The Matrix” 48233 Warm Springs Blvd, Fremont CA
Time: Wednesday, September 26 6:30pm-9:30pm
RSVP on their site http://wikibeautybeast.eventbrite.com

Please register so we can estimate the food & drink

Moderator:
Luke Wroblewski
Senior Principal of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc. & Author of “Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability”

Speakers: View speaker bio at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/206152/
Kevin Flaherty
Co-founder and VP of Marketing at Wetpaint (Seattle)
Ryan Lukehart
Director of Sales and Marketing at BrainKeeper (Virginia)
Aaron Fulkerson
Co-founder and V.P. Product Management at Mindtouch (San Diego)
Raju Vegesna
Zoho Evangelist at Zoho
Joshua Wold
Global Pre-Sales Team Manager at Atlassian Software Systems

Summer is almost over. Everyone is getting ready for Fall season including TV Series. I happened to walk into new TV Series “Chuck” filming production. When I asked to meet “the geeks” from the show, Zachary Levi & Adam Baldwin jumped out of their “Hollywood” chairs for photos. I told them I was a geek from Silicon Valley. I’ll tell other geeks about it after my vacation.

This NBC show (Premieres: September 24, 2007 Mon) is about Chuck Bartowski a computer geek accidentally downloads files upon files of government secrets into his brain. He has been scouted by the CIA to lead a double life of computer geek and CIA agent. This mess started when Chuck received an email from his Stanford University roommate. It could happen to any one of us, seriously! I have to name Monday as my TV night now.

Zachary Levi as Chuck Bartowski (Left) & Adam Baldwin as Major John Casey (Right)

Bess
Chief Food Technologist at Lunch 2.0 & Founder of Silicon Valley Web Builder

Just wanted to remind everyone that there is our first Lunch 2.0 in San Francisco today (Thursday) at JumpCut in the Yahoo Brickhouse.

Note this late addition to their upcoming announcement:

EDIT: Sorry that the list got closed at 100. We didn’t think that many people liked us. We’re trying to figure out how we can accomodate more people. Stay tuned!

Also, to round out the double header Tomorrow (Friday) is SimplyHired in Mountain View.

Note that if you’re receiving e-mail updates you probably missed the JumpCut one, but still can make the SimplyHired one. Blame Feedburner.

P.S. I’ll be at both. Is someone going to stand in line for an iPhone for me for “taking one for the Lunch 2.0 team?”

A little trivia: two of the Lunch 2.0 founders have recently moved to San Francisco. That meant we needed to find a way to get some Lunch 2.0 action up here in SF—besides, we’re tired of the drive down to see you guys every week. (Lunch 2.0 dates are filling up! Contact Mark Jen for it’s too late.)

Since we launched Lunch 2.0 with an informal invitation to Yahoo!, the folks of the recently Yahoo! acquired video editing and sharing website, Jumpcut, were happy to jump in an extend us an invitation to dine with them at the notorious Yahoo! Brickhouse in San Francisco. (read and watch more about Y! Brickhouse.)

In keeping with that Yahoo! spirit, just as at the anniversary lunch, invitations are being managed on Upcoming.org, so go there to RSVP!

Location: Jumpcut, a Yahoo! Brickhouse production
Address: Brickhouse, 500 3rd St, 5th Floor, San Francisco
Date: Thursday, June 28, 2007. 11:30PM – 2PM
RSVP on Upcoming.org.

For those of you who have been asking when we’re going to have a Lunch 2.0 “up in the city,” now you have no excuses. For those Lunch 2.0ers in the Valley, c’mon up and see us for a change. (According to one South Bay Lunch 2.0-er, “they’re like 10% cuter up there.”)

Karen, our gracious host, and the Jumpcut “geeks” have made a ultra-professional, super-polished, big-budget video invitation to you:

So cut off a little early and jump into the first SF Lunch 2.0! Sign up and tell all your friends to taste the buzz.

P.S. See you at Ning in Palo Alto tomorrow! Also, don’t forget that there is SimplyLunch 2.0 the day after this one in Mountain View.

It’s hard to imagine, but Lunch 2.0 has been around for over a year now! Last Wednesday, we brought it back to one of the original locales for a little lunch and demo over at Yahoo!’s Mission College Campus. Folks from YPN, MyBlogLog, and Pipes were on hand to give quick demos of their products and there were plenty of Yahoos around to chat with.

As you can see, there was quite a crowd and we even got some video coverage courtesy of bub.blicio.us!

Thanks Ian and Yahoo! for hosting us. Hope to be back soon!

Just a friendly reminder that we’re heading over to Yahoo!’s Mission College Campus today (Wednesday, February 21st) for what looks to be another great Lunch 2.0! We’ll have people from various Yahoo! teams there to host us; it should be a great time
Hope to see you all there!

Yahoo! is hosting us for Lunch 2.0 in February – almost exactly a year since we were first there! We’ll have sandwiches and good conversation with a few announcements to kick off discussions. Folks from Mail, MyBlogLog, Publisher Network, and the Advanced Products Group will be on hand to talk about their latest projects.

Location: Yahoo! Mission College campus, Building 1, Training Rooms 3 &4
Address: 2821 Mission College Blvd., Santa Clara, CA
Date: Wednesday, February 21st, 2007. 12:00PM – 1:30PM
RSVP on upcoming.org (http://upcoming.org/event/149807) we only have room for 80 so please sign up early

Speakers:

Cody Simms – Yahoo Publisher Network
Scott Rafer – MyBlogLog
Daniel Raffel, Pasha Sadri and Jonathan Trevor – Yahoo! Pipes

Here are a few pictures from Lunch 2.0 at Yahoo! yesterday; it was a bit last minute, so we only had a small group, but it was still fun to get out of the office and stroll around Y! on a nice sunny day

Here’s one thing we didn’t expect to see though; doesn’t this borg cube belong at Microsoft?

Watch for our next Lunch 2.0 announcement, we got some fun locations coming up soon!

A bit last minute, but we’re hitting up URLs at Y! today for some Lunch 2.0. Here’s the info:

Location: Yahoo!, 701 North First Ave., Sunnyvale, CA
Date: TODAY! Wednesday, April 19th, 2006 at 12:00PM
Just show up, give me a call at 425.830.7588 when you get there

Any Yahoos out there reading this blog, feel free to join us! Beautiful weather outside today too; great day for a Y! Campus Tour

1. First view of first Lunch 2.0, 2. entrance.santaclara.yahoo-inc.com, 3. Rage against the (badging) machine, 4. Secret spy photo of Yahoo!, 5. Dine at Dot’s, 6. Everybody’s friends here, 7. Many bothans died to bring you this food schematic, 8. The purple cone of silence

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