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!
Host: Kosmix
Location: 444 Castro Street, Suite 109, Mountain View, CA 94041
Date: Thursday, August 6th 12:00PM – 2:00PM
RSVP on upcoming!
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
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!
Ready for Valentine’s day? Zoosk has an awesome warmup lunch party planned for Friday, Feb 13th. There will be great people to meet, good food to enjoy, and some cool games to double on the fun. So, come on out and celebrate Valentine’s day with the largest social dating company on planet 
Hosts: Zoosk
Where: 130 Battery Str, Suite 300, San Francisco, CA
When: Friday, February 13th 12:00 – 2:00PM
Launched in December 2007, Zoosk is the world’s first and largest social dating community enabling singles to meet love interests and forge lasting relationships. Zoosk enables its users to meet and connect with others within the context of their online social networks. Singles can join Zoosk by adding the Zoosk application through Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, Friendster, and MySpace, or by signing up at Zoosk.com. Zoosk is the only social dating community that allows users to seamlessly connect across multiple networks, meaning a Facebook user can interact with a MySpace or Hi5 user, for example. Zoosk’s community includes more than 12 million singles from more than 40 countries around the globe. Recently Zoosk won the 2009 People’s Choice Open Web Award in the “Dating and Romance” category.
Just a quick reminder that Lunch 2.0 is happening tomorrow (Wednesday, January 28th) at Central Park Plaza in San Jose!
Central Park Plaza and Cornish & Carey Commercial are hosting us for the first south bay Lunch 2.0 of 2009! Come join us for burritos, prizes and a brief overview of how this real estate market provides cost savings opportunities for technology companies!
Hosts: Central Park Plaza and Cornish & Carey Commercial
Where: 2890 Zanker, Suite 102, San Jose, CA
When: Wednesday, January 28th 12:00 – 2:00PM
RSVP ON UPCOMING!
Central Park Plaza is an office project located in Silicon Valley’s Innovation Triangle with immediate access to major freeways, airports and public transportation. Technology companies in the area include Cisco, BEA, Brocade Communications and endless early and mid stage technology companies. Cornish & Carey Commercial has been representing technology companies in their real estate needs in the Silicon Valley since 1935. Through up and down cycles, our team has worked on behalf of our clients to turn market information into leverage in lease negotiations.
Head on down to SOMA and join us for a fantastic lunch 2.0 @ SF Station with food, cake, beer, and a raffle!
Tired of the same three lunch time options? Well grab your co-worker and come eat lunch with the cool kids at SF Station and help celebrate our 12th birthday Lunch 2.0 style!!
For those of you that don’t know SF Station, we are San Francisco Bay Area’s definitive online city guide to Arts & Culture, Entertainment, Food, Shopping, and Urban Living. We invite you to come and hang out in our office, eat some lunch, tour our website, win free stuff, and have some Friday Fun!!
Hosts: SF Station
Where: 1475 Folsom St Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94103
When: Friday, December 5th, 12noon – 2pm
RSVP ON UPCOMING!
We will have Beer available to wash down your lunch, birthday cake for dessert, raffle prizes, and of course, the Bright & Smiling faces of the SF Station Crew!!
Pizza Provided by Dino’s Pizza
Birthday cake provided by Cake Coquette
Beer provided by Phuket
Raffle prizes provided by the following:
Grand Prize: $2500 of advertising with SF Station & San Francisco.com
4 dinners to Supperclub San Francisco
2 tickets to Storytime Festival Dec 20th
2 tickets to SFMOMA
1 $50 Gift Certificate to MoMo’s
I am not the “cheer leader”. I am not “special”. Yet, I think like a superhero dreaming of saving the web, saving the world. Of course I am still a geek like Chunk.
Our discussion event is on the darkest Halloween week ever in history. I checked my favorite FengShui Master Manual. It stated that the most critical period is from Oct 8, 2008 to Nov 7, 2008. Stay calm. Just wait until we pass this darkest period.
Another geek hero, Michael Carter is our last addition to our discussion panel. Michael left Kaazing recently so he focused his energy in W3C HTML5 specifications. He is sad about HTML5.
Michael Carter as the WebSocket leader, with his dangerous styled rock band hair, carries similar charm like the Rails Creator, David Heinemeier Hansson. He wowed the roomful audience with his brilliant presentation when I first invited him to speak at our 1st iPhone Startup Camp. Michael is also a world renowned rollerblade free styler and speed demon.
Another surprise came. Our panlist Dion Almaer is leaving Google to devote himself to the Browser maker Mozilla. Our fever on browser is starting to rub off on our panelist. Dion is accomplished classic and jazz pianist.
At our last historic discussion “Browser Wars: Episode II – Attack of the DOMs”, I selected the theme song “We’re All In This Together”, from the movie “High School Musicals”. Majority of the attending geeks couldn’t get the meaning of the song lyrics because the song is way too young for their ages.
This time I am going with the song “4 Minutes” by Madonna as our theme song, replacing “4 Minutes” with “HTML4”. Question is how we can save the web with existing HTML4. If our Wall Street and bank system are broken like this credit crisis, our government work with the world leaders to improve the market system immediately. Our web is heading to a dead space where everything is a hack. W3C is still sitting on the same agenda 2022 for HTML5 specification. It is absolutely unacceptable. Not acceptable for the fact that the innovation is depending very much on the web.
This is the song I hope W3C will listen and act on it. Give us better tools to innovate in Silicon Valley. Save the web save the world.
“Time is waiting
We only got HTML 4 to save the world
No hesitating
We only got HTML 4, HTML 4
…
(Tick tock tick tock tick tock)
Yeah, uh huh
(Tick tock tick tock tick tock)
I only got HTML 4
To save the world”
“Save The Web Save The World”
拯救網頁保存世界
Bess
SVWB Founder
10/29/2008 Wed 6:30-10:00pm
The Chronicles of Web Standard: the HTML5, the Comet, and the WebSocket
Location: Google, Mountain View Campus
Address: Tunis Tech Talk Building 43, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043
Registration URL: http://webstandard.eventbrite.com
FREE if register online
Note: Google will be providing dinner and drink for the evening. Please register in advance to save your seat. Arrive early before 6:30pm for check-in, networking and book autograph. We’ll be giving out close to thousand dollar worth of latest developer books, thank to sponsors O’Reilly, Apress, Manning and Pragmatic. Halloween costume is allowed. Prizes will be giving out to best dressed geeks based on the movie “Matrix”.
Discussion
Moderator & Presenter:
Kevin Nilson, Principal Software Architect at E*Trade Financial
Speakers:
Alex Rusell, President of the Dojo Foundation & Project Lead for The Dojo Toolkit
Dion Almaer, Open Web Advocate at Google and co-founder of Ajaxian.com and “Audible Ajax” podcast.
Michael Carter
Founder at Orbited Project & Official Contributor for W3C HTML5
John Fallows, CTO and co-founder at Kaazing
Ted Goddard,Senior Software Architect at ICEsoft Technologies and ICEfaces.org
Agenda
6:30 – 7:00 Networking
7:00 – 7:15 Introduce Comet, Introduce Panel Topic, Introduce Panel
Members (Kevin Nilson)
7:15 – 8:15 Panel Discussion (Full Panel)
8:15 – 8:30 Q/A (Full Panel, moderated by Kevin Nilson)
8:30 – 8:45 Break / Network / Signage / Raffle
8:45 – 9:30 Technical Comet Presentation: Overview of Polling, Long Polling, and Streaming, followed by Details Bayuex using Cometd (Kevin Nilson)
Hackathon 4 Kids
Register: http://hackathon4kids.eventbrite.com
Admission: FREE
Participating Kids: FREE geek toy (Until supplies last)
Speakers:
Doug Ricket, Map Engineer from Google
Marzia Niccolai, App Engine Engineer from Google
Date: 11/9/08 Sun
Time: 1:15pm-4:15pm
Location: Foothill College Campus
Address: 12345 El Monte Road Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
Parking: Parking Lot 5
Website: http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com
Toy Giveaways: Sponsored by Rockyou