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May 12, 2008

Lunch 2.0 BNET Speaker Series with Mary Jo Foley

Filed under: CNET, San Francisco — mager @ 5:45 pm
BNET Speaker Series

Mary Jo Foley, author of Microsoft 2.0 and editor of the popular ZDNet blog All About Microsoft, will discuss her new book on the future of Microsoft and answer questions from veteran technology reporter and News.com editor-in-chief, Dan Farber. An audience Q&A and book signing will take place immediately following the session.

A big lunch will be provided, so come hungry. Arrive as early as 10:45 to get good seating.

The official RSVP is here:

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/659957/

Only 100 spots open, so sign up quick. Please only RSVP if you plan on coming so we can have an accurate count.

February 22, 2008

Chuck and I

Filed under: Lunch Five-O, SVWB, Silicon Valley, food, lunch 2.0 — SVWB @ 6:36 pm

Yes I’d like to confirm the rumors that Silicon Valley Web Builder (SVWB) is planning a Documentary Film about Browsers and Web 2.0 in Silicon Valley. SVWB is the Media Sponsor for 7th Annual Macworld Final Cut Pro SuperMeet organized by SF Cutters. Who will think a film group needs a web group to get the words out? I shared my dream plan to the film group leaders and professionals over the past few months. Not only no one tease or laugh at me, but these film professionals also encourage me to stay on my dream plan by sending me many supporting emails. After months of research, our production unit has gathered sufficient information as a starting point. The missing part is funding on film equipments. Any help out there?

What Chuck and I have in common? Like Chuck on TV Series, I was the only one board member left with the visual database of people and past history from the last web organization I served on. Like Chuck, I am geek by day and I am geek action figure by night in building and restoring a web group in Silicon Valley from scratch. Like Chuck, we receive good care from organizations like SD Forum and other industry groups. Like Good Luck Chuck, I do occasionally bring good luck charms to things we covered. The latest is OpenSocial. I’ll tell you more later.

The film is to promote peace and freedom within Browsers as an effort to spark innovation and breakthrough technologies. Like the movie “National Treasure”, I think the secrets lie within Browsers. Web is our National Treasure.

I urge all the internet leaders to focus on innovation rather than protecting old technologies. I urge Bill Gates to untie the lock between Operating System and Internet Explorer. Many users using second-handed computers in recycle markets and other countries can’t upgrade their old browsers to latest versions due to the lock. Bill, just free the users!

Our photo gallery from our 1st Hackathon
http://picasaweb.google.com/thewebsig/OpenSocialHackathonEpisodeI

Here’s the free food part. Our 2nd Hackaton is hosted at University of Phoenix (UOP) San Jose campus, the same education institute that hosted this year Superbowl. UOP is providing the state-of-the-start facility like spacious classroom, wireless, outlet, white boards, food and drink. UOP management team is giving us almost their entire classroom building. Hi5 is shipping their entire platform team including their founder to support our event for the entire Sat afternoon. Of course, action figure like myself carry heavy boxes of prizes. Indeed we are in Mission Impossible style.

Date/Time: 2/23/2008 Sat 1-6pm
Same weekend as Oscars 2/24 Sun
Location: 3590 N 1st St # 100, San Jose, CA 95134

Registration RSVP
http://opensocialhackathonii.eventbrite.com

To: Zachary Levi, Adam Baldwin, writers and producers
Apple pie Apple pie. I’ve watched every single episode of Chuck online. It is very cool to show Sarah Walker to use her iPhone, Chuck used image software to find clues and his new iphone in his action. It is so cool to show the geek girls jumped in, kicked butt, and rescued Chuck on the Stanford Episode. Sure geek girls like to kick butts and rescue guy geeks in troubles. I would be thrilled if any cast member will visit us in Silicon Valley and drop in our events on your break times (contact: thewebsig@gmail.com). The latest storyline is around the security issues on social networking and the increasing number of high profile politicians and presidential candidates and their family using these social networking sites without checking how to delete personal sensitive information like buying habits. I also like to point out NBC executives make some smart decisions in using Ruby On Rails on their Hulu.com TV project. Ruby is the “new” diamond.

Note: I decide to chat a bit more especially our officers have been complaining that we didn’t receive much credits and recognition from our latest efforts.

Bess
SVWB Founder

February 13, 2008

Reminder: V-Day Lunch 2.0 tomorrow @ Blurb

Filed under: San Francisco, announcement, blurb, lunch 2.0, reminder — markjen @ 8:10 pm

Hi all, just a quick reminder that we’ll be having a fun Valentine’s Day lunch @ Blurb tomorrow. Hope to see you all there!

Upcoming Events

February 6, 2008

Lunch 2.0 @ Blurb

Filed under: San Francisco, announcement, blurb, lunch 2.0 — markjen @ 7:30 pm

We’ve got a Valentine’s Day Lunch 2.0 coming up in SF next week, hosted by Blurb. Come on out and get some love!

blurb_logo_small Hosts: Blurb
Address: 580 California, Suite 300, San Francisco, CA 94104
Date: Thursday, February 14th, 2008
RSVP on Upcoming

Here’s a little bit about Blurb:

Don’t be fooled by our financial district address and the fact that we help you make good-old-fashioned books. Blurb is disruptive, empowering, social, and agile. We’re also nice. And really big on sushi, so come meet us and get in on that action.

At this lunch we’ll discuss how Blurb is democratizing the publishing industry and allowing anyone to be a published author. We’ll also make print-on-demand technology sexy and talk about our cross-platform Java Swing app and Ruby on Rails website. You can also see some of our books and get a true feel for what we do.

See you on Valentine’s Day!

February 3, 2008

eBuddy a Success

Filed under: Amsterdam, lunch 2.0 — Peter Robinett @ 1:50 pm

The Amsterdam Lunch 2.0 goes from success to success with eBuddy hosting us last Friday. Founders Jan-Joost Rueb and Onno Bakker welcomed us to the company and gave us the inside scope on eBuddy’s impressive successes in the web-based and mobile messaging fields. Their presentation is online (1 mb PPT) for those who are interested. One memorable point was all the phones buzzing with the news of Microsoft’s offer for Yahoo was a sign of the speed at which information travels (But who was up at 4 am in Silicon Valley passing on this information to us in Amsterdam?). Photos from the event are marked on Flickr with the lunch20ebuddy tag.

January 29, 2008

Lunch 2.0.nl Gets an eBuddy

Filed under: Amsterdam, lunch 2.0 — Peter Robinett @ 1:45 pm

After a very successful event at Hyves, the Amsterdam Lunch 2.0 now heading to eBuddy this Friday. As Google’s 7th fastest rising search term, the web-based IM platform is obviously doing a lot right. For those in the neighborhood, come on by!

January 28, 2008

Video killed the Lunch star: Lunch 2.0 at CastTV in SoMa

Filed under: CastTV, San Francisco, announcement — tychay @ 10:02 am

CastTV logoWhat? It’s a whole new year and we’ve yet to have a Lunch 2.0 in SoMa? Given how many Web 2.0s are there, that’s almost criminal.

Please join video search startup, CastTV for Lunch 2.0.

Hosts: CastTV
Address: 374 Brannan St, Suite 600. San Francisco, CA 94107
Date: Friday February 1, 2008 noon-2pm
RSVP on Upcoming

Enjoy some free food, check out their video search engine, and meet some cool people. Tell them about what kind of video you like to watch online (and how you’re staying entertained during the writers strike!) They’re easy to find @ 374 Brannan St/3rd and look forward to meeting you!

Upcoming Events

  • Friday, February 1 - CastTV, SoMa, SF <– THIS EVENT!
  • Wednesday, February 6 - Paglo, Palo Alto, Silicon Valley
  • Tuesday, February 12 - TBA, Mountain View, Silicon Valley
  • Thurday, February 14 - TBA, San Francisco
  • Friday, February 15 - blist, Seattle

January 8, 2008

l-storm 2.0: Lunch 2.0 at e-storm in San Francisco

Filed under: San Francisco, announcement, e-storm — tychay @ 1:07 pm

e-storm logo

“…and the best marketing I’ve seen in a long time.”

—that’s what they said

Tired from three days of straight MacWorld madness? San Francisco kicks off the new year with Lunch 2.0 at e-Storm International, international online marketers with special guest, Pleo, (and some of the UGOBE folks behind it).

screen snap of the Pleo

Hosts: e-storm International
Address: 530 Bush Street, Suite 600. San Francisco, CA 94108
Date: Thursday January 17, 2008 noon-2pm
RSVP: commenting on this blog, or on Upcoming, or on Facebook.

Come and meet the amazing e-Storm, other agencies, and other companies involved in the latest online marketing, search marketing and social media marketing.

e-Storm will be launching a few new products on that day:

  1. a new monetization service - how to sell ads, more ads, monetize on your content, users, partnerships – e-Storm has helped more than 100 clients buying ads, partner with content sites
  2. a new wiki series – what is ……?

Japanese food and beer will be served.

Upcoming Events

  • Wednesday, January 16 - Citrix, Santa Clara Silicon Valley
  • Thursday, January 17 - e-Storm, FiDi, San Francisco <– THIS EVENT!
  • Friday, January 18 - Hyves, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Friday, January 18 - Zumobi, Waterfront, Seattle
  • Thursday, January 31- TBA, SoMa, San Francisco
  • Wednesday, February 6 - Paglo, Palo Alto, Silicon Valley
  • Friday, February 15 - blist, Seattle

January 3, 2008

First Lunch 2.0 of 2008 @ Citrix!

Filed under: Silicon Valley, announcement, citrix, food, lunch 2.0 — markjen @ 3:20 pm

The folks at Citrix are hosting us for Lunch 2.0 to ring in the new year. They’ve got food and a few speakers lined up; sounds like it’ll be a fun time in Santa Clara! Hurry and RSVP though, they’ve only got room for around 100 people.

Host: Citrix
Address: 4988 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA 95054
Date: Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
RSVP on Upcoming

Hope to see you all there!

Upcoming Events

  • Wednesday, January 16 - Citrix, Santa Clara, CA <-- This event!
  • Thursday, January 17 - TBA, FiDi, San Francisco
  • Friday, January 18 - Hyves, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Friday, January 18 - TBA, Waterfront, Seattle
  • Tuesday, January 29- TBA, SoMa, San Francisco
  • Friday, February 1- TBA, SoMa, San Francisco
  • Wednesday, February 6 - Paglo, Palo Alto, CA
  • Friday, February 15- TBA, Seattle, WA

December 21, 2007

Bored in SF this New Years Eve?

Filed under: San Francisco, announcement — markjen @ 7:17 pm

Our friend Kurt Collins is helping put together a rockin’ NYE party this year. It’s not free like other Lunch 2.0 events, but hey, you get an open bar plus desserts! Here’s the info:

First off, the year is almost over. Happy Holidays to everyone! It’s been a pretty awesome year all-around and I’m trying to end the year (and begin the new one) with a bang. Some of you know that I throw open bar parties once a month. Well, in lieu of one this month, I’ve decided to throw a New Year’s Party at Sugar Cafe on Sutter St. (near Taylor St.) in San Francisco.

Let’s get the details out of the way. Yes, this time, there is a cover fee. But it’s pretty reasonable and when you hear all the stuff you get for it, you’ll understand why there’s a cover.

Cover Charge: $60
Link to purchase tickets: http://www.ticketfusion.com/store/one/index.html?store_id=11633&page_type=ticket&show_id=356292
Location: Sugar Cafe, 679 Sutter St. (Between Mason and Taylor)
Kurt’s Cell Phone: (415) 786-3268
Kelly’s Cell Phone: (650) 387-9168
Time: 9pm - 2am
Theme: Black and Pink (wear it if you got it — and before you ask, I will be rocking a black and pink zuit suit if I can find one in the store with a feather in my hat, wing-tipped shoes, and you’re damn right I’m going to get a cane.)

There are a couple of very cool things about this party, though.

First off, it’s a completely private party. For those of you that know Kelly Rogal, the two of us are only inviting our friends to join us on NYE. So if you want a completely chill party with people you probably know and you don’t want to deal with the potential randomness of NYE, then come on through. There will be a DJ with a very small dance floor in case you want to get down. You can forward this invitation along to all of your friends as well to have them come on through. If we can get 200 tickets pre-sold to the event (by December 21st), then it will remain private. So purchase as soon as possible.

Second: OPEN BAR, BABY!!! Yes, we managed to get open bar between the hours of 9 and 11 so you guys can still get your open bar drink on. In my opinion, that alone is worth the cover charge.

Third: We’re giving away a ton of prizes. I could list them all here, but suffice to say, they’re good. You can only get the prizes if you buy a ticket before December 21st, though. There’s a beauty bash for 15-20 people with appetizers and wine… there’s a 2 month complimentary membership to the San Francisco Bay Club… there’s free bottle service at the Cellar… and then there’s stuff from Jack Daniels, Bacardi, Heineken, Red Bull, and tons more. I could go on, but I can’t type everything. Just go to the link above where you can purchase the tix to see a more complete description (that will be constantly updated).

Fourth: FOOD!!! Yep, we’re going to be serving free desserts all night long. Decadent, yummy, sweet, sweet goodness. Where else are you going to be able to go on NYE that’s going to serve you food without asking for your first born’s college tuition?

Fifth: Free champagne at midnight! Oh wait… what I meant to say was… free champagne all night long! So even if you don’t feel like paying for drinks after 11… you can always have champagne!

Come on guys… you can’t tell me that’s not all worth it. At the very least, I just want to ring in the New Year with some good friends in a comfortable spot with no muss, no fuss, and lots of fun. So for any of you that will be in San Francisco, please come on through. Kelly and I would love to see you all on the last night of the old year and the first couple hours of the new year.

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