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!
Just a quick reminder that we’ll be having lunch in downtown Palo Alto, sponsored by Cornish & Carey tomorrow! RSVP over at upcoming.org
Dive into summer at Lunch 2.0 in Downtown Palo Alto. The weather is heating up, and Palo Alto is one of the hottest places in the country for tech companies to locate. New to the market sublease space in downtown Palo Alto is offering companies more opportunity to locate here economically.
Lunch will be catered by Facebook’s renowned Chef Josef DeSimone and there will be a raffle for gift certificates at Palo Alto hot spots.
Host: Cornish & Carey
Location: 285 Hamilton, 4th floor, Palo Alto, CA
Thursday, June 25th from 12-2pm
RSVP on upcoming
Come to mix, mingle and learn why Palo Alto is the place to be this summer!
Cornish & Carey has represented the technology community in their real estate needs since 1935. Contact Liz at ehart@ccarey.com or Jack at jackt@ccarey.com for more info.
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.
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/
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.
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
Synaptics is in a “touchy” business of consumer electronics.
They are inviting their gadget-geek neighbors near and far to get in touch with our hungry side and join us for lunch…on them! If you love your touch-enabled mobile & entertainment devices, you’ll love to see the cool products that use their touch sensors. Stop by for beer & goodies, a sneak peek at the new gadgets, and to chat with fellow gadget-geeks, the Synapticians!
Please RSVP here on Yahoo’s UPCOMING site, since space is limited. For those of you who have been complaining to me that there haven’t been Lunch 2.0’s in the South Bay, here is your chance!
Hosts: Synaptics
Where: 3120 Scott Blvd, Santa Clara, CA
When: Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 12:00 – 1:30PM
RSVP ON UPCOMING ONLY!
We hope to see you there! Tell a friend and bring your business cards to qualify for their raffle of giveaways.
ABOUT SYNAPTICS
Synaptics (NASDAQ: SYNA) is a leading developer of human interface solutions for the mobile computing, communications and entertainment industries. The company creates interface solutions for a variety of devices including notebook PCs, PC peripherals, digital music players and mobile phones. The TouchPad™, Synaptics’ flagship product, is integrated into a majority of today’s notebook computers. Consumer electronics and computing manufacturers use Synaptics’ solutions to enrich the interaction between humans and intelligent devices through improved usability, functionality and industrial design. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. www.synaptics.com
Reminder that the Lunch 2.0 at Powerset in San Francisco is tomorrow (Thursday, September 4). Don’t forget to come if you’ve RSVP’d.
(Any I missed? Want to host? Contact us.)