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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

October 31, 2007

Happy Halloween 10/31 Wed Launching and running startups using Amazon Web Services

Filed under: SVWB, Silicon Valley, announcement — SVWB @ 2:24 am

Happy Halloween

TV Chuck

Happy Halloween! Treat or Trick?

While TV geek Chuck is “Saving the world at $11 an hour”, Silicon Valley Web Builders (SVWB) are running an Amazon’s Workshop “Saving the WWW at $0.15 per GB” to celebrate Halloween night this Wed 6:30pm. I promise these 2 TV geeks Zachary Levi “Chuck Bartowski” & Adam Baldwin “Major John Casey” to tell web geeks about their Mission. You can see the filming production photos from their Halloween Episode.

Our Amazon speaker will be revealing many details on how startups survive growing pains and keep the infrastructure cost low by utilizing AWS.

Note: Thanks to NBC executives’ decision to put full episode Chuck online. I was able to watch the first 4 full episode at late nights. Watching TV is very fun these days on Browser instead of TV set. If Chuck decides to film in Silicon Valley, we’ll be happy to gather geeks as extras and find startup offices as filming sites. Chuck got my card!
Amazon Workshop: Launching and running startups using Amazon Web Services
Speaker: Jinesh Varia, Amazon Web Services Evangelist at Amazon

Date & Time: 10/31/2007 Wed 6:30pm-9:30pm
Location: Hurricane Electric “The Matrix” Building
Address 48233 Warm Springs Blvd, Fremont CA 94539
Registration: http://amazonanatomy.eventbrite.com/

Food & Drinks serving at 6:30pm

September 26, 2007

Reminder: Silicon Valley Web Builder Wiki Discussion Panel

Filed under: SVWB, Silicon Valley — SVWB @ 2:43 am

Back in early stage of Web 2.0, geeks have already trained to be geeks by day eating FREE food at Lunch20, secret agents by night hacking code. Now TV Show Chuck is putting geeks on TV screen.

It is absolutely a fun mission when any geek attempts to customize wiki in CSS and expects no funny business with browser types and versions. Wikis must overcome the challenges of browers and nature of wikis to achieve user-friendly applications. SVWB is hosting an educational discussion panel to evaluate the beauty & beast of Wikis. Please come by and check out these award-winning wikis.

Note: It is little backward for NBC to support free download for window only. How can geeks like us catch geek shows when we leave bulky PC desktops at home/office and carry lightweight Mac or iPhone around. Another tip is get TV writers to consult smart geeks on Web 2.0. I certainly want to see Chuck the geek to use iPhone Facebook App to find his ex-roommate from Stanford, use Yahoo Mobile to search info, use Google map to look up direction, use Spock to look up suspect, use Twitter to send signal for help, use Adobe CS3 Premiere Pro to edit video and upload to YouTube, and at last, hang out with his friends from SVWB at Lunch20. You will have our permission to use SVWB name and logo in your TV series.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Hurricane Electric Building Two “The Matrix”
48233 Warm Spring Blvd, Fremont California 94539
Moderator:
Luke Wroblewski
Senior Principal of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc.,
Author of “Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability”  &

Speakers:
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

Nov 10 & 11 Sat & Sun
User Experience BarCamp

Note: SVWB is seeking geeks to join our team as secret agents by night. We’ll download Martial Art program to train you to move like a hacker warrior. Take the red pill and look for us at “The Matrix”

September 18, 2007

SVWB: About Wiki of the Beauty & the Beast: Usability VS Functionality

Filed under: SVWB, Silicon Valley, Wetpaint, announcement, yahoo — SVWB @ 12:32 am

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