Lunch 2.0

Sleepless. Not just a few nights. Honestly I don’t want to write or else I would have written many weeks ago. Everything I write here will affect billion of dollars as if I am writing the Future.

First of all, thank you very much for those who flash signs to show support including showing superman sign, Michael J. Fox TV interview appearance, Back To The Future DVD release, etc.

I am not here to polish the present and decorate the future like politicians and business executives. I am here to reveal the truth preparing us to bravely face the present and create our future.

I am not here to fix the stock market. I am not here to fix the economy. I am just an ordinary geek who inherit the leadership in web community. It takes tremendous of courage to speak out in this sensitive historical time.

Looking around. I don’t have the choice. I have to keep my words. Yes I am looking at the stock market everyday tracking the market movements. I have made a deal with hedge fund traders and investors around the world. So far it meets no.1 & no.2 conditions. Yahoo stock cross above $15 many times. We can take a short breathe.

DEAL:
Stop shorting US stocks based on this blog (Checked)
OR
Allow Yahoo stock to recover in the healthy price range of $15-$20 (Checked)

Our IPO toilet in Silicon Valley is broken. Agree with many experts. Stock market is not a true reflection of economy. We’ll have to look beyond the daily and weekly stock market trends. To prepare more startups in Silicon Valley to pre-qualify for IPO and stay healthy after post-IPO, I would like to make a deal with Wall Street Investment Banks that underwrite IPO. This is fair as Investment Banks no longer retain the same reputation and creditability. The cost of IPOs is at the alarming level as increasing health care cost. It is bad for companies, startups, consumers, investors, retirement, and government. Let’s fix the broken toilet.

DEAL:
Drop Investment Bank 7% for 90% of the IPOs to at least 50%

Everything across the board in every industry is in very bad shape. I would like to request our government to delay or reduce the scope of Antitrust until our economy recover. Put more efforts in regulating Investment Banks and Accounting Firms that control the IPO underwriting fee and process.

I would ask every startup in Silicon Valley to work on a solid business models that foster healthy revenue, requirement for M&A or IPO.

One thing I am certain. Netbook is not the Future. Star Trek “PADD” (Personal Access Display Device), a hand-held computer interface with touch screen device is the Future. Future PADD will contain an universal connector that plug into a wall, desk, case, public stand, car or even chair. PADD keyboard is part of hard cover, or carry case, or embedded in desk, or integrated into wall Digital Frame. You fold down the Wall Digital Frame to access the keyboard for PADD for standing use or detach it from wall for comfort use. Rentable PADD will replace text books reducing educational cost, save more trees to protect our environment. PADD will reduce administration cost & errors in hospital by digitalizing records from the entry point of patient visit.

Our future relies on sensitivity and accuracy of mobile devices. Accelerometer on the mobile is not sensitive enough to achieve critical functions. Our infrastructure is lacking to support accurate altitude.

Future Specifications:
A open standard on mobile profile must be created. This is not the same as Open ID, Facebook Connect, MySpace ID, Google Friend Connect. This mobile profile is designed to save lives dealing with aging baby boomers, shortage of health care professionals, increasing cost of healthcare, reduction of government budget on police, firefighters, state and city workers. This mobile profile captures major age group such as senior citizen with health condition classifications. The m profile is stored on mobile with protected password and only reveal permission-based public code on the phone. It stores minimum data in determining healthcare decision at critical times when medical records are not accessible. The m profile details can be revealed by ER or rescuing authority in saving life situations. User can change state from “normal” to various danger levels depending on health or disaster situation like flood, fire, earthquake, mud slides, etc, sending alerts to assigned personal and preferred local authority.

Next generation accelerometer has to be sensitive enough to detect a sudden drop beyond normal use. If user doesn’t response within 10-30 sec, mobile will send warning signal to personal contact, within a few min mobile will send signal to preferred healthcare professionals. If there are massive signals within same area in proximity at the same time, it will alert local authority such as nearby firefighters or hospitals.

Accuracy in altitude is fundamental in research & science, as well as business applications. We must go beyond 2D data visualization, distribution and mapping. Ability to hook html/XML tag, CSS class and JS div to accurate and reliable accelerometer or geological coordinates will enable 3D functional applications. Any rescue team can quickly mount mobile devices with data plan only sending timely data, periodic images or videos to monitor disaster areas. I hope to witness web advance going toward the greater human man kind, rather than surfing the web.

Deal:
I’ll reveal and explain more. So much more must be done. CA is in serious critical state with very tight timing. I’ll be watching Wall Street news on Investment Banks.

Personal Note:
I personally would like to ask everyone’s cooperation, not to make me nervous about who I should or should not invite or what I should or should not cover in coming events. If I feel it is necessary to arrange another meeting like Browser Wars or JavaScript Battle or HTML6, just gracefully and openly accept the ideas. I don’t need any extra unnecessary pressure to my existing nervousness. It takes a lot of guts and nerves to describe what it takes to build the FUTURE.

Time is limited. Clock is clicking for CA. These few days I am reading “rescue” signs from our CA governor.

Mr. President: It is wise to act quickly on healthcare reforms between now and August.

Brad Pitts: Your name has been coming up many times. Get ready. Clean up. Put yourself back to the Golden American look. You’ll play a very important role in rescuing CA state, part of bigger future. Get your Twitter account ready to receive timely clues. You can find me via SFCutters.

Angelina Jolie: I used to look up to you. I just didn’t see your name. I would just ask you not to interfere the rescue effort.

JJ Abrams: I’ll need your help related to Star Trek.

Back To The Future: I’d like to see a different time line, McFly’s next generation. A geek girl with long hair riding a scooter, twitter with iphone, and hack codes. Put that little hamster in the ball. Include Feng Shui Master Guide.

JavaScript Jedi: Can we pass the congressional Republican type of debates on JavaScript spec? Look beyond DOM level. Ease the pain and cost of AJAX.

Lunch20: Sorry guys about taking the space on the blog. When the world is getting better, we’ll get more free lunches!

Bess
SVWB Founder

It is difficult to break the long intended silence as a geek superhero. I almost want to take a superman break to explore my planet.

It takes me weeks to decide when to write again. I figure out there is no perfect time to write. This is the time. The world is watching.

I knew about the chance of flu related epidemic a few months ago. Feng Shui Master warned about the possible flu related epidemic and food poisoning would hit US this year. It arrives in US officially.

Our President Obama and I have a few things in common. I’ll share this one. Perhaps both of us have watched the movie “Back to the Future”. Mr. Obama becomes Mr. President against all odds. Everything about the future is about to begin from here.

Before I continue to share, I need to make a deal with hedge fund traders and investors around the world.

DEAL:
Stop shorting US stocks based on this blog
OR
Allow Yahoo stock to recover in the healthy price range of $15-$20

Last time I ask the community not to beat up Yahoo randomly. Yahoo is getting very close to the target price $15. Yahoo! Developer Network (YDN) has contributed to the web community for years in the background from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0. This is a company contributing and share significant amount of their research and learning to make the web better. In the most recent OAuth API incident on Twitter, once again, Yahoo! demonstrates its leadership pouring their resources to fix it without asking any return. When Yahoo can overcome its way to $20-$25 price range, it will ease up the Silicon Valley. Yahoo is more likely to acquire startups.

I would need our White House to spend less money on Antitrust and more on IPO policy. Our past policies for Silicon Valley are too focus on Punishment. Punish the big companies when it gets big. Punish the startups when it gets closer to IPO. How can we innovate and fuel the economy in this kind of punishment culture?

I would need our Government and Congress to look forward, not backward. Forward back to the Future, NOT backward back to the Past. We simply can’t afford it as a nation. There will be a lot more bigger things coming.

Our toilet in Silicon Valley is broken. It requires to unplug and flush the toilet before the cash flow back to the market. The last Administration did something causing the IPO plumbing to a halt. Big companies and startups are squeezing every penny with massive layoffs as VCs and angels are stuck with the broken toilet. We are losing future assets on human intelligence and technology advancement in Silicon Valley. Change the policy today. Allow as many startups to pre-qualify for IPO. Pair startups with experience executive advisors from public companies and coach them on business models during the pre-qualification period. Allow qualified startups to IPO when all the signals are strong and it is ready for market. Companies like Skype, AOL, Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, etc must graduate from startup status.

Is it in our best interests to force our public to invest in old companies? Railroad is replaced by automobiles. If we force our public to invest only in Railroad, our automobile industry will never take off as well as our stock market. Perhaps many are waiting to invest in the next economy.

When the toilet is fixed, the massive layoff will slow down and hiring will slowly come back. Startups will be the ones lead the hiring, spending and expanding. Big companies will have to follow to stay competitive.

May be our government should consider stop printing money tree and start growing money tree. Go for modern light rail system across the country. Invest back to the future. It will bring new business along the entire rail system. Our old big automobile are designed for big American family.

Consider building mobile app for government instead of building new server infrastructure. It saves bandwidth, maintenance, energy, security on servers and consumer computer’s energy, on web contents that don’t change any often. Allows States and Counties to roll out their mobile apps. Provides both free and paid app. Paid apps that save administration in the long run and also bring revenues to the States and local districts.

Netbook is not the Future. Star Trek “PADD” (Personal Access Display Device), a hand-held computer interface with touch screen device is the Future.

I’ll explain and describe what must happen for Back to the Future. I’ll be watching the stock market to see if traders and investors around the world are keeping the deal.

Save the Future Save the World!

Note: If Goggle stock plunges, it is not related to me. I have nothing to do with this.

Bess
Founder of SVWB

Apr 29 Wed 6:00pm-9:00 PM
Toy Story on Social Mobile UXP Design:
Using Fun to Drive Social Distribution of iPhone Games

Event Title: Toy Story on Social Mobile UXP Design – Using Fun to Drive Social Distribution of iPhone Games
Date: Apr 29 Wed 7:00pm-9:00pm
Speaker: Nicole Lazzaro, Founder and President at XEODesign, Inc
Location: Hurricane Electric
Address: 48233 Warm Spring Blvd, Fremont California 94539
Food & Drink: Sponsored by Hurricane Electric

Registration: http://socialmobiledesign.eventbrite.com/

All I Want For Christmas Is To Save the Web

A peanut from Snoopy wanted a dog for Christmas. I wanted to save the web for Christmas. Save the Web Save the World.

Like any superheroes, I face the Villians who get me into the geek superhero business. Like Spiderman, one lose love interest for the greater cause for the web. It takes me a long time waiting for the right time to break the silence, not to interrupt the stock market. My words are taking seriously by leaders and some unwanted attention from investors around the globe.

I was pissed when I saw the blog post from Webguild on Google status on contractors, dated on Nov 23, 2008. This single blog post was picked up by press immediately following by Wall Street. It was an unnecessary negative out-dated news published in inappropriate times with inappropriate photo. This blog post sent the stock to rock bottom. This blog post was published during the most critical few days when our White House was bumping millions to restore the confidence of stock market. Google stock has been seriously punished by this single blog post. I urge those smart and intelligent Wall Street Analysts to disregard this blog post in your analysis and stock evaluation. It was a very irresponsible post with intention to hurt a good company stock value in critical times. It is important that Google is being evaluated fairly based on good fundamental values. Google is our backbone of Silicon Valley.

Another web landmark we must save is Yahoo. Yahoo is being under valued for its potential. Yahoo has the most potential to find its way to the top like Britney Spears. As geek superhero, I was called upon to help the falling celebrity Britney Spears back in Apr last year. At the time, no one is certain that Britney Spears’s condition is well enough to get back to the top. As one of the behind the scene core members in building Spear’s web 2.0 social media strategy, I wrote very long length emails to Yahoo Developer Network and explained why Britney Spears should be saved. Yahoo quietly alerted units including Media from Santa Monica. Britney Spears made the first break becoming the no.1 Yahoo! Buzz for her come back. This break helped Spears in TV coverage and restored confidence in her popularity. Do not underestimate what Yahoo Developer Network can do.

Yahoo is sort of like Britney Spears at her falling times. Too many outsiders beat up Yahoo with magnifying lens. If we all come together to give Yahoo the breaking room and to welcome Yahoo’s come back, it is not too difficult for Yahoo to get back to $15-$20 range and to $20-$25 range. Yahoo may be strong enough to absorb and provide exits for struggling web 2.0 startups. If the public is giving Britney Spears the break, I urge the public and government to give the same break to Yahoo. Allow Yahoo to recover and get back to the top. Rescue Yahoo will rescue the remaining Silicon Valley.

Some VCs are hoping that our government to invest in basic research and the next big thing like the web and browser. This is a distant hope while our government is too busy fixing multiple falling industries. Massive layoffs in tech industry are not long term healthy paths for Silicon Valley. Web standards and our browsers are getting too old for the next technology quantum leap. W3C should consider rapid CSS4 & CSS5 development. It’s time to shift more work and power to CSS away from the JavaScript hacks. Allow CSS to carry more weight with lighter footprint and to support for a wider range of non-desktop browsers. Allow CSS to style gesture-based, multi-media, animation, location-based actions.

I believe the leadership behind CSS standard is strong enough to move our Web Standard forward in W3C. The leaders behind JavaScript Standard are spending too much time debating like our congress. When will those JavaScript Jedi stop debating at court and start taking out their lightsabers to improve JavaScript?

Ten years ago, W2K lifted up our local economy with significant IT spending. Now it’s time our browsers and standards to go forward quicker rather than afraid of breaking the web. Breaking the web is not so bad if it lifts the world economy, putting more developers back to work. It’s time to give up IE engine. A car mechanic can tell you that you can’t fix or expect an old car to perform well on an old engine.

2-3 years ago Apple was invited to join our Browser Wars discussion panel. Behind the scenes, I urged the browser leaders to consider the importance of mobile browsers and how important it is to allow developers to build over mobile platform. Apple was actively listening while they were quietly working on Safari on iPhone. Apple addressed the navigation challenge on mobile screen by introducing touch screen user experience. I believe Apple will continue to build their success on and beyond iphone. The next natural steps are building mobile devices similar to Star Trek “PADD” (Personal Access Display Device), a hand-held computer interface with touch screen. Something it can be used to replace books/manuals and plugged into household consumer products, hospitals, transportation and public stations.

Social networking standards are quickly adopting the virtual currency on virtual goods and services. Companies shouldn’t ignore and neglect the social network infrastructure, regardless of cost saving and layoff. The next steps to bring healthy economy to Silicon Valley are to add buyer and seller communities over social graph with micropayment and e-commerce platform. It’s time to replace the old, inefficient and expensive Auction model.

After checking my favorite Feng Shui Master’s guide book, I am revealing some details here to assist the Silicon Valley with my interpretations. There will be up lifts around April and August in year 2009. Work smart now to capture these 2 mild jumps. The worst is not over yet. The recession will be lingering around 3 years until 2011 breakout from trends. Big companies collapse will create more opportunities for many unknown small businesses to gain new grounds. Our newly elected President has one year of good luck. The rest we would have to figure out without relying on the President too much. Any innovation or improvement to reduce the desktop and server energy consumption will create more harmony. This includes practices and standards reduce no. lines of codes, http requests, bandwidth, browser hacks. Accelerate the mobile development and mobile commerce are another approach. Moving forward with Star Trek “PADD” type of mobile device production and development are good directions. These directions align the expected reforms on publishing and education.

We tend to forget the power of love – the love to our country, our community, friends, family and self. To heal the historic economy depression, love is the medicine. Love has the unparallel strength to overcome any technical and economic challenges ahead of us in Silicon Valley. Save the web Save the world.

Happy Valentine!

Bess
Founder of Silicon Valley Web Builder (SVWB)

The Matrix of AJAX Revolutions: JQuery, Dojo, YUI, GWT, and MooTools

Plus

State of Job Market and Best / Worst Strategies
Tom Zhang, Google Senior Recruiter
7:00pm (10 min)

Discussion Panelists:
Dylan Schiemann, Co-creator of Dojo Toolkit, CEO at SitePen, Co-Founder at Comet Daily
Yehuda Katz, JQuery Contributor and Engineering Manager at Engine Yard
Adam Moore, Architect of YUI and founding engineers at Yahoo
Fred Sauer, Developer Advocate at Google, GWT contributor, Author of gwt-dnd, gwt-log and gwt-voices
Tom Occhino, Contributing Developer at MooTools
Moderator: Michael Carter, Silicon Valley JavaScript Meetup Leader

Date: 2/18/09 Wed
Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm
Location: Google Campus
Address: Room Kiev in Building 40, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043
Address: Bodega Bay Room 1950 Charleston Rd, Mountain View, CA 94043

6:00pm – 7:00pm – Social Hour
7:00pm – 7:15pm – Announcements and Google Recruiter
7:15pm – 8:30pm – Panel
8:30pm – 8:45pm – Q&A

Registration: http://matrixajax.eventbrite.com
Food & Drink: Sponsored by Google

6:00-7:00 PM Social Hours & Job Announcement
Note: I am giving open invitation here to any corporate recruiters and hiring managers to attend this social hour to announce job openings. This is a last minute effort to help our web community.

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

“I am not the cheerleader” in Hero. I am not “special”. But, I do think the web can save the world.

“Save The Web Save The World”

I am just a “geek” like Chuck. I like to spill out beans on technology that I am passionate about especially with free lunch offers. I find the NBC production crews do follow me here. Lately I receive email requests from advertisers who express interests to advertise on my blog posts here. Those highly paid SEM hackers are spamming my posts with casino and insurance links. The music industry insiders think I am a celebrity from the geek world, not because I am related to Britney Spears.

Like the cheerleader in Hero, I have been hiding out to avoid brutal attacks online. Thanks to Tim O’Reilly and Robert Scoble to step out to support the minority gender group. I feel a little bit safer to start a blog. I am letting the kitty out of the bag. I am officially releasing our official blog here. This is where we will gather the world experts, rock-star developers and smart geeks to explain and discuss very cutting edge and cool information, that is beyond our monthly meetings.

Stock market sank when I announced our “Browser Wars Episode II: Attack of the DOM”. Stock market sank when Google announced the release of browser Google Chrome. It is the lack of confidence that is eroding our American Dreams. Our next special meeting is on a very dark Halloween week, Oct 29 Wed. My plan is not to give chances for the traders to short our stock market.

Our Halloween special event “The Chronicles of Web Standard: the HTML5, the Comet, and the WebSocket” is not directly related to browsers. Our event theme title is based on my favorite novels, The Chronicles of Narnia, where time travel is possible and the good fight against the evil.

Comet, nicknamed “Reverse Ajax”, allow low-latency (less delay). Ajax Push, Full Duplex Ajax, and Streaming Ajax are the design patterns for Comet. WebSocket standard (TCP/IP Connection) is part of the HTML 5 that is going to be ready to implement for browsers while the entire HTML 5 release is in 2022.

WebSocket standard is designed to increase the efficiency of networking for browser applications and to remove the limitations of the HTTP request-response communication model. Use it wisely to replace Ajax-based infrastructure will lower your scalability cost significantly. Too much Ajax can be expensive on bandwidth cost.

While our government officials are busy fixing Wall Street, we will be planning our discussion on the existing and next Web Standard. Can our next Web Standard get more support from AJAX library and platforms? Can our next Web Standard scheduled to be implemented by Browsers? Can the ECMA Technical Committee put aside the voices and sing in harmony on the next JavaScript standard? Can W3C hurry up in drafting standard?

While the social security, banking, real estate, and financial markets are in serious troubles with no easy quick fixes, web has the best chance to change the world.

“Save The Web Save The World”
拯救網頁保存世界

Bess
SVWB Founder

10/29/2008 Wed 6:300-10:00pm
The Chronicles of Web Standard: the HTML5, the Comet, and the WebSocket
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.
John Fallows, CTO and co-founder at Kaazing
Ted Goddard, Senior Software Architect at ICEsoft Technologies and ICEfaces.org
Registration URL: http://webstandard.eventbrite.com
FREE if register online

Note: Received 150 registrations. We are planning to receive 200-300 attendees. For those who are traveling to US to attend please register immediately.

From time to time we’ll reveal our group Silicon Valley Web Builder (SVWB) film making process to all the geeks out there. The documentary film is about Browsers and Web 2.0 in Silicon Valley. This film is to promote peace and freedom within Browsers as an effort to spark innovation and breakthrough technologies.

I am in charge of the Sound Editing, Sound Effect and Soundtrack. To bring the Web 2.0 collaborative and social networking spirit, I’ll need to recruit and assemble an Orchestra. One day I envision our iPhone Orchestra can perform at Oscar. This is where the iPhone Orchestra story begins.

To give you the confidence of my musical talent, I share a piece of interesting historical fact here. At the last Google Developer Day party, after the DJ left promptly with his music, frustrated with previous music played, I jumped in and started mixing music with Youtube videos. Party carried on without any problems. This demonstrated another good use of Technology.

If you are excited about participating a historical event, please come and volunteer yourself. We’ll need to brainstorm about turning iPhone as musical instrument in an innovative way. Hack ideas and compose.

iPhone Startup Camp
Event Details: http://www.barcamp.org/iphonestartupcamp
Date/Time: 6/28/08 Sat 1pm-10pm
Location: TIPS
Address: 1000 Elwell Court Suite 150, Palo Alto CA 94301
RSVP: http://iphonestartupcamp.eventbrite.com

To: Zachary Levi, Adam Baldwin, writers and producers
Apple pie Apple Pie. I would like to thank NBC executives assisting in ending the Writers’ Strike just in time for us to watch the Oscar, the memorable 80th Annual Academy Awards. It was cool to show our geek toys iPhone and Wii at Oscar. Did the Oscar writers find out our late night activities on iPhone and Wii from our User Experience Barcamp last year?

The latest storyline is Chuck sees Ruby in his vision thinking it must involve a diamond buyer who trade Ruby to fund illegal activities. Arrest the innocent business woman with no lead. Spot the latest developer book “Ruby” on the bookstore stand. Recall the Ruby code. Break into the Rails application code discovering the Ruby expert is kidnapped. Chuck must go East. Ruby creator is in Japan. The enemy head figure is hidden in the dragon, disguised as computer expert at Beijing Olympics. A Chinese journalist suggests Chuck to use Twitter to send alert like the last earthquake. Chuck uses iPhone Twitter to ask the public to escape but Twitter fails at the peak traffic again. Download the iPhone SDK App musical app. Start playing the world recognized tune “I’d like to teach the world to sing”. Everyone sing and stop walking while Sara disarms the bomb.

Bess
Founder
Silicon Valley Web Builder

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

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

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.

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”

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