A fully implantable artificial heart designed to overcome the worldwide shortage of transplant donors will be ready for clinical trial by 2011. How does it relate to the geeks in Silicon Valley?

HTML5 specification is sitting on the completion date of year 2022. This is a deadline projected based on the past including IE5 idle for 5 good years. Many internet founders and contributors will be in retirement age between 60-80 by year of 2022. If medical experts rush to overcome the complexity of placing a fully implantable artificial heart inside a human body, almost a “miracle” dream, is HTML5 specification harder to do than artificial heart, or putting a man on the moon?

Al Gore told the public at Web 2.0 Summit how the web can solve climate crisis. He was giving hints to our President-Elect’s advisors who gathered some intelligences from Silicon Valley. Clean technology alone is not a comprehensive policy. I think moving quicker to HTML5 will help save the world sooner than later. Ideally HTML5 will help making other client-side and server-side technology run more efficiently and save more energy. This is a simple way to put it. More talents are needed to save the web.

This led to the effort to Hackathon 4 Kids session. Many jobs are created by teenagers and young adults by internet companies and Web 2.0 startups. With economic crisis, our CA state is cutting educational program, colleges and universities are exploring ways to limit student enrollment. Fewer students will become engineers or developers. It is important that our web community step up to implement quick solutions for this future shortage. Getting kids to start coding young. Getting parents involved in encourage them to learn coding young.

It is never too young to learn coding. I self-taught myself coding in elementary school when I received my first computer, before age of 10. I wouldn’t hold back any kids who want to learn coding on age. I am hoping attending kids will find their next buddy and future partners. Our future economy in Silicon Valley may be shaped by these young age friendship of entrepreneurs like Bill Gates and Paul Allen from Microsoft, Mark Zuckerberg and Adam D’Angelo from Facebook.

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 http://www.rockyou.com

This is a message to our President-Elect:

Dear Mr. President,

If the web save your election win, the web is here to save the world. Our Silicon Valley Web Builder group is organized from members that guard the web community in early internet days. This is my wish that our national CTO will interact and work with web community like ours so our government can act quickly to improve our economy.

The short term economic boost from the web is not coming from Web 3.0. Web must go beyond social networking craze. Consider Lifeline Network over social networking platform. Let’s consider putting Government APIs allowing developers to build more useful utilities and tools, little by little, giving chances for web to save lives and assist the aging population in their retirement years in difficult times. Consider policies that assist young adults and startup founders to start business and create jobs. Help us to accelerate web advancement by getting our words out to business leaders.

Help us to save the web. May we keep the dreams living in America.

Bess
SVWB Founder

THE POWER OF ONE DREAM
IF ONE DREAM CAN CHANGE
A ROOM
THEN IT CAN CHANGE
A COMMUNITY
IF IT CAN CHANGE A COMMUNITY
THEN IT CAN CHANGE
A BROWSER
IF IT CAN CHANGE A BROWSER
THEN IT CAN CHANGE
A WEB STANDARD
IF IT CAN CHANGE A WEB STANDARD
THEN IT CAN SAVE
THE WORLD

Note: This part is written the night before Presidential Election.

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

We are happy to announce the next Lunch 2.0 to take place on Nov 14, 12pm-3pm at the Tudou office. This time we will have special guests joining us from the www.china20.asia tour. Many thanks to our host Tudou for providing the space & catering!!

Program:

1. Introduction to Tudou
2. Quick intro on the Chinese Internet market by Web2Asia
3. 5 Chinese start-ups get 5min each to pitch their ventures to the crowd followed by 5min Q&A
4. Open discussion

Please note that seats are limited (Tudous office has become very crowded recently) and we only have 15 more invitations to give away. If you want to join as an attendee please RSVP to Calvin at chen@qifang.cn

If you cant make it to the Lunch 2.0 there is another public event with the www.china20.asia tour on Nov 13, 9pm at M1NT Club (RSVP here: http://shanghai20.eventbrite.com). A similar event will be held in Beijing on Nov 10 and you can RSVP here http://beijing20.eventbrite.com

Additionally we are still looking for 2 more companies to present. Priority will be on local startups with focus on the Chinese market. Please send your material to Calvin at chen@qifang.cn if you want to apply. Presentation can be done in Chinese - we will have an interpreter available.

See you there!

BTW: This is our Shanghai Lunch 2.0 Facebookgroup - join us to stay up to date on future events http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=13224258265

From fixing cars, to cameras, to iPhones, FixYa’s community of 9M techies, tinkerers and hobbyists are powering a global DIY/repair revolution…and we’re growing at a rate of 10% per month.On Nov 21, meet our talented team, pitch your skills to our hiring managers and finally, FIX YA self a plate.
SAVE THE DATE - Fri. Nov. 21. 2008, from noon-2pm

WHERE – FIXYA [http://fixya.com]
107 South B Street, Suite 220, San Mateo, Calif.
[Half a block from the San Mateo Caltrain station next to Main Street parking garage]

RSVP: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1317609/?ps=7

Reclaim | Refurbish | Repair
FIXYA

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

“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.

Are you in Orange County?

I’m Andrew Warner, I want to start Lunch 2.0 in OC, but I don’t live there. I have a location and a date (Friday, Oct 24) for the first event, but I need some local support to get this of the ground.

Want to help?

Email me: mail-at-awarner.com

Or Facebook me: http://www.facebook.com/people/Andrew_Warner/505809721

Here is the plan for Yahoo’s luncheon.  A little bit of content and a whole lotta lunch. From the folks who brought you Open Hack 2008. We’ll schmooze, show new stuff, and share some schwag. Hope you can come. Stay tuned for more info.

Details: Please RSVP here on Yahoo’s UPCOMING site, since space is limited (it’s a big venue, but not that big).

Hosts: Yahoo
Where: 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA
When: Friday, October 10, 2008 12:00 - 1:30PM
RSVP ON UPCOMING ONLY!

Reminder

Reminder that the Lunch 2.0 @ Synaptics is tomorrow (Wednesday October 1)!

Upcoming Events

• Wednesday October 1 - Synaptics, Santa Clara, SV
• Tuesday October 7 - JamBase, SoMa, SF
• Friday October 10 - CreativeCrowds, Amsterdam, NL
• Friday October 10 - Codesta/scanR, Toronto, Canada
• Friday October 10 - Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, SV<—-THIS EVENT!!
• Wednesday October 15 - Art Institute of Portland, NW Portland
• Thursday October 30 - TBA, SoMa, SF
• Wednesday November 5 - Eclipse Foundation, SW Portland
• Wednesday January 14 - OTBC, Beaverton, Portland

So join JamBase for its first ever Lunch 2.0! Come grab a bite, mingle and view demos of the JamBase API and partner sites. Make sure to check out the raffle of awesome prizes, too. JamBase’s office is found 1 Zoe Street (at the corner of Bryant) in the SOMA area of San Francisco. Zoe Street is an alley between 3rd and 4th. Look for the red door!

For those of you who don’t know what JamBase is, JamBase is the premier website for fans of live music. By providing the largest database of show listings and ticket information, authoritative content, community, and personalization tools for fans, JamBase connects music fans with the music they love and empowers them to go see live music.

Remember: Tuesday October 7, 2008 from 12:00pm - 2:00pm!!!

Please RSVP here on UPCOMING.

Hosts: Jambase
Where: 1 Zoe Street, San Francisco, CA
When: Tuesday, October 7, 2008 12:00 - 2:00PM
RSVP ON UPCOMING ONLY!

Upcoming Events

• Friday September 12 - Etelos, Seattle
• Wednesday September 17 - SplashCast, NW Portland
• Friday September 26 - Health Solutions Group (Microsoft), Redmond Seattle
• Friday September 26 - SuggestionBox, San Diego
• Wednesday October 1 - Synaptics, Santa Clara, SV
• Tuesday October 7 - JamBase, SoMa, SF <—-THIS EVENT!!
• Friday October 10 - CreativeCrowds, Amsterdam, NL
• Friday October 10 - Codesta/scanR, Toronto, Canada
• Friday October 10 - Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, SV
• Wednesday October 15 - Art Institute of Portland, NW Portland
• Thursday October 30 - TBA, SoMa, SF
• Wednesday November 5 - Eclipse Foundation, SW Portland
• Wednesday January 14 - OTBC, Beaverton, Portland

When: Friday, Sept 26 @ 12:05 - 2:00 PM

Where: SuggestionBox.com’s office

120A South Sierra Avenue, Solana Beach, CA 92075

RSVP: Here

If you know someone in San Diego, tell them about this event!

And if you live in San Diego, come on out.

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

In other news

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.

Upcoming Events

• Friday August 29 - Symbio, Shanghai
• Thursday September 4 - Powerset, SoMa, SF
• Tuesday September 9 - Hi5, SoMa, SF
• Wednesday September 17 - SplashCast, NW Portland
• Friday September 26 - Health Solutions Group (Microsoft), Redmond Seattle
• Wednesday October 1 - Synaptics, Santa Clara, SV <—-THIS EVENT!!
• Tuesday, October 7 - TBA, SoMa, SF
• Friday, October 10 - Codesta/scanR, Toronto, Canada
• Friday, October 10 - TBA, Sunnyvale, SV
• Wednesday October 15 - Art Institute of Portland, NW Portland
• Thursday October 16 - TBA, SoMa, SF
• Thursday, October 30 - TBA, SoMa, SF
• Wednesday November 5 - Eclipse Foundation, SW Portland

(Any I missed? Want to host? Contact us.)