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Over 50 people will be at tonight's blogger dinner at Henry's Hunan in downtown San Francisco. If you are in the San Francisco Bay area you should come too. Henry's Hunan is located at 110 Natoma Street, about 2 blocks from the Montgomery BART and Muni rail station….
It's been too long since we've had a blogger meetup over chinese food. Next Wednesday, May 31, Dave Winer and I are co-hosting a blogger dinner at Henry's Hunan in downtown San Francisco starting at 6:30 p.m. Come out and meet a few new people, learn about Bloggercon and its themes, and connect with people and projects happening in the area. Henry's Hunan is located at 110 Natoma Street, just two blocks from the Montgomery Street BART and Muni station. Check out the journey through the Henry Hunan menu blog if you would like to see a blog entry for…
Want to found a startup! First you should go to school and learn a few things. Last Saturday's Startup School at Stanford brought together about 600 people from across the country and in some cases the world to learn what it takes to take a business from zero to profit without going broke. Om and I both attended and talked about the event and the current environment for new startups in this week's PodSession. The event was organized by Y Combinator, a venture firm focused on seed funding for geeky projects. Students in the Y Combinator program can try startup…
Microsoft Research will be demonstrating some of their projects tomorrow afternoon in Mountain View. It's a total geek science fair, with futuristic ideas such as recording and indexing everything you see and hear throughout the day, auto-classifying blog content, or searching the web based on a cameraphone picture. The demo room is open from 2-4 p.m. for browsing. I'll be on the lookout for a tricorder or new textual analysis of blogs. Tags: msresearch…
The next SF Tech Sessions event will take place this Thursday, April 27, from 7-9 p.m. in San Francisco. I selected a group of presenters covering online personal communication in various forms including text messaging, audio/video, and entire virtual worlds. Read more details and RSVP for this free event on the SF Tech Sessions blog. Participants will have a chance to chat with other local techies and hear 15-minute presentations from Meebo, Userplane, and Linden Lab. Each company has taken a unique approach to online messaging and you should come away with new ideas and perspectives on the technology industry….
Over 100 people participated in the second meeting of SF Tech Sessions last night at the Westin St. Francis. The crowd was a mix of bloggers, journalists, developers, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs all interested in learning about new products, people and ideas. Each presenter had about 15 minutes to engage the audience with a product demonstration. The first three presenters had launched within the last two weeks and Songbird launched about six weeks ago. Below are my brief summaries of each presenter. Skobee Noam Lovinsky of Skobee was the first presenter of the evening. Skobee helps plan meetups with firm…
The next SF TechSession is tonight from 7-9 p.m. at The Westin St. Francis hotel next to San Francisco's Union Square. We'll be on the 32nd floor with free food, drinks, WiFi, and a nice view of the city through some 15-foot floor-to-ceiling windows (might be a deck too). Thanks to Blish.com for providing an amazing venue for this month's meeting. Presenters Skobee, online event planning and local search through your social network. Noam Lovinsky, product guy, will present.Vast.com, an online classified search engine. Founder and CEO Naval Ravikant will present. Noam is a serial entrepreneur and you may want…
SF Tech Sessions is back! This month's event will feature 4-6 companies that may change the way you view search, communities, and online social interaction. All products are from small startup companies who have launched within the last 2 months. Details Wednesday, March 29 7:00-9:00 p.m. Westin St. Francis hotel Alexandra room, 32nd floor Union Square, San Francisco Full details for the event are available on the SF Tech Sessions blog. Add to iCal I learned a few things from the first SF Tech Sessions events: shorter presentations and more time for socializing and Q&A. Our meeting room features rows…
Last night I attended a talk at the Computer History Museum about the early history of portable computing highlighting GRiD Computing as one of the pioneers in the space. Some interesting facts: GRiD was one of Silicon Valley's first stealth companies (back in 1981). Most employees did not know what they were working on until after they were hired. Co-founder Dave Paulsen told a story about sourcing parts from all over the world to try and find already manufactured components that could work in a small form-factor PC. They found their electro-luminescent displays while flipping through a Japanese electronics…
The first SF Tech Sessions is less than a week away! Joyent, Kerio, and Zimbra will each present their groupware product and introduce their company to a room full of 100 bloggers, journalists, and small business owners. It all starts at 6:30 p.m. next Thursday, February 23, at CNET headquarters in San Francisco. More details are available on the SF Tech Sessions blog. Tom Bridge is flying in from Washington D.C. just to attend the event! The event competes with a billionaires dinner alongside the invite-only $5000 TED conference in Monterey. After you see Einstein the talking Parrot at TED,…
Companies should not have to pay tens of thousands of dollars to present their product to a technical and knowledgeable audience. Everyone is burned out on big conferences, big ticket prices, and we want to create more interesting in-depth experiences. I am proud to announce SF Tech Sessions, a new free monthly event that will highlight the latest technologies, products, and companies live and in-person in the San Francisco Bay Area. Every month a small crowd of journalists, bloggers, small business owners, and other interested individuals will gather to learn about a new industry from a small group of companies…
SD Forum is hosting a half-day session all about Python on Wednesday, January 25 from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. in Santa Clara. For just $25 you can spend your morning learning about Python from Guido van Rossum, Greg Stein, Bram Cohen, Alex Martelli, and active startups using Python. $25 for all that and $10 less if you are already a SD Forum member. Tags: sdforum, python…
Tag Tuesday takes place this Tuesday, November 29, at AOL's Mountain View campus starting at 6:30 p.m. Tag Tuesday is a developer-focused event with lead developers of products and companies involved in tagging come together to share their experience, code, and best practices. Edwin Aoki, chief architect at AOL, will talk about tag spam and some of the existing spam countermeasures at AOL. Kevin Burton, founder of TailRank, will introduce us to tagging of news items within his ranking system for blog posts. Some food and drink will be provided. Our past events have been in San Francisco and hopefully…
I am covering the Microsoft Technology Preview this morning in San Francisco. Microsoft is launching their "Live" software initiatives that include software as a service, synchronization, and even peer to peer. The biggest news to me so far is Bill Gates announcing that Microsoft will build advertising as a service for software development. Developers can call a web service and receive Microsoft advertising content targeted to their users directly in their applications. As the application grows in popularity it can provide different monetization options, but advertising is a good bootstrap model. Microsoft is announcing Windows Live and Office Live…
Tag Tuesday is back! If you are in the San Francisco area come out to Varnish Fine Art this Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. Scott Golder from HP Labs will talk about his recent research paper on collaborative tagging and Kevin Marks of Technorati will talk about the design and implementation of Blog Finder. Tag Tuesday is a developer-centered event. If you are working with tags or related methods of user classification and would like to present, let me know. Tags: hp, blogfinder, tags, tagtuesday…
Webzine 2005, a weekend grassroots event all about online publishing, is finally here! Thanks to all of the organizers for their months of hard work to make this happen for an attendance cost of $22! If you are in the San Francisco area this weekend, come down to the Swedish American Hall at 2174 Market Street to meet the people involved in personal publishing and grassroots media while hopefully learning a few things. I will present a workshop tomorrow at noon on publicizing your work using feeds (RSS, Atom, etc.) and tagging. Tags: webzine, webzine2005…
Technorati is sponsoring dinner and drinks — free as in beer — tonight, August 20, at Gordon Biersch in Palo Alto from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. The event coincides with the nearby BarCamp event nearby. If you are in the Palo Alto area I hope you can join us tomorrow night for some garlic fries, beer, and many interesting people in downtown Palo Alto. Tags: barcamp, paloalto…
Last night's geek dinner brought together a variety of people from the world of blogging. I enjoy sitting at a table with a group of people I have not met before and learning about how they meet their personal or business goals by creating or reading blogs. I spoke with a woman in charge of web content for the nation's largest ball bearing company. She is using blogs to help her company communicate better with its suppliers and differentiate themselves from the competitive market. I always joked about how some day people would use blogs to sell even small things…
About 50 geeks plan to attend tomorrow's night's dinner at Henry Hunan in downtown San Francisco. We will have a mini-blogging conference over spicy noodles. Dinner starts around 6:30 and the restaurant closes at 9 p.m. I plan to have the restaurant divide our large group into about 5 separate bills, or one bill for each table of approximately ten people. If you or a friend would still like to attend please feel free to join us even if you can only stay for some dumplings. Henry's Hunan Restaurant 110 Natoma Street 6:30 p.m. Tags: blogbusinesssummit, geekdinner, hunan…
There will be so many interesting people in San Francisco next week for the Blog Business Summit we need to have an informal dinner to mix and mingle. Let's get together at Henry's Hunan in downtown San Francisco next Wednesday, August 17, starting at 6:30 p.m. Henry's Hunan is located at 110 Natoma Street only one block from Blog Business Summit at the Palace Hotel. Please leave a comment below or contact me if you plan to attend so I can coordinate with the restaurant. Please plan for a cost of around $20 with drinks or $15 without. The restaurant…
I just finished a full day of sessions at the BlogHer conference in Santa Clara, a conference focused on female voices expressed through blogs. A met a variety of women who blogged about anything from the life of a professional dominatrix, favorite cupcakes, and analysis of the Supreme Court. You could hear the passion in the quivering voices of women as they stood up to speak in front of this crowd of hundreds and share their story. Most of the attendees I spoke were not local and the conference provided a way for them to meet face-to-face women they…
This Tuesday, July 26, is the second meeting of Tag Tuesday. Odeo developers Rabble and Blaine will share their experience evaluating tagging systems and coding a tagging directory of poscasts at Odeo.com. They will also discuss best practices for tagging backends. Odeo runs on Ruby on Rails with a Flash front-end and makes heavy use of Ajax and RSS. Sound interesting? I hope you can join us at Varnish Fine Art at 77 Natoma Street (between 1st and 2nd) this Tuesday starting at 6:30 p.m. Varnish serves drinks but not food, so I recommend you stop off somewhere on 2nd…
Many geeks are in town for the O'Reilly Where 2.0 conference this Wednesday and Thursday. I'm planning a geek outing for Friday if anyone is staying in the area and would like to see some sights and unique things, leave a comment and I will announce more details soon. We can do some geolocation-specific things like GoCar or Segway tours, visit the Lucas Letterman Digital Arts Center in the Presidio, walk the Golden Gate Bridge, or many other things. I liked my Seattle experience of a group breakfast followed by group excursions. Let's plan for a 10 a.m. breakfast at…
Technorati and Flickr are co-hosting a gathering of tag implementors and other interesting people tomorrow evening at 6:30 p.m. at Gordon Biersch in San Francisco. We are calling the event Tag Tuesday and hope this will be the first of many meetings about tags as a freeform organizational tool. Kevin Marks of Technorati and Stewart Butterfield of Flickr will each have small presentations followed by a discussion. Technorati often receives questions from other organizations about the best way to implement tags within their blog, software, or project. I think the best way to learn is in-person and from people that…
In less than two weeks I will be in Seattle at Gnomedex. I attended Gnomedex back when it was in Des Moines and had a lot of fun. As a former sexiest geek finalist — I lost to a Lockergnome employee — I just have to represent. I'm looking forward to the latest version of the conference in the most unwired city in America. Gnomedex will have a very large RSS presence this year with all the major aggregators attending and new aggregators being introduced at the conference so we can all geek out and make people's reading habits a…