I’ll be at the Search Engines Strategy conference next week including speaking on a blogger panel on Wednesday from 11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Google CEO Eric Schmidt kindly agreed to be our opening act, warming up the crowd for 45 minutes as they recover from a night of drinking (but not much dancing) at the Googleplex. If you’re at the conference or one of the evening parties say hello and let’s talk about search. I’m still hoping Yahoo! will rent out Great America on Thursday night so I can ride Top Gun over and over again….
Category Archives: Events
WordCamp kickoff party at Taylor’s Refresher tomorrow
WordCamp is this Saturday, bringing together bloggers and developers using the open-source PHP blogging product for a day of discussion and learning. We’re kicking things off on Friday night with dinner along San Francisco’s waterfront for anyone who is in town. Join us for dinner at Taylor’s Automatic Refresher at the Ferry Building. We’ll be outside on the patio starting at 7 p.m. enjoying the sun and some good local food. The team from Automattic will be on hand to encourage increased use of BBQ sauce on everything. You can tryout one of San Francisco’s first municipal WiFi nodes…
World Cup Final in Dolores Park
The World Cup Final match between France and Italy will be shown this Sunday in Dolores Park starting at 11 a.m. If you live in San Francisco it should be a pretty fun place to watch the game with a good crowd. Food and drink proceeds will help fund science field trips for Bay Area inner city kids to places such as Slide Ranch. I recommend a trip to Phil’s Coffee on 18th and Sanchez to wake yourself up before the game….
Online storage Tech Session tonight in San Francisco
Amazon S3, Box.net, and Fabrik will present at tonight’s online storage TechSession in San Francisco. If you’re interested in cheap, reliable online storage for your digital media at home or your startup’s backend you should come learn how each product is taking a new approach to online storage and user interaction. 7-9 p.m. tonight at 1 Market Street in San Francisco. Please RSVP on the blog or on Upcoming to help plan food, drinks, and building access….
Tech Session: Online Storage
This month’s SF Tech Sessions event is all about online storage and the new services changing the way we think about our data. Jeff Barr of Amazon will introduce us to S3, a relatively cheap storage backend for developers and their applications. Aaron Levie from Box.net will demonstrate popular consumer applications for online storage including a free gigabyte easily managed on Box. Fabrik will talk about online backup built-in to hard drives in our machines and connecting to the Internet to share files and insure none of your precious data will be lost. Tech Sessions is this Thursday, June 15,…
Blogger dinner tonight in San Francisco
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….
Blogger dinner May 31
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…
PodSession: Startup School
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 open house tomorrow in Mountain View
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…
SF Tech Sessions: Timely conversations
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….