Kerry S. Rossman

Date: 2008-08-02 00:00:00

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TGIF Social Pool & Pizza Night. All skill levels are welcome

Date: 2007-08-10 19:00:00

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No plan for Friday yet? Please come & join us for our TGIP Social Pool & Pizza Night. We can share some pizzas & play some friendly pool games while meeting new friends! This will be a TGIF Social Pool & Pizza Night. We have done that before & it was a lot of fun. As some of you may not have enough time to eat after work, I will order some pizzas to share. Please let me know, if you want to be included for the pizza dinner when signing in the event so that I know how much to order, it will probably cost about $7 per person. Below is the details of the event. Hope you can make it. (Please ignore the number of RSVP on the Upcoming.org site as I promote the events via multiple channels. Our social pool events usually have 20-25 people showed up): Date: Friday Aug 10th 7:00pm-10:30pm Location: Shoreline Billiards 1400 North Shoreline Blvd. #C-1, Mountain View 650-964-0780 Cost: $15/person to be collected when signing in. Ladies receive a discounted rate of $10 for this event. (About $7 additional if you would like to join us for the pizzas.) If you'd like to stay & play for longer after the event finished at 10:30pm, Shoreline offers us a $5 flat fee per person til they close at 2am, 2-4 persons per table depending on how busy the poolroom gets. RSVP: Please email me @ soyeeng@gmail.com with your FULL name, email address, number of guests (if any) with their names, phone number is optional. Although RSVP is not required, it would be helpful to let me know if ou plan on coming. I don't have email access after 4pm on Friday, so if you do decide to join us the last minute, you can simply show up or call me at 415-215-0761. How it works: 1. I would rotate people around tables every 40-45 minutes. Table assignment is random, though I would make my best effort to make sure a good gender mix per table. 2. I would try to have 4 people per table. 3. Since we would be rotating, it's less confusing if everyone plays the same rules. Game rules is available on the event date. 4. When table assignment has announced, everyone has to move to their next assigned table even if you "think" you are almost done with the game, since it's impossible for every table to finish at the same time, that way it won't slow down the table rotation for everyone. 5. If you need to leave early, please let me know 10 min before you actually leave, so I would leave your name out for next rotation. How we'll find each other: Ask for Shirley's or BAPBSC group Look forward to seeing you then. To be notified with our future pool events, go to yahoo.com, then go to "group", search for BAPBSC (Stands for Bay Area Pool, Billiards, Snooker Club), then select to join/ subscribe to the club. It is FREE to join. IMPORTANT: If you don't have Yahoo ID, please email me at soyeeng@gmail.com with your email address, I would manually add you as member. Shirley

Prime Time Legal Series Session 7- Stock Options & Benefits

Date: 2007-08-09 12:00:00

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Please join us to the launch of our Primetime Legal Series program, for new ventures and start-ups. These series are free and open to the public. Representatives from our platinum sponsor, Fenwick & West LLP will be presenting the series. The seventh seminar will be held on August 9th. All sessions will start promptly at 12:00pm and will consist of 45 minutes presentation, followed by 15 minutes Q&A. Please note that space is extremely limited, so register now to secure a spot! Free. http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaID=134616

Prime Time Legal Series Session 7- Stock Options & Benefits

Date: 2007-08-09 12:00:00

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SV-WEB-JUG: Improving Your Code with Objects and Aspects

Where: Googleplex

Date: 2007-09-18 18:30:00

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Some code is downright scary to maintain. An all too common example are bloated service methods that do too much: manage transactions, handle security as well as implement the business rules. Changing that kind of code requires you to understand and tackle many different concerns. Code can also be difficult to maintain if the implementation of some features (e.g. audit logging) is scattered throughout the code base. Changing that kind of code involves changing many components. This talk describes how to improve your code with real objects and aspects. We show how to use AOP to simplify your code by modularizing concerns such as audit logging that are normally implemented by code that is mixed in with the business logic. We also describe how to write truly object-oriented code in Java - something which is not done as often as you might expect even though Java is an object-oriented language. We will compare and contrast a procedural design with an object- oriented design and describe the benefits of using real objects. We will also show how to refactor a procedural design into an object-oriented design — an easy way to eliminate those fat service methods and improve the design of your application. About the Speaker: Chris Richardson is a developer, architect and mentor with over 20 years of experience and is the author of the book POJOs in Action. He runs a consulting company, Chris Richardson Consulting, Inc., that helps customers build better software faster. Chris has been a technical leader at a variety of companies, including Insignia Solutions and BEA Systems. Chris holds a computer science degree from the University of Cambridge in England and lives in Oakland, CA.

Designing the User Experience for Product Success & Brand Po...

Where: NorCal PDMA at Intuit

Date: 2007-05-16 18:30:00

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Today's massive proliferation of products and services with electronic interfaces give people unlimited ways to engage with digital content. Our speaker, Matt Barthelemy will discuss how the product interface is a becoming an increasingly important branding and profitability challenge for product managers and brand stewards. He'll also highlight examples of product experiences that deliver new and expanded capabilities in the ways that people use products, and explain how this benefits companies and consumers. Takeaways will include: * A review of the user interface development process * User interface design strategy and its fit with brand strategy * The challenges of communicating brand identity through the user experience * Why usability should not be the primary concern in developing a product interface * User experience and interface design process recommendations Speaker: Matt Barthelemy Vice President, Strategy Method, Inc. Matt Bathelemy's experience includes many successful and innovative programs, from future-office strategy programs with Xerox PARC and the original PowerBooks for Apple, to interaction design programs for companies including Sony, TiVo, Time Warner Cable, Fujitsu, and Nokia. At Method, Mr. Barthelemy is responsible for ensuring excellence in program strategy, creative execution, and client satisfaction. Prior to Method, he held senior positions at several high profile agencies including Frog design, Fitch, and Sapient. About NorCal Product Development & Management Association: The NorCal Product Development & Management Association is a local community for Silicon Valley product development professionals that: -Provides access to product development innovators -Helps members develops careers in product development -Improves the practice of product development in Silicon Valley -Provides networking opportunities PDMA members, Partners & Students: $10, non-members: $30 (add $5 at the door).

21st Annual Bridge School Benefit with Neil Young, Metallica...

Date: 2007-10-27 17:00:00

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Just announced 21st Annual Bridge School Benefit Concerts Saturday, October 27th Sunday, October 28th Shoreline Amphitheatre 2 acoustic concerts to benefit the Bridge School featuring Neil Young Metallica Jerry Lee Lewis Eddie Vedder with Flea and Jack Irons Tom Waits with Kronos Quartet John Mayer Regina Spektor Tegan & Sara Tickets for the 21st Annual Bridge School Benefit are onsale THIS SUNDAY, September 9th at 10am at Livenation.com and all Ticketmaster outlets including Ritmo Latino, select FYE stores and Tix Bay Area in Union Square. Tickets are available with no service charge at the Shoreline Amphitheatre Box Office for the onsale date and on Sundays from 10am to 2pm. Call (415) 421-TIXS, (510) 625-TIXS, (408) 998-TIXS, (925) 685-TIXS, (707) 528-TIXS, (916) 649-TIXS or (209) 551-TIXS to charge by phone. Advance tickets are $150.00 and $75.00 for reserved seating and $39.50 for general admission plus applicable service charges. There is a 2 ticket limit for reserved seats and 8 ticket total purchase limit for these shows. There are a limited number of lower level reserved seats available via auction at Ticketmaster.com beginning September 9th at 10am. Proceeds from these auction tickets will benefit the Bridge School. Enjoy

Under the Radar | Entertainment & Media

Where: Microsoft, Conference Center, Building 1

Date: 2007-06-28 08:00:00

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UTR conferences showcase 32 of the most disruptive companies in a sector. We take a hands-on look at the true innovators fueling an explosion of emerging technology and new business opportunities. Each company demo's their product to a panel of industry experts who are active in the sector, along with an audience of early-adopter technology insiders. Both audience and experts get a chance to ask questions and offer feedback on business models, market opportunities, areas for improvement, and how best to reach out and build up their audience. The conference also offers ample time for presenters and attendees to network and share ideas and information.

Elektro Love

Where: Green Lantern

Date: 2007-07-28 21:00:00

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Starting Saturday, July 28Green Lantern and Electro Connect presentELEKTRO LOVE SATURDAYSThe newest electro house from DJ Playdoughboy and guests,drink specials every Saturday @ Green LanternThis is your only destination for European experiencein the South Bay! size Don't miss the Grand OpeningJuly 28th || 9pm-2am || 21+NO COVER!!! Green Lantern1477 Plymouth St.Mountain View, CA

Social Billiards Mixer in Mountain View, CA. All Skill level...

Date: 2007-06-09 20:00:00

Type:

No plans for Sat yet? Please come out & join us for some friendly pool games!! All skill levels are welcome! I am hosting another social pool mixer. As usual, we would be rotating people around the tables every 30-45 minutes. Below is the details. Our event usually has 25-30 people showed up (Please ignore the number of RSVPs on the Upcoming.org as I would be promoting the events via a few channels.) When: Saturday June 9th 7:00pm-10:30pm Location: Shoreline Billiards at 1400 North Shoreline Blvd. #C-1, Mountain View, CA Cost: $15.00/person to be collected when signing in. Ladies will receive a discounted entry fee of $10 for this event. For those who would like to stay & play more pool after the event finished at 10:30pm, Shoreline Billiards offer our group $5 flat fee per person til they close at 2am RSVP: Please email me @ soyeeng@gmail.com by Friday June 8th. I need your FULL name,email address, number of guests (if any) with their names, phone number optional. Although RSVP is not required, it would be helpful to let me know if you plan on coming. I don't have email access after 4pm on Sat, so if you do decide to join us the last minute, please simply show up. How we'll find each other: Ask for Shirley's or BAPBSC's group How it works: 1. I would rotate people around tables every 40-45 minutes. Table assignment is random, though I would make my best effort to make sure a good gender mix per table. If you got rotated to a table that you have already played with 2 out of 3 players TWICE, please let me know, I would try my best to switch table for you. 2. I would try to have 4 people per table. 3. Since we would be rotating, it's less confusing if everyone plays the same rules. Game rules can be emailed if requested & is available on the event date. 4. When table assignment has announced, everyone has to move to their next assigned table even if you "think" you are almost done with the game, since it's impossible for every table to finish at the same time, that way it won't slow down the table rotation for everyone. 5. If you need to leave early, please let me know 10 min before you actually leave, so I would leave your name out for next rotation. To be notified with our future pool events, go to yahoo.com, then go to "group", search for BAPBSC (Stands for Bay Area Pool, Billiards, Snooker Club), then select to join/ subscribe to the club. It is FREE to join. IMPORTANT: If you don't have Yahoo ID, please email me at soyeeng@gmail.com with your email address, I would manually add you as member. I look forward to seeing you all again then. Shirley

SVASE Event: 'How I Build A Web 2.0, User-Generated Content,...

Date: 2007-09-20 18:30:00

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Event: 'How I Build A Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Citizen Journalism, Long-Tail, Social Media Site For $12,107.09' Date: Thursday, September 20, 2007 At 06:30 Duration: 2 Hours Contact Info: Sara Rauchwerger Email: sara@ccice.org URL: svase.org/index.php?option=com_extcalendar&Itemid=149&extmode=view&extid=1074 “Life is good for entrepreneurs these days” concludes Guy Kawasaki and Guy has the proof. Guy Kawasaki founder of Garage Technology Ventures, evangelist of APPLE, now founded a Web 2.0 company for only $12K. If you are thinking of starting a company, don’t think twice, just do it. Join us to learn how Guy did it in this Exclusive Engagement with Guy Kawasaki. Don’t be shy take a look at his new creation www.truemors. com and add comments before and after you meet Guy. You can also bring your business plan to show guy you can do it too.Web Link Date: September 20, 2007 (Thursday) Time: 06:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Venue: Fenwick & West LLP Silicon Valley Center 801 California Street, Room 101 Mountain View, CA 94041 Register: www.acteva.com/go/kawasaki General Event Information: $25 – Members of CCICE (join CCICE www.acteva.com/go/ccice) $30 – SVASE Members & Members of other Supporting Affiliate Organizations $40 – Non MembersWeb LinkWeb Link

21st Annual Bridge School Benefit featuring Neil Young, Meta...

Date: 2007-10-28 14:00:00

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Thursday Night Live

Where: Castro Street (Mountain View)

Date: 2007-09-13 18:00:00

Type:

The closure will simply allow the community to stroll, dine and enjoy Castro Street without cars and buses. We are encouraging the businesses to plan a sidewalk sale and conduct product demonstrations outdoors. Street music will be provided on certain blocks of Castro and children's activities are being planned. The California Farmers' Market Association has agreed to provide a "mini" market in the 300 block of Castro Street. We expect the first two events to be low key in respect to activities from merchants on Castro but as the series progresses it is our hope the merchants and the local community will embrace it. Please visit our new website at www.mountainviewdowntown.com. Event: Thursday Night Live Event time: 6:00-9:00 pm Dates: July 12, Aug 2, Aug 16, Sept. 13

Women in Business

Where: Michael's at Shoreline Park

Date: 2007-06-12 11:45:00

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Speakers: Jean Hollands and Laura Steck Growth & Leadership Center Topic: “Grow Yourself & Your Business with Champions & Mentors” Two Generations of Women in Business bring us tools & techniques for having a business and having a life at the same time! o Acquiring champions & mentors & what to do with them when you get them. o Identifying your personal network of allies: a formula with examples. o Solving generational dramas & dilemmas in the workplace: older/younger boss/employee/peers

TGIF Social Pool & Pizza Night. All skill levels are welcome

Date: 2007-07-13 19:00:00

Type:

No plan for Friday yet? Please come & join us for our TGIP Social Pool & Pizza Night. We can share some pizzas & play some friendly pool games while meeting new friends! This will be a TGIF Social Pool & Pizza Night. We have done that before & it was a lot of fun. As some of you may not have enough time to eat after work, I will order some pizzas to share. Please let me know, if you want to be included for the pizza dinner when signing in the event so that I know how much to order, it will probably cost about $7-$8 each per person. Below is the details of the event. Hope you can make it. (Please ignore the number of RSVP on the Upcoming.org site as I promote the events via multiple channels. Our social pool events usually have 20-25 people showed up): Date: Friday July 13th 7:00pm-10:30pm Location: Shoreline Billiards 1400 North Shoreline Blvd. #C-1, Mountain View 650-964-0780 Cost: $15/person to be collected when signing in. Ladies receive a discounted rate of $10 for this event. (About $7-$8 additional if you would like to join us for the pizzas.) If you'd like to stay & play for longer after the event finished at 10:30pm, Shoreline offers us a $5 flat fee per person til they close at 2am, 2-4 persons per table depending on how busy the poolroom gets. RSVP: Please email me @ soyeeng@gmail.com with your FULL name, email address, number of guests (if any) with their names, phone number is optional. Although RSVP is not required, it would be helpful to let me know if ou plan on coming. I don't have email access after 4pm on Sat, so if you do decide to join us the last minute, you can simply show up or call me at 415-215-0761. How it works: 1. I would rotate people around tables every 40-45 minutes. Table assignment is random, though I would make my best effort to make sure a good gender mix per table. 2. I would try to have 4 people per table. 3. Since we would be rotating, it's less confusing if everyone plays the same rules. Game rules is available on the event date. 4. When table assignment has announced, everyone has to move to their next assigned table even if you "think" you are almost done with the game, since it's impossible for every table to finish at the same time, that way it won't slow down the table rotation for everyone. 5. If you need to leave early, please let me know 10 min before you actually leave, so I would leave your name out for next rotation. How we'll find each other: Ask for Shirley's or BAPBSC group Look forward to seeing you then. To be notified with our future pool events, go to yahoo.com, then go to "group", search for BAPBSC (Stands for Bay Area Pool, Billiards, Snooker Club), then select to join/ subscribe to the club. It is FREE to join. IMPORTANT: If you don't have Yahoo ID, please email me at soyeeng@gmail.com with your email address, I would manually add you as member. Shirley

Bone Bash VIII

Date: 2007-07-20 18:30:00

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Lynyrd Skynyrd, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Pat Travers, and Laidlaw

Gwen Stefani

Where: Shoreline Amphitheater

Date: 2007-06-19 19:00:00

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Gwen Stefani On: Tuesday, June 19, 7 pm At: Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain view

Astia Funding Series - Due Diligence Process and Package

Date: 2007-10-26 14:00:00

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The Funding Series prepares entrepreneurs for their fundraising effort and helps them to attract VC investment. Sessions provide valuable networking opportunities and are lead by seasoned entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, legal, and finance experts. Astia Funding Series - Due Diligence Process and Package Should you get to the due diligence phase, you should be prepared to answer a set of standard questions and have specific company documents readily accessible. This session will uncover the process of due diligence as well as identify the critical pieces for a ready-made due diligence package. Investor expectations have evolved, this session will ensure you are prepared. Panelists: Jodi Sherman Jahic, Voyager Capital Steve Reale, Levensohn Venture Partners Arpesh Mehta, Cargill Ventures Marietta Wu, Burrill Company Sponsored By: Fenwick & West LLP Northern Trust $25.00.

TGIF Social Pool & Pizza Night. All skill levels are welcome

Date: 2008-01-11 19:00:00

Type:

No plan for Friday yet? Please come & join us for our TGIP Social Pool & Pizza Night. We can share some pizzas & play some friendly pool games while meeting new friends! This will be a TGIF Social Pool & Pizza Night. We have done that before & it was a lot of fun. As some of you may not have enough time to eat after work, I will order some pizzas to share. Please let me know, if you want to be included for the pizza dinner when signing in the event so that I know how much to order, it will probably cost about $7 per person. Below is the details of the event. Hope you can make it. (Please ignore the number of RSVP on the Upcoming.org site as I promote the events via multiple channels. Our social pool events usually have 20-25 people showed up): Date: Friday Jan 11th 7:00pm-10:30pm Location: Shoreline Billiards 1400 North Shoreline Blvd. #C-1, Mountain View 650-964-0780 Cost: $15/person to be collected when signing in. Ladies receive a discounted rate of $10 for this event. (About $7 additional if you would like to join us for the pizzas.) If you'd like to stay & play for longer after the event finished at 10:30pm, Shoreline offers us a $5 flat fee per person til they close at 2am, 2-4 persons per table depending on how busy the poolroom gets. RSVP: Please email me @ soyeeng@gmail.com with your FULL name, email address, number of guests (if any) with their names, phone number is optional. Although RSVP is not required, it would be helpful to let me know if ou plan on coming. I don't have email access after 4pm on Sat, so if you do decide to join us the last minute, you can simply show up or call me at 415-215-0761. How it works: 1. I would rotate people around tables every 40-45 minutes. Table assignment is random, though I would make my best effort to make sure a good gender mix per table. 2. I would try to have 4 people per table. 3. Since we would be rotating, it's less confusing if everyone plays the same rules. Game rules is available on the event date. 4. When table assignment has announced, everyone has to move to their next assigned table even if you "think" you are almost done with the game, since it's impossible for every table to finish at the same time, that way it won't slow down the table rotation for everyone. 5. If you need to leave early, please let me know 10 min before you actually leave, so I would leave your name out for next rotation. How we'll find each other: Ask for Shirley's or BAPBSC group Look forward to seeing you then. To be notified with our future pool events, go to yahoo.com, then go to "group", search for BAPBSC (Stands for Bay Area Pool, Billiards, Snooker Club), then select to join/ subscribe to the club. It is FREE to join. IMPORTANT: If you don't have Yahoo ID, please email me at soyeeng@gmail.com with your email address, I would manually add you as member. Shirley

Social Billiards Mixer in Mountain View, CA. All Skill level...

Date: 2007-09-29 19:00:00

Type:

No plans for Sat yet? Please come out & join us for some friendly pool games!! All skill levels are welcome! I am hosting another social pool mixer. As usual, we would be rotating people around the tables every 30-45 minutes. Below is the details. Our event usually has 25-30 people showed up (Please ignore the number of RSVPs on the Upcoming.org as I would be promoting the events via a few channels.) When: Saturday Sept 29th 7:00pm-10:30pm Location: Shoreline Billiards at 1400 North Shoreline Blvd. #C-1, Mountain View, CA Cost: $15.00/person to be collected when signing in. Ladies will receive a discounted entry fee of $10 for this event. For those who would like to stay & play more pool after the event finished at 10:30pm, Shoreline Billiards offer our group $5 flat fee per person til they close at 2am RSVP: Please email me @ soyeeng@gmail.com by Friday Sept 28th. I need your FULL name,email address, number of guests (if any) with their names, phone number optional. Although RSVP is not required, it would be helpful to let me know if you plan on coming. I don't have email access after 4pm on Sat, so if you do decide to join us the last minute, please simply show up. How we'll find each other: Ask for Shirley's or BAPBSC's group How it works: 1. I would rotate people around tables every 40-45 minutes. Table assignment is random, though I would make my best effort to make sure a good gender mix per table. If you got rotated to a table that you have already played with 2 out of 3 players TWICE, please let me know, I would try my best to switch table for you. 2. I would try to have 4 people per table. 3. Since we would be rotating, it's less confusing if everyone plays the same rules. Game rules can be emailed if requested & is available on the event date. 4. When table assignment has announced, everyone has to move to their next assigned table even if you "think" you are almost done with the game, since it's impossible for every table to finish at the same time, that way it won't slow down the table rotation for everyone. 5. If you need to leave early, please let me know 10 min before you actually leave, so I would leave your name out for next rotation. To be notified with our future pool events, go to yahoo.com, then go to "group", search for BAPBSC (Stands for Bay Area Pool, Billiards, Snooker Club), then select to join/ subscribe to the club. It is FREE to join. IMPORTANT: If you don't have Yahoo ID, please email me at soyeeng@gmail.com with your email address, I would manually add you as member. I look forward to seeing you all again then. Shirley

EduCamp

Where: Stanford University

Date: 2007-09-15 00:00:00

Type:

EduCamp is a BarCamp unconference about education in the most general sense. Here we can share our ideas about education and learning, expose each other to the ideas we've discovered, and ponder about what the future of formal and informal education should be like as a more integrated part of everybody's lives. Please register with EventBrite if you are attending: http://eventbrite.com/event/70116721 There's a blog too: http://educamp.wordpress.com

AlwaysOn: Stanford Summit: Meet the New Captains of Innovati...

Where: Stanford University

Date: 2007-07-31 00:00:00

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"This is our 5th annual Summit, and the event is being touted once again as the most powerful gathering of technology insiders in Silicon Valley in 2007. Check out our confirmed program so far below and let us know who and what trends we might be missing. The Stanford Summit is a two-and-a-half-day executive gathering that highlights the significant economic, political and commercial trends affecting the global technology industries. The Stanford Summit features the most innovative companies, eminent technologists, influential investors and journalists in keynote presentations, panel debates and private company CEO showcases. The Stanford Summit's goal is to identify the most promising entrepreneurial opportunities and investments in the global tech industry." Draft Program: Co-Host: Tony Perkins, Founder, AlwaysOn Co-Host: Tom Byers, STVP, Stanford University Co-Host: Tina Seelig, Executive Director, STVP, Stanford University Sessions: Competing On the Edge: Strategies for Innovation Keynote: The Global Economic Power Shift -- Away from Europe and to Asia Can Big Brands Compete with India's Business Process Service Boom? How Real is the Virtual Web? Why Aren't VCs Happy? VCs: Are You Happy? Building the Green Data Center Who is the Google of Mobile 2.0? Will the Internet Still be Here in 20 Years? Opening the Flood Gates to Independent Publishing Moderator: Andreas Kluth, Technology Correspondent, The Economist Who do the Big Brands Want to Eat to Grow Their Businesses? Making Money in the New New Hollywood Social Networking 3.0 Out of the Labs and Into the Market The Upside and Downside of the Democratization of Technology Plus: CEO Showcase

SVASE Event: 'How I Build A Web 2.0, User-Generated Content,...

Date: 2007-09-20 18:30:00

Type:

Ron Paul for President rally

Where: Charleston Park

Date: 2007-07-14 10:00:00

Type:

Open Source Developers @ Google Speaker Series: Raph Levien

Where: Google Inc. Building 43

Date: 2007-06-25 18:30:00

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Raph Levien, founder of Advogato, will join us to discuss "Lesson from Advogato." All are welcome and encouraged to attend. Doors open at 6:30 PM; talk begins at 7:00 PM. Refreshments will be served. See the event home page for more logistical details. Talk Abstract: Lessons from Advogato Advogato is a community blog for free software developers, founded in 1999 as a testbed for ideas on attack-resistant trust metrics. The site now has 13k registered users, of whom over 3000 are ranked with one of the "Apprentice", "Journeyer", or "Master" certifications. Though I neglected the maintenance of the site for many years, it has retained an active community, and is seeing significant new life since it was handed over to the new maintainer, Steven Rainwater. By the exponential-growth standards of the dot-com boom, Advogato has been only a modest success. Yet, the experience of the site over the years contains a number of lessons. First and foremost, attack-resistant trust metrics do work. The site succeeds in being remarkably spam-free, as well as completely open to the worldwide community of free software developers, and achieves these goals without needing a huge amount of manual input to delete spammers. Thus, the main lesson is that trust metrics do work, but they need to be applied with care. Experience with the site teaches the importance of choosing and implementing the appropriate trust metric for the assumptions at hand. There is widespread "cert inflation," where many users are ranked higher than the guidelines would recommend. The trust metrics also did not bring a flow of very high quality articles to the front page. Another important lesson is that openness and transparency work. The workings of the trust metric (including the complete source code) is public. Thus, Advogato strongly refutes the prevailing wisdom that secrecy is needed for spam protection. This lesson is similar to the ineffectiveness of "security through obscurity". Lastly, I'll spend some time discussing why Advogato failed to catch fire in the public's imagination, despite its qualities. Possible factors include lack of promotion, and fact that the trust metrics were never tested against real money. Speaker Bio: Raph Levien has been active in the free software / open source community for 13 years, with a range of contributions including email crypto, 2d graphics, fonts, various components in the Gnome framework, and, for most of the last seven years, Ghostscript. Before then, he built the free software community website Advogato as a proving ground for his ideas on trust metrics and attack-resistant reputation systems. He has recently joined Google as an engineer working on combatting spam and abuse.

Media Predicts '08: What's Hot- What's Not

Where: Computer History Museum

Date: 2007-11-28 17:00:00

Type:

What's Hot - What's Not? ...Media Predicts '08 *********************************** Register now for the must-attend technology visionary event of the year! Media Predicts '08, hosted by Silicon Valley PRSA & The Computer History Museum, is an exciting pre-holiday evening gala, where industry trendsetters, luminaries and chroniclers share what will be the most influential and cutting-edge trends, issues and technologies for the coming year. Gain important knowledge and insight that translates into business advantage and strategic programs and results. Rub elbows with Silicon Valley digerati, movers and shakers at this premier event and highlight of '07! Features: *Jon Swartz, USA Today; *Don Clark, The Wall Street Journal; *Victoria Murphy Barrett, Forbes; *Rob Hof, BusinessWeek and Tech Beat; *Robert Scoble, Scobleizer and Fast Company; *Kara Swisher, All Things Digital and BoomTown; *Jim Goldman, CNBC and Tech Check; *Ann Winblad, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners (moderator); (Sam Whitmore, Sam Whitmore's Media Survey (MC). Here's what's in store for attendees: Cocktail and Networking reception, Dinner Event, Tech Influencer Media Panel of Speakers, Insight and Impact Honors Presentation, Audience Q&A, Special Live Performance by Don Clark (WSJ) and his Band "Off the Record." (Black Tie Optional). Sponsors include (Gold) Yahoo! Inc.; (Bronze) A&R Edelman, Access Communications, Burson-Marsteller, Citigate Cunningham, Eastwick Communications, Krause Taylor Assoc, MarketWire, Porter Novelli, PR Newswire, Trainer Communications, VisiTech PR, BusinessWire, Voce Communications. Members $99 ($89 before Nov.1), Non-members $120 ($105 before Nov.1), Affiliates $105, Students $55.

GreenDevCamp

Where: Google Headquarters

Date: 2008-04-19 00:00:00

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GreenDevCamp is being planned for Earth Day 2008 at Google HQ in Mountain View. DATE: April 19-20, 2008 (aka the weekend before EarthDay) Location: Google HQ, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA If we can, it'll be an all night camp out event focused on ideating, exploring, producing and launching technology and practices aimed at Green Technology and Policies. For now, mark yourself down on the barcamp.org wiki page as an interested party and check back here in early spring of '08.

Schola Cantorum Presents Messiah Sing

Where: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

Date: 2007-12-10 19:30:00

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The evening concludes with carols to put everyone in the holiday spirit. Come to sing the choruses and arias of Handel's masterpiece with a chamber orchestra.

TGIF Social Pool & Pizza Night. All skill levels are welcome

Date: 2008-06-13 19:00:00

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No plan for Friday yet? Please come & join us for our TGIF Social Pool & Pizza Night. We can share some pizzas & play some friendly pool games while meeting new friends! This will be a TGIF Social Pool & Pizza Night. We have done that before & it was a lot of fun. As some of you may not have enough time to eat after work, I will order some pizzas to share. Please let me know, if you want to be included for the pizza dinner when signing in the event so that I know how much to order, it will probably cost about $7 per person. Below is the details of the event. Hope you can make it. (Please ignore the number of RSVP on the Upcoming.org site as I promote the events via multiple channels. Our social pool events usually have 20-25 people showed up): Date: Friday June 13th 7:00pm-10:30pm Location: Shoreline Billiards 1400 North Shoreline Blvd. #C-1, Mountain View 650-964-0780 Cost: $15/person to be collected when signing in. (About $7 additional if you would like to join us for the pizzas.) If you'd like to stay & play for longer after the event finished at 10:30pm, Shoreline offers us a $5 flat fee per person til they close at 2am, 2-4 persons per table depending on how busy the poolroom gets. RSVP: Please email me @ soyeeng@gmail.com with your FULL name, email address, number of guests (if any) with their names, phone number is optional. Although RSVP is not required, it would be helpful to let me know if ou plan on coming. I don't have email access after 4pm on Sat, so if you do decide to join us the last minute, you can simply show up or call me at 415-215-0761. How it works: 1. I would rotate people around tables every 40-45 minutes. Table assignment is random, though I would make my best effort to make sure a good gender mix per table. 2. I would try to have 4 people per table. 3. Since we would be rotating, it's less confusing if everyone plays the same rules. Game rules is available on the event date. 4. When table assignment has announced, everyone has to move to their next assigned table even if you "think" you are almost done with the game, since it's impossible for every table to finish at the same time, that way it won't slow down the table rotation for everyone. 5. If you need to leave early, please let me know 10 min before you actually leave, so I would leave your name out for next rotation. How we'll find each other: Ask for Shirley's or BAPBSC group Look forward to seeing you then. To be notified with our future pool events, go to yahoo.com, then go to "group", search for BAPBSC (Stands for Bay Area Pool, Billiards, Snooker Club), then select to join/ subscribe to the club. It is FREE to join. IMPORTANT: If you don't have Yahoo ID, please email me at soyeeng@gmail.com with your email address, I would manually add you as member. Shirley

SKMurphy: Mapping the Path From Idea to Revenue

Date: 2007-12-06 08:00:00

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Invest four hours now to save months later finding a path to revenue: most software startups fail after they have working functionality but before they find their market. You will leave this workshop with a one-page strategic plan and a dashboard for measuring your progress. This highly interactive session allows you to take a short structured break back from your day to day challenges to focus on longer term objectives. By stepping back from your founder's role, you can take time to understand customer, competitor, and employee perspectives on your product and your startup. Our promise is that you will leave re-energized and with a richer perspective on your product and your business: you will also have a one page plan for 2008. Thurs, Dec. 6, 2007 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM Fenwick & West, 801 California Street, Mountain View, California 94041 Cost: $75 early registration; after Nov. 27 $95 (includes breakfast & lunch) Info: http://www.skmurphy.com/services/workshops/idea-to-revenue-071206/ Register: https://www.123signup.com/register?id=xyphp Topics we will cover: Goals for 2008: working from where you are now, how will you get there? * Double my revenue * Double my mailing list Your Customer * Who is the customer specifically? * How is this person measured? * How has the customer done without you? Your Product * What is the problem you solve? * What are your differentiating benefits? * How quickly can a customer get started and realize them? Your Core Competencies from Your Customers Perspective * What have you accomplished that's relevant to your plan? * How can you leverage your know how and experience to differentiate your firm and your product? For more information contact: Francis Fischbach 415-748-2040 fgfischbach@skmurphy.com $75 before Nov. 27, $95 thereafter (includes breakfast & lunch).

New developer features in IIS7

Where: Microsoft, Conference Center, Building 1

Date: 2007-12-05 18:30:00

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Come learn the new developer features of Internet Information Server 7, which will ship with Windows Server 2008. We'll look at: - the rebuilt extensibility model (FastCGI,etc.), - the new distributed configuration system (including application deployment), - the improved support for common Web programming languages like PHP, - how to develop applications that use the best of PHP and ASP.NET, and - how to improve the performance of your web hosting on IIS7. We'll look at examples and dive into code. No knowledge of PHP required. Cost: $15 at the door for non-SDForum members. No charge for SDForum members.

Toys For Tots Holiday Mixer

Date: 2007-12-13 18:30:00

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Toys for Tots Holiday Mixer Don't miss our last social mixer of the year! Hispanic-Net, CSPA, GABA, SIPA and Silicon French are coming together to celebrate the holidays and provide Christmas toys for needy children through the Toys for Tots program! About Toys for Tots: This year marks the 60th anniversary for the Toys for Tots tradition of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves. In 2006, Toys for Tots delivered more than 19.2 million toys to over 7.6 million children. Unfortunately, with over 13 million children living in poverty, Toys for Tots needs your help more than ever to achieve our goal of delivering a toy to every child in need. Please bring a new, unwrapped toy; toys for boys and girls ages 8 through 14 are especially welcome. Members: ($15 pre/$20 door) Nonmembers: ($20 pre/$25 door).

Toys For Tots Holiday Mixer

Date: 2007-12-13 18:30:00

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Social Graph and Search

Where: Google Inc. Building 43

Date: 2007-12-12 18:00:00

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Social Graph & Search The social graph has brought new meaning to social search. The impact of various levels of human influence on search has always been present but the latest developments incorporating the social graph and friends' actions is creating a buzz. Can the social graph make for better search and discovery? Is it a reliable means for search and recommendations? Are your friends the best source of search relevance and subject authority for what you're looking for? Come hear the latest developments of how both explicit and implicit user activity is driving better search results, recommendations, and ad targeting. Speakers Shawn Gold, Former SVP, Marketing & Content, MySpace Steven Marder, CEO & Co-Founder, Eurekster Mark Jeffrey, CTO, Mahalo Levy Cohen, CEO & Founder, Collarity $20/$30 Member/Non-Member Online | $25/$40 Member/Non Onsite.

Montgolfier Dinner (Tenative Date)

Where: Michael's at Shoreline Park

Date: 2008-11-01 18:00:00

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Annual dinner featuring a key note speaker on the sport of ballooning (RSVP Required)

Start Up Junkies: Earth Class Mail Premeir

Where: Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus Conference Center

Date: 2008-01-15 18:30:00

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RSVP for this exciting event and be one of the first 700 people in the world to watch the premiere episode of Start-Up Junkies, the first reality show of its kind, which debuts nationally January 24 on high-definition cable channel MOJO HD. * Meet Earth Class Mail executives featured in the show * Network with venture-capital and angel investors and entrepreneurs * Seats are going fast, so RSVP today! Start-Up Junkies takes you behind the scenes of a rapid-growth technology start-up company as it goes through the trials and tribulations of raising angel and venture-capital investment, attracting seasoned start-up “junkies” to the management team, launching new products and dealing with all the people issues that arise when employees wake up running at Mach 3, every day of the week. RSVP now and join us for drinks and appetizers while networking with venture-capital and angel investors, entrepreneurs and members of the media at an exclusive pre-screening of episode one of Start-Up Junkies one week before the series debuts on MOJO HD. Seats are going fast and space is very limited, so please RSVP today to make sure you don’t miss this screening and the hosted networking event that follows.

Introduction to Self-Leadership: Achieving Your New Year's R...

Date: 2008-02-07 09:00:00

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Join us for this interactive multimedia seminar and raise awareness towards what it takes to develop and cultivate winning performance thoughts, attitudes and behaviors. Participants come out of this program with a renewed sense of self and an action plan on how to self-motivate, overcome challenges and move towards their goals. Topics include: Why do we behave the way we do? How to create change using the four quadrant process. How to transform goal setting into powerful visioning. How to dissolve overwhelm, burnout and chronic pain. How to improve synergy among team members. How to achieve clarity of intention to increase your focus. Experience an empowering journey where we explore theoretical models and practical exercises to explain behavior and perceived reality. With this understanding you can create changes to achieve whatever you desire. Agenda: 8:30 am - 9:am Registration 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Program Speaker: Mr. Miguel Franco, Founder, Conscious Path Miguel Franco is a coach, author and the founder of Conscious Path, a company dedicated to assist individuals and organizations through the process of identifying, creating and achieving what matters most to them. He has worked with corporations such as Toyota, Banco do Brasil, Rayovac, Gambro, Sumitomo and Cyclades, and with individuals from all walks of life. Online: $75 Members/$95 non-Members; Door: $100 Members/$125 non-Members.

SVASE Event: 'Startup- U SV: Valuable Idea?'

Date: 2008-02-27 11:45:00

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Event: 'Startup- U SV: Valuable Idea?' Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 At 11:45 AM Duration: 1 Hour 45 Minutes Contact Info: Fenwick & West LLP, 801 California Street, Mt. View, California 94041 Charles Anderson Email: canderson@casecentral.com URL: svase.org/index.php?option=com_extcalendar&Itemid=149&extmode=view&extid=1246 AGENDA: 11:45-12:00 Registration, Networking and Food 12:00-12:15 SVASE/Startup-U Overview, Introductions, Speaker Intros 12:15-1:15 Interactive Mashup-U Program 1:15-1:30 Networking with the presenters! With your help, we will start on time so the speaker can provide you with as much interactive information as possible. Please arrive by 11:45am to register. We will start the program promptly at 12:00! Please note topics are subject to change. Popular FAQs regarding Startup-U: What is the cost of this event? A $5 (member) or $15 (affiliate/non-member) registration fee, plus a $1.50 credit card processing fee, includes event and lunch, available through advanced online registration. A $10 or $20 fee is collected at the door. What is the format of a Startup-U event typically? Generally speaking, each event begins with an introduction by the host followed by a brief talk about SVASE and self-introductions by each of the attendees. After the introductions, the host introduces a speaker (usually 20 minute presentation, followed by group discussion) or the discussion topic; the exact format varies based on the host and that variety is what makes this event so exciting! Who should attend? Startup entrepreneurs, anyone thinking about forming a startup, service providers, angels and VCs active in the Silicon Valley information tech and biotech entrepreneur communities. Past participants include: Current and aspiring entrepreneurs Venture Capitalists, Angels and other members of the funding community Service Providers (e.g. human resources, contract programming, etc.) Independent Consultants (e.g. sales, marketing, engineering, etc.) Do I need to be a member of SVASE to attend this event? Non-members and guests of members are welcome to attend any 2 SVASE Startup-U events. Afterwards, we recommend that non-members become members of SVASE. For more information on the benefits of joining SVASE, please visit our website at www.svase.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=4&id=100&Itemid=109&Itemid=59 or alternatively, you can also join at the event itself. This event is co-sponsored by Fenwick & West LLP, www.fenwick.com.

SVASE Event: 'Startup- U SV: Valuable Idea?'

Date: 2008-02-27 11:45:00

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Zinfandel Varietal Tasting Dinner

Where: Castro Point Restaurant

Date: 2008-01-29 20:00:00

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Exclusive for this Tuesday and Wednesday night at the Castro Point Restaurant, a special “Bring Your Own Bottle Zinfandel” Dinner designed to highlight Zinfandel varietal. Bring any Zinfandel from any wine region, whether Paso Robles, Amador County, Napa Valley or some new Zinfandel producing region and the corkage fee will be waived. WHEN: Tuesday & Wednesday, January 29th & 30th TIME: 5:30pm to 10:00pm WHERE: Castro Point Restaurant, 383 Castro St. Mountain View CA, 94041 COST: 5 course prix-fixe menu for only $29.95 per person plus tax and standard gratuity. For a detailed menu description, please email Castro Point Restaurant. PLEASE RSVP: limited seating, so please RSVP via email or phone to: castro_point@yahoo.com or 650-964 -4515 Zinfandel Varietal Tasting Dinner Tuesday 29th - Wednesday 30th of January 2008 Five Course Prix-fixe for only $29.95 and bring your own Zinfandel wine/s and the corkage fee is waived Or have the Sommelier Christine Tran choose the single vineyard Zinfandel wine pairings for an additional $24.95 All the items on this menu our made in-house and from scratch First Course: Scrumptious Trio of Appetizers Fried Onion Strings ¨ Traditional Potato Skins ¨ Spicy Jalapeno Poppers Second Course: Honey Mustard Grilled Chicken Skewer and Cajun Coleslaw Third Course: Smoked Hand Pulled BBQ Pork Fourth Course: Dry Spiced Rubbed Beef Brisket Dessert: Banana Bread Pudding with Real Vanilla Beans Ice Cream

WhereCamp2008

Where: Googleplex

Date: 2008-05-17 00:00:00

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Where Camp 2008 unconference after the O'Reilly Where 2.0 conference in Burlingame. Registration can be found at http://wherecamp.pbwiki.com/WhereCamp2008 and not on upcoming.

Launch: Silicon Valley 2008

Where: Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus Conference Center

Date: 2008-06-10 12:00:00

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Launch: Silicon Valley 2008 is designed to uncover and showcase products and services from the most exciting of the newest startups in information technology, mobility, security, digital media, next generation internet, life sciences and clean energy. The event, co-presented by SVASE, Garage Technology Ventures and Microsoft will be held on June 10, 2008, at the Microsoft Campus in Mountain View, CA. L:SV is an effective and efficient platform for the next generation of emerging technology companies to launch their products to the world, in front of an audience of Silicon Valley’s top VCs, Angels, corporate business development executives, prospective customers and partners, bloggers and media.

WhereCamp 2008 May 17th / 18th Googleplex Campus Mountain Vi...

Where: Google Headquarters

Date: 2008-05-17 00:00:00

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We're excited to report that Google has offered WhereCampers space, food and a place to pitch our tents at the Googleplex Campus 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View CA on the May 17th / 18th 2008 weekend. All of us in the community would like to extend an invitation to participants from all walks of life to join us again this year at WhereCamp 2008. To talk about art, volunteered geographic information, social place sharing, emerging open source and open data licensing problems, sharing gps tracks, ubicomp, immersive reality, lidar, environmental, political and technical issues surrounding place, games, food webs, open street maps, openlayers, place hacking and whatever else catches your heart. We want to go out of our way to encourage diversity; to encourage cross-pollination of ideas in a congenial, warm and extended atmosphere within the community that we are so privileged to be a part of. Just like last year WhereCamp is the weekend after the O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference - which itself is in Burlingame CA May 12th to 14th. What actually happens at WhereCamp this year is up to us to decide. The plan is to kick-off pretty early Saturday Morning at 9:00 AM May 17th with breakfast on campus. At 10:00 AM Saturday we'll do a call out for session ideas and collaboratively build out a session schedule for the day. Of course everybody is welcome to raise their ideas and projects for discussion. Sessions will go all day and then we circle back around 5:00 PM or so for a recap and a close. There'll be lunch and dinner and late night discussion and hacking. We have the run of a portion of the campus with projectors and white-boards as well as access to a kitchen. Everybody is welcome to stay on campus Saturday night, bring a tent! Sunday May 18th we do the same thing again; starting with hot breakfast, doing session planning for the day, doing sessions and doing a closing circle a bit earlier - around 4:00 PM and then heading home or for an off campus dinner. Everything is free including food and beer. See the WhereCamp links below for registration. Please register because it helps us plan for our food budget and for things like t-shirts and sponsor budgets. Depending on the number of registrations we may even have to cap attendance this year on a first come first serve basis. If you need ride-share or accomodations or want to post comments please see the wiki links below as well: http://wherecamp.crowdvine.com/ http://wherecamp.org Save the date! See you there! You can reach the conference facilitators at: Ryan Sarver: rsarver@skyhookwireless.com - 617 763 9904 Anselm Hook: anselm@hook.org - 415 215 4856 Also please feel free to join the community mailing list at: http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking

Agile in distributed development team environment

Where: Samovar Conference Hall

Date: 2008-03-11 19:00:00

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Monthly Networking Events for Silicon Valley IT/Software Development Executives. Dinner and Drinks are provided. REGISTRATION ONLY AT: http://itexec.meetup.com/32/calendar/7173956/ March topic: Implementing Swarm Agile Distributed agile software teams are commonplace with companies having several sites throughout the world. Lifestyle, environmental, and business reasons exist, though, to extend the level of distribution to a greater degree with individuals largely working at home or community centers. Swarm is a hybrid model that sets a work pattern and expectations for highly virtualized team members with embedding face-to-face sync points. It hinges on a set of team expectations and web communication capabilities supporting collaboration. This talk explores business reasoning for moving to mode of operation and explains why this represents the future for agile groups. The process and teamwork mechanisms necessary for retaining effectiveness, holding to low attrition, and keeping high velocity are presented.

Learn to use Facebook for Your Business & Career

Date: 2008-02-19 17:30:00

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Learn how to use Facebook for Business and your career. NOTE: All attendees will be given a free copy of his book "I'm on Facebook---Now What???"! ALSO NOTE: Jason is in town for a couple days and will also be speaking on his LinkedIn book on Wednesday evening. Facebook is all over the news and blogs, but have you gotten any value out of it? Have you ventured in to see what is there? Join Jason Alba, co-author of "I'm on Facebook--Now What???" for an indepth presentation of eight things you should do or know about as a professional. Understanding that you need to have a high ROI, and your investment is time, Jason will show you what you need to know to develop your own Facebook strategy. Facebook is not just for college students, and if you've been confused about where the value is, and want to see how others are deriving value from their participation, this is a must-attend event! Come to learn about: * General navigation * Your Profile * Pages and Groups * Applications, and what they mean for you * Privacy issues * Resources * Success stories Jason Alba is the career management evangelist. He got laid off in January 2006 (and still hasn?t quite gotten over it). Even though he had great credentials and it was a job-seeker?s market, Jason could hardly get a job interview. Finally he decided to step back and figure out the job search process and try to understand all of the available resources. Within a few months he had designed a personal job search tool, JibberJobber.com, which helps professionals manage career and job search activities the same way a salesman manages prospects and customer data. Jason blogs at JibberJobber, wrote "I'm on LinkedIn -- Now What??" and co-authored "I'm on Facebook--Now What???". $25 fee to attend ($30 at the door), includes a free book.

Salaam E Ishq Bollywood Party and social mixer: Featuring Sa...

Where: New Saffron Club (formerly southern spice)

Date: 2008-02-14 19:30:00

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Salaam E Ishq After tremendous success of Laila O Laila2 ,Welcome 2007,Filmy Chakkar Instant Karma,Induz and Mera Pyar Presents Salaam E Ishq Social Mixer and Bollywood Party featuring free Salsa Class ,Limo ride and party all

Orkut OpenSocial Hackathons

Where: Googleplex

Date: 2008-02-07 10:00:00

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OpenSocial apps will go live to Orkut users in the last week of February. To launch your app on Orkut you need to have it pass a review by the Orkut Team, so be sure to use these best practices to build a successful app and submit your app at http://orkut-app-submission.googlemashups.com/. To help get your apps up to snuff, we'll be opening our doors here in Mountain View so you can get real time technical support and face-to-face feedback on the user experience of your app. Orkut Product Managers and Engineers will be on hand to review your application and add it to the initial Orkut application directory. Swing by the Googleplex and you'll have access to: * Workspace, power, and internet access. * Introductory materials and training. * Googlers working on OpenSocial and Orkut who can answer your questions. * Advice on how to polish your applications to get into the Orkut directory for launch. * A free lunch (they do exist!). These all-day "hackathons" will be on February 7-8 and February 14-15 at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA. If you're on the east coast, you can attend via video conference from our New York City office. There are limited seats available - reserve your spot by sending your name and preferred date and location to hackathon.rsvp@gmail.com. OpenSocial v0.7 is now live on Orkut sandbox. This is the same environment that will go live to 50M+ users worldwide. Check out the release notes for v0.7 and the updated OpenSocial Spec. Hope to see you here!

IsraelWebTour Showcase

Where: Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus Conference Center

Date: 2008-02-06 00:00:00

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Join us at the Microsoft Campus in Mountain View on February 6th as 15 of the hottest Web startups from Israel present during a showcase event during the popular IsraelWebTour. The tour will end with a closing night party at Slide San Francisco on February 7th. Tickets are available now for $100. This also gets you into the party at Slide. Please note that RSVP'ing here does not guarantee admittance. You will receive the official confirmation after purchasing your ticket here: http://tinyurl.com/225y36 If you have any questions, please send an email to megan at future-works dot com Over 90 companies applied to take part in this year’s tour. The IsraelWebTour Committee selected the following 15 startups: 5min - www.5min.com PLYmedia - www.plymedia.com AllofMe - www.allofme.com NuConomy - www.nuconomy.com ClickTale - www.clicktale.com blogTV.com - www.blogtv.com Sportingo - www.sportingo.com PicScout - www.picscout.com Qoof - www.qoof.com 8hands - www.8hands.com Velingo - www.velingo.com Erayo - www.erayo.com Semingo - www.semingo.com PageOnce - www.pageonce.com Journeys - www.codename-journeys.com The IsraelWebTour is an initiative spearheaded by the CICC (The California Israel Chamber of Commerce) - a non-governmental, industry supported organization. The 2008 Tour is sponsored by: Google, Yahoo, Adobe, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Lehman Brothers, USVP, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosatti, Elron and Gemini Israel Funds and the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco.

Race for Literacy

Where: Shoreline PARK

Date: 2008-05-04 09:00:00

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India Literacy Project is organizing its 10th Annual Race for Literacy. The event has a USATF certified course with 10K and 5K run events and a 5K walk. With clowns, hearty breakfast, free T-shirts, kids races this event promises to provide a fun atmosphere for everyone. See website for event details.

Crabfest -Chardonnay Dinner

Where: Castro Point Restaurant

Date: 2008-02-12 17:00:00

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CRABFEST – CHARDONNAY DINNER $48.95 Tuesday, February 12th & Wednesday, February 13th 2008 Castro Point Restaurant 383 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA (650) 964-4515 Bring your own bottle of Chardonnay and the corkage fee is waived or have the Sommelier Christine Tran choose the single vineyard Chardonnay wine pairings and pay an additional $24.95 First Course Crab Asparagus Soup with Crab Claw A blend of cream, fresh herbs, onions and crabmeat, accompanied with crab claw and a drizzle of sherry Second Course Dungeness Crab Cake Hand-picked fresh Dungeness and blue crab accompanied by a delightful aioli sauce blended with a trio of peppers Third Course Crab Quesadilla Lump crabmeat quesadilla with chorizo, monterey jack cheese, roasted peppers and smoky guacamole Fourth Course Jumbo Lump Crab Risotto Fresh jumbo lump blue crab, scallops, jumbo prawns and mussels, steamed in a reduced shellfish stock, then tossed with risotto (Italian rice) Milanese combined with fresh chopped tomatoes, English peas, scallions, roasted onion and marjoram Fifth Course Cioppino (Castro Point Restaurant’s tribute to a San Franciscan classic) A savory seafood cornucopia of fresh Dungeness crab, fish, shrimp, mussels, clams, calamari and scallops combined with a flavorful blend of onions, garlic, tomatoes, white wine and herbs served in a spicy saffron bouillabaisse broth, topped with freshly grated parmesan cheese. Served original style with whole crab legs you crack yourself, or for your convenience, with the crabmeat out of the shell. Please specify when ordering. Served with grilled sourdough toast Potatoes and vegetables available upon request Sixth Course Mini Apple Tart House-made apple tart on a buttery puff pastry; served warm and topped with vanilla ice cream

Marketing Your Talents - Career Development Series by SCEA

Date: 2008-02-16 01:00:00

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Marketing Your Talents -Your next Challenge and A Resume to support it -Before During, and After the Interview By Executive Recruiter Sandy Sanderson Time & Date: 1pm-4pm, Saturday Feburary 16, 2008 Venue: (Fenwick & West LLP) 801 California Street Mountain View, California 94041 Agenda: 1:00-1:30pm Networking and Registration 1:30-1:40pm SCEA overview and Speaker Introduction 1:40-2:40pm Session 1 -- 'Your next Challenge and A Resume to support it' 2:40-2:50pm Quick Bio-Break 2:50-3:50pm Session 2 -- 'Before During, and After the Interview' Registration: Pre-Registration: SCEA Member Free; $10 Non-Member Registration URL: Click here On-Site Registration: $20 for both member and non-member, seat is not guaranteed Presentation Summary and Speaker Bio: 'Discovering your next Challenge': This may be time to rediscover your passion for life. It is a unique ability to be able to step back and take a reflective look into one's past. This presentation is intended to provide a reflective look at what you have accomplished and what you want to accomplish. Looking for a new opportunity is stressful but can be a positive opportunity to review, reflect, challenge, and think outside the box in discovering what you should do with your life going forward. Be careful, this presentation may take you to places you haven't thought about in some time and may uncover your true passion for building something you are proud of. 'Building a Resume that tells your Story': Your resume should tell you story with a clear 'Picture' of your experience, capabilities, education, skills, and accomplishments in a one or two page summary. Your résum?#39;s purpose is to get your foot in the door. A resume does its job successfully if it does not exclude you from consideration. To prepare a successful resume, you need to know how to review, summarize, and present your experiences and achievements in a concise manner. This presentation will guide you through a review of your resume from the perspective of the hiring interviewer and their company. 'Before, During, and after the Interview': The Boy Scouts have it right. 'Be prepared'. The job interview is only a stop along the path of securing a new position. In some respect by the time you get to the interview if you haven't done your homework it may be to late to secure the job. This presentation will also talk about: 'killer resumes', working with recruiters, and assuring you have the best information possible in presenting yourself in the interview. Speaker Bio: Mr. Sanderson has over thirty-five years of senior executive search, technology marketing, and start-up company management experience. His background includes member of the founding executive team for multiple technology companies including Kinetics Inc., National Semiconductor Security Business Unit, and a division of Novell Inc. He is President of Meridian Executive Resources a retained executive search firm developing management teams for high growth technology companies. Meridian also provides senior entrepreneurial coaching and consulting in support of early-stage company funding programs.

RIESLING – Vietnamese TAPAS Dinner

Where: Castro Point Restaurant

Date: 2008-02-19 17:00:00

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RIESLING – Vietnamese TAPAS Dinner Tuesday, February 19th & Wednesday, February 20th 2008 Castro Point Restaurant 383 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA (650) 964-4515 Six Course Pre-fixe Menu $38.95 Bring your own bottle of Riesling and the corkage fee is waived Or have the Sommelier Christine Tran choose the wine pairing and pay an additional $28.95 First Course Grilled Jumbo Prawns Papaya Salad Spicy grilled jumbo prawns atop a bed of freshly grated green papaya, basil and mint tossed in savory shallot vinaigrette Second Course Tea Leaves Beef Rolls: Bo La Lop Char-grilled beef rolls with flavorful Asian seasoning wrapped in tea leaves Third Course Grilled Lemongrass Pork Skewer Aromatic lemongrass spiced pork skewers partnered with housed picked vegetables Fourth Course Pan-Seared Filet Mignon Bo Luc Lac Succulent filet cubes sautéed with roasted garlic and partnered with watercress that is infused in a red wine s vinaigrette Fifth Course Exclusive to Castro Point Grilled Beef Stuffed Tomato with Red Garlic Rice Warning: This dish is highly addictive Tomato halves stuffed with delectable Asian spices and served with savory wine and tomato based sauce partnered with scrumptious garlic red rice Sixth Course Flambé Banana a La Mode Deep fried bananas flambé with brandy partnered with real vanilla bean ice cream drizzled with caramel sauce

Terracotta Presentation by Orion Letizi

Where: Googleplex

Date: 2008-02-19 18:30:00

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The Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG (SV-WEB-JUG) meets on the third Tuesday of the month at Google. Our meetings are always free to attend and open to the general public. Advance Registration at http://sv-web-jug.eventbrite.com is required to be part of the give-away drawing. This meeting is being co-sponsored by our sister JUG, the Silicon Valley JUG. 18:30-19:00 Arrive & mingle over food & drinks 19:00-20:30 Terracotta Presentation Within every innocent web application lies a sleeping monster. There comes a time when every successful web application outgrows its single-machine architecture. Whether for high-availability, scalability, or both, the adult web application must grow to live on more than one application server. That’s when the latent beast strikes: the State Monster. The most recent accepted wisdom about solving application state problems in a scaled-out production architecture is to make your web application “stateless”—i.e., externalize all application state out of the application tier so that any application server can serve any user request. Unfortunately for the owners of such applications, making it “stateless” is hard to do, corrupts the programming and data model of the application, and pushes the problem out to other pieces of infrastructure that are ill-equipped to handle it. Stateless programming is hard on the application developer, hard on the application infrastructure, and hard on the application. There must be a better way to write business applications. In this talk, Orion Letizi will discuss the current “stateless” application paradigm, its shortcomings, and a new alternative using Terracotta’s open-source availability and scalability technology for the Java Virtual Machine. Please be sure to preregister at http://sv-web-jug.eventbrite.com/ so you will be eligible for our raffle. Currently, the prizes include an IntelliJ IDEA license from JetBrains and the following books: Ajax Security from Adison Wesley, Pro JSF and Ajax: Building Rich Internet Components from Apress, Filthy Rich Clients from Addison Wesley (2 copies), Professional Hibernate from Wrox Press, Professional Java Development with the Spring Framework from Wrox Press, Professional Ajax 2nd Edition from Wrox Press.

Grand Opening

Where: New Saffron Club (formerly southern spice)

Date: 2008-02-27 00:00:00

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FREE Lunch and Dinner 11am-2:30pm 5:30pm-10pm Enjoy your quality lunch and dinner with your family and friends for FREE.

SVASE Event: 'Launch: Silicon Valley 2008'

Where: Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus Conference Center

Date: 2008-06-10 11:30:00

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SVASE Event: 'Launch: Silicon Valley 2008' Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 At 11:30 AM Duration: 7 Hours Contact Info: Location: Microsoft Campus, 1065 La Avenida St, Building 1, Mountain View, CA 94043 Contact: Laura Weigant Email: info@svase.org URL: www.svase.org/index.php?option=com_extcalendar&Itemid=149&extmode=view&extid=1390 In its 3rd year, Launch: Silicon Valley is now firmly established as the premier product launch platform for cash strapped startups. The event, co-presented by SVASE, Garage Technology Ventures and Microsoft, provides the next generation of emerging technology companies with the opportunity to pitch their products to, and network with, an audience of Silicon Valley’s top VCs, Angels, corporate business development executives, prospective customers and partners, bloggers and media. Launch: Silicon Valley 2008 is designed to uncover and showcase products and services from the most exciting of the newest startups in information technology, mobility, security, digital media, next generation internet, life sciences and clean energy. Launch: Silicon Valley 2008 will feature new companies that are ready for launch, but are not yet well known. These are companies that have a product or service available (as of June 10, 2008), but have not been out in the marketplace for more than a few months. Companies that are interested in presenting their products at Launch: Silicon Valley 2008 should send an Executive Summary of no more than 2 pages to Launchsv@svase.org by latest May 9, 2008 Up to 30 of the most interesting companies will be invited to leverage Launch: Silicon valley 2008 as the springboard to launch their product or service, and to network with the audience of Silicon Valley’s top movers and shakers at the Pre-LSV Event Party on the evening of June 9, as well as at the event itself on June 10. For the agenda and further information, go to the Launch: Silicon Valley 2008 web site This event is co-sponsored by: PLATINUM: Garage Technology Ventures, www.garage.com GOLD: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, www.cooley.com Draper Fisher Jurvetson, www.dfj.com Microsoft Corporation, www.microsoftstartupzone.com Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP, www.townsend.com White & Case LLP, www.whitecase.com SILVER: Bank of Angels, www.bandangels.com Sand Hill Angels, www.sandhillangels.com The Angels Forum LLC, www.angelsforum.com

TGIF Social Pool & Pizza Night. All skill levels are welcome

Date: 2009-11-20 19:00:00

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No plan for Friday yet? Please come & join us for our TGIF Social Pool & Pizza Night. We can share some pizzas & play some friendly pool games while meeting new friends! This will be a TGIF Social Pool & Pizza Night. We have done that before & it was a lot of fun. As some of you may not have enough time to eat after work, I will order some pizzas to share. Please let me know, if you want to be included for the pizza dinner when signing in the event so that I know how much to order, it will probably cost about $7 per person. Below is the details of the event. Hope you can make it. (Please ignore the number of RSVP on the Upcoming.org site as I promote the events via multiple channels. Our social pool events usually have 20-25 people showed up): Date: Friday Nov 20th 7:00pm-10:30pm Location: Shoreline Billiards 1400 North Shoreline Blvd. #C-1, Mountain View 650-964-0780 Cost: $15/person to be collected when signing in. (About $7 additional if you would like to join us for the pizzas.) If you'd like to stay & play for longer after the event finished at 10:30pm, Shoreline offers us a $5 flat fee per person til they close at 2am, 2-4 persons per table depending on how busy the poolroom gets. RSVP: Please email me @ soyeeng@gmail.com with your FULL name, email address, number of guests (if any) with their names, phone number is optional. Although RSVP is not required, it would be helpful to let me know if ou plan on coming. I don't have email access after 4pm on Sat, so if you do decide to join us the last minute, you can simply show up or call me at 415-215-0761. How it works: 1. I would rotate people around tables every 40-45 minutes. Table assignment is random, though I would make my best effort to make sure a good gender mix per table. 2. I would try to have 4 people per table. 3. Since we would be rotating, it's less confusing if everyone plays the same rules. Game rules is available on the event date. 4. When table assignment has announced, everyone has to move to their next assigned table even if you "think" you are almost done with the game, since it's impossible for every table to finish at the same time, that way it won't slow down the table rotation for everyone. 5. If you need to leave early, please let me know 10 min before you actually leave, so I would leave your name out for next rotation. How we'll find each other: Ask for Shirley's or BAPBSC group Look forward to seeing you then. To be notified with our future pool events, go to yahoo.com, then go to "group", search for BAPBSC (Stands for Bay Area Pool, Billiards, Snooker Club), then select to join/ subscribe to the club. It is FREE to join. IMPORTANT: If you don't have Yahoo ID, please email me at soyeeng@gmail.com with your email address, I would manually add you as member. Shirley

Mumbai Salsa -The Ultimate Desi latino Bollywood Party featu...

Where: Albertos Nightclub

Date: 2008-04-18 21:00:00

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Untitled Document After tremendous sucess of "Kaal Dhamal","Hoja rangeela re" and Laila2 Instant Karma is back with a desi latino bollywood party "Mumbai Salsa" featuring salsa dance lesson from Serena

BFD 2008

Date: 2008-06-07 11:00:00

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Live 105's BFD, tix are only $10.53 Cypress Hill with Flogging Molly, The Kooks, Pennywise, Alkaline Trio, Everlast, Anti-Flag, MGMT, The Whigs, Ludo, Atreyu, Airborne Toxic Event, Moby, MSTRKRFT, Santogold, Steve Aoki, Lyrics Born, Mike Relm, Play Radio Play, DJ Omar

Deep Dive: Patenting Workshop for Entrepreneurs

Where: Microsoft, Conference Center, Building 1

Date: 2008-05-06 08:30:00

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This seminar is a soup-to-nuts discussion for inventors, creators of IP, start-ups, and medium sized companies without a dedicated legal team. We'll cover the arguments for whether to seek patents and trademarks, how patents can help your company, where to look for them, and how to get them submitted and approved. Equally importantly, we'll look at what is not worth patenting and trademarking, and the right way to submit the ideas that are worth patenting. Our presenters include top-notch lawyers who will cover the details of patents and trademarks, with adequate time to answer your questions. We're also going to hear from the Venture Capital sector on how they view IP, and the importance of patents with respect to funding and company valuations. To round out our perspectives, we'll get a Case Presentation from a start-up entrepreneur who has used patents, and who has been involved in litigation around his company's IP positions. $80 for non-members.

Deep Dive: Patenting Workshop for Entrepreneurs

Where: microsoft Campus

Date: 2008-05-06 08:30:00

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The Telecom Council's Entrepreneur Forum and Swernofsky Law Group presents this soup-to-nuts discussion for inventors, creators of IP, start-ups, and medium sized companies without a dedicated legal team. We’ll cover the arguments for whether to seek patents and trademarks, how patents can help your company, where to look for them, and how to get them submitted and approved. Of equal importance, we’ll look at what is not worth patenting nor trademarking. And to wrap it all up, we'll discuss the right way to submit the ideas that are worth taking to the USPTO. Our presenters include top-notch lawyers who will cover the details of patents and trademarks, with adequate time to answer your questions. We’re also going to hear from the Venture Capital sector on how they view IP, and the importance of patents with respect to funding and company valuations. To round out our perspectives, we’ll get a Case Presentation from a start-up entrepreneur who has used patents, and who has been involved in litigation around his company’s IP positions. This event is free to members or $80 for non-members. A membership option will be available during the registration process for this event.

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