On Thursday, October 29, 2009, I had the wonderful joy of listening to Ravi Shankar and his daughter, Anoushka, perform at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, CA.
Archive for the ‘Events’ Category
Best Of the East Bay
Wrestling at Best Of the East Bay party at the Oakland Museum!
Event sponsored by the East Bay Express!
WordCamp SF
I attended WordCamp this year in San Francisco, CA. The all-day event took place at the UCSF Mission Bay campus in San Francisco. Then there was a cool party at Pier 38 on the Embarcadero where I was lucky enough to meet the founder of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg.
Facebook Developers Garage
I had a fun evening tonight at the FB Dev Garage in the San Francisco Hyatt Regency near the Embarcadero. You know you’re in the right place when a Ukrainian sits down in the seat next to you and you happen to sell Ukrainian Folk Music! It’s true!
Overall, it was a great event and networking opportunity. I’m really excited about Facebook Connect now that I now what it’s all about and I’m going to start using social analytic service Kontagent first thing tomorrow at work! Here’s a full list of speakers from the night. It would be interesting to take a class with Andreas Weigend in the future. He “gets it”.
- Albert Lai (Kontagent,co-founder/CEO), Intros
- Andreas Weigend (Data Mining Professor at Stanford and Former Chief Scientist at Amazon) – Keynote
- Eric Ries (Kleiner Perkers, co-founder IMVU) – Metrics for Social Engagement
- Jia Shen (co-founder/CTO RockYou) – Metrics of notifications
- Jeffrey Tseng & Fredric Newberg (Kontagent co-founder/CTO & VP engineering) – Viral tuning beyond conversion + insights across applications
- Josh Elman (Facebook) – fbConnect on Web & iPhone and others
- Justin Smith (InsideFacebook, Former Head of Products at Watercooler) – Social Gaming trends
- Andrew Mayer (Media Shifters) – Casual gaming metrics applied to social gaming
- Vikas Gupta (co-founder Jambool) – Virtual Economy Optimization
- Michael Hart (Netflix) – Netflix Facebook Connect Metrics
Apple Introduces MacBook Wheel
Via the Onion News Network:
San Francisco Apple Store Showcase
This past Thursday I took a group of about a dozen students from Ex’pression College to the San Francisco Apple Store to present their work and portfolios in the theater. This was actually the third time that I’ve done this, but it was by far the best showing.
