Lunch 2.0

Synaptics is in a “touchy” business of consumer electronics.

They are inviting their gadget-geek neighbors near and far to get in touch with our hungry side and join us for lunch…on them! If you love your touch-enabled mobile & entertainment devices, you’ll love to see the cool products that use their touch sensors. Stop by for beer & goodies, a sneak peek at the new gadgets, and to chat with fellow gadget-geeks, the Synapticians!

Please RSVP here on Yahoo’s UPCOMING site, since space is limited. For those of you who have been complaining to me that there haven’t been Lunch 2.0’s in the South Bay, here is your chance!

Hosts: Synaptics
Where: 3120 Scott Blvd, Santa Clara, CA
When: Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 12:00 - 1:30PM
RSVP ON UPCOMING ONLY!

We hope to see you there! Tell a friend and bring your business cards to qualify for their raffle of giveaways.

ABOUT SYNAPTICS

Synaptics (NASDAQ: SYNA) is a leading developer of human interface solutions for the mobile computing, communications and entertainment industries. The company creates interface solutions for a variety of devices including notebook PCs, PC peripherals, digital music players and mobile phones. The TouchPad™, Synaptics’ flagship product, is integrated into a majority of today’s notebook computers. Consumer electronics and computing manufacturers use Synaptics’ solutions to enrich the interaction between humans and intelligent devices through improved usability, functionality and industrial design. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. www.synaptics.com

In other news

Reminder that the Lunch 2.0 at Powerset in San Francisco is tomorrow (Thursday, September 4). Don’t forget to come if you’ve RSVP’d.

Upcoming Events

• Friday August 29 - Symbio, Shanghai
• Thursday September 4 - Powerset, SoMa, SF
• Tuesday September 9 - Hi5, SoMa, SF
• Wednesday September 17 - SplashCast, NW Portland
• Friday September 26 - Health Solutions Group (Microsoft), Redmond Seattle
• Wednesday October 1 - Synaptics, Santa Clara, SV <—-THIS EVENT!!
• Tuesday, October 6 - TBA, SoMa, SF
• Friday, October 10 - Codesta/scanR, Toronto, Canada
• Friday, October 10 - TBA, Sunnyvale, SV
• Wednesday October 15 - Art Institute of Portland, NW Portland
• Thursday October 16 - TBA, SoMa, SF
• Thursday, October 30 - TBA, SoMa, SF
• Wednesday November 5 - Eclipse Foundation, SW Portland

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

It didn’t take long for Hollywood to understand the power of 8 when the movie studio released the movie “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” on 08.01.08. It didn’t take much effort for Feng Shui Master to bless the fortune from Beijing Olympic on 08.08.08 at 08:08 for its open ceremony.

Following the advice from a well-respected Feng shui Master, who was once hired to help Coka Cola to alter their Feng shui, our special event is moved to 08.28.08 to capture the power and fortune of 8. According to Feng shui Numerology, everyone tab into this power of 8 will receive “unspoken” blessing. US fortune will be depending on how much uncle sam is going to capture this “8″ power.

Our special event is to cover how social media affect our business, social and personal life. We’ll talk about Beijing Olympic 2008 and how web 2.0 change the way we watch and connect to Olympic. NBC with Olympic rights cleverly crafts social media into watching experience. I was able to watch Opening and Closing Ceremony videos even I missed the TV schedule. Now Lunch20 reaches China Shanghai. Facebook Platform speakers should be aware of the facts that SVWB does reach beyond Silicon Valley with our spider web network and should consider giving us the speaker time and attention. Hong Kong/China fans are watching here!

We will be giving out special edition of Beijing Olympic kits to our lucky attendees, on a first-come first served basis. Gifts are sponsored by 99people.com and this special event is co-hosted by SVIBA.

8/28/2008 Thu 6:30-9:30pm
Celebration of Web 2.0 Trends & Culture
MC:
David K. Cheng, Partner at Nixon Peabody LLP
Moderator:
Michael Ryan, Chairman at Executive Impact Group
Speakers:
Kevin Marks, Developer Advocate at Google
Keith Saft, Director of Mobile Product Experience at Yahoo!
Jia Shen, CTO and Founder at RockYou
Joe Shapiro, Co-Founder at uShow

Location: Hurricane Electrics
Address: 48233 Warm Springs Blvd, Fremont, CA
Phone: (510) 580-4100

Registration URL: http://082808.eventbrite.com

Founder
SVWB

9/24/2008 Wed 7:00-9:30pm
UI 2.0: Bringing SEXY Back

10/29/2008 Wed 7:00-9:30pm
The Chronicles of Web Standard: the HTML5, the Comet, and the WebSocket

11/8-9/2008 Sat/Sun
Silicon Valley Code Camp (SVCC)

Chuck storyline: Pineapple, pineapple. Secrets lie inside the Tomb. Sarah falls into the Tomb and finds some ancient Chinese numerology codes and computer codes from missing computer expert. She snaps the photos and captures the videos from her iPhone. She utilizes her iPhone 3G Geo location to find the way out. Chuck avoids enemy by mingling into Olympic swimming team. He borrows the gold medalist metal to create the light reflection to stop another attack. Chuck has to decode the codes with python and needs his Chinese pals to break down the numerology codes with some ancient history lessons.

Next Lunch 2.0 Shanghai will be on Friday August 29th at the office of Symbio Group (http://www.symbio-group.com/). Thanks a lot to Vincent for providing the space.

Topic is “Stock options for Chinese employees” and we will have Garret Wiley from Red 5 Studios (http://www.red5studios.com) as a speaker.

Lunch will be provided courtesy of Symbio Group - thanks again very much to Vincent for offering this.

The address is:
Tomson Commercial Building
Suite 303
710 Dong Fang Rd.
Pudong
(Right next to the Century Avenue stop on #2 line, exit 1)

浦东新区东方路710号汤臣金融大厦303室
(近二号线世纪大道地铁站,一号出口）

Please RSVP through our Facebook event page at: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=25620637658

Join our Shanghai Group at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=13224258265

See you there!

If you’re laboring during the week of Labor Day, Lunch 2.0 alumnus, Powerset, will be hosting a Lunch 2.0 to celebrate their recent acquisition by Microsoft!

They’ll have tasty bar-b-que, beverages (including beer), and special edition Microsoft + Powerset acquisition shot glasses (plus some tequilla for those who are feeling adventurous). There will be lots of Powersetters and a few Softies present.

Note: you MUST be on this Upcoming.org RSVP list in order to get in. Please know your Upcoming.org handle.

Hosts: Powerset (and Microsoft)
Where: 475 Brannan Street
When: Thursday, September 4th, 2008 12:00 - 2:00PM
RSVP ON UPCOMING ONLY!

This will be a very fun event (and no, I’m not prejudiced in saying that. ). Not only will Powerset be hosting a faboo lunch with drinks and food galore, but they will also be giving away special edition Powerset/Microsoft shot glasses.

RSVP now, since this event will be capped. Remember MySpace’s Lunch 2.0 reached full capacity within 24 hours, so get in early!

Upcoming Events

• Friday August 22 - Sogeti, Netherlands
• Friday August 22 - Apature, Seattle
• Thursday September 4 - Powerset, SoMa, SF <—-THIS EVENT
• \Tuesday September 9 - Hi5, SoMa, SF
• Wednesday September 17 - SplashCast, NW Portland
• Thursday September 25 - TBA, San Mateo SV
• Friday September 26 - Health Solutions Group (Microsoft), Redmond Seattle
• Thursday October 2 - TBA, Santa Clara, SV
• Friday, October 10 - Codesta/scanR, Toronto, Canada
• Wednesday October 15 - Art Institute of Portland, NW Portland
• Wednesday November 5 - Eclipse Foundation, SW Portland

(Any I missed?)

Join hi5 at its first ever Lunch 2.0 event on September 9th at noon. They are celebrating their company expansion and upcoming product launches. Their offices are conveniently located at 55 2nd Street (b/t Mission and Market Sts.), 3rd Floor.

Please RSVP to: Melissa Tinitigan at mtinitigan [at] hi5 [dot] com by September 3rd.

We hope to see you there!

Best,

The hi5 team, Lunch 2.0 crew

Hosts: hi5
Where: 55 2nd Street (bteween Mission and Market), 3rd Floor
When: Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 12:00 - 2:00PM
RSVP by e-mail

About hi5

Launched in 2003, hi5 is now one of the world’s largest social networks — ranked as a top 20 website globally and the #1 social network in 25 countries across Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. According to comScore, more than 56 million individuals every month visit hi5, which is currently available in 24 language options (with more to come). We are a privately-held company, headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Upcoming Events

• Thursday August 21 - Spongecell, SoMa, SF
• Friday August 22 - Sogeti, Netherlands
• Friday August 22 - Apature, Seattle
• Thursday, September 4 - TBA, SoMa, SF
• Tuesday September 9 - Hi5, SoMa, SF <–THIS EVENT
• Wednesday September 17 - SplashCast, NW Portland
• Thursday September 25 - TBA, San Mateo SV
• Friday September 26 - Health Solutions Group (Microsoft), Redmond Seattle
• Thursday October 2 - TBA, Santa Clara, SV
• Wednesday October 15 - Art Institute of Portland, NW Portland
• Friday, October 10 - Codesta/scanR, Toronto, Canada
• Wednesday November 5 - Eclipse Foundation, SW Portland

Oops, the facebook event has been up for a few weeks but we forgot to update our blog!

Spongecell is hosting us for Lunch 2.0 this week.

Hosts: Spongecell Ads
Where: 5 Lucerne St. #1, San Francisco, CA
When: Thursday, August 21st, 2008 12:00 - 2:00PM
RSVP on facebook

Upcoming (and some past) Events (since the last time we bothered posting)

• Wednesday, July 9 - Zecco, Burlingame, SV
• Wednesday, July 16 - souk, Portland
• Thursday July 17 - Pyramid Alehouse, Seattle
• Thursday July 24 - Evri, Seattle
• Friday, August 1 - whitepages.com, Seattle
• Friday August 8 - iDiDiD, Netherlands
• Friday August 8 - Artistforce, Los Angeles
• Wednesday, August 13 - Sun (Drinks 2.0), Beverly Hills, L.A.
• Wednesday, August 13 - CubeSpace, SE Portland
• Thursday August 14 - MySpace, SoMa, SF
• Thursday August 21 - Spongecell, SoMa, SF <–THIS EVENT
• Friday August 22 - Sogeti, Netherlands
• Friday August 22 - Apature, Seattle
• Wednesday, August 27 - TBA, SoMa, SF
• Tuesday, September 9 - TBA, SoMa, SF
• Wednesday September 17 - SplashCast, NW Portland
• Thursday September 25 - TBA, San Mateo SV
• Thursday October 2 - TBA, Santa Clara, SV
• Wednesday October 15 - Art Institute of Portland, NW Portland
• Friday, October 10 - Codesta/scanR, Toronto, Canada
• Wednesday November 5 - Eclipse Foundation, SW Portland

For all Lunch 2.0 fans out there, we’ve submitted a panel idea for SXSW. We’ll be talking about the Lunch 2.0 story, all the tools we use to run Lunch 2.0, and hopefully spread the word and get more Lunch 2.0s going. If you’ll be at SXSW next year, or if you’re just a big fan of free food, head on over and vote for us!

Like Chuck, Jared M. Spool is one of the visual images in my memory database. This is the story I will tell slowly over time. Jared is one of the legends in User Interface and Internet History. Our web will look very different without his contributions.

Like Chuck, I am running around busy living both a day-time and night-time lives. I couldn’t inform the publishers about his coming. I would list his books here to celebrate his contribution to the web. Many UI professionals are making very important decisions based on his research.

Handbook of Usability Testing: Howto Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests by Jeffrey Rubin, Dana Chisnell, and Jared Spool

User-Centered Web Site Development: A Human-Computer Interaction Approach by Daniel D. McCracken, Rosalee J. Wolfe, and Jared M. Spool

Web Site Usability (Interactive Technologies) by Jared Spool, Tara Scanlon, Carolyn Snyder, and Terri DeAngelo

Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks by Luke Wroblewski, Jared Spool, Caroline Jarrett, and Peter Wallack

Bess
SVWB Founder

Client Side Story: Enhancing Experiences with Ajax, RIAs, and Browser-side Intelligence
Browser-side development capabilities, such as Javascript, Ajax, and Rich-Internet Applications (RIAs), (along with the latest additions: Adobe’s AIR and Microsoft’s Silverlight,) presents developers with tremendous power. We can create more fluid interactions, moving away from the dreaded page refresh, giving users an experience more like the desktop applications they are used to.

As more sites move to using these capabilities, developers are exploring the canvas — seeing what works and what doesn’t. Through this exploration, we’ve discovered patterns and principals to help guide us to make better designs going forward.

In this presentation, Jared will talk about the different approaches developers have taken with these new capabilities. He’ll discuss:

+ What smart clients bring us, such as enhanced progressive disclosure, visualization, and effeciency capabilities?
+ What we can learn from game design for creating immersive experiences?
+ What are the common traps developers fall into when they start playing with these technologies?

He’ll show examples from Flickr, Google, Yahoo!, Netflix, Lands End, Gap, and LA Times, deconstructing their use of these new development capabilities to help us understand how we can apply them to our own designs.

7/30/2008 Wed 7:00-9:30pm
Client Side Story: Enhancing Experiences with Ajax, RIAs, and Browser-side Intelligence
Jared M. Spool, Founding Principal of User Interface Engineering
Location: Hurricane Electric “The Matrix” Building
48233 Warm Spring Blvd, Fremont California 94539
Registration URL: http://clientsidestory.eventbrite.com
FREE if register online

8/28/2008 Thu 6:30-9:30pm
Celebration of Web 2.0 Trends & Culture

9/24/2008 Wed 7:00-9:30pm
UI 2.0: Bringing SEXY Back

10/29/2008 Wed 7:00-9:30pm
The Chronicles of Web Standard: the HTML5, the Comet, and the WebSocket

When: August 8, 2008 @ 12:00 - 2:00 PM

Where: 7021 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA

RSVP: On this online invitation

Jonathan Romley, Founder & CEO of ArtistForce, wants to do a different kind of Lunch 2.0. We’re intentionally keeping the details of this event quiet. If you’re anywhere near LA on 08/08/08 RSVP and come. If you know anyone in the area, send them this online invitation.

MySpace is hosting a Lunch 2.0 next month on August 14th. So be sure to come by and check their space out.

Meet people from the many teams that work out of the local office, including:
- MySpace Developer Platform
- MySpace Photos
- MySpace Data Availability & OpenSocial

Due to space restrictions, we’re capped at 150 people, so please RSVP to the Upcoming link below. Feel free to bring your friends, but please have them RSVP too.

(PS: If your plans change and you can’t make it, please come back and change your status so we can offer your invite to someone else. Thanks!)

I’ll be there, Terry and Mark will be there and we’ll get to schmooze around. So come on by!!!

Myspace

4th Floor, 625 2nd Street
San Francisco, California 94107

RSVP : http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/921850/

MySpace Lunch 2.0 SF