Web 2.0 Places

Best sushi in downtown Montreal?

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:49:41 -0500

My favorite Sushi place in downtown Montreal is Japonais Sushi Zenya Inc (486, Rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, Montreal) . Agree, disagree? Click on the place name and cast your vote!

Fred Wilson's New York perspective

Tue, 20 May 2008 14:00:11 -0500

We've decided to try a little experiment here. Could we assemble a list of places around an event by using a well-known person as our base criteria?

It turns out that even if "trust in peers" trumps A-List, using a proxy to derive interest works quite well (we know, we have been working on this for a while).

So we picked Fred Wilson (and his extended network) to help us choose places in NYC for our trip to the Conversational Marketing Summit. That works quite well, because he's a prolific blogger and shares a lot of places in social/conversational media. He's even using these smartlinks to refer automatically to defined concepts and we thought places would be a great addition to his collection of links. And since he has already blogged about taste neighbors, we believe he would love the concept.

Here's a few select NYC picks from blog posts (with source blog post in via link)

Share your favorites for other CMsummit attendees by searching, voting, commenting and tagging with cmsummit2008.

Recommended Hotels for the 2008 CM Summit

Tue, 20 May 2008 12:31:19 -0500

Federated Media's 2008 Conversational Media Summit will be held at the Ritz Carlton, Battery Park. According to the organizers, "There are a limited number of rooms available at The Ritz Carlton, Battery Park for CM Summit attendees at a discounted rate of $475.00. Book your reservations by MAY 9th, 2008 by calling 212-344-0800, and reference Federated Media. We cannot guarantee the discounted rate for rooms booked after May 9th."

Other nearby hotels (walking distance) include:

Wall Street Inn
9 S William St, New York, New York
(212) 747-1500

Millenium Hilton

55 Church Street, New York, NY
(212) 693-2001

Wall Street District
15 Gold St, New York, NY
(212) 232-7700

Exchange Hotel
129 Front Street, New York, NY
(212) 742-0003

Embassy Suites Hotel NYC
102 North End Avenue, New York, NY
(212) 945-0100

Next event : NYC Conversational Marketing Summit

Tue, 20 May 2008 11:45:26 -0500

The conversational marketing summit is June 9-10 in New York.

An excerpt from the site to give you an idea of the scope :

To keep building our brands, we have to go where the audience has gone. And every month, more than 600 million people visit conversational media sites -foreign lands when it comes to brand marketing. Or ....are they?

What kind of marketing works in social media?
Which of the lessons learned from marketing in traditional media apply when the audience joins the conversation?
Why will we pay an $80 CPM to reach women, 18-34, in Vogue, but just $3 to reach the same audience online?
What do we make of the promised new platforms from Google, AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo?
Are CPC networks simply harvesting the hard won brand value we've built offline?
How does one create engagement and build brands in the context of conversational media?
What are the online analogs to the executions we so love in magazines and television, and how do we execute them?
Who's already doing it right, and how?

Praized will be there to cover the event and enjoy all the interesting places around...

Ignite Where & Launch Pad

Mon, 12 May 2008 08:54:24 -0500

For Where attendees, salon E (second floor) at the SFO Marriott.

Praized could have almost made the launchpad but we are not quite ready yet for prime time, but grab me in the corridors for a one-on-one demo of our platform, API and blog plugins for Movable Type and Wordpress.

I'm really looking forward hearing the talks tonight, all the Ignite events I went to have been really thought provoking and entertaining.

SF Green - May 2008

Mon, 12 May 2008 08:40:45 -0500

Tonight, from 5pm to 9pm is the second SF Green event, happening at the 111 Minna Art Gallery in San Francisco.

From the announcement:

VentureBeat joins Steve Newcomb, founder of SF Green, to announce the second SF Green event on Monday, May 12th at 111 Minna Gallery, co-produced by Room Full of People, inc. SF Green is a networking event that brings together the Bay Area GreenTech community to see demos from the hottest green companies, and hear from prominent green tech leaders.

COME SEE:

* TWO! Tesla Motors Cars
* A Smart Car
* Darryl Siry of Tesla Motors Speak
* Ray Lane of Kleiner Perkins Speak

Tickets can be obtained here: http://sfgreenmay.eventbrite.com/
The agenda is here and more info can be found here.

Yahoo! Search - SearchMonkey Developer Launch Party

Thu, 08 May 2008 06:13:49 -0500

Not related to the Where 2.0 conference, but I just received an invite to a very interesting event happening next week at Yahoo!: SearchMonkey Developer Launch Party.

From the announcement:

SearchMonkey is Yahoo! Search's new open developer platform. With SearchMonkey, developers and site owners can use semantic web standards and structured data to enhance Yahoo! Search results and make them more useful, relevant, and visually appealing.
If you are a web developer, you're cordially invited to the SearchMonkey Developer Launch Party. Come get the insider scoop on SearchMonkey, see live demos, deep dive on the developer tool documentation, and meet with our product managers and engineers face-to-face. Please join us for a fun evening with free tasty food & beer!

When:May 15, 2008, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Where:Yahoo! Headquarters - Url's CafÃ©

RSVP:Register at upcoming.org AND send your full name and company name
to searchmonkeyevent@yahoo-inc.com. Space is limited.

More info here.

Attending Where 2.0 Conference

Tue, 06 May 2008 16:26:42 -0500

Praized Media's CTO and co-founder Sylvain Carle is attending Where 2.0 conference next week in Burlingame from May 12 to May 14. For that purpose, the Web2Places.com website is now morphing into a Where2Places website showcasing nearby businesses, venues and local events happening around the Where 2.0 conference.

The conference is at the San Francisco Airport Marriott, right next door to SFO. I had the chance to stay there last December and it's great! Check out the indoor pool.

If you're attending and would like to connect, send him an e-mail at sylvain AT praized DOT com.

CenterNetworks's Quick Guide to Businesses Around Moscone

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:31:54 -0500

CenterNetworks offers their choices for local businesses around the Moscone Center. As they say, "around the Moscone Center in San Francisco where the Web 2.0 Expo is being held are numerous great spots to help the conference attendee. However there are also even more spots which cater to tourists and convention attendees, that alas do not have great food or service. So a few suggestions and a local, foodies, guide to SOMA near the Moscone Center."

They go on to suggest the following places:

Coffee/Tea

Samovar Tea
Blue Bottle Coffee

Restaurants

Canton Seafood
Tara
Straits Cafe

Tech Supplies

Apple Store
Central Computer

Anyone has other interesting recommendations?

Today's Parties: Yahoo, IBM, Photobucket & the South Park Crawl

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:40:38 -0500

Here's a list of the parties and events happening today, April 23rd 2008, at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco:

Booth Crawl- Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM @ Moscone West

South Park Crawl
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM @ South Park
See also a user contributed map of the places around South Park

Web 2.0 Expo: The Big Open Y! Party @ Brickhouse
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM @ Yahoo Brickhouse

Evolve: Chi.mp and Mashable's Web 2.0 After Party
7:00 @ Mighty

Leverage Software South Park Crawl
7:00 PM - 1:00 AM @ South Park

IBM Party
7:00 PM @ Jack Falstaff

Photobucket Developer Party
Where: Roe Bar & Lounge (651 Howard St)
6:00PM - 9:00PM @ Roe Bar & Lounge

Tomorrow Night: IBM Party

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:59:39 -0500

Just got pinged about the IBM Party happening tomorrow night.

As part of IBM's Sponsorship of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco this week, there is a party at Jack Falstaff on Wednesday April 23rd at 7pm. Conference attendees are invited to join IBM and some of Web2.0's notable names when IBM hosts a celebration as part of the South Park Crawl. Expect lively discussion, insight and networking. And of course expect to have fun. Hors d'oeuvre and cocktails will be served.

Meet with Forrester's Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:53:36 -0500

Just read this blog post from Charlene Li of Forrester Research:

Josh (Bernoff) and I will be at the Web 2.0 Expo this week, with the hope of meeting as many of you as possible! Below is our general schedule, and in between sessions we'll be roaming the halls and show floor. You can track our whereabouts via our Twitter feeds (Charlene and Josh's feeds, respectively).

If you want to meet with either of them, check out their schedule and Twitter feeds.

Where: Moscone Center

Tonight: A fireside chat with Michael Birch & Jim Buckmaster

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:53:10 -0500

"To celebrate and support the first UK Web Mission in its aim to showcase innovate UK web talent Glasshouse San Francisco invites you to join us a fireside chat with two of Europe and America's most successful and best known entrepreneurs, Michael Birch, founder of Bebo.com and Jim Buckmaster CEO of craigslist. British born Michael who now lives in San Francisco will be interviewed by American, Anglophile, Jim Buckmaster the two will share stories from their own entrepreneurial journeys and will debate what European and Silicon Valley entrepreneurial communities can learn from each other and how they can benefit from more collaboration. Please note numbers for this event are extremely limited so we regret that we will be unable to accept all applications."

Where: Orson

When: April 21st 2008, from 6:30pm to 9:30pm

RSVP/Register here.

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Blue Bottle Coffee

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:52:29 -0500

I don't remember when I first heard of Blue Bottle CafÃ©, but ever since Kevin Rose raved about it on twitter (or was it Chris Messina constantly talking about it?) the word has been going around the twitterverse... Kim also wrote a good post a few days ago that reminded me about it.

More info/discussion on Outside.in and pictures on Flickr. I will surely indulge tomorrow, been working hard lately, I think I need it, I deserve it!

What's your take on the best local coffee in SF?

(oh yeah, makes me think I should do the "best local beer" post soon, will need that too!)

Netvibes Party

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:49:12 -0500

Netvibes is throwing a party at 111 Minna Gallery

When: Thursday, April 24, 2008 from 9:00PM to 2:00AM

RSVP here.