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Come enjoy Lunch 2.0 on MySpace at our San Francisco office near South Park, and get to know us!

We'll provide the food and drink, you provide yourselves - should be a good time!

Meet people from the many teams that work out of the local office, including:
- MySpace Developer Platform
- MySpace Photos
- MySpace Data Availability & OpenSocial
- & other seekrit projects we can't yet talk about!

Due to space restrictions, we're capped at 150 people, so please RSVP to this Upcoming page. 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!)

The groundbreaking innovations of Mac OS X Leopard and iPhone OS offer two revolutionary development platforms for developers and IT professionals. Immerse yourself with information-rich sessions where Apple engineers go in-depth on the innovative technologies that power the features of these sophisticated platforms. Bring your code to the Labs and work one-to-one with Apple engineers, applying development methods and best-practices you gain from sessions to enhance your application.

From June 9 - 13, WWDC will host the best of the Apple developer universe — with attendees representing all corners of the globe. Take advantage of this unique opportunity to experience a community atmosphere filled with your industry peers.

It's time for a sniffy sniff! Meet Gary Vaynerchuk and get your copy of his book signed. As you may already know, Gary put the energy and passion of Wine Library TV into print! In 101 Wines Guaranteed to Inspire, Delight, and Bring Thunder to Your World, Gary V unveils his 1st list of favorites and recommendations. Gary’s wine picks for 2008 span many prices, regions, grapes, and styles, ensuring that wine novices and sophisticated oenophiles alike will expand their wine horizons while learning more about the drink they love.

To order, click the links below!

Buy 101 Wines at Amazon

Buy 101 Wines at Barnes & Noble

Buy 101 Wines at Borders

If you already have a copy, great! Don't forget to bring it with you to the event.

Additional Information

Watch Gary’s official announcement of the book during episode 444 of Wine Library TV

Additional Book Tour Information Available Here!

Believe it or not, we're coming up on 5 years since the first release of WordPress.

Come celebrate the 5th anniversary with friends starting at 9 PM at the 111 Minna club at, you guessed it, 111 Minna in San Francisco, California.

No presents necessary, just bring yourself and any wp-friends. We'll have a password at the bar you can use to get drinks, just ask a fellow WordPresser. It is a bar, so 21 and up.

Here's the announcement of WordPress 0.7 on May 27, 2003:

http://wordpress.org/development/2003/05/wordpress-now-available/

This event is also available on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=44552835108

All information related to the event can be found here:
http://laughingsquid.com/laughing-squid-2008/

Get Satisfaction (http://getsatisfaction.com/) is organizing a meet-up to help coders wrap their heads around the OAuth protocol and do some code sprints to get their projects up and running with it. You can find more information about OAuth at http://oauth.net/ and even download libraries that implement OAuth in many languages (10 are listed as of this writing!).

Come out and meet fellow OAuth implementers, hack on your code, and start using OAuth. Your users shouldn't be entering their Gmail passwords into your app anyway, right?

Six Apart has generously offered their office space to us for the meetup. Get Satisfaction has a tiny office around the corner, but we're expecting a good turnout so we're happy to use their space.

On Saturday, May 17, 2008 from 1:00-6:00pm Ghirardelli Square will host the third annual Uncorked! Wine Festival. In partnership with COPIA, the American Center for Wine, Food & Arts located in Napa, Uncorked is a public event which provides an opportunity to taste, learn and experience wine and gourmet food from throughout Northern California.

Other activities include cooking demonstrations by renown Bay Area
chefs, seminars conducted by COPIA such as "Wine 101" and
"Chocolate & Wine Pairings". The event will also feature great
musical entertainment.

Please join the Digg team for good conversation and tasty libations at the first official Digg Meet-up! We'll be making a few announcements and raising a frosty pint together at the first of many gatherings that we're throwing in the United States and abroad. Mingle with fellow Diggers to the sounds of DJs Mancub (Space Cowboys) & Shissla (House of Lotus). It's free to attend, so kick off Web 2.0 Expo and come celebrate Earth Day with drink specials and great DJs for a fun evening.

See you at Mighty!

*Note: This event is 21+ only.

The Swearing Festival II
Back to Swear One

The Swearing Festival returns, the only event in the world that pulls off the prickly scab of swearing, cussing and the surge of most vile oaths in our society and language today. An event for intellectuals and darn dogged degenerates.

Check out the website for all the #$*&^ details!

Meet the newly outed Fake Steve Jobs, a.k.a. Forbes reporter Dan Lyons, who will discuss the anonymous blog (http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/) that lampooned the real Steve Jobs, as well as Silicon Valley’s characteristic excess and his new novel, Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, a Parody..

Welcome to the mind, to the world of Fake Steve Jobs. Fake Steve the counterintuitive management guru: “Obviously we can’t literally put our employees’ lives at risk. But we have to make them feel that way.” Fake Steve the political hobnobber: “I can see why they keep Nancy Pelosi under wraps. Wacky as a dime watch.” Fake Steve quoting friend/musician/philosopher Bono on road etiquette: “Tink about dat next toim yer cuttin off some bloke and you don’t know who it is, right? Could be Jay-sus. Or Boutros Boutros-Ghali or sumfin.” And on, yes, himself: “Geniuses have feelings, too.” In the tradition of Thank You for Smoking and in the spirit of The Onion, Options is a novelistic sendup and takedown of Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and Washington, D.C., as viewed by a central character who exists, to his immense self-satisfaction, at the crossroads of all three worlds: “It’s like in one of those movies where a guy realizes he’s got telekinetic powers and it’s just too bad if he doesn’t want them, he’s got them. Likewise, I have this gift. It’s who I am.”

Fake Steve Jobs is an award-winning writer of fiction and nonfiction with something of an insider’s knowledge of the high-tech industry. He decided to use his powers for good by starting up the wildly popular blog “The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs” (http://fakesteve.blogspot.com), which created the persona and voice for this novel.

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Books Inc. is a locally owned and operated independent bookseller with 10 locations in California. Books Inc.’s origin dates back to the Gold Rush Days of 1851 when Anton Roman struck it rich in Shasta City, California and set himself up in business selling books. That small bookstore was moved, bought, sold, burned, rebuilt, renamed and became Books Inc., as we know it today, in 1946.

Today, with 10 Stores and 200 employees, Books Inc. serves as a shining example that independent bookselling can survive and prosper, even if we must dance among the elephants.

This Event is Free at Books Inc. 2275 Market St. San Francisco 94114

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.

Please join us at an exciting GreenDevCamp on A DATE WHEN YOU PARTICIPATE TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.
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It will be an exciting feature packed day or weekend..

We will learn about as well as actually pitch in to develop technology and plans to do this (hence, the "Dev" part). We want to bring together developers, business people, designers, activists and concerned citizens to start conversations and projects that are committed to a more sustainable world.

One solid action-packed day focused on ideating, exploring, producing and launching technology and practices aimed at Green Technology and Policies.

Please join in the wiki and become part of the team to make it happen. RSVPing here on upcoming is NOT enough.

Save the dates! Maker Faire will return to the Bay Area.

Cardboard tube Fight!

Flickr Pool: http://www.flickr.com/groups/ctfl/
Cost is free.

Annual free street fair for Bernal Heights.
Bands: Sila and the Afrofunk Experience, Julio Bravo Y Su Orquestra Salsabor, Two Tall Drinks and the Bernal All Stars Brass Mafia, Judea Eden Band, Amy Meyers Band, and more free live music.

Fiesta has a small-town urban feel to it: Dancing in the streets to local San Francisco bands, a petting zoo and pumpkin-painting for kids, aroma from sizzling foods from many cultures, crafts and other street fair shopping, and a charming bake sale from Bernal seniors to support local seniors' programs. There are never corporate beer stands on the street for this fair, but several friendly Cortland Avenue bars are open if you want to duck in for something between bands.

It adds up to a colorful down-home fiesta in old Bernaltown. Cortland Avenue will be closed to cars for the day, but you can take the 24 Divisidero bus and it will detour around Cortland for the blocks near the fiesta. Actually, it only takes a few minutes to walk up from Mission Street or from Bayshore on the other side, for that matter.