by Alison McNeill

Photo Credit: Terry Chay

Photo Credit: Jeremy Pepper

Photo Credit: Jerry Luk

Hosted by LinkedIn, Lunch 2.0 was bigger than ever this month with a ton of attendees, enough food to feed an army and free kickballs for everyone! LinkedIn did a great job escorting the bub.blicio.us crew around to interview:
Mark Jen – Plaxo and co-founder of Lunch 2.0
Justin Kan – Justin.tv
Guy Kawasaki – Garage.com
Dan Nye – CEO of LinkedIn

Others in attendance include:
Jeremy Pepper
Chris Heuer of Social Media Club
Jeremiah Owyang
Mario Sundar of LinkedIn
Jessica Guynn from the SF Chronicle
Dave McClure
Daniela Barbosa
Jerry Luk of LinkedIn
Johnny Ham of Ustream.tv

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Pandora held a very cool “town hall” style meeting yesterday at SF MOMA to introduce a series of new milestones, features, and partnerships all related to its Pandora Everywhere program.

The room was packed with users, press, and bloggers – and overall, it was representative of everything that is good about the new Web economy. It was all about community.

The crowd – plus special guest, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch

I’ve been a big fan of Pandora since its inception and the experience has grown by leaps and bounds over time.

In an impressive and well orchestrated presentation, Pandora introduced partnerships with Sonos and Sprint which brings the world of streaming music into the home (away from the PC) and to cell phones.

Pandora on Sprint is free for the first 30 days – with no obligation – and then costs $2.99 per month on top of your Sprint Power Vision data plan.

And, they didn’t stop there. They pre-announced a deal that will bring Pandora into an upcoming mobile device to be built by SanDisk and powered by Zing. The device is similar to the Sansa Connect device launched last month by Yahoo.

For those of you new to Pandora, it is a new hybrid Internet Radio Station that allows users to create stations around their favorite artists and refines its playlist with a bit of user guided interaction. It starts with the artist you selected, and then applies a unique layer of intelligence to match that style of song to its database to determine the next song it serves. Users can vote whether they like it or don’t care for it and Pandora does the rest.

What I’d like to see is breadth. If you choose one artist – the music DNA needs to offer a greater assortment of music to reduce repetition and also introduce users to new artists.

Either way, Pandora runs on every PC and Mac I own and I have it streaming throughout the house through a wireless setup that only a geek could love. However, with these announcements, you can bet that I’ll be looking at upgrading the home system very soon. As for Sprint, I guess I have to wait for smartphone support.

Notable attendees included:

• Chris Messina
• Tara Hunt
• Andrew Kippen
• Veronica Belmont
• Brian Caldwell
• Michael Arrington
• Stewart Alsop

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See below for more coverage:

Gizmodo

TechCrunch

Zatz Not Funny

Wired

Guardian

SoCal Tech

TechAddress

Scobleizer

VentureBeat

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Oh yes, by all means, this is no joke. The SF Newtech extravaganza hit a new level since it outgrew the CNET digs and graduated to the Metreon (where many a rockstar has played to lucky audiences).

In its first meetup in the new theater, SF Newtech appears to have already outgrown its new home. Kudos to event founder, Myles Weissleder.

It’s no surprise however. Over the last year, the Web 2.0 has truly grown to become a cultural phenomenon that has fortunately, or unfortunately, shed its association with the technology infrastructure which defined it. Now, it’s all about the tech renaissance and the flocks of people who are rushing to be part of the next big thing.

This event also featured none other than Om Malik as the VIP guest moderator.

Christian Perry, founder of Zaptix and SFBeta, stepped in for Adriana Gascoigne to interview an impressive lineup of presenters, including:

• Podtech & ScobleShow – Robert Scoble, Blogger/Vlogger Extraordinaire
• Magnify.net - Steve Rosenbaum, CEO & Founder
• Justin.TV - Justin Kan live from LA w/ Kyle Vogt, Cast, Crew & Hardware Hacker
• Turnhere – John McWeeny, Senior Vice President, Business Development
• Kyte – Daniel Graf, CEO & Founder Loading...

Other notable attendees were:

• Debbie Landa and Shay Norin of Dealmaker Media
• Jeremy Pepper
• David Ingram of Izimi
• Ben Wan, angel investor
• Cindy Phung of the Forbin Group
• Ben Metcalfe
• Webware‘s Rafe Needleman
• James Yu of Buzzshout
• Joanne Wan of GigaOM
• Julian Brass of Engage.com
• Mick Liubinskas of Tangler.com
• Victor Karamalis of Authenticated Apparel

More pictures are available at Brian Solis’ flickr album.

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TECH cocktail took on Washington DC! Thursday night at MCCXIII with over 225+ bloggers, VC’s, technology enthusiasts, and entrepreneurs gathered for drinks, product demonstrations and great conversation. The event also drew guest from AOL, Revolution Health, USA Today, Freewebs and a number of others which included Gabe Rivera, techmeme creator, Clarence Wooten, CEO of CollectiveX and Scott Karp. Local DC tech event blogger Ross Karchner surveyed the scene and Metroblogger DC also covered the event. All told, TECH Cocktail was a helped unite the DC metro technology and entrepreneurial community!

Featured were special exhibitions by BuzzXYZ, Clearspring, Sportsvite, Patent Monkey and Wine Library TV. Also present were co-founders Eric Olson, Frank Gruber and local co-host Nick O’Neill.

Sponsors for the event included Wine Library TV, AOL, AN Hosting, Blogdigger, Buzz XYZ, and Blue Sky Factory. Wine Library TV video blogger Gary Vaynerchuk was also in attendance and handed out some great swag and proved some wine tastings for the event.

This was an eventful week for many because, in addition to launching the first TECH Cocktail in DC, Blue Sky Factory announced earlier Thursday that it had acquired RSSFWD. Also, Wine Library TV recently acquired Cork’d, the wine social network, and Time Warner sold the Atlanta Braves to Liberty Media. These recent acquisitions added to the buzz in the room and increased the excitement overall at the event.

Check out the photos tagged: techcocktaildc1 and specifically a photoset by Raoul Pop (all photos in this post are to his credit) who took some fabulous photos at TECH cocktail DC.

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by David Parmet

New York’s technologists and social media mavens came out last
Tuesday night for the first pre-Supernova New York City networking
mixer at The Gallery Bar on Orchard Street in New York’s Lower East
Side.

Howard Greenstein

Conference organizer Kevin Werbach made sure the beer and wine (and
fine cocktails) were flowing while deals were made and networks
networked. The unusually warm weather (unusual for New York in early
May at least) ensured a full house.

So warm the conversations spilled out onto the sidewalk, much to the
consternation of the bouncers.

The gallery setting led to some interesting conversations, especially
after the second or third (or fourth) drink.

So much fun, I didn’t even realize this was a ‘tech’ party. I give it
9 out of 10 drinks.

More pictures here.

We’ll see you at the next event in San Francisco.

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