by Julie Blaustein

Julie Blaustein and Sherri Jessen, Photo Credit: Brian Solis

Photo Credit: Brian Solis

Quite a number of Bastards showed up on a chilly Monday night to hang with the most Gregarious Greg Narain and for the Birthday celebration of that quirky Social Media Wiz Guy, Brian Solis at Otis amongst the magical lights of Union Square. The entire Bub.blicio.us crowd was in tow in addition to Brian and Greg – Joanne Wan, Adriana Gasciogne, Stowe Boyd and myself.

Stowe Boyd, Greg Narain, Brian Solis

Photo Credit: Brian Solis

DJ Mr. Grant, Photo Credit: Brian Solis

It was great to see so many familiar faces partying and contributing to the web 2.0 social economy…all at the same time and on a Monday night!

Christian Perry of SF Beta and Zaptix
Tara Anderson of Valley Schwag
Ralph Mark founder of Acteva
Scott Beale of Laughing Squid
Kurt Collins of Photobucket
Brian Dhatt of Sugar Publishing
Sanford Barr of STIRR
Guy Argo of Shopance
James Yu of BuzzShout
Andre Lewis, Consultant of Rails/Ajax/Web 2.0
Sherri Jessen, Eurekster

And the list goes on….everyone happy to be part of the web 2.0 scene.

Greg, Shawn of MetroWize and Max, founder of Acteva

Christian Perry and Tara Anderson

Mufi, Marilyn, Lauren and Kurt

Joanne and Minton

Throughout the night there was great music thanks to the DJ’s; our very own Mr. Grant and DJ Dom. A stream of folks were constantly coming and going, keeping the place full and happening. Upstairs folks danced and down below folks continued to drink and cheer on Happy Birthdays to Brian who was found in his Santa hat at the front, greeeting and meeting folks.

DJ Mr. Grant

Brian and his lovely wife Wendy

For more pictures, jump over to PhotoBucket. For Brian Solis’ pictures, jump over to flickr.

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by Brian Solis
It was a busy night on the tech party circuit – seven parties, and we’re talking about a weeknight here.

As I’ve been saying, with Bubble 2.0, Monday is the new Friday, and to be honest, if we didn’t have a team behind bub.blicio.us, I’m not quite sure how any one person could live like a rock star while trying to cover everything.

by Brian Solis

Held at the majestic Exploratorium in San Francisco, STIRR held what had to be the Holiday party of the year.

The team at STIRR had a holiday gift for entrepreneurs…an elegant holiday party in San Francisco created for startups without the budget to do their own big holiday shindig. And not surprisingly, it quickly sold out!

by Brian Solis

Greg Narain, Stowe Boyd, and I attended the launch party for new social network startup, MingleNow. 

We were greeted by a Slide host, who asked us if we were up for a Slide into the Club. Instead we opted for the stairs.  I spent enough time on a financial slide during the bust of the first bubble. 

Greg Narain and our Slide Host

 
by Julie Blaustein

SF Beta at Shine Lounge, usually full of founders, developers, designers, bloggers, investors, journalists, and everyone else in the Web 2.0 community was a bit more mellow than usual. Perhaps it was due to the six other parties happening the same night (stay tuned for posts from the rest of the crew who divided and conqured!)

Regardless, there were still folks wheeling and dealing like Shanon Clark who was pitching his new company NELA – Never Eat Lunch Alone to anyone within earshot.  There was also Gary Krane of LoveEnsure who was seeking developers, whether open source or not, to help him fix problems created by outsourcing to India. Christian Perry was on hand, producer of the SF Beta and founder of ZapTix which you may have used if you ordered online.

Christian Perry and Adriana Gasciogne of Guba and bub.blicio.us tv