Words and Pictures by Brian Solis, Images Via Flickr
Lane Hartwell, Owen Thomas, Brian Solis
STIRR has outdone themselves, yet again, with this year’s elegant and stylish Holiday Soiree in San Francisco.
It summoned the a-listers and the up-and-coming entrepreneurs alike, and everything in between. All adorned suits and gowns – who knew geeks cleaned up so well. Champagne flowed, chocolate paired, conversations planted clusters of entrepreneurs in their place, and Lavay Smith decorated the ambiance with sultry swing.
STIRR wanted to say thank you to the very community who helped it become the premier live action LinkedIn and Facebook for those defining the Web 2.0 landscape.
Quite honestly, and in a good way, there were almost too many fantastic people to see in one night. I bet that if I replayed that night out over and over that I could have enjoyed a very different evening comprised of additional conversations with people that I just could not get to in the few hours I was there.
It was just that wonderful…so I’ll let the pictures tell the rest of the story.
Robert Scoble
Steve Larsen of Krugle and Sean Ness of STIRR
Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Owyang
Tomio Geron of VentureWire
Joanne Wan of GigaOM and James Yu
Christine Herron and her husband Shannon Newton
Aaron Fulkerson of MindTouch
Scott Beale of Laughing Squid, Evan Williams of Twitter, and ?
Doug Sherrets of VentureBeat
Loic Lemeuer of Seesmic
Chris Messina
Larry Chiang
Lane Hartwell and Megan McCarthy of Wired
Dan Kaplan of VentureBeat
Sanford Barr of STIRR
Jeffrey MacManus
Terry Chay, Victor Karamalis, and Lili Balfour of Atelier Partners
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Boutin show us how it’s done
Tara Hunt
Ingrid Bell and Brian Caldwell of Plasq
Marc Meyer of BlogRovR
Cathy Brooks of Seesmic
Maya Baratz of flickr and Nate Bolt
Eric Gonzales
Yours truly with Lavay Smith
The Red Hot Skillet Lickers
For additional coverage of the party, read Victor Karamalis’ review.
More of my pictures from the evening are here.
Alex Ho’s pictures are here.
Valleywag’s party coverage is here.
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Brian
Your photos look like a fine chocolate: tremendously smooth and creamy, great craftsmanship.
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