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We had it all.

Food (Check). Sun (Check). Great people (Check). Alcohol & drinks (Double check).

Yes, it was a great party and probably one of the highlights of the Summer season. We are, of course, talking about the TechCrunch August Capital party in Menlo Park, CA last Friday night.

For just over five hours, several hundred people that were lucky to get tickets to the event flocked here to meet and greet with some of the industry’s movers and shakers. People from all around the world traveled to Silicon Valley to be a part of this epic event – and it didn’t hurt that it also was the after-party for TechCrunch’s Social Currency CrunchUp held at Stanford University that day.

The drinks were flowing and people were mingling on the deck of August Capital and we were even blessed with great sunny weather – what a day for a party indeed! Photographers were abound snapping photos of attendees throughout the evening & if you wanted to be a bit more creative, there was even a step & repeat area where you could get all gussied up in feather boas, boxing gloves, sunglasses and other accessories just to look as classy as you want courtesy of Michael O’Donnell of ZatPhoto.com. The music was beating as well thanks to a DJ who was jamming out tunes through Pandora Radio and there was a lot for people to do. Mingling and networking isn’t your thing? Then get your iPhone cover engraved courtesy of Coveroo or go get autographed prints of awesome art by Hugh Macleod from GapingVoid.com.

So who shows up for an August Capital party? Just some very familiar and influential people including practically the entire cast of characters from TechCrunch like MG Seigler, Jason Kincaid, Paul Carr, Heather Harde & Alexia Tsotsis. Other famous notables include rapper & tech fan Chamillionaire, “Digi” Jeff Lange, Google’s Don Dodge, angel investor extraordinaire Ron Conway, Mashery’s Oren Michels, AllFacebook.com & the Social Times Nick O’Neill, Larry Chiang, Girls in Tech’s Adriana Gascoigne, Echo’s Chris Saad, Whrrl’s Heather Meeker & CEO Jeff Holden, Plancast’s Mark Hendrickson & Peter Sauer, Sarah Austin, SimpleGeo’s Andrew Mager and many others.

Now onto the pictures…

Hugh Macleod of GapingVoid.com

Nick O’Neill & Adriana Gascoigne

Chris Noble & Heather Meeker

Andrew Mager & Chad Catacchio

Ryan Hupfer

Gregarious Narain

Maria Ogneva, Ryan Kuder & Heather Meeker

Dave McClure & Chris Saad

Chamillionaire, Don Dodge & “Digi” Jeff Lange

Alastair Goldfisher

All photos featured here were taken by Kenneth Yeung.

You can view more photos in my Flickr photostream by clicking here.

Last Friday was the latest installment of TechCrunch’s Real-Time CrunchUp. All focused on the realm of being “real-time”, this conference brought out some pretty interesting startups who were either launching that day or very soon and gave the press, bloggers and attendees a first glance at what they’re developing.

Not one to offer a little deviation, the hosts, Erick Schonfeld and Steve Gilmore, included several panels in the day’s events, including a one-on-one discussion with Salesforce.com CEO, Marc Benioff. Other panel talks included how to avoid the noise in real-time, discussing media and geo streams and financing companies that focus on real-time. Michael Arrington even participated in a few lively discussions and actually began the conference by sitting down to chat with Twitter’s new chief operating officer, Dick Costolo to talk about…what else? Twitter.

Compared to the last CrunchUp, this time had another surprise: two members of the audience were picked that day to present their pitch to the group! With little notice, the names were picked and during the demo sessions, these individuals got up on stage and showed off their latest developments.

Here’s some photos from the event:

Team TechCrunch is ready to blog – Leena Rao, MG Siegler & Jason Kincaid.

Michael Arrington & Steve Gilmore interviewing Dick Costolo, Twitter’s COO.

Erick Schonfeld & Steve Gilmore moderating panel on Filtering the Stream. Feat. Jason Shellen, Kimbal Musk, Bret Taylor, Loic Le Meur, Chris Cox, Lili Cheng, Ron Conway, Amit Singhal, Jason Hirschhorn, Michael Arrington, Ken Moss and Edo Segal.

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff

A CrunchUp presenter.

Another CrunchUp presenter.

One other CrunchUp presenter.

Robert Scoble got to participate in the CrunchUp by offering his thoughts on the “super Tweet”.

Marc Benioff was giving away free copies of his book to the attendees.

TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde & Co-Editor Erick Schonfeld

You can view more photos from the TechCrunch Real-Time CrunchUp by clicking here.

All photos shown here were taken by Kenneth Yeung.