By Alex Ho
After the Web 2.0 Expo last wednesday, eleven local Web 2.0 companies along with sponsors and restaurants took part in a South Park crawl event. I was pretty happy that I made it to eight out of the eleven destinations.
There was plenty of great food and drinks, along with good company although I managed to keep losing my friends and continued along with different friends throughout the night. The best party of the night was probably at the Yahoo! Brickhouse as half of the office was cleared out for the party and made room for beer, appetizers, and a live DJ. ZoomProspector had their launch party at Gallery 16 and had some pretty good appetizers. Federated Media Publishing had their party at South Park Cafe and they had some pretty tasty appetizers as well. The best food and drink of the night however, was probably at Jack Falstaff where IBM had their party. The best environment was definitely at the Rearden office and when you walked into the office that evening, you could have easily mistaken it for a nice bar. Rearden also ended my crawl with some yummy desserts.
Maya Baratz and Melody McCloskey
Yan-Biao Boey, Shawn Shah, and Joanne Wan of GigaOm
My crawl buddies for 1/3 of the crawl, Meinard and Chris.
Chad Catacchio of ZoomProspector, Annie Lai of Salesforce, and Tom Canning of Connectize
Bernie McGinn and Erica Ogg, both from Cnet
office of Rearden
The List of Companies that participated in the South Park Crawl
Adaptive Path
Citizen Space
ESVCA @ Andrea Schwartz Gallery
Federated Media Publishing @ South Park Cafe
IBM @ Jack Falstaff
Leverage Software
Rearden
Six Apart
Wired @ Nova
Yahoo! Brickhouse
ZoomProspector @ Gallery 16
More images from my Flickr set here.