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Cupcake Camp is yummmmmy

San Francisco has a bunch of bakeries that only specialize in cupcakes, but I never knew the amount of work that goes into making a perfect cupcake.

The first ever Cupcake Camp was an absolute success. The only rule: eat cupcakes.
The best one was the maple bacon. Yea, I’m not kidding. It tasted like breakfast; a [...]

geekSessions 1.3: PHP Scalability and Performance

Terry Chay is very good at gathering important people together, so when I heard about the lineup for a PHP-flavored geekSessions, I knew tychay had something to do with it.

As always, The Forbin Group and SF Beta hosted the event at the beautiful City Club atop 255 Sansome. Cindy was a great hostess.

geekSessions 1.3’s panel [...]

Valleywag hosts Natali Farewell at Moose’s

I think Valleywag Happy Hour gets bigger ever time I go.
As I mentioned before, Natali is ditching the bay area to work for CNET TV in New York City. It was sad to see her leave the city, but I think she will be back. Here she is with Jeremy Pepper:

Here is a cool shot [...]

Mac Meet and Mingle Party

Jillian’s in SOMA hosted a pretty cool event that centered around podcasting. This was one of many events at Macworld 2008.
The “meet” version of the event had already started when I arrived, and the house was packed.

I finally met Natali del Conti, CNET TV’s newest lady.

I also got to meet long lost colleague Joe [...]

Pownce Launch Party

Pownce is not Twitter. It’s not even close. I use them for completely different things. Twitter is much simpler. It asks, “What are you doing?”
Leah Culver’s startup takes that to the next level. I believe the main purpose of Pownce is to share media with your friends. You can easily send a link, video, photo, [...]

Macworld 2008

Macworld is a big deal in the bay area. This past week, the streets of SOMA were packed every day.
One day 1, I attend visited with exhibit hall. I had to find Terry Chay:

His phone was dying, so Brian Caldwell let him borrow a solar-powered iPhone charger.

The big news was Apple’s thinnovation. Honestly, the MacBook [...]