The Naked Conversations Launch Party in Silicon Valley
posted Saturday, 18 February 2006
People from all over the blogosphere converged in person last night at Michael Arrington's house in Atherton for the TechCrunch BBQ launch party of Robert Scoble and Shel Israel's new book on business blogging, Naked Conversations. Off a dark street on a drizzly and cold night, the excitement and enthusiasm were clearly in evidence as the house and backyard were barely passable with the throngs of online software and blog enthusiasts meeting, talking, podcasting, and watching demos of the very latest Web 2.0 software.
TechCrunch 5 BBQ in Silicon Valley:
The Launch of Naked Conversations
eHub's Emily Chang, Max Kiesler, Buzz B. and many others under the TechCrunch tent
Memeorandum's Gabe Rivera and myself
Michael Arrington does a podcast from the TechCrunch tent
Appropriately, online music site Pandora does the music
All of my TechCrunch BBQ photos.
Photos from everyone in attendance that uploaded them here.
Update: John Furrier just posted the podcasts from the party.
The appreciation of the community for Michael Arrington's excellent hosting was clearly in evidence on Memeorandum today and I for one don't relish his carpet cleaning bills given the dampness of the evening. I was also finally able to catch up to many folks in person that I haven't met yet including Stowe Boyd, Jeff Clavier, Gabe Rivera, John Furrier, and Debbie Landa to name just some of them. A few more events like this and I'll actually have met the whole Web 2.0 Workgroup.
Robert Scoble and Shel Israel had a table set up in a back corner of the party tent and were clearly having a ball talking to people all evening and autographing copies of Naked Conversations. The music under the tent was provided, appropriately enough in the We 2.0 era, by Pandora. And Podtech's John Furrier had impressive looking equipment set up next to the book signing table for the podcasts that were being made all evening (link above.)
I also saw demos of very interesting new software that will coming your way, particularly BlogBurst, which I will likely profile at some point soon.
The bottom line: It was a terrifically entertaining event filled with a bunch of really smart and interesting people that most of us have been watching over the last year or more. Moreover, it further showed possibilities of this almost mainstream new medium; I've met more people through blogging in the last 6 months than I have through traditional networking in the last 5 years. If you aren't blogging personally, or for your business, you are just missing out on opportunity after opportunity. Thanks again to Mike for the party, and Robert and Shel for choosing this as the venue for the launch.links: del.icio.us
Please keep the submission coming, what's been listed here so far is great.
