Lunch 2.0 at Yahoo. Hanging with MyBlogLog, YPN, and Yahoo Pipes folks

February 22nd, 2007 | Category: Events, Web Industry

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<p>Yesterday, <a href= Yahoo hosted Lunch 2.0 (a migrating community event for the emerging web market in silicon valley) It was held at one of Yahoo’s newer campuses in Santa Clara, at the former Exodus buildings (where I used to work, in many ways, Exodus helped to pay for these gorgeous towers during the first boom). Ian Kennedy (update: his other blog is here)acted as the Community Evangelist and set this up (great job man).

I saw a lot of familiar faces such as Tantek, Mark Jenn, Joseph Smarr (who tells us the history of Lunch 2.0), Terry Chay, bub.blicio.us/, Bess Ho, Daniela Barbosa and a ton others.

The community that gathered had the opportunity to meet with some great product teams from Yahoo Publisher Network (which can make you money bloggers), MyBlogLog (which I use), and Yahoo Pipes (which I compare and contrast) group. There were some interesting conversations (a few pushbacks). I learned that MyBlogLog doesn’t pull reader data, and apparently “RSS never took off”. (and in some ways, I agree) I was able to cruise to the cafeteria and cafe, and check out this building, I’ve not been there since 2003, it was really a blast from the past.

Thanks Yahoo! for hosting us!

Bonus Pics: I took pics of my friends Lotus at this same campus a few years ago.

5 Comments so far

Ian Kennedy February 22nd, 2007 3:48 pm

Hi Jeremiah,

Thanks for coming by. As always, good to catch up with you. Not only at Lunch 2.0 but also later that evening at Stirr.

For your readers interested in looking at more than a random collection of my desktop photo pictures, you can visit my blog at http://cavitate.net/flashpoint.
jeremiah_owyang February 22nd, 2007 4:20 pm

Hey I updated the post to point to that blog. How many blogs do you have?
Cody Simms February 22nd, 2007 5:20 pm

Jeremiah,

It was great to meet you. Thanks for coming by!
Ian Kennedy February 23rd, 2007 7:55 am

Yeah, I’ve got bits and pieces of my virtual life spread all over the place. ClaimID is where I keep track of it all.
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