Adina Levin
Socialtext cofounder/product mgt

In recognition of the many Googlers who have joined the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Google employees and their guests are invited by EFF Board member and Googler Brad Templeton to a special informal EFF Mixer. This will be followed by dinner at Crave.

The mixer will give you a chance to mingle with fellow EFF Supporters and meet the...

Welcome Home, Facebook!

Take a trip down memory lane, by bicycle, with the Facebook History Tour!

We'll follow Facebook's 8-yr nomadic history with a bike tour of the company's former and current office locations through Palo Alto and Menlo Park.

We'll begin in downtown Palo Alto, the location of Facebook's first...

Redwood City to Sunnyvale - tour of Christmas lights!

Facebook employees moving into the new headquarters in Menlo Park near the Bay. The new campus has impressive goals for environmental sustainability.

Facebook is planning to provide parking for only half its employees, meaning that it expects half or more of employees to get to work without driving alone. They will have a solar power facility...

It's another Friday lunchtime ride! Meet at the bike racks in front of the Facebook HACK building in Palo Alto (the parking lot of 1050 Page Mill Rd).

We'll ride to Facebook's new Menlo Park campus and also visit Bayfront Park, located just 1.5 miles west and packed with bike trails that offer beautiful views of San Francisco Bay.
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SonicSF in collaboration with graffEats will be hosting a pop-up dinner/ literary salon here in San Francisco.

Seated amongst the diners will be San Francisco luminaries, including:

Mythbuster ADAM SAVAGE
Science writer MARY ROACH
Fiction writer AYELET WALDMAN
Photographer CHRIS MCCAW
Illustrator and Pixar...

In celebration of Buy Nothing Day, the Nov 25 Peninsula Bike Party will visit three big Peninsula malls - Hillsdale (San Mateo), Stanford (Palo Alto), and San Antonio (Mountain View) - and Buy Nothing!

This is a one-way ride, not a loop. But we'll never be far from Caltrain - bring a schedule if you need the train to get home again.

Start:...

Mark the date. You can't stop what's coming.

On Nov 11, 2011 (11-11-11) at 11:11 am, at least 11 cyclists will ride, the 11 miles from Palo Alto Facebook to Menlo Park Facebook and back - at an average speed of 11 mph!

Will you be one of them?

Meet at the bike racks in front of the Facebook "HACK" building (the parking lot...

Get ready for the spookiest ride on the Peninsula!

Peninsula Bike Party will visit three haunted places - the Rengstorff House at Shoreline Park in Mountain View, St Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park, and the Stanford Mausoleum at Stanford University. These places and the routes to them will be really dark - so be sure to bring your lights!
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Ride Distance: 25 miles
Party Stop #1: Apple Headquarters (1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino)
Party Stop #2: Mountain View City Hall (Castro St & Mercy St, Mountain View)

Steve Jobs resigned this week as CEO of Apple, so we'll bid him farewell at this month's Peninsula Bike Party. We'll take Pruneridge Ave to Apple's Headquarters...

You are invited to join us for this exciting Social Media Club- Silicon Valley event! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hosted by Talenthouse in Palo Alto, join us to discuss: Security, Privacy and Social Networking Can we have it all? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The social media landscape has dramatically shifted with the addition of Google+, the fastest-growing...

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Netroots Nation amplifies progressive voices by providing an online and in-person campus for exchanging ideas and learning how to be more effective in using technology to influence the public debate. Through our annual convention and a series of regional salons held throughout the year, we strengthen our community, inspire action and serve as an...

Join the SF Tech Dems and help shape technology policy in the SF Bay Area and in Sacramento. We'll be endorsing for the fall elections, and three meetings are required before voting at a 4th meeting. This first event will be a casual mixer and opportunity to become a member.
Memberships: $50 individual; $80 household; $10 student/other.

More...

See the full poster here: http://www.gsdm.com/TheIndustryParty

Join us for a night of listening, learning, drinking & networking. With live music from the Mother Truckers, J. Roddy Walston and the Business plus other special guests. And an art gallery featuring works from Daniel Johnston, Magda Sayeg, Hugh MacLeod, Ian McLagan, Dave Mead +...

FREE to SXSW Interactive, Gold and Platinum Badgeholders. $15 to General Public. Advance ticket sales here: http://www.showclix.com/event/plutopia2011

To be held in Austin on Monday, March 14th, 2011, the event will be thoughtfully positioned as a well-crafted link between SXSW Interactive, Film and Music. Furthering our mission and intent to...

Google, via its rich snippets, has reported that microformats has a 94% usage share (as compared with RDFa etc.). So how does the future look for microformats? In this session, we'll look closely at real problems with implementing microformats in HTML5 and how this can be done, and whether there will be a continuing place for them. We'll...

Join PBS, NPR, Frontline, ITVS, P.O.V., StoryCorps and Blogads at the Parish for live music and a celebration of South by Southwest.

Music by: Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue (http://www.tromboneshorty.com/)

Ever wonder why Google isn't very helpful in finding something fun to do tonight? Search engines have gotten really good at finding information that literally matches our keywords, but they fall short when our needs and priorities are either hard to express or hard to match directly to the target content. These limitations are giving rise to a...

Five days of presentations, networking events, and more showcasing the best new emerging technology, digital works, video games, and innovative ideas.

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The air is getting colder,
the holidays are near,
a time for celebration
with those we hold so dear!

That would you YOU of course!

We're planning a holiday party, and please say you'll be here. Let's celebrate the season, with good friends and good cheer!

As a sign of thank you for all your support, the first 100 folks in the...

BELA FLECK & THE FLECKTONES - HOLIDAY TOUR Feat. ALASH will play Oakland's Fox Theater on December 16th!

Presale tickets for BELA FLECK & THE FLECKTONES - HOLIDAY TOUR will be available on Thursday, September 23rd at 10am through Saturday, September 25th at 11:59 pm through Fox Theater's official website,...

We'll recap 2010 and plan for 2011. This year:

- Yahoo! killed off Geocities and gave people notice and a graceful exit
- Facebook strengthened its privacy plans but restricted your ability to take your addressbook with you
- Startups entered the social backup, personal data store, and VRM segments
- Governments are improving access to...

It's time to close out 2010 with another dose of hacking at SuperHappyDevHouse! Once again at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, the 24/7 coworking hackerspace inspired by DevHouse. This time with HVAC!

Official details and RSVP can be found at http://shdh41.mogotix.com