John Beatty
Engineer, founder. EIR at Sutter Hill Ventures. Interested in recommendation systems, search, data mining, communications, communities.

It's hard to believe it's been almost 2 years since the first SF AppShow at the flagship Apple Store in downtown San Francisco.
The AppShow is coming off a visit to its fourth city, Chicago, on October 3d.

We're gearing up to celebrate our 2 Year Anniversary in San Francisco at UCSF Mission Bay on November 17 from 6-9 PM. For the...

Hear the inside stories about the creation of artificial intelligence with one of the experts, Ed Feigenbaum (CMU Alum, Stanford Professor, pioneer in Artificial Intelligence and an ACM Turing Award recipient). Come hear not about the technical details, but the "human story" of how decisions were made and what succeeded & what...

The engineering team behind Facebook Messages spent the past year building out a robust, scalable infrastructure. We shared some details about the technology on our Engineering Blog (http://fb.me/95OQ8YaD2rkb3r). This tech talk will dig deeper into some of the twenty different infrastructure services we created for the project as well as how...

Facebook is the largest social network in the world with over 500 million active users. We use MySQL to manage some of our important user data. This is a large and busy MySQL deployment. We work hard to improve the quality of service from the database tier. Members of the database operations, performance and engineering teams will describe what we...

attn party people:

Startup School is just around the corner and that means hundreds of hackers from around the world are descending on Palo Alto.

due to overwhelming demand, the hackers will be throwing hacker house party v3.

- we hope you will be there (seriously, you're just going to code all night/eat ramen noodles otherwise)
- yes,...

Within walking distance from the Caltrain stop if anyone from the city wants to come down. Next time is up in SF.

Basica agenda is do a once around the room, exchange names, jobs, interests, startup ideas, have a beer, do whatever. If people want to break into small groups after that, it's all good.

On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and begins working on a new idea. What begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global communication revolution. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history...but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both...

DJs: Manju Masi (Atish Mehta + Mark Slee).

Parking: Complimentary parking for the event at 350 2nd St. (btwn Folson & Harrison).

Food: pizza and sandwiches in the early evening.

Dear Yahoo! Alums -

It's time again for our 3rd Annual Yahoo! Alum event. Please mark your calendars to join old Yahoo! friends on:

DATE: Thursday, March 24th, 2011 (we are not competing with St. Patrick's day!)

TIME: 6PM

PLACE: Bistro4Twelve, 412 Emerson Street, Palo Alto.

No Host Bar (pay as you go!!) Anyone know the...