Nick Talarico
Easy to please; tough to impress.

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Social Gaming Summit East is a one day event produced by Charles Hudson, Mediabistro, and SocialTimes, and will focus on building, monetizing, and growing social games. We're bringing together the leaders in free-to-play games, social networking, and payments infrastructure for a...

The 4th Annual Virtual Goods Summit is returning to San Francisco. Last year's event attracted more than 500 executives and entrepreneurs from the free-to-play, virtual goods, and social gaming spaces for a day and a half of talks and panels. This year's event will feature top-notch speakers and panels focused on the most important issues...

Whether it's social games, social news, social discovery, social search, or other forms of social solutions, developers today are facing new hurdles in building instantly scalable products. As new technologies emerge to address the challenges faced by social application developers, it's increasingly important to come together for...

FailChat tickets at: http://startupcontrol.eventbrite.com
Information on FailCon at: http://failcon2010.com

Developing a successful startup is never a one-person job; you'll have a co-founder or early employees, advisors, and sometimes an investor or three. As the business grows, balancing power between everyone, while keeping the team...

Register here: http://www.mediabistro.com/socialgamingsummit/?c=sgfb

Social Gaming Summit University (May 6th from 1 PM - 6 PM)
This year we'l be offering a half-day seminar designed to provide insights into some of the emerging areas of social gaming as well as some of the fundamental concepts that are key to understanding social games and...

Website: http://futureofmoney.com
Register: http://fomt.eventbrite.com

The better access to information provided by new technologies is changing the way we do business, approach funding, and handle our profits and cash. The Future of Money and Technology will draw the best and brightest minds from the intersection of money and technology...

SAN FRANCISCO'S FIRST CARROTMOB ON THE WIGGLE

Join the mob to support energy efficiency!

Duboce Park Cafe has pledged a whopping 50% of profits towards greening their business!

Carrotmob encourages businesses to compete to see who will do the most good for the environment, and then rewards the business with a mob of consumers.

Check out:...

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Celebrate with the Facebook team and your fellow attendees at the official post-f8 party featuring awesome live entertainment, great food, open bar and a gaming lounge.

THE IMPORTANT STUFF:
After8 is for all registered attendees of f8. Photo ID and a...

Event: http://insidesocialapps.com
Registration: http://insidesocialapps.eventbrite.com

Inside Social Apps 2010 brings together today’s leading developers, investors, and analysts for a one-day intensive summit on the future of app and game monetization on social platforms.

Inside Social Apps 2010 happens the day before Facebook's...

Glam Nam Vo is making a cameo in the bay area from NYC to celebrate her 21st (?) fabulous birthday. She is getting older, wiser and of course PRETTIER! It is a BBQ but as always look fierce and fabulous because there will be photos!

We recently moved into this new place --- we need to celebrate it! It means drinks, friends and San Francisco.

We'll start out at our place --- and probably migrate to somewhere fun in the city later! Wherever the evening takes us...

My Phone : 650 714 8589

If you can't seem to find our place, look for 1363 Hampshire (we're on...

Join Women 2.0 for an evening with social game entrepreneurs on Thursday, April 15th, 2010, 6pm at Pillsbury in Palo Alto as we discuss "Social Gaming for Fun and Profit - Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices!"

Learn from entrepreneurs and developers who have built successful social games from the ground up. Panelists include:

» Mari Baker...

Come see over 50 innovative companies with products on the cusp of launch, mingle with over 1400 attendees, and see amazing products from high-tech, low-tech, social venture, internet, and more.

Reason to Party is taking over San Francisco's venerable Green Room on Saturday, April 4. From 7 to 11pm an open bar.

Advance tickets can be purchased for $20 here
www.rtpspringkickoff.eventbrite.com

or for $30 at the door.

Proceeds benefit Sama Source, a San Francisco based non-profit connecting women, youth and refugees to digital work. ...

Welcome to the NEW SF Media Drinkup!

We are a group of marketing, advertising and entertainment professionals in San Francisco that meet monthly for casual mingling.

If you are a brand marketer or work at an ad agency, interactive agency, PR firm or media company (online or offline) then this is your chance to come and hang out with your peers in...

I can't believe I'm turning the big 3-0! You guys can continue to think that I'm 25 though. It's been an awesome ride especially since I moved to San Francisco! So I'm toasting to my San Francisco friends. Come join me for a yummy dinner and then music and drinks at Medjool! I love Medjool because it has a beautiful rooftop...

Social Game Fest kicks off 2010 with a bang!

You are encouraged to please RSVP here now if you intend to come. Registration to hold the actual space for you to attend is required at: http://sgf2010march22.eventbrite.com/

Join us March 22 at 6pm for the “Key to Social Game Success that every Traditional Game Developer should know”

Are you a...

Come Experience the Harmonic Vibrations from Rare Old Tibetan Instruments felt within your chakras.

Time for a good old fashioned rager at the apartment formerly known as Mancastle. Let's send Durack and Avra off in style. Bring your own bongua/friends/pets.

Thanks to our generous sponsors, our second Free 2 Play Forum GDC mixer last year was a successful event attended by more than 500 attendees in the virtual goods space. This year we have a bigger venue and a larger audience that includes leaders from the fast-growing social gaming, traditional free-to-play MMO, console, casual and flash game...

Disruption 2.0

At GamesBeat@GDC we'll focus on the next disruptions that will happen in the video game industry. In the past couple of years, social games with virtual goods business models have proved themselves and shaken up the status quo. The iPhone has become a hot platform and Apple hopes to extend further into games with the iPad....

Join us for drinks at the Zynga Flash Zoiree, Flash Gaming Summit's Official After-Party and pre-GDC kickoff!

This is an open party but saying Yes on Facebook doesn't get you in -- please RSVP on Eventbrite (http://fgs2010-party.eventbrite.com/) to attend this free party. You do not need to be a conference attendee to enjoy a drink.
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Save-the-date, it's the third annual GDC-Kick-Off Cocktail Hour!

Last year’s was a real rager at The Beale Street Bar -- the who's who of the industry showed up, and a good time was had by all. Want to make sure you see the people you love at GDC? Think you should ease into a week of meetings and parties with a few stiff drinks?...