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Guide to sneaking into tonight's Cisco Developers Conference party

A reader writes in with a handy guide to crashing a party Cisco is putting on as part of its developers conference.
There will be no security through the Townsend Center Public Parking delivery access driveway! Walk right in and get on gurp [sic] with the blue button up collared shirt, khaki Dockers crowd balding mid life guys with glasses.
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7:00 PM on Thu Aug 28 2008
By Jackson West
621 views, 2 comments

Latest by NorthBeach: This post should be titled 'Find the Sausagefest' more »

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Live from the Girl Geek Dinner

Our correspondent Melissa Gira and former contributor Megan McCarthy have successfully infiltrated the controversial Girl Geek Dinner, and pictures will be plentiful if this first photograph is any indication. Updates as they come in via SMS. More »

7:00 PM on Thu Jun 26 2008
By Melissa Gira Grant
4,880 views, 7 comments

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You're invited to Michael and Xochi Birch's Bebo farewell party

Bebo founders Michael and Xochi Birch cashed out in the nine figures with the social network's $850 million purchase by AOL. According to the invite for their farewell party, they'll be retiring to a humble, quiet cabin (which, in the Bay Area housing market, should set them back a million or two). What they aren't spending their windfall on? More »

3:40 PM on Wed Jun 4 2008
By Jackson West
2,378 views, 3 comments

Latest by Big John: not reinvesting the windfall in another startup? more »

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Marissa Mayer holding "Sex and the City" party tonight

At this very moment, a guest tells me, Google executive Marissa Mayer is throwing a "Blahnikfest" to celebrate her birthday and the premiere of Sex and the CIty. She's rented out a theater at San Francisco's downtown Century multiplex for her friends. Is Mayer our Carrie Bradshaw? Quite possibly, though Mayer's Four Seasons penthouse is more fabulous than the Sex and the City scribe. Like the heroine, she's found love in the hunky form of Zachary Bogue — her Mr. Big, though Mayer's the one with the far more impressive resume. She turns 33 today, as we've noted, and while she normally skips birthday parties during odd years — a "quirk," she says — Bogue was out of town today. The party features cakes the exact size and shape of Bradshaw's preferred shoes, made by Shinmin Li, the owner of the Mayer-backed I Dream of Cake bakery, as well as cupcakes flown in from New York's Magnolia Bakery. The invite: More »

8:00 PM on Fri May 30 2008
By Owen Thomas
6,485 views, 16 comments

Latest by raincoaster: @Julia Allison: Translation: invite me next time! I'll bring cupcakes with more SATC cred! more »

d6 live coverage

Security ejects Valleywag from D6 conference

CARLSBAD, CA — I wasn't just eighty-sixed, folks. No, I was eight-D6'd. There I was, charming my way through the crowd at the Wall Street Journal's D6 conference — why hello, Sir Howard Stringer of Sony! Oh, was that Steve Case? — when a woman announced herself as "in-house security" and informed me that "the client" had asked that I be shown the door. "The client" being Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, the conference organizers, and "the door" actually just the way to the hotel bar, where I'm having a lovely fruity beverage. And Swisher and Mossberg were too late with the bum rush. I'd already been working my camera for hours. While Bill Gates bores attendees with a preview of Windows Seven, Microsoft's latest attempt to annoy the majority of computer users, you can enjoy the snapshots I took. Among the nerdspotting: Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Max Levchin of Slide. More »

6:46 PM on Tue May 27 2008
By Owen Thomas
4,048 views, 13 comments

Latest by TomNocera: When all was said and done, what holds up is the fact that the coverage of D6 by Owen Thomas more »

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Inside the Facebook Prom

It's true: Facebook held a prom for its employees in San Francisco last night at the Metreon. The shopping mall-cineplex's fourth floor was tastefully decorated with white flowers, and the gathered Facebookers were dressed up — and so youthful, you might think it was an actual prom, save for the booze being poured at the open bars. (Ubiquitous photographee Julia Allison, who was invited, did not attend, staying in New York for a book party instead.) Why throw a prom? Facebook is going all-out for prom season this year, with a tie-in to Sony's Prom Night and a prom-dress partnership with Sears. Why not reward employees working on prom marketing campaigns with a throwback prom of their own? More »

2:45 PM on Sat May 10 2008
By Owen Thomas
8,155 views, 21 comments

Latest by random_play: @raincoaster: Way to call the tune! Ooh, and it makes me wonder... + Watch video more »

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Google's fight for the right to party like sagging, middle-aged rockers

Google has asked San Francisco for permission to host a "picnic-style dinner" for 1,400 sales employees on June 11. What's really pathetic: Google wants its salespeople to boogie down after hours to the sounds of U2 and Journey. Not the actual U2 and Journey, mind you, but cover bands. Neighbors aren't charmed, and not just by having their backyards used at the set for lightly inebriated lip dubs of "Don't Stop Believing." But the people who bring in Google's billions should ask why, if Larry Page is such pals with Bono, he wasn't able to deliver the real thing for their park-wide party.

12:20 PM on Thu May 1 2008
By Melissa Gira Grant
969 views, 8 comments

Latest by BartKela: Oh, I almost forgot to mention: as a Google shareholder, I prefer that they save a few bucks by getting more »

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"Love 2.0" tonight, but not for girls who like boys who do girls like they're boys

Engage, the latest hookup site to spin itself as a social experience, doesn't want bisexual people. New users are prompted to decide if they want to be shown the profiles of eligible men, or women, only. Bisexuality may have gone out of style in the '70s, but what if you're just slutty? Even Facebook allows for wanting boys and girls at the same time. Maybe someone can offer the Engage crew a demo at their Love 2.0 pickup party tonight.

3:20 PM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Melissa Gira Grant
949 views, 15 comments

Latest by LAS: Facebook, hell. Adult FriendFinder is how old? Old school, fer shure. And *they* have a more sophisticated code. more »

epic fail

Pay Per Post pawn's party-crash ploy played out

After the line to get into PureVolume Ranch hit capacity around 2 a.m., the RVIP Lounge played host to a raucously geeky afterparty. As we idled outside the Hilton, this fellow from Pay Per Post, a company even Arrington thinks is evil, tried — and failed — to board. Party maestro Jonathan Grubb denied him. The grounds? Part of the fun of owning an RV is that you can decide who not to share it with. The dude's response, after pouting that he "wasn't interested in [Grubb's] RV anyway"? Slinking out of his Pay Per Post t-shirt and attempt to sneak in later. I snapped this photo of him hovering in the doorway, mid-fail, for your pleasure.

9:40 AM on Tue Mar 11 2008
By Melissa Gira Grant
674 views, 10 comments

Latest by standupformyfriends: Honestly, I was there with Travis and he simply wanted to enjoy the night and hang with some fellow colleagues more »

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Spill a beer at XYZ tonight

I forget what Joel Sacks does, but he's fun at parties. Swing by XYZ after 6 p.m. tonight and say goodbye to the man before he leaves town for someplace where he can live down that beer-spilling incident.

5:12 PM on Wed Feb 27 2008
By Paul Boutin
1,052 views, 7 comments