Last night we had a Dog Patch Dinner at the fabulous Baraka Restaurant in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill.
Our group included Ariel Poler, Seeismic CEO Loic Lemeur, Benchmark EIRs Nirav Tolia and Sarah Leary, Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg, Lolapps founder Kavin Stewart, Sprout CEO Carnet Williams, Master of 500 Hats Dave McClure, Facebook VP Chamath Palihapitiya, Xobni Founder Matt Brezina, and 750 Labs Founder Dan Ackerman Greenberg.
Good food, wine and discussion.
Loic’s video is here.
I forgot to mention the most valuable piece of information I picked up at the EconSM Conference.
No it wasn’t how to monetize social media.
It was what to do in NYC. Seth Goldstein, CEO of Social Media, mentioned on a panel that he had sent one of his employees a long email on what he should do during his upcoming visit to NYC. Seth knows how to live the good life, so I followed up with him afterwards and he agreed to share his NYC must-see list with VCMike:
hotels:
http://www.hotelgansevoort.com/ (smack dab in meat packing district)
http://www.theboweryhotel.com/ (great young vibe lower east side)
http://www.libraryhotel.com/ (too close to midtown for me, but also nice)
restaurants:
http://www.katzdeli.com/ (for pastrami sandwich any time)
http://www.parkermeridien.com/eat1.php (for breakfast)
http://www.famousjoespizza.com/ (for pizza slice anytime)
http://www.peterluger.com/ (best steak in country, need reservation)
http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/7117729 (best burger) http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/11349683/new_york_ny/v_t_pizzeria.html(great
sit down pizza up by columbia, great cafe to read and have coffee and desert next door called the hugarian pastry shop)
http://www.sakebardecibel.com/ (great late night sake bar)
activities:
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/murakami/?gclid=CKaa5eqG3pICFQzOIgodjxUV5w
walk through central park
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/the_cloisters
http://www.amnh.org/
http://www.morganlibrary.org/
http://www.stmarksbookshop.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp (best bookstore in ny) http://www.shopsatcolumbuscircle.com/scs/user/index.aspx
http://www.jazzrecordcenter.com/
About a year ago I tried fatblogging. While it was a total failure from a weight-loss perspective, I did get a fun mention in an LA Times article written by Alex Pham. [Correction: here is the right link to Pham's article]
(Evidently my mother in law, who lives in LA, was mortified, not amused, by the article).
So, who do I bump into at EconSM, but Alex Pham herself. When we saw each other’s nametags we both had a good laugh. She very kindly said that I wasn’t as fat as she thought I would be.
Our chance meeting was timely. This past weekend I declared war (and I really mean it this time!) on my ever-expanding waistline, and had an official weigh-in: 224 pounds, a good 30 pounds over my playing weight!
Wish me luck, I’ll need it.
On tuesday I attended paidContent’s Economics of Social Media Conference at the fantastic Skirball Center in Los Angeles.
The Conference was, overall, quite well done and well attended, although if I had to offer one critique I would echo what I hear many people saying; namely, that nobody really did a very good job articulating just what the economics of social media really are. In fairness, this is less a reflection on the conference, I think, than it is a reflection on where the social media sector is in its stage of development. I can’t help but feel that social media right now is where search was before AdSense: nobody has yet developed the long term monetization model, but it is going to happen and when it does social media will generate a helluva lot of monetization.
I spoke on a “Deals” panel, which paidContent summarized here. While generally I am a skeptic of panels I found this one pretty fun. Geoff Yang of Redpoint was, I thought, an especially good panelist.
PS: The Skirball Center is a fantastic venue. If you are planning an event in LA you should consider using it — I know I will!
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