Scoble is an excellent organizer. All he does is pop in from his new base of operations with a brief mention on his blog and a dozen people just show up. If I had only known he was expensing the dinner, I would have ordered the large salad. Macromedia founder Marc Canter, he’s currently getting another startup called Broadband Mechanics off the ground, was there, bringing his friendly but incapacitated wife and really cute little daughter Mimi, and Dave Winer too. Unfortunately Dave was extremely domineering for the first while, only interested in getting sympathy for his position in the more than annoying ongoing fuss over blog APIs.
A bunch of other interesting people were there too. Don Park, who I worked with briefly at NetDynamics, Raines Cohen, longtime tech journalist Scott Mace, new Californian and eBay staffer Micah Alpern, uber-techie Phil Wolff, Steve Zellers, who develops big chunks of the Cocoa framework at Apple, Niall Kennedy, who was showing off the Tablet PC he won recently, and one or two others whose names I sadly can’t remember. Plus of course Robert and his great, but bored, son Patrick.
I had an interesting time talking (separately or in groups, over the course of the evening) with Lisa, Phil, Robert, Micah, Niall, and Marc. I got a recommendation for the next C# book, since I’m almost finished with the Schildt beginners’ book, for Chris Sells’s Mastering Visual Studio.Net but when we went to Barnes & Noble today they didn’t have it, so I picked up Visual C#.NET 2003 by Steven Holzner instead.
A couple of photos–Scoble Senior, Scoble Junior, and Phil Wolff:
Other bloggers’ accounts: Marc, Micah, Don, Dave, Steve, and Phil’s writeup of an idea I broached.
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