You were just as I left you

Here’s a photo snapshot of the week I just spent in San Francisco:

Your feet tell your story

US trip by the stats

HQs visited: 11

Google (Mountain View “Googleplex“)
Microsoft (Mountain View and Redmond)
Pixar
Flickr
Cheezburger
Survey Monkey
Klout
Airbnb
Chomp
Whrrl

Events attended: 16

Geo-Loco Conference
SF Startup Weekend – Mobile
Women 2.0 Founder Friday
Hacks and Hackers – Facebook and the news: Making journalism social
VLAB & DFJ: How I Pivoted to Success Through Effective Iteration and Innovation
Cerebrate Silicon Valley
Girls Gotta Do Business: The Rising Force of Women Entrepreneurs
Women 2.0 Summer Lab Pitches
Mobile Monday New York
NYC Internet Marketing Meetup
Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp 2010
SF/SV Social Media Club tweetup with David Meerman Scott
140 Character Conf
Kate Kendell at Commonwealth Club
Hops & Chops Seattle
San Francisco Nightowls Meetup

Founders met: 17

Chum.ly
Cheezburger
CoTweet
Y Combinator
Open Culture
Social Media Club
101in365
StartupDigest
Precision Polling
Plurchase
Women 2.0
Happy About
Memetales
Meylah
iCharts
Origany
Foodably
And everyone else who I knew already!

Fan-struck status upon meeting: 3

Marissa Mayer
Paul Graham
Robert Scoble

Coworking spaces checked out: 6

Kicklabs
Citizen Space
Dogpatch Labs
True Ventures
Noisebridge
pariSoma Innovation Loft

Photos taken: 441

Cities visited: 3

San Francisco
New York
Seattle

High tea venues reviewed: 5

The Plaza
The Russian Tea Room
The Palace
Crown & Crumpet
Lovejoy’s Tea Room

Flights boarded: 9

Vintage dresses purchased: 9

Live sports watched: 2

Baseball
Roller Derby

Universities visited: 3

Stanford
UC Berkeley
California College of the Arts

Cinema visits: 2

Eat, Pray, Love (first movie by myself!)
Exit Through The Gift Shop – A Banksy Film

Apple Store visits: 6

San Francisco
Fifth Avenue, New York
Palo Alto (Steve’s local)

Mission burritos consumed: too many

Amazing new friendships: uncountable (but includes)

Jenn
Maya
Lindsey
Jessica
Amelia
Heather
Tim and Trudy
Lindsay
Kate
Nancy

A great two months well spent. :-)

Photoblogging foray

I recently transferred my photoblogging platform of choice from Facebook to flickr. It’s ironic because Facebook’s schizophrenic privacy changes have actually instilled the desire for me to be more open elsewhere, and share my images with the universe – not just my friends. Like many digital citizens, I think I have developed a sharing compulsion – I can’t stop. It’s rather liberating, not to mention a great way to connect with like-minded individuals. I would like to believe it is helpful too. For instance, I uploaded a relatively mundane picture of my feet in white plimsolls last month, and it is one of my most viewed items. Weird, but obviously interesting or useful to others!

Anyway, I have started a set called ‘Project iPhone photo’, which you can view here. The premise is “Many days, many places, many people, many photos…” i.e. It’s highly likely you’ll end up featured in it one day!

I’ve also started uploading photos from the @socialmelb meetup here.

So, what’s next? Well, videoblogging of course. ;-)

Things I love

Hands

Old farmhouses

Glasses

The smell of Stargazer lilies

Lying in bed

Thanks to Flickr users _natural_, davydubbit, ang921, peter_ahern78 and 28973110@N05 for the imagery.

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