This week Web 2.0 descended on San Francisco and the event celebrated with a crawl through South Park. Not South Park, Colorado, but the famous few blocks of San Francisco that is the epicenter of Web 2.0. Companies located on the Park or nearby opened the doors to revelers and others hosted events in galleries and restaurants sprinkled on all around the Park and surroundings.

I spent most of the night at Federated Media’s Party at the South Park Cafe. What can I say, I work for FM and they rep this site. Gotta represent! After a stop at Wired’s party at Nova and a few others, we made it over to Mel’s Drive In for some good old fashioned dinner fare. Jean from NotCot took some awesome photos of her Apple Pie with Cheese and for extra fun, a few of the kids at the table next to us building a utensil sculpture.


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We put together a montage of some of the nice young ladies we met at the NightClub & Bar Tradeshow in Vegas.

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My new friend Amber, introduced me to Absolut Vodka’s Global Cooling initiative. To help combat Global Warming, Absolut Vodka is donating $1 to one of 3 charities for every Global Cooling Code redeemed at Absolut.com. The redeemer can choose to give their $1 to either The Ocean Foundation, the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation or the Environmental Media Association. Look for the codes at stores, bars and the website.

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This competition pitted 12 Vegas bartenders in the art of preparing, pouring and serving the perfect Stella Artois. Held at Pure, a club in Caesars Palace, this was one of the best events we attended during our recent Vegas trip.



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It certainly isn’t one of the fastest growing segments of the beverage industry for nothing, and their displays at the Nightclub and Bar Show we’re enough to keep us going all day and all night! Here are a few of our favorites, as well as some others that we just can’t help mentioning for their over the top marketing style.

Jetset Energy. As if to stake their claim as the proverbial David seeking to slay Goliath local San Francisco boys JetSet were positioned as the very first booth you encountered with their much larger rivals towering above them on all sides. What makes JetSet our favorite energy mixer is just that, it’s the first, and only, product we found that is marketed as a mixer, not only as a stand alone drink. With old time mixing favorites such as tonic, ginger ale, and club soda we definitely have found a unique product worth trying with your spirit of choice. For great drink ideas visit their website at Drinkjetset.com!

After finishing a quick Kettle One and Jetset Tonic it was off to try some of the competition. Not much to be said about Monster, Red Bull, and Rockstar that hasn’t been said before other than that those guys really know how to make a trade show into one off the hook party! See some of the pictures in our previous post and you’ll see what I mean.

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This year, Guinness is taking the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day well beyond wearing green and pinching those who don’t. In response to overwhelming public sentiment, Guinness is supporting Proposition 3-17, a national movement to make St. Patrick’s Day an officially-recognized holiday.

The world’s most famous Irish stout aims to collect at least one million petitioned signatures by midnight on March 16; if successful, the Guinness Brewmaster will fly to Washington D.C. on St. Patrick’s Day and demand that Congress acknowledge the will of The People. We suggest knocking Ted Kennedy’s door first.

How can you get involved?
First, sign the petition!

Then explore the cool site Guinness has set up. They put together a “Rally Kit” to help you throw your own party, er rally. The kit comes with a printable petition for all to sign, rally posters and some great Guinness recipes in case you get hungry. The site also has calendar of rallies and St. Patrick’s Day Parades, a chance for you to share your reasons for supporting Proposition 3-17 and multiple ways for you share it all with your friends.

So get to work we have 1,000,000 signatures to get!

Propostion 3-17: Sign Here

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Tao Night Club in the Venetian Hotel is amazingly decorated with an Asian theme. Think lots of candles and lots of Buddhas, kinda like a Temple. This 3 story behemoth of a Club was ranked one of the top 100 bars and clubs in the US for 2007. (the photo is from the balcony, nice view!)

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