Here's some spoon fulls of what was cooking in the TechCrunch Kitchen on November 18, 2005.  The audio wasn't optimal since it's a small, somewhat enclosed space with other people's voices bouncing and creating interfering.  So I subtitled (abbreviating some of the sentences) in parts.

1. 0:04: Robert Scoble on a blogging web service that automaticaly highlights, searchs and find tags in other services related to the text as it's typed in.
   
2. 1:35:  Munjal Shah, CEO & Co-Founder of Riya, on the value of blogs to company PR.
3. 2:15:  Munjal on the release of Riya alpha 2.
4. 2:38:  Munjal on the next step in Riya, the discovery search.  Everybody's photo metadata is searchable, but access to private photos is through a negotiated access control.
5. 3:20:  Steve Gilmor asks Munjal whether if it will be institutionalized that the metadata is open. 
   

I went around shooting different people inside and outside the house during the Riya Launch at TechCrunch Meetup 4.  This is further proof of the importance of pizza to geek gettogethers

At TechCrunch Meetup 4, I met these bright PR ladies from Sparkpr.  Apparently they're throwing a party this Wednesday, Nov. 30th, at their office from 5-7 pm.  It's located  at

87 McLea Court
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: 415-962-8200.

I didn't call the office to confirm if it's still on, since I put together the video on the weekend.  So, if you're in the area and want to go, I recommend calling first.

After I interviewed them, they turned the camera on me.  After I interviewed them, they turned the camera on me. I got quized on Riya related to the "Gym Free Zone".

Update:  Turns out the party is from 5:30-9:00 pm.  And I'm informed by Britt at Sparkpr that it is happening   Notice and RSVP email is at here.

Tara Hunt, Online Marketing Manager for Riya, demonstrates their photo  face and text recognition features at TechCrunch Meetup #4.  Riya is in alpha, but has already received positive responses from reviewers and a certain buzz.

There were over 250 that came to Michael's house for the Riya launch party.  You can hear their activity in the background.  I did some filtering to pull out Tara's voice. 

I videod other guests which I'll edit and put up in the coming days.

Official proceedings from the Hack 2.0 Workgroup hosted by supr.c.ilio.us at Annie's

Originally my sites focus at Cirne was for Film related videos.  However since October I have presented videos on digital technology developments and events.  So I created a new site, Tech Alley, into which the future digital technology videos will live.   And I'll go back to producing on Cirne videos about Film.