Naked Conversations Launch Celebration

Robert Scoble and Shel Israel launched their new book last night at Michael Arrington's house in Atherton, California, with a crowd of 200+ bloggers, press, social media and Web 2.0 types.

The Foldera guys. Note Oliver on the left also writes MobileCrunch with Michael Arrington. Think all of your data organized instantly in a more efficient way. (generic description I know; but an accurate one in a dozen words - they'll be at eTech in a week.

Jeff Clavier - hey, Jeff, do you ever miss an event?

With client VideoEgg Kevin Sladek and Buzz Bruggeman

Valley Wag's Nick Douglas with Scott Beale of Laughing Squid

Dan Farber also made an appearance and like JD, has a camera that puts mine to shame. Hey is that Jennifer from NewCommForum chatting with him? I look forward to the event next week.

Rafe Needleman, Barak Berkowitz and David Sifry

Good group shot taken by Rafe

Bloggers mixing with marketing - what has the world come to?

Kevin Werbach makes an appearance from the east coast

Yeah JD Lasica made an appearance as well, armed with a camera that makes mine look like a throw away CVS model. It looks like Tantek from Technorati and Vassil from Blogtronix in the background.

Simply Hired's Dave McClure, who wears 500 hats and subscribes to Dr. Seuss' "fun is good" philosphy

With Oliver Starr (this is before we started losing feeling in our feet -- did I mention that it felt like a winter New England night last night?)

Rob Hof of BusinessWeek

Shel autographs a book

Blogging Crowd (okay, nearly, Red Herring's Liz Gannes is on the right)

Ted Rheingold was smarter than the rest of us - he wore a HAT, perhaps not a wool hat, but a HAT - did I mention that it felt like a New England winter night last night?

Tony Gentile with a Google mobile engineer

Stowe Boyd and Salim Ismail (both out from the east coast), with Robert Scoble.

Marc Canter and Irina Slutsky (note Marc Canter's coat and we're now inside -- a coat of this callibre was necessary)

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Dave McClure again (that 500 hats & Simply Hired guy), me, Salim Ismail and Jennifer Myronuk

Smile Gentleman

Chris from Flock and Riya's Tara Hunt

Michael Arrington's lucky day - in the middle of a brunette (yeah, that's my natural, well, close to it :-) and a blonde. (yes, that's Jen again :-) She was filming the 'scene' when I arrived.

Despite it being an evening of honor for the Scobleizer, he still gets roped in (yeah, by me :-) to see a demo of Sharpcast from Gibu Thomas and Allen Bush (of course they're a client if you haven't figured that out by now). I couldn't feel my feet by this point in the evening.

Great shot in the back corner of the tent (where one did NOT go to unthaw. Who's in this photo anyway?)

Money passing hands for one of Robert and Shel's new books. Yes its a 20. Yes that's Robert's teeth.

Hey, is that Allen still demoing Sharpcast photos?

Nick Douglas talks to VideoEgg's Derek Dukes.

Robert Scoble and Shel Israel posing. Hey, who are these posers? Oh yeah, its their celebration. Go on, pose for the camera guys. We wish you the best and many sales and 'book buzz' in the months ahead.

This is a Rocketboom freelancer filming the above two posers from the sidelines. Don't you feel like you were at the party at this point? Note to blog: Robert Scoble took off his shirt for a Rocketboom shot, so make sure to tune in.

Peace to you too girl. And kudos and congrats. For those of you who don't recognize her, its Robert Scoble's wife Maryam, who also has a blog.

After all that, doesn't it make you feel as if you were there last night? Michael's photos are posted here.

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