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Best sushi in downtown Montreal?

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Sylvain
on June 3, 2008 9:49 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
My favorite Sushi place in downtown Montreal is Japonais Sushi Zenya Inc (486, Rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, Montreal) . Agree, disagree? Click on the place name and cast your vote!

Fred Wilson's New York perspective

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Sylvain
on May 20, 2008 2:00 PM | | Comments (0)

We've decided to try a little experiment here. Could we assemble a list of places around an event by using a well-known person as our base criteria?

It turns out that even if "trust in peers" trumps A-List, using a proxy to derive interest works quite well (we know, we have been working on this for a while).

So we picked Fred Wilson (and his extended network) to help us choose places in NYC for our trip to the Conversational Marketing Summit. That works quite well, because he's a prolific blogger and shares a lot of places in social/conversational media. He's even using these smartlinks to refer automatically to defined concepts and we thought places would be a great addition to his collection of links. And since he has already blogged about taste neighbors, we believe he would love the concept.

Here's a few select NYC picks from blog posts (with source blog post in via link)

Share your favorites for other CMsummit attendees by searching, voting, commenting and tagging with cmsummit2008.

Recommended Hotels for the 2008 CM Summit

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Seb
on May 20, 2008 12:31 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Federated Media's 2008 Conversational Media Summit will be held at the Ritz Carlton, Battery Park.  According to the organizers, "There are a limited number of rooms available at The Ritz Carlton, Battery Park for CM Summit attendees at a discounted rate of $475.00. Book your reservations by MAY 9th, 2008 by calling 212-344-0800, and reference Federated Media. We cannot guarantee the discounted rate for rooms booked after May 9th."

Other nearby hotels (walking distance) include:

Wall Street Inn
9 S William St, New York, New York
(212) 747-1500

Millenium Hilton

55 Church Street, New York, NY
(212) 693-2001

Wall Street District
15 Gold St, New York, NY
(212) 232-7700

Exchange Hotel
129 Front Street, New York, NY
(212) 742-0003

Embassy Suites Hotel NYC
102 North End Avenue, New York, NY
(212) 945-0100

Attending Where 2.0 Conference

By
Seb
on May 6, 2008 4:26 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Praized Media's CTO and co-founder Sylvain Carle is attending Where 2.0 conference next week in Burlingame from May 12 to May 14.  For that purpose, the Web2Places.com website is now morphing into a Where2Places website showcasing nearby businesses, venues and local events happening around the Where 2.0 conference.

The conference is at the San Francisco Airport Marriott, right next door to SFO.  I had the chance to stay there last December and it's great!  Check out the indoor pool.

If you're attending and would like to connect, send him an e-mail at sylvain AT praized DOT com.

CenterNetworks's Quick Guide to Businesses Around Moscone

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Seb
on April 23, 2008 5:31 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
CenterNetworks offers their choices for local businesses around the Moscone Center.  As they say, "around the Moscone Center in San Francisco where the Web 2.0 Expo is being held are numerous great spots to help the conference attendee. However there are also even more spots which cater to tourists and convention attendees, that alas do not have great food or service.  So a few suggestions and a local, foodies, guide to SOMA near the Moscone Center."

They go on to suggest the following places:

Coffee/Tea

Samovar Tea
Blue Bottle Coffee

Restaurants

Canton Seafood
Tara
Straits Cafe

Tech Supplies

Apple Store
Central Computer


Anyone has other interesting recommendations?

Tonight: A fireside chat with Michael Birch & Jim Buckmaster

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Seb
on April 21, 2008 4:53 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
"To celebrate and support the first UK Web Mission in its aim to showcase innovate UK web talent Glasshouse San Francisco invites you to join us a fireside chat with two of Europe and America's most successful and best known entrepreneurs, Michael Birch, founder of Bebo.com and Jim Buckmaster CEO of craigslist. British born Michael who now lives in San Francisco will be interviewed by American, Anglophile, Jim Buckmaster the two will share stories from their own entrepreneurial journeys and will debate what European and Silicon Valley entrepreneurial communities can learn from each other and how they can benefit from more collaboration. Please note numbers for this event are extremely limited so we regret that we will be unable to accept all applications."

Where: Orson

When: April 21st 2008, from 6:30pm to 9:30pm

RSVP/Register here.

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Blue Bottle Coffee

By
Sylvain
on April 21, 2008 4:52 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
I don't remember when I first heard of Blue Bottle Café, but ever since Kevin Rose raved about it on twitter (or was it Chris Messina constantly talking about it?) the word has been going around the twitterverse... Kim also wrote a good post a few days ago that reminded me about it.

More info/discussion on Outside.in and pictures on Flickr. I will surely indulge tomorrow, been working hard lately, I think I need it, I deserve it!

What's your take on the best local coffee in SF?

(oh yeah, makes me think I should do the "best local beer" post soon, will need that too!)

Breakfast at Mums

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Sylvain
on April 21, 2008 9:16 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Early breakfast for the Praized team, still on east coast time... Had a quick bite at Mums, the restaurant in the Tomo Hotel where we are staying for the week. Ok but not great is my verdict. Need to do some geek shopping now, heading towards Circuit City for 10am my hotel room is in dire need of a power plug upgrade for all my gear!

Dinner for a Cause

By
Seb
on April 20, 2008 4:30 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Just saw this in an e-mail from the Web 2.0 Expo Team:

"No dinner plans for Thursday, April 24? Enjoy a delicious meal and help out a good cause at Dining Out For Life. Simply dine at a participating restaurant and 25 percent of your food bill will benefit the HIV prevention programs of the STOP AIDS Project."

The following restaurants are participating...


Continue reading Dinner for a Cause.

The Grove on Fillmore

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Sylvain
on April 20, 2008 3:34 PM | | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

We really like this place!


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