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By Alison McNeill

Mashable Monthly SF was another booming success and Dave Mathews and I were on hand to catch all the action for bub.blicio.us.

It was a full house and we had the opportunity to bid Pete Cashmore farewell and talk with some great folks including:

- Brian Zisk, SanFran MusicTech Summit
- Tim Street of French Maid TV
- Andrew Mager of The Web Life blog
- Patrick Koppula of ffwd
- Derek Overbey of roost and Morgan Brown of TurnHere
- Raina Gustafson of Unseen.tv
- Nikhil Roy of rudder
- Drew Olanoff of Strands
- Alan Bernier of Rofo
- John Le of Artiklz
- Mark Shedletsky of BlueHaze

Be sure to check out our pics of the event and more coverage

Mail Goggles: For Your Gmail EnjoymentToday

by Michelle Lentz

I’m sure many folks are familiar with the concept of beer goggles. It’s that state of mind when sending a text message or making a phone call to your ex or your boss might seem like a splendid idea. Now, it seems as if people send email when inebrieated. Hmm, I may have been guilty of doing this myself once or twice in the past.

Gmail Labs has released Mail Goggles for your Gmail. According to creator Jon Perlow:

When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you’re really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you’re in the right state of mind?

That’s right. Before you send that late-night missive, you need to do math. Now I have trouble with math when I’m sober, so this would definitely cause me to stumble. By default, the Mail Goggles are only active late at night on weekends, since that’s when you’ll probably need it. But you can adjust that in the settings.

So, did that make you chuckle this morning?

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Tokoni for Sharing StoriesYesterday

by Michelle Lentz

I teach a class on blogging where I make it clear that in the beginning, you’re often “talking to yourself.” As time goes by, that feeling doesn’t always go away. It takes time, and nurturing, to build a community. Tokoni is offering a quicker way to do that without the “alone-ness” of blogging, or the commitment.

Tokoni is a social media community that provides a platform for people to share personal stories. Tokoni, founded by a husband and wife tech team of eBay and Skype executives, actually went live in November 2007. Since then, it has been quietly building a community. Today, the site relaunched with several new site and community features. The new tools emphasize the power of shared storytelling to entertain, inform, influence and inspire others. There are currently 19 categories and users can enhance their stories with multimedia such as photos and videos.

According to Alex Kazim, co-founder and CEO of Tokoni, “We created Tokoni to fill the distinct need for an online community where individual stories of life’s experiences have a voice and are valued, and where the collective wisdom of the community is celebrated. The growth of social media has enabled people to control how they create, consume and share con

The Night Bloggers Rocked Las VegasYesterday

words and pictures by Brian Solis

Blogworld Expo exceeded all of my expectations this year and it already has scores of bloggers planning their 2009 trip to Las Vegas - including me.

Stephanie Agresta and I were asked to host a Techset event in honor of attending bloggers to celebrate their achievements, connect each other, place names to faces, and also meet new contacts to place on our radar and in our feed readers.

Because of you and your accomplishments, we were inspired to organize something very special, something that truly captured the spirit of the blogsphere and the relationships we’ve built, while injecting a bit of Las Vegas style into the mix.

Hosted at the Bare outdoor adult pool lounge at the Mirage, some of the most renown, innovative, vocal, and creative bloggers descended upon the venue en masse. The doors opened at 9:00 p.m. and by 9:05, the place was already packed. By the end of the evening, we were 500 strong.

How to Go from Multi-Millionaire to BillionaireOctober 5

Our guest blogger, Larry Chiang, is an instructive humorist. If you liked “How to Work a Twitter Party,” you’ll like this submission on some all-important fundraising mistakes to avoid for entrepreneurs.

by Larry Chiang

MARK CUBAN’S 10 tips for me

In this article, I use man-charm techniques to cozy up to billionaire Mark Cuban. I sooo wanna be a billionaire too. Right from the get-go, I observe his behavior, ask him questions, listen when Mark answers other people’s questions, email and call him with MORE questions - - all to determine the character compass of Mr. Mark Cuban. A character compass is a run-down of traits, tendencies, self-perceptions, third-party observations and my own entrepreneurial algorithm. I use a compass to plot a life plan. I study other compasses to mimic and model a path of personal development.

This (reprinted) Amazon blog post is based on my 8+ hour interview / interaction with Mark Cuban in SF during TechCrunch50, the post party, the post-post party, and the post-post-post party. And in Chicago IL after game #2 of the NL MLB Playoffs.

These interviews are unauthorized, unapproved and unedited (by Cuban’s media buffers). The subterfuge focus of this article is to