Pleasanton Free Concerts in The Park

Free Concerts on Friday evening are a summer tradition in Pleasanton. They are put on by the Pleasanton Downtown association and sponsored by various Pleasanton Businesses. The concerts are held at Lions Wayside Park, at First and Neal Street.

Here’s the line-up for Summer 2011:

June 3: Magic Moments

June 10: Batch 22

June 17: HouseRockers

June 24: Ruckatan Latin Tribe

July 1: Rooster’s Teeth

July 8: Georgi & The Rough Week

July 15: The Crisis

July 22: Dave Crimmen

July 29: Groovy Judy

August 5: The Cool Tones

August 12: Blind Nurse

August 19: Burton & Company

August 26: Finding Stella

September 2: Public Eye

Free Concerts on Friday evening are a summer tradition in Pleasanton. They are put on by the Pleasanton Downtown association and sponsored by various Pleasanton Businesses. The concerts are held at Lions Wayside Park, at First and Neal Street.

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The first concert was held Friday, May 29th, and the last will be held on September 4th. Check out the Pleasanton Pulse Events Calendar for acts and starting times. The music is kid and senior friendly, so it’s fun for the whole family.

Here are some tips to help you better enjoy your concert experience.
1. Get up early on Friday, run by the park and throw down a blanket and some chairs. Don’t be a hog. This is how it’s done, so don’t feel bad about reserving your spot, because these concerts are packed.
2. Bring dinner. Come a little early and share dinner with your family.
3. Don’t drink too much. There are children here and no one likes a public drunk. And the Pleasanton Police are watching.
4. Have dessert at the Creamery on Neal. Everyone likes soft-serve ice cream.
5. Enter the drawing put on by the Pleasanton Weekly. You could win.

This event was hosted by Silicon Valley Web Builder and was held at Hurricane Electric.

Moderator:

Jeremiah Owyang, Director of Corporate Media Strategy at Podtech.net.

Speakers:

1. Sean Ness, Co-Founder at STIRR.net and Business Development Manager at Institute for the Future
2. Dmitriy Kruglyak, CEO & Community Steward, Trusted.MD (watch out – site has some zany fly-out and roll-over action!)
3. Harry McCracken, Vice President/Editor in Chief at PC WORLD

Each speaker was asked to present on two topics:

1. Top 10 predictions for Web 2.0 in the next year.
2. Top 10 predictions for Web 2.0 in the next five to ten years.

The first to speak was Sean Ness. He stressed that his predictions were his own personal opinions and weren’t necessarily derived from his work at Institute for the Future.

Here are his Top Ten predictions for Web 2.0 in the next year:

10. Focus on WAP (cellphones) and forget the $100 laptop. The number of people who use lap tops is virtually insignificant to the number of people who use cell phones globally.

9. “Reputation” will grow in importance.

8. OpenID – Web 2.0 or social networking sites all require user names and passwords. The need for a mechanism for logging into all sites with a single username/password will be fulfilled.

7. Twitter and other SMS (Short Message Service) applications used with cell phones will grow in popularity.

6. Mobile “walled gardens” (non-compatibility of cellular systems) persist.

5. Red Herring Magazine dies (it’s too slow). Immediatness of news from the Internets wins out.

4. The internet will crash.

3. Second Life (having a pretend life on the Internet through social networking sites) will die.

2. A scandal will be propelled by Web 2.0.

1. Apple iPhone will flop.

And now Sean Ness’ predictions for Web 2.o over the next 5 to 10 years.

10. The end of cyberspace. It will just meld into everyday life as another layer.

9. Looking for a career? Data mining will be the growth industry, so study math and physics so you can write the algorithms of the future. Learning some Mandarin wouldn’t hurt either.

8. RFID (radio frequency identification) will make tracking physical objects so much easier.

7. Ambient displays will be everywhere.

6. Broadband will be everywhere, like water and electricity are now.

5. Microsensors will be everywhere.

4. Rise of proactive and context-aware computing.

3. Sense-making (making sense of data) replaces sensing of data.

2. Open mobile ecosystems. No more worrying about cell phone signal unless you are in a cave.

1. Simulation literacy replaces computer literacy. Example: Dayjet.

Tomorrow: Dmitriy Kruglyak, CEO & Community Steward, Trusted.MD