I came home tonight to my roommate’s girlfriend chatting about Lunch 2.0. She was asking if I had ever heard of it. Well I have but we have yet to have one in D.C. Why is that? The Lunch 2.0 website refers to Lunch 2.0 as “A social phenomenon referring to a migration of web 2.0 company employees to other offices around the Silicon Valley area; characterized by open communication, decentralization of authority, freedom to share food and ideas…”

She said that the World Bank had a great cafeteria but that doesn’t seem very web oriented to me. Let’s launch Lunch 2.0 in D.C. on September 25th. I’m creating a Facebook group now that will focus on this. So sign up for Lunch 2.0 and let’s make it happen. I don’t know where it will be held so place your suggestions. We need a term for the D.C. tech scene as well. Instead of the valley, alley and prairie (Chicago), let’s make one for D.C.

Post a comment on here as to where you think would be the best location. It’s time to make it happen so I’ve set the date: September 25, 2007. Suggest your office, suggest a friend’s office, I really don’t care. The main thing is that we need to make this happen as one of the many events taking place. This one should take place on a monthly basis. You can join the group here.

So I haven’t posted anything for weeks! I apologize to all of my readers. The past few weeks have been absolutely ridiculous. I have been working 17 hour days and there still is no end in sight. I have officially launched Social Interactive. The company was founded for the purpose of developing custom solutions for organizations looking to leverage social networking to expand their brand. Thanks to Facebook there are now a ton of companies looking to expand their brand.

Now that I have tapped the right niche, I am in dire need of support. I feel like I was in front of a giant crowd all of whom were asking for Facebook applications. I came along, raised my hand and said, “I can build them.” The crowd has now just stomped all over me like a stampede and they all want their apps now.

While that is not a bad problem it is extremely challenging. For the time being, this blog is going to document my adventure in startup world as a webpreneur. Ultimately, that is what I intended to do from the start but my initial attempt at jumping into the startup world was met with failure. Wasn’t the first time and surely won’t be the last but it’s time to see where this one goes. I will be sure to document all the lessons learned so feel free to join me on this journey. The first week has been filled with tons of lessons. I will be sure to start sharing them with all you. For now, I will leave you with two pictures. One is of my desk after a nightmarish few days. The other is of a desk for my first employee that will be joining me by next week. I’ll let you guess which one is which.

I have been offering Facebook development services for the past month or so since the launch of the new Facebook platform. Since I began offering services I have landed some major clients including large media companies. I can’t discuss my portfolio currently since I am under non-disclosure agreements but there is going to be huge news coming in the coming weeks. I have been slow to posting as I try to run a number of different things all while finishing up a full-time contract position. This has been extremely challenging but will prove to be highly rewarding I hope. I am looking forward to launching my offices out of D.C. in the coming weeks.

The article I posted on Sunday discussed a lot of my overload currently. I honestly am going to continue posting on this blog but it is truly hard to keep all these things going simultaneously. I promise to return to a frequent basis in the near future but for the time being posts are going to fluctuate in frequency. If you can’t get enough of my writing, head on over to my other blog All Facebook where I am posting daily about social networking related issues.

I will get back on top of the business and technology postings but for now I am at a max and I am working 17 hour days. Not much more I can say. Thanks for your support!

I have to wonder what’s going on in Silicon Valley. The New York Times posted today about Silicon Valley millionaires not feeling rich. One family in particular had over $2 million in the bank and a $1.3 million house paid off. Not bad right? Well apparently for this one man, Hal Steger, this isn’t good enough. He continues working 12 hour days from 7 to 7 and then works 10 hours over the weekend. Dave Winer agrees with the article and says this of Silicon Valley:

The truth is that the people of Silicon Valley toil to find security in money, never getting there, while avoiding the pleasures of life, including the mythological creativity, spinning on a treadmill, doing nothing but striving to make money, but it’s never enough.

He also states “It’s great to see people on the east coast getting the message. Don’t live in the shadow of this place. There’s nothing there but people trying to make money, without a good idea why.” That’s funny because I didn’t realize that the East coast got the message. There’s Silicon Alley in New York City and to say that the people in NYC (and even here in D.C.) haven’t absorbed some of the same attitude is ludicrous. I see it all around. You know what’s even more frightening? I see it in me.

Jeremy Toeman makes a good point when he says, “It’s these same people that are setting these terrible role models for recent college grads who think they can come out of school, go start some company with a friend or two, and make a few quick million.” Perhaps it is those “terrible role models” that have become role models for myself as well. Perhaps. It is also me that chooses to work crazy hours all for the pursuit of this invisible concept of “success.” It’s not completely invisible though because there is a goal in mind. At least for myself. I truly hope that whenever I reach my goals I don’t fall victim to the same perspective that some of these other individuals have. I think one word sums up the attitude of these individuals: greed. The moral of the story? Don’t let greed catch a hold of you.

Congrats to Gary on your Conan appearance. For those that missed it, I’ve posted it below.