Pandora The Schwag, When my buddy Ben blogged about how awesome Pandora is, I decided they needed to know about it.They?re sending me some schwag in return! In a week I should have a sweet Pandora T-shirt to show off. I can't count how many bands I've discovered thanks to Pandora, and many of my friends have, too. That's a company I don't mind advertising about! (And just so you know they're hooking Ben up, too.).

Scam Alert: Paul Deery/Derry Is Conning Gadget Companies Being a technology writer has its perks: We get to try some of the newest gadgets before anyone else, free of charge. Unfortunately, a scammer is aware of that - and posing as one of us to con vendors of their schwag. The scammer's name is Paul Deery, or in some cases, Derry. According to a story in CrunchGear, he's been pretending to be a CrunchGear and Philadelphia Enquirer writer to fool public relations folks and vendors into shipping him hardware. This isn't.he first time this. concert.

New York Schwag I wrote something about the Mets selling the Shea Stadium seats last month, but I had overlooked this fact about the sale: The $869 price tag for Mets seats is a reference to the two years the team won the World Series, 1986 and 1969. The Yankees will certainly be selling seats too, and they can be yours for the low, low price of $2,327,283,236,373,839,414,347,495,051,525,356,586,162,777,896,989,900. The Schwag tickets.

Microsoft?s Powerset hosts Lunch 2.0 Microsoft's Powerset hosts Lunch 2.0 in: Uncategorized San Francisco's summer starts when the rest of the country's summer ends: Labor Day. The weather here in The City finally becomes pleasant, and techy companies like to have lunches outdoors. Today, Powerset was in charge of Lunch 2.0.".social phenomenon referring to a migration of web 2.0 company employees to other offices around the Silicon Valley area.". The Powerset building is located at 475 Brannan, which has a beautiful art display . live.

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Win Free $25 Gas Card, T-Shirt, And Water Bottle The Schwag ticket broker, Just a quick post for tonight as I wanted to alert all of the community members here at this blog that I am running a contest over at TMP that has a nice collection of prizes courtesy of BP and my participation in their Invigorate Insider program. Enter to win a free $25 gas card, t-shirt, and water bottle! There will be five winners selected and all you need to do is leave a comment over at TMP to be entered for your chance to walk away with the goods. Speaking of contests, we will be concl.

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