‘Appy Hour’ During WWDC ’09

The mobile team at Spark hosted an ‘Appy’ Hour gathering as a great way to mix and mingle with folks in town for WWDC.

We decided to do this at Pat Kuleto’s newish Water Bar. It’s really close to the Sparkpr offices and is swanky, yet classy.

The scene was a buzzy one, with clients EA Mobile and Shortcovers showing off their new Pre apps. Also, Bart Decrem of Tapulous decided to give an impromptu press conference around the news of a new Tap Tap Revenge game with uber smoking hot artist Lady Gaga as part of a giant Universal Music Group deal.

We enjoyed the amazing Bay Bridge view and of course enjoyed many fine wines, champagne and oysters. There is just so much of an app explosion we had to celebrate!

A fine set of folks on the balcony

We had at least 45 folks and 7 clients there as well as our friends from AdMob, which made for an incredible evening.

Lots of press friends came in from out of town as well as the locals. Great to see John Dvorak, the original Cranky Geek himself, after so many years. See him below with Sascha Segan.

This is just one of the best parts of PR. With good wine, sharp company, nibbly bits & a gorgeous atmosphere everyone is happy.

Planning an “Appy Hour” for WWDC

There are few things I enjoy MORE than planning a little party. Especially when I have the chance to mix up the peeps in the room. THEN, it’s all about facilitating a lovely good time. Making sure you have top-notch booze and delicious tasty bits in a dramatically gorgeous setting helps, too.

So that is what we are going to do at some fancy new Pat Kuleto restaurant overlooking the Bay Bridge coming up here real soon.

This time, it is with a handful of folks who are pushing the envelope to make our mobile phones a helluva lot more useful. This naturally includes some Sparkpr clients, like EA Mobile, GetJar (new! yes!), Tapulous, Tiny Pictures, waze, Zhiing, (BOTH just launched, actually!) and a few others. I think our friends at AdMob will make it by, and some VCs checking out this crazy space.

It also means we get to hang with some extremely cool and highly intelligent press people. It’s amazing how many gadget blogger types are on the invite list!

And we can all dissect, step on, cogitate and thrill over whatever the Apple (and Pre!) news of the day will be.

Good times. More later!