From there I skeddadled down to Never on East Houston street for Methodfive's
unveiling of its new corporate web site. Not too shabby! And the sake martinis were
cool and refreshing too! Ed Bennett (an investor in Methodfive) confessed he's had a
5-day hangover from all the celebrating from Spinner.com's acquisition by AOL. He
thinks it's a great move for them and beamed as he told me about his other ventures
like Engage Technology, which is going public in a few weeks! Nearby were Sara
Watkins and Karthik Swaminathan of Fantastic.com. With over 160 people in offices
in NY (55 Broad), Sidney, Paris and headquartered in Cug (South of Zurich), this
software solutions provider of broadband multimedia is doing fantastic! Since all the
free sushi was gone by the time I got there, Jon Gitlin and Jeff Cutler of Office.com
(Winstar is the parent company) were generous enough to offer up some of theirs to
me. Yum! Gitlin and I chatted a bit about the hot new performer Elvis Sinatra
(elvissinatra.com) and his unique interactive performances while Grant Watt of
Dialog.com and the awesome Gitlin had a mini-reunion. William Lopez of Qwest, Josh
Harris of Pseudo, John Wooden (Darwin Digital), Peter Bordes and David Smith, and
Jaime Levy of Electronic Hollywood were all happy, mellow guests in this steel and
cybery bar. Adam Smith, the new director of the Toy Department at MIT's Media
Lab (how fun!!), and I chatted about what's the coolest new toy (Oogles--a Tickle Me
Elmo mixed with a Furby). Ned Davis of NeedCD.com (launching in a few weeks)
stopped by and told me they're going to have a huge party at Ed's (Bennett) house.
Jeff Stewart of Proxicom had lots of news for me, all of which will be revealed soon! I
also reunited with Joshua Shaub (who I remembered from a presentation in '95 at a
WWWAC meeting on Riddler.com) who's now at feast.com. The RLM PR crew--
Richard Laemer (CEO of RLM PR), David Quast (VP/Managing Dir.), Tabatha
Strum and Bridget Fishleigh--was out, bubbly, helpful and efficient with greeting
guests, making introductions and ordering sushi for special people! : )