Last night was VentureBeat's DigitalMedia party at The Ambassador bar in San Francisco. Great time, completely packed house. All Things Digital's Kara Swisher put together a funny video of the event (below) and wrote it up.



Matt Marshall thanks everyone here.

Here's a picture of the full VentureBeat team from the event.



Brian Solis took some more great shots here.

[photo: (CC) Brian Solis, www.briansolis.com, bub.blicio.us.]

So it's been a while since I posted up some of my links from VentureBeat - sorry, I've literally been home 8 total days in the past month, but that is just about over. Here are some from the past month or so:

• Yang to Ballmer: Stop lying and don’t be cheap.
• Crazy talk: Sony thinks Blu-ray share can soar to 50% this year
• Place world news in context with new Google Earth layer
• Google App Engine readies for brawl with Amazon
• Guitarati aims to make mood music into a business
• Blu-ray steps up integration with other hot tech
• Wal-Mart wises up, ditches Windows-based DRM
• Yahoo launches Flickr Video, puppet tells Arrington
• Google opens access to your Apple remote
• 3G iPhone could be faster than we thought
• Nintendo slowly making the Wii an entertainment hub?
• Last gasp? Yahoo and Google talking search ad deal
• Yahoo is the town bicycle — everyone wants a ride
• Racetrack memory: Half a million songs on your iPod and a battery that’ll last for weeks
• ‘Windows’ of opportunity closing. Gartner thinks Microsoft OS is collapsing
• Blockbuster wants Circuit City: Sinking boat wants more water
• Amid “reinvention”, AOL snaps up Sphere
• Ads in Twitter streams? What’s next, ads on boxer’s backs?
• VoIP on the iPhone: Not yet legal, but here

Previous: MG on VB: Volume 1

I've had quite a few requests for ways to follow what I'm writing on VentureBeat here so I figured every week I'll post links to most of the stories I wrote that previous week and call it 'MG on VB'.

• Yahoo polishes 'Shine' for the ladies
• 45 million iPhones sold by 2009? Potential for millions more in China?
• Investors find Chumby endearing as well with me $12.5 million round
• Google Docs adds offline support. Microsoft quakes?
• Microsoft prepared to dig in and wait as Russian winter closes in on Yahoo
• Sony to beam movies to AT&T phones -- as they see fit
• Apple eats up 21% consumer market share -- maybe. Lets just call it rising
• MLB.TV strikes out with premium online video
• MySpace Music days away from assualt on iTunes
• Amid the coronation of iTunes as digital music king, the sound of war
• Google sounds off on spectrum auction results
• Microsoft and Yahoo do lunch. No one eats.
• Battlestar Galactica offers and early sneak peak of new season online -- and I do mean early
• Real threat or tactic? Yahoo's stock plummets on threat of Microsoft pulling bid
• Microsoft puts Yahoo in a headlock and applies noogies. Wants lunch money in 3 weeks -- or else
• Visivo Communications raises $3M round to expand Qik?
• Formal letter wars: Yahoo to respond to Microsoft