Every event planner in the industry, experienced or not will benefit from the newest Apple App “Mark On Call”. It’s designed to keep all those pieces of papers and stickies with numbers, figures, sample layouts, and tailored customer requests organized into a clean (paperless) software. Now all those files and notepads can be a thing of the past!

For the bargain price of $2.99 (download at www.iTunes.com), you can have:
*All of your units of measurement questions answered
*The ability to take pictures of actual rugs, painting, floral arrangements, fabric ideas, and table linens to directly show clients
*Customized room items for use in all your floor plans
*Creation of shopping lists, or write down last minute notes for a client.

And, get this…it’s easy to use!

BONUS: The reviews for customer service are superb. You are able to send emails write to the creator and get a response back within one hour! This app was created by event planners and interior designers so it’s not too far fetched. Watch the short clip above from the creator of the app, and hear more interesting tips and ideas!

WordCamp is a conference coming up this coming Saturday, May 1st at the Mission Bay Conference Center that focuses on all things WordPress. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other. WordCamps are open to WordPress.com and WordPress.org users alike. Last year’s WordCamp was attended by over 700 people from 32 countries and featured speakers like Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress and founder of Automattic; Tim Ferriss, bestselling author of The Four Hour Workweek; and John Lilly, CEO, Mozilla Corporation. WordCamp San Francisco 2010 will again have a wide range of speakers, from industry thought leaders to local WordPress practitioners. For more information about WordCamp San Francisco, visit the website!

Don’t forget to stop by Media Temple’s Afterparty at the Automattic Lounge,Pier 38!

The Future of Money & Technology Summit is today! It’s not too late to go check out the best and brightest thinkers around money, including visionaries, entrepreneurial business people, developers, press, investors, authors, solution providers, service providers, and organizations who work with them at the convergence of cash and commerce. They will meet to discuss the evolving money ecosystem in a proactive, conducive to dealmaking environment and how technology is changing markets on a global scale.

Some of the industry’s leading innovators will analyze and redefine the convergence of finance and technology, creating a summit for innovation and new business ventures to grow and thrive.

Watch it streaming live now from Jusin.tv!

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Speakers Include:

* John Bates – Business Development, Entropia Universe
* Bill Barhydt – CEO & President, m-Via
* David Barrett – CEO, Expensify
* Pelle Braendgaard – Co-Creator, OpenTransact
* Alex Gordon Brander – Creator, Global Energy Money
* Gary Briggs – CEO, Plastic Jungle
* Greg Brogger – Founder/CEO, SharesPost
* Cathy Brooks – OtherThanThat.com
* Bruce Cahan – CEO, Urban Logic
* Wenceslao Casares – Founder, Bling Nation
* Gurbaksh Chahal – CEO, gWallet
* Jeff Clavier – Managing Partner, SoftTechVC
* Kurt Collins – Founder, Enole
* Charles Eisenstein – Author, The Ascent of Humanity
* Betsy Flanagan – Online Marketing Manager, Wells Fargo Bank
* Hill Ferguson – VP Product Management & Marketing, Zong
* Rob Garcia – Senior Director of Product Strategy, Lending Club
* Guy Goldstein – CEO, Pageonce
* Mark Goldstein – CEO & Founder, Home-Account
* Vikas Gupta – Founder & CEO, Jambool
* Sean Harper – CEO, TransFS
* Arno Hesse – Co-Creator, Bernal Bucks
* Chris Heuer – Co-founder, Social Media Club
* Damon Houghland – Senior Director of Platform, PayPal
* Tara Hunt – Co-Founder, Shwowp; – Author, The Whuffie Factor
* Jessica Jackley – Co-Founder, Kiva
* Travis Kalanick – Angel Investor
* Andrew Kortina – Co-Founder, Venmo
* Chris Lindstrom – Co-Founder, Social Labs
* Erin Lozano – Founder & COO, Green Sherpa
* Dave McClure – Startup Investor, Founders Fund
* Karl Mehta – CEO, Playspan
* Jack Moffitt – CTO, Collecta
* Jolie O’Dell – Writer, Community Manager, ReadWriteWeb
* Ben Parr – Co-editor, Mashable
* Aaron Patzer – Founder, Mint.com
* Peter Pham – CEO, BillShrink
* Pooj Preena – CEO, Hi-media Payments
* Bhavani Rana – Director, Intel Capital
* Kevin Reeth – CEO & Co-Founder, Outright
* Erich Ringewald – CTO, Boku
* Phil Rosedale – Founder, Love Machine, Inc.
* Alan Rosenblith – Co-Founder, MetaCurrency
* Jim Scheinman – COO, Pageonce
* Steve Schultz – Director, Yahoo! Finance
* Jeremy Smith – Chief Strategy Officer, SecondMarket
* Redge Snodgrass – Director of Digital Media, Alcatel-Lucent
* Ted Sorom – CEO, Rixty
* Brad Strothkamp – Analyst, Forrester Research
* Bill Tai – Partner, CRV
* Brian Zisk – Executive Producer, Future of Money & Technology

Forty years after the first Earth Day, the world is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, it also presents the greatest opportunity – an unprecedented opportunity to build a healthy, prosperous, clean energy economy now and for the future.

Earth Day 2010 can be a turning point to advance climate policy, energy efficiency, renewable energy and green jobs. Earth Day Network is galvanizing millions who make personal commitments to sustainability. Earth Day 2010 is an important opportunity for individuals, corporations and governments to join together and create a global green economy.

Join the more than one billion people in 190 countries that are taking action for Earth Day:

1. Plant trees and save our earth.
2. Educate others on how to use solar power
3. Recycle, don’t waste, and try to be as efficient as possible
4. Shop at the local farmers market, use our own bags, and eat as many locally sourced meals as possible for the entire year
5. Ride a bike
6. Reduce the electricity usage in general life

April 25 is our chance to demand accountability from Congress. Americans from all walks of life will gather for the Climate Rally on the National Mall in Washington, DC. There, we will demand that our leaders pass strong climate legislation that benefits all Americans while sending a powerful message to the polluter lobby: we’ve had enough of dirty power, the time for change is now. To sign the petition, click here.

Looking for something fun to do tonight, or every Thursday night? Well, look no further. We’re excited to share that Dolores Park movie night is back, as well as the Academy of Sciences Nightlife Event. Hope to see you all there!

1.  Dolores Park Movie Night: This is a really great community-run activity that is held in the heart of San Francisco’s most popular park and showcases a series of locally themed movies for free. Donations and popcorn sales cover the costs for the movie rights, city permits, and equipment. What’s better than packing a picnic and bringing a few friends to hang out and watch a great flick under the stars? Anyone is allowed to join in and be apart of the neighborhood! Kicking off 2010 is the Michael J. Fox 1985 time travel flick “Back to the Future.”

2. California Academy of Science Nightlife. All this April, join them for “Extreme NightLife” in honor of their new Extreme Mammals exhibit. This event attracts a large turn out of young 20′s and 30-somethings to come, mingle, and have a few drinks and appetizers. Tonight is Yuri’s Night, an annual celebration of humanity’s achievements in space and our favorite DJ collective, the Space Cowboys. The event occurs every Thursday night from 6-10pm, and tickets are $12 at the door.

The Ad:Tech Conference 2010 is back in San Francisco on April 19th-21st and we can hardly wait! For those of you who have not been, it’s been referred to as the #1 event for interactive marketing and the largest gathering of online marketers. Brands, agencies, publishers, and service providers from all around the world will come together to share, network, learn, and do business. If you’re in the business of digital marketing, you don’t want to miss this event. Some of the “best in the business” conference speakers include:

Razorfish – David Baker VP, CRM-eCRM Solutions
Kraft North America – Kelley Woodland Senior Director, Consumer Relationship Marketing

Keynote speakers:

Levi Strauss & Co. – Jaime Cohen Szulc CMO
eMarketer – Geoff Ramsey CEO and Co-Founder
Publicis & Hal Riney – Kristi VandenBosch CEO

There are always lots of fun after-conference parties and networking events to attend including the big Ad Tech Opening Night Party at Roe. Hope to see you all there!

How many times a day do you see those thin, white headphones coming out of someones ears and connected to an iPod or MP3 player? Everywhere you go people have headphones on- at the grocery store, crossing the street, in the elevator, and on the bus! Have you ever wondered if everyone started to wear their headphones during the daytime commute to work, or while they did their shopping? Apple reported in late January of 2010, that their net profits for 2009 were $10.17 billion, which was up from $9.6 billion a year ago. The company sold 22,727,000 iPods during the quarter which was their highest amount yet. To say and to notice that more and more people are becoming “walk and listen to music” people, isn’t a stretch of the imagination.

With sales of iPods increasing at a record high, I began to think about what the daily commute to work would be like if every single person had an iPod on. Silent, yes, but ideal? Have you noticed that people don’t really talk to each other on the buses and public transits as much as they used to?  Not to say that I want each person to strike up a conversation with me while I’m busy and on my way, but think back ten years when no one had little iPods or MP3 Players; on average, you probably greeted the the person that walked by you in some small way.

The other day I decided to put my white headphones in, and just stick the end into my pocket.  No iPod connected. Just headphones connected to nothing. And guess what, homeless people didn’t talk to me (but continued to beg from others around me), people on the bus didn’t try to talk to me, and even little kids knew that I “couldn’t hear them” with them connected to my ears. It was interesting to see how different people react to your presence when you have white plastic connected to your ears.

I’m skeptical that our society is becoming too impersonal.  Are we using technology to make us less social with ourselves? To create this environment of no emotions and no character? How often to do you listen to your iPod or MP3 Player?