Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

It’s always a blast to hook up with Loren Feldman. Love the guy. In case you didn’t notice, we had a late night before this interview was shot - hence the delayed reactions.

I’ll post a comprehensive post about my entire trip to San Francisco soon.

I’m delighted to announce that Paul Birch has just invested £150k (approx. $280k) in Wubud.

Paul is Co-founder, Bebo - sold to AOL for $850M. Founder, Cominded and Co-founder, Birthday Alarms; a social network with 50 million subscribers. So, he knows a thing or two about social networks.

Read more on the Wubud blog.

TechCrunch covered the story here.

Check it out. http://blog.wubud.com/

Hello - Paul Carr here, live in Terminal 5 of London’s trendy Heathrow Airport with a special guest post to thank Wubud for kindly agreeing to be drinks sponsor for Smack My Pitch Up.

What?

Smack My Pitch Up - the only tech pitch event happening in San Francisco this Tuesday. The idea is simple… you have 50 seconds to pitch your very worst tech business idea. The word ideas, best presented win exciting (crappy) prizes. A grand prize of $50 is on offer to the very worst best.

More details can be found at The Long Fail.

See you on Tuesday. And, remember, as long as Wubud are paying, drink early, drink often.

My recent trip to Hong Kong was a great success. It’s amazing how everyone asks me how it was, including people I’ve met for the first time over the past few days. All thanks to Twitter and Facebook status updates.

Here are some photos to sum up my trip as I don’t have time to write about it.