If you’re in the Bay Area, please join the Minekey crew at our Sunnyvale offices for a Lunch 2.0 on Thursday, September 6.

Started as an informal and regular gathering of Silicon Valley tech workers in corporate cafeterias, Lunch 2.0 has rapidly evolved through word-of-mouth into a national series of events.

As told in the Wall Street Journal today, Lunch 2.0 “has grown into a social-networking phenomenon that now draws hundreds of engineers, venture capitalists, and even summer interns to various companies for free meals and conversation.”

Come out and learn more about Minekey, network with a really interesting mix of people, and enjoy the delicious lunch provided by our co-host and landlord, the Plug and Play Tech Center.

To RSVP, go to either the event listing on Upcoming.org, or search for the Minekey Lunch 2.0 event listing on Facebook.

This past weekend Delip Andra and Alex Gault took part in the Palo Alto Barcamp — a self-organizing two day conference for technologists and startup companies, with programming supplied ad hoc by the attendees themselves and a schedule devised on the fly. There was an amazing exchange of energy and new ideas between the 1,000+ participants.

Several companies located around the same block in downtown Palo Alto — including Socialtext, IDEO, Edgeio, Searchspark and EchoSign — donated their offices as meeting spaces.

Alex gave a 5 minute presentation at DemoCamp on Saturday evening, the one pre-scheduled session at the conference. First, Alex demo’ed the widget installation process, emphasizing how easy it is to customize and install the widget onto a blog. Then he demonstrated how the widget works on a blog — dynamically presonalizing content, as he clicked on blog entries or links in the widget itself.

This neighborhood in Palo Alto is densely populated with startups. Just around the corner, Facebook will be hosting the Facebook Developer Garage on August 25, which Minekey will also attend.

Rajiv and James here at Gnomedex in Seattle, anyone who is in town for the event please stop by the Minekey booth Friday or Saturday just outside the main conference hall to pick up your fresh bananas and share your feedback on our free personalized recommendations beta widget for your blog.

“Fresh bananas” is our term for the personally relevant and always surprising (we hope) content we will discover for your readers. Get ‘em while they last!

Minekey was selected as one of 50 companies to present at the AlwayOn Stanford Summit, taking place at Stanford University July 31 – August 2. The Summit’s goal is to identify the most promising entrepreneurial opportunities and investments in the global tech industry. The event brings together leaders from the most innovative companies, eminent technologists, influential investors and journalists.

CEO Delip Andra will be giving our presentation at the CEO Showcase in McCaw Hall on Thursday August 2 at 2pm. Immediately following the presentation, we’ll be hosting a demo station in the Fisher Lobby. If you’re at the Summit, please stop by.

If you can’t make to the event, here’s a link to the live webcast. Some 35,000 people are expected to be participating online.