Luke Hubbard

Last week, I attended Ad:tech in San Francisco. Ad:tech is for media, marketing, and technology professionals, which essentially means it’s a big conference for online people. I recommend Ad:tech over just about every other online conference since almost every major online vendor attends. I do like the NYC conference better than San Fran, however.

While at the conference, on April 21st, I was invited to have lunch at Google’s San Fran office. This office houses the Google agency teams, and I am fortunate enough to have many friends there. I must say that the view of the Bay Bridge from their superb dining hall is really unbelievable. Here are some pictures I found online of the Google San Fran office. The coolest feature is a fun slide that was installed into one of the stairways.

Google San Fran slide

Google San Fran office

I was just at a Platform A event tonight in West Hollywood, CA. It was held at the fabulous and brand new SLS hotel. Platform A is a catch all solution, which was created by combining AOL + Advertising.com + Quigo.

Platform A is an improvement as advertisers use one sales team, one management team, and one tech team to help with all their advertising needs. 

On another note, AOL.com has launched a new look and feel to their homepage. I do like the ability to sign-in to your Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail, AIM, Facebook, and Myspace all from the homepage. I love this idea actually.