After a full day at Under the Radar I capped off a long day with a longer night.

I ventured out to the Apaptive Path 5th Anniversary Party. And what an event it was. One of the guys I wanted to meet there was Scott Johnson of Ookles and though he was there, I somehow didn’t bump into him. Scott, where the heck were you?

The event was great with 100’s of people in attendance. A big thank you to the Adaptive Path gang for putting on a great event.

Ended up talking with Kevin Burton of Tailrank he suggested I could trim down the 1500 RSS feeds I read by using Tail Rank. I’m going to have a look and see how well it helps.

Otis Gospodneti of Simpy and I talked a bit about the world of tagging and got into an interesting discussion about tag clouds with John Herren of Tag Cloud. We agreed that there is a ton of value in the facets of data in a Tag Could and that there were some ways to get more usability out of them. Look for John to be innovating in this space to much more usablity to tag clouds.

Ran into John Merrells of Sxip for the second day in a row. Sxip is releasing the next generation of their identity platform next week at O’Reilly’s Etech. John’s British sense of humor takes a while to get used to and the grapefruits in the jacket thing was mildly disturbing.

I ended up treking over to the ‘W’ for drinks after the event with John, Jennifer Allen, of Eurekster and James Hong of Hot or Not.

James is a total character, while Jeniffer is the classic promoter.

In addition to being an innovative and entertaing guy, James is also a philanthropist. He put together an interesting site 10 Over 100 that is all about getting people to think more about how they can make a difference in the world. The premise is getting people to pledge to donate 10% of their income in excess of $100k/year to a charity of their choice. It’s a fantastic idea and I encourage you to sign up and be a part of it.

James mentioned that he’s attended the TED conference and it’s one of only two conferences that he is sure to attend every year. I asked him what is the biggest thing he learned at TED. The answer was not what I was expecting at all. James learned how to tie his shoe! And he was serious. Appearantly 70% of us tie our shoes incorrectly. Who knew?