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Tonight we headed to the Twiistup 2 event in Venice, held at the “Air Conditioned Supper Club.”  On the inside, it’s a two-room bar with padded walls and a small stage.  AOL, apparently a main sponsor, had a primary spot on stage and was giving out T-shirts, which were catchy but unfortunately made significantly less cool by the non-subtle AOL branding.

We met some interesting people at the event.  There were a number of “showoffs,” or companies with small demo booths set up.  One of the attending companies just created this realtime-social-product-browsing-map-thing, and I definitely took the opportunity to ask one of their employees what the feature was all about.  I still don’t actually know how it’s useful, but apparently it’s addictive.  See if you can figure it out.

The event left us with three questions:

1. What’s with the padded walls?
2. Was I the only person there without an iPhone?
3. Did we just hang out with Bono, lead-singer of U2?

Two minutes after we stepped in, I was interviewed by Bonny (of NoodleScar fame) while Adam ran away and took this photo.  The inverview touched on the conundrum of the padded walls, whether the microphone actually worked, and whether Adam and I had made it out of the ‘garage’ at all during the past few weeks.  I was a less than exciting subject, so we’ll see if they squeeze anything out of it.

Update: Lan just informed us that the NoodleScar episode is up.  A brief clip of me did make the cut.  Does this mean I can join the SAG?

So, Bono? You be the judge.  We scoured the event’s website, and noticed a reference to “surprise guests.”  Hmm.  The best evidence we have is the following photo snapped with Adam’s camera:

 I’m fairly certain this is fake Bono.  Seriously, the earlobes are off and this guy’s chin is a little too dimply.  Adam thinks he’s the real deal.  Or at least he was certain until we zoomed in on the ears a little more.  In any case, the host knows, so maybe she’ll tell us tomorrow.

We also just noticed that our blog’s sweet header somehow scored prime placement on the Twiistup homepage: