· Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg did a turn on Wednesday afternoon and then promptly disappeared. And on Thursday a planned visit to the conference by Facebook execs failed to materialise - apparently they're all busy in Palo Alto. Are they finally signing the deal on that big investment?
· Jaiku co-founder Jyri Engestrom, who just sold his business to Google is getting ready to move to the US. But, he says, the plan is to move to London after a while - interesting, because that's believed to be the heart of the "Gphone" project (a misnomer, since it's ludicrous to imagine that Google is building an actual device - much more likely to be building some kind of software-based mobile platform).
· MySpace's evening event to celebrate the opening of its new San Francisco office brought a touch of LA to the Bay - beautiful people, sleek surroundings. Held at the Museum of Modern Art, was stuffed full of pretty SoCal boys and girls rather than SF's usual grungy, flannel-clad indie kids. Rupert Murdoch - surrounded by a gang of slavish devotees - held court for longer than might be expected, before being whisked away.
· The biggest celebrity in the house after Digger was Web 2.0's newest wunderkind: MC Hammer. Adoring fans chased the Hammerman around the Palace Hotel with verve (one even got his plaster-cast arm daubed with the great man's signature). After Jemima's recent experience with the man formally known as Stanley, I finally feel like I'm part of the new Valley bubble.
· Flickr cofounder Stewart Butterfield may be going on extended paternity leave from the popular photo-sharing website, but he was lurking long enough to introduce some soon-to-be-released features. That's under wraps for now, but Flickr developer Dan Catt did reveal that the main motivation behind it all was to find the perfect pictures of bacon.
