A tech bubble is measured by the number of industry events each night of the week. A full Thursday schedule doesn't mean we're back in 1999 — it just means the recession's long gone.

  • Why have I been hiding it from you? Thursty Thursday is the leading weekly Thursday-after-work-happy-hour-gathering-for-professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area. It's unofficially run by the sexy folks at worldwide PR firm Bite Communications. Tonight it's at a downtown San Fran bar, the Royal Oak. No web page for this, so just show up after 6:30 and yell, "I'm here to meet the non-geeky PR people!"
  • Third Thursday, though, has a Meetup page AND an Upcoming.org listing, so you won't miss the June edition of this monthly Palo Alto event. Tonight's speakers include former venture capitalist Jeff Nolan or VP of virtual world builder Linden Lab.
  • If tonight's SF Tech Session feels even more comfy in the Microsoft SF office than earlier sessions, it's because organizer Niall Kennedy joined Microsoft's Windows Live team this month. Tonight, the demo session features Box.net, Fabrik, and Amazon's S3 — three online storage services.