Last thursday, LuckyOliver had its one year anniversary birthday party at Ace Auto, a junkyard in San Francisco.LuckyOliver is a website that allows you to purchase and sell stock images. Ace Auto was a pretty cool place to visit and was also surprisingly clean and organized for a junkyard. To purchase photos on the website, you use tokens where each token is equivalent to one dollar. They had a giant Rube Goldberg machine as well as a lot of junk that was nicely organized in different areas with an artistic manner. The party had free tacos from a taco truck and plenty of free beer. There was also live music from a Mariachi band and then had a DJ spinning afterwards. LuckyOliver did not have any presentations or speeches of any kind so there was not too much promoting except for handing out a promotion coin worth 3 tokens on the website. There was your regular socializing and networking among the interesting crowd of people ranging from your techies, some recognizable faces in the web 2.0 startup circle, the SF Photography meetup group, to plain old people who were just looking for a good party with free food and beer.

Alex Ho is a Network Engineer and blogs at his own Green Blog, Genexe.com, as well as for Startupism.com and Bub.blicio.us