If there's one thing the Digerati love more than tweeting about their SXSW presentations, Klout scores and Facebook stock price predictions, it's fawning over Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker's annual presentation on the state of the digital industry.

Here at Traction we love good food, good drink and good competition; hence our quarterly Traction Cook Offs. On Friday, June 1st our resident foodies competed in a pairing of grilled sliders and cocktails. Check out our Flickr photostream for a great set of pictures from the event.

Game changing announcement from the folks at TiVo and PayPal this week. Now you can buy stuff from your TV.

This week I cashed in on one of my Klout "perks" and got to drive around in a Chevy Volt for the weekend for free. How was the experience? Was it an effective marketing program? Did it impact my perception of Klout? Or Chevy?

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 Dear friends and colleagues,

A few weeks ago, a member of the Traction team, Sidney Burrows, had a terrible fire in his home. We hope you'll join us for this benefit event next Thursday (June 28th) at 6pm to raise some dinero to help DeNiro (and of course, Sidney and Mina) get back on their feet again (or paws). Of course, it's a Traction event so it'll be sure to be a good time.