In celebration of Anton’s twentysomething-eth birthday we baked a fabulous three layer cake: angel food with fresh strawberries and marscapone frosting. There weren’t enough cake pans for all the layers so two of them were baked in skillets. The odd bun-like shapes that resulted didn’t turn out to be the best things to work with (the cake resembled a Big Mac that was drooling cream), but it was delicious.

The take away message: work at Wikinvest and get a tasty burger-cake on your birthday.

Every so often, when we hear feedback from you, someone will mention how they’re telling all their friends about Wikinvest. First, thank you! And second, Bryan and I were thinking about what we could do to encourage more of you to do it by making it a lot easier. So this weekend, we worked on a little “Spread the Word” widget. Check it out, it allows you to easily import your address book from Gmail, AOL, Yahoo, Outlook, and other mail services and send friends that you select an email about Wikinvest. You can personalize the message and we even built a little logic to make it smart enough to send them a link to the article about the company they work if their email address is a work email address that we recognize. Go ahead, give it a whirl!

Getting Wikinvest launched has been pretty intense, so we decided to unwind a little this week up at Lake Tahoe. People are taking turns making dinner and it’s been pretty impressive. If we ever decide to open a restaurant instead of building Wikinvest, I don’t think we’ll need to do much recruiting. So far, there’s been homemade lasagna, French onion soup, chicken a la king (Roger’s been asking for this for a while now), grilled pork chops, jambalaya - and this one takes the cake: Gateau aux crepes. Anton is quite the pastry chef (and photographer!)

Intermix the eating with some biking, sailing, frisbee, a Reno casino run, and some post-launch product planning, and it’s been a pretty nice way to unwind after the launching Wikinvest.