New York Tech Meetup
On Tuesday night I went along to the New York Tech Meetup for the first time. Thoroughly enjoyable event all round.
The meetings are a series of 5 minute showcases and on Tuesday there was a “sell-side advertising network” (ed: aren’t these just bloggified affiliate marketing networks? CJ PR people take note), a Citysearch-like Wiki (ed: Opinion does not work well in a consensus based technology. See: LA Times. Guy who started is CTO of Meetup), Meetro, Expertflyer (ed: basically a raw interface into the GDS systems. Aimed at the business traveler but they are likely to have mandates on where they have to book travel through. Charges a monthly fee which may negate this) and last but not least an interactive chocolate company (ed: err, I am not sure either but she passed around samples and writes a Mousedriver-like weblog chronicling their small business travails).
After the hour of demos the crowd breaks out into networking. Scott Heiferman, the meetup organizer and meetup founder, kindly hosts the event at the meetup offices at 632 Broadway (which randomly were nearly the corporate home of yours truly if not for another tech company delaying their new office move a few months). Meetup has a whole floor and there is room for about 80-90 people. Scott did a great job ensuring everyone (~50 people) introduced themselves and also said if they needed anything (in most cases PHP developers).
Thoroughly recommended and will definitely be going next month too.
