Web Innovators Group

WebInno13 Blog Coverage (and More)

Posted: August 10th, 2007

Today we are exactly halfway between our last month’s large-group WebInno event and the next one coming up after Labor Day on Monday September 10^th. July’s WebInno13 event was well attended – especially by some of the prolific bloggers in our community. It was great to see many people provide coverage of the evening, so I wanted to highlight a few of the posts.

First, as he’s done for past couple events, Greg Peverill-Conti provided his predictions about how he anticipated liking/not-liking the demonstrators, followed up by a recap post examining how spot-on those forecasts were. The big surprise for him was side-dish Zync, “I was pretty wowed by these guys. They’ve been busy and it really shows.”

Sol Nassi provided a nice round-up of his impressions of the demonstrating companies.

Summing up the entire night, Dave at the 93South blog commented, “It was an excellent turnout at the webinno13 event last night at the Royal Sonesta Hotel Cambridge. As you can see by the picture above, this is no longer a small demonstration event but a small conference for the local web 2.0 tech industry. I have not seen a published number yet but the crowd was well attended by start-ups, job seekers and a large contingent of VCs.” To him, the “surprise of the night was Windham, NH based BandDigs which creates online video channels and interactive applications for bands.”

I really liked Suzi Edwards’ perspective of the event in her recap post, “Monday night, I attended a great geek gala in Cambridge, Mass., produced by the Web Innovators Group… Start-ups, VCs, hiring folk and the wannabe hired folk all gathered to listen to short “side dish” and “main dish” sessions on new companies and sites…. Can’t wait to attend in September to watch more folks sell themselves. Although the best part is absolutely hashing with clever folk. I wouldn’t call networking actual work. More like netplaying. It’s too much fun.”

Finally, for those of you who still occasionally open a physical media publication, in this week’s Mass High Tech, Chip Griffin profiled the Web Innovators Group in his column, opening the article with the sentence, “Put a group of entrepreneurs, investors and geeks together in a room and you will feel the energy.” And if you pick up a copy of this month’s Boston Magazine, in Dan Morrell’s article about the next tech gold rush, he describes the Web Innovators Group by writing, “neck tattoos are more popular than neckties, with hipster entrepreneurs in complicated sneakers mingling with financiers in wrinkle-free khakis, each kinetically doing his part to plot the future.”

It’s beneficial to see the recognition for what everyone in the web and mobile community together has created here in town. Looking forward to the upcoming WebInno14 event next month.