Archive for February, 2008

Webinno17 on April 2nd

February 11th, 2008 Comments(0)

I am happy to announce that after starting the year off in force with our January event, WebInno will continue the momentum in 2008 with our next get-together on Wednesday April 2nd. As usual, it will be held at the Royal Sonesta in Cambridge, and will feature a number of self-/angel-funded startups demo to the crowd in main dish and side dish formats with an “Audience Choice” awarded to the crowd’s favorite in their respective categories.

If your early-stage startup is interested in presenting in either forum, just reach out to me at david at webinnovatorsgroup dot com. Please include the name of your company/site/product, a brief overview and description, and a link to a live site or password-protected beta demo site.

If you plan on attending, please RSVP on our dedicated registration page so we can appropriately size the room and print name-tags. It should be another exciting event… see you in April!

WebInno16 Recap

February 11th, 2008 Comments(0)

Thanks to everyone who came out to the sixteenth Web Innovators Group meeting two weeks ago. Wow! We had quite a crowd… I heard estimates of around 500 people in attendance, but it was certainly a packed room nonetheless.

All of the people who joined us were there for good reason – our presenters proudly showed off their latest iteration of their services. In case you missed it (or would like to check them out again), the videos of the main dish demos for Urban Interactive, SpotScout, MakeMeSustainable are all available over at the @Bar blog.

The most exciting part of the night was the introduction of the “Audience Choice” award, given to the crowd’s favorite demo of both the main dish and side presenters. Since WebInno is devoted to promoting Boston’s Web and Mobile innovation community, it was only natural that we voted on the choice demo via mobile phone texting. Congratulations to both Andrew Rollert of SpotScout and Ian Manheimer of Glassbooth for winning their respective categories. This newly-enacted tradition will certainly continue at our next event.

In addition to our usual crew of bloggers providing a recap of the January’s meeting (like Greg Peverill-Conti, Chris Carleton, and Dharmesh Shah), there are a great set of writeups from some newcomers (like Melissa Chang and Deborah Block-Schwenk). Plus, Mike Champion snapped a few photos and BostonKnows “uttered” their own summary of the event.