Congratulations again to Noteflight for winning the Audience Choice Award at WebInno25 last week.  The votes were close, but the online music writing application dazzled both the eyes and ears of the crowd to walk away with the award.  I personally was impressed with the slick app which the company has developed and think the award was well deserved.

Congratulations to On the Spot Systems, creators of Survey on the Spot, for winning the Audience Choice Award at WebInno24.  This startup won in a very tight race – selected by the mobile voting of the crowd at the event.  The recognition is well deserved given the engaging product that the company has developed to create lightweight iPhone surveys for commercial retail businesses.

Congratulations again to Book of Odds for winning the Audience Choice award at WebInno23. Amram Shapiro, the company’s Founder and President, presented a pre-launch sneak preview that dazzled the crowd. This certainly helped generate some much-deserved buzz around the company before its public launch just a couple weeks later. What are the odds of that?

It’s been just over a week since the Web Innovators Group event packed the house at the Sonesta, and I am still feeling the excitement from the event.  First, congratulations to Book of Odds for taking home the Audience Choice award.  The sneak-preview of the service definitely resonated with those in attendance.

And from the feedback I’ve heard from folks, the special panel session was well received by the entrepreneurs in the audience, offering some practical/tactical advice for those endeavoring on bootstrapping their media relations.  Our all-star participants of Mike Troiano, Scott Kirsner , Wade Roush , Peter Kafka, and Bob Brown certainly engaged the crowd… although not without some vibrant reactions and opinions, especially from the public relations practitioners in the room.  The next couple days the blogosphere was teeming with thoughts about the role of PR.  Lora Kratchounova, Bobbie Carleton, Jason Evanish, John Wall, Chuck Tanowitz, Nathan Burke, and Kellye Crane all weighed in their thoughts, with panel moderator Mike Troiano and panelist Wade Roush responding.  The entire conversation is definitely worth a read, especially if you were in attendance.

Mark you calendars that the next WebInno event is on December 7^th.  I’ll be creating a registration page in the next couple weeks.

I’d like to thank everyone who came out to last week’s Web Innovators Group meeting.  It was a success from my perspective, as we certainly had the largest turnout yet – great networking and promising young demo companies helped energize the crowd.  Congratulations to Judy Gern at Adroit Interactive for winning the “Audience Choice” award of the crowd’s favorite Main Dish presentation of the evening.

David Kilkenny and the PermissionTV team recorded the ballroom presentations, and we’ll post those videos sometime soon.  In the meantime, you can read recap blog posts (and videos) from Kevin Kosh at Chen PR and Wade Roush at Xconomy.

The next large group WebInno event will be held sometime early-/mid-summer… the date is still TBD.  I’ll post details and a registration page once we have the date locked in.  As always, we’ll be offering a venue for early-stage startups to demo their services, so feel free to reach out to me (david at webinnovatorsgroup dot com) anytime before the next event with a heads up expressing your interest in participating.

UPDATE – Bostonist also wrote up a nice summary of the WebInno event.  And here’s the video from PermissionTV team:

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Finally, thank you to Matthew Mamet and Matt Kaplan of PermissionTV for their help in taping and producing a video of the entire event (posted over at their company’s blog).

Wow… what a turnout we had for last week’s WebInno18.  Don Dodge estimated that there were 800 people in the room and called it a “great Boston Web 2.0 networking event for upcoming startups.”  Dave Laubner at 93South blog confirmed that it “was easily the largest turnout yet” and shared some photos on Flickr.  The OnStartups blog posted some interesting analysis of the events registrants just prior to the meeting.  And Amanda Gravel at Social Honeycomb said, “I just love the energy around emerging businesses and startups in this space and I had a blast seeing it all in action tonight,” expressing how “psyched” she was in a video.

Congratulations to Mike Putnam and the entire Zeer team for winning the WebInno Audience Choice Award.  It was certainly great to see that the integrated mobile and web service resonated with the crowd.

The next large group WebInno event will be held on September 15^th, so do mark it on your calendars now.  I’ll open up the online registration again in a few weeks.  Thanks for everyone’s great feedback on improving the event – we may be tweaking the format a bit to accommodate the increasing attendance and broadening interests.

It was great to see everyone come out for the most recent WebInno event last week.  The feedback I heard was positive, not just on the size and energy of the crowd, but in particular with this event on the quality of the main and side dish demonstrators.  So a special congratulations goes out to the Audience Choice Main Dish and Side Dish award winners Good2Gether and Yamli, respectively, as they faced especially tough competition for the audience’s favorite.

As usual, there were a number of attendee bloggers, both old and new, commenting on the event.  Pito Salas, who attended the very first session with demonstrators back in 2005, was “quite impressed [his bold] with the attendance and the quality of the people presenting…  The gathering was quite crowded and the buzz was very loud, lots of dynamic discussions going on all over the place, people trading war stories and comparing products.  It was stimulating and fun, and I plan to go next month again.”  Former Main Dish demonstrator Matt Douglas “hadn’t gone to the last few WebInno group meetings” but was “pleased to see some of the improvements that… had [been] implemented…  After the main presentations, I had a chance to say hello to some familiar faces, and meet some new people.  I was pleasantly surprised at how many new people were at the Web Innovators meeting last night.”  First time attendee Cory Wallenstein said, “I got a chance to attend the Web Innovators Group in Cambridge last night, and it was an absolute blast!  This was my first time attending, and the experience was very, very different from other events I’ve attended in the area… There must have been at least 500 folks in attendance… far larger than any other non-conference event I’ve been to in the area, but it didn’t FEEL like a large, impersonal event.  It was very open and social.”  And lastly, blogger Don Dodge recently gave a tip of the hat to the Web Innovators Group in his Boston startup events roundup.

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.