Technorati Meetup in Tokyo, 5/27/04, 18:00-21:00

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Technorati Meetup in Tokyo May 27

Technorati Meetup in Tokyo May 27 05/20/2004 10:02 PM

Dave Sifry, the CEO of Technorati is coming to Tokyo next week. We're having a meeting for users and developers. Dave and I will speak and Dave will give some cool demos etc. If you are a Technorati fan, want to know more about Technorati or just want to hang out with Dave, please sign up and come. We will be charging 2000 per person for simple drinks and snacks. There will be wifi. The details are below:

5/27 Thursday, 18:00-21:00

18:00-19:00 Demo, Talk & Discussion
19:00-21:00 Reception with drinks & light snacks

Place, Tokyo 21c Club, 7th Fl of Marunouchi Building

Speakers
David L. Sifry, CEO, Technorati
Joichi Ito, head of International and mobility, Technorati

2000 yen fee for participation

Deadline to apply, May 24th Mon, 18:00

Please RSVP to Kenta Ushijima. We have a 50 person limit.

Please promote this on other blogs, particularly Japanese blogs. Thanks in advance and see you there!

Notes from Tokyo Technorati Meetup

Notes from Tokyo Technorati Meetup 05/31/2004 07:06 PM
When I was in Tokyo a couple of weeks ago, I exchanged email with Sid, a nice guy who recently moved from the US to Tokyo. Here's his report of a Technorati meetup in Tokyo, which has some interesting statistics:

I just moved to Tokyo and saw on Joi Ito's site that he and Dave Sifry, Technorati CEO, were putting on a "Technorati Meetup" on Thursday night at the Marinouchi Building, so I decided to go. It was a fun time, I learned a lot, and they had free Wi-Fi (a rarity in Tokyo), so I was able to update several programs real fast.

Here are some notes from Dave's talk (which Joi translated, although Dave speaks Japanese).

Technorati tracks 2.4 million blogs.

45% haven't posted in three months.

Around 200,000 new blogs are created daily.

About 7 minutes after someone posts a new entry it's indexed by Technorati and searchable

Sifry says blogs are striving for authority, as defined by how many people link to you when you write about things. You may not write the truth or even be correct, but if you're interesting people link to you.

He sees bloggers as commentators on the news and filters on the news, rather than replacing the news ... though blogs are giving big media sites a run for their money on hits and attention (as seen on a chart of hits).

Technorati has an active developers' site with several bindings and sample code of the program for people to use and mutate on their own. "Because if there's one thing I know, it's that you guys are all smarter than me," Sifry says.

An example is a program Joi wrote to send SMS to his phone when someone links to his site. It vibrates every time somebody links to him (and he encourages frequent linking).

Future directions for Technorati: Open reviews, subscribe to keywords and Cosmos filters, discovery & filtering of subscription lists, vote links and geographic search & filtering, which is hard because people have to put in GPS coordinates (applies more to phone blogging). There currently are 11,000 blogs in the geographic database.

MEETUP

MEETUP 04/17/2005 04:17 AM
international meetup day .. ghettocooler crew meetup .. Meet Up website’s .. Arranging a meetup? .. real-life encounter .. Meetup with people .. blogmeet .. Meetups .. MEETUP .. Meetup

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Changes - Meetup.com

Changes - Meetup.com 04/13/2005 04:28 AM
Meetup empieza a cobrar por servicios .. charging a $19/month fee .. Meetup.Com now charges

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RSS Meetup

RSS Meetup 04/09/2004 04:02 PM
So—I had signed up for RSS Meetups, and then I got an email asking me to vote on a venue.

Then I checked, and found that I was the only Seattle-ite who had signed up, so I made my decision. The meetup will be held wherever I happen to be at the scheduled time, and everybody (me) will be in attendance, and we don’t have to talk about RSS if we don’t feel like it.

In fact, if we just want to watch TV, or play with the cat, or do some coding—that’s all fine.

meetup is hiring

meetup is hiring 01/29/2004 12:46 AM
between these jobs and kinja hiring, there's a veritable dotcom renaissance in NYC these days

Payup, says Meetup

Payup, says Meetup 04/15/2005 07:48 AM
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meetup relaunches

meetup relaunches 09/08/2004 11:36 PM
does a good job of putting the benefits up front. congrats to the meetup gang

Review : PHP Meetup

Review : PHP Meetup 02/07/2003 09:40 AM
Review : PHP Meetup I'd love to tell you glowing things about the Boston PHP Meetup. How I networked, learned, found new clients and even ate good food. N O P E !!!! Instead the event failed as follows: Arrive at restaurant. Sign on door "For Rent". Not a positive thing. Stand on street corner in 25 degree weather feeling like a fool. Wait 15 minutes. No one arrives Walk away in disgust thinking "Not only did no one show but the $#($)#*$)(# restaurant was closed so I didn't even get food" Pathetic. I mean THE RESTAURANT WASN'T EVEN IN BUSINESS !!! Note to the meetup crew: GET A CLUE.

Blog Meetup Tonight - SF

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For yuks, a bunch of us Blogger/Google folks are going to the blog Meetup tonight in San Francisco. Stop by. People's Cafe on Haight Street. 7pm.

Red Hat and Meetup.com Cross Roads

Red Hat and Meetup.com Cross Roads 02/05/2005 09:53 PM

Movable Type Meetup

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K5 Meetup - Auckland, New Zealand

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Following on from this thread I'm organizing a K5 meetup in Auckland, New Zealand - and encouraging other kurons to organise meetups in their cities, too.

Discordians organize MeetUp

Discordians organize MeetUp 02/18/2004 10:53 AM
evilevilmatt sez, "This site is devoted to getting discordians, worshipers of chaos to organize a 'meetup day.' Oh the irony!" Link (Thanks, evilevilmatt!)

January Meetup Report

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The Boston PHP Meetup is Tonight

The Boston PHP Meetup is Tonight 02/06/2003 10:45 AM
The Boston PHP Meetup is Tonight If you are in the Boston area and you program in PHP then you might be interested in the meetup tonight at Mama Gaias in Cambridge. This one I think I should be able to get to. And since six people signed up (including me) then it shouldn't be cancelled. [_Go_]

Meetup starts to charge

Meetup starts to charge 04/14/2005 10:36 AM
Over at many2many I've posted comments about Meetup's decision to start charging groups $19/month. What will this do to the social dynamics that have made Meetup so important to many of us? Will Craigslist will be the new Meetup? [Technorati tag: meetup]...

The inevitable demise of meetup.com

The inevitable demise of meetup.com 04/14/2005 07:31 PM
In the beginning was a great idea: let’s create a Web site that makes it easy for people with similar interests to find each other and coordinate face-to-face meetings. And so Meetup.com was born, and grew, and grew. Along the way it became part of the massive, amorphous “social networking” set of companies (which includes LinkedIn, Orkut, Ryze and most famously Friendster. All of these companies now face the same challenge that hit thousands of…

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International XUL Meetup Days Announced

International XUL Meetup Days Announced 04/09/2004 04:05 PM

Date mistake in Stockholm meetup

Date mistake in Stockholm meetup 06/11/2004 10:25 PM

I'm really sorry. I made a mistake in the date for the meet up in Stockholm. I said the 12th, but I meant the 13th. Can people still meet tomorrow (13) instead of today (12)? Please let me know here or on the wiki. Sorry!!

Meetup.com Ends Free Meetups

Meetup.com Ends Free Meetups 04/13/2005 01:35 AM

meetup adds a buncha new features

meetup adds a buncha new features 04/20/2004 03:01 AM
adding one's own venues! seems like the crew is still listening well to their audience

Meetup About Business Model Lessons

Meetup About Business Model Lessons 04/13/2005 02:55 PM
Meetup Inc. become something of an internet darling during the US Presidential campaigns, after people started using it for political organizing. The concept was straight-forward. Use the web to find like-minded individuals in a certain area who could (yup) "meet up" in person. What was unclear from the beginning, though, was how Meetup was ever going to make money. Originally, the plan was to get money out of the venues where the various meetups occurred. Apparently, that didn't work out, and now, Meetup is making news for its decision to charge each "group" $19/month to keep going. They certainly expect to lose many of their groups, and lots of people are already noting that the price seems quite steep for what were mostly small, informal gatherings. The real issue, though, is that it looks like Meetup has forgotten the first rule of internet-based business models: don't charge for something that was free before. It's very, very difficult to make that work (there are a few small exceptions). Generally speaking, though, if people expect something to be free, suddenly turning around and charging for it is seen as swiping the rug out from under them. They embraced your offering, in part, because it was free. You can charge for new and additional services -- but pissing off most of your users with surprise fees, after being sold on the free idea, tends to come back to bite many companies that have tried it. If anything, it tends to encourage competition to come in and offer what you used to offer... for free.

JavaOne Java bl0gger meetup

JavaOne Java bl0gger meetup 06/23/2004 05:08 PM
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Madrid bl0ggers meetup March 12 21:00

Madrid bl0ggers meetup March 12 21:00 03/14/2005 05:54 PM

Victor is organizing a bloggers meeting on Saturday in Madrid. I'll be going. Anyone who wants to come, please sign up on the wiki page. It is on Saturday 12th, March 2005 at 21:00. The location is La Giralda restaurant, Calle Maldonado 4.

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Kansas City web developer meetup

Kansas City web developer meetup 04/25/2004 11:31 PM

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Groups face decision on Meetup.com fees

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Tonight: Raleigh/Cary Bloggers Meetup

Tonight: Raleigh/Cary Bloggers Meetup 03/22/2005 05:10 PM

Josh Staiger: Join us tomorrow (Tuesday March 15) for the third weekly Raleigh/Cary Bloggers meetup.

What: An open meeting to talk about blogging, podcasting & whatever's on your mind
When: Tues @ 6:30 p.m.
Where: Cafe Cyclo, in Cameron Village

2020 Cameron St
Raleigh, NC 27605 (map)
(919) 829-3773

Who: Bloggers & people who want to blog

Optionally RSVP at the Meetup.com Raleigh/Cary Bloggers Meetup page.

Amongst other things we will talk about this week is the frequency of future meetups.

See notes on our last meetup.

Hope to see you there!

Raleigh/Cary Bloggers meetup tonight

Raleigh/Cary Bloggers meetup tonight 06/17/2005 04:53 PM

Join us tomorrow (Tuesday, June 7th) for the first 
Raleigh/Cary Bloggers meetup of the month.

What:  An open meeting to talk about blogging, 
       podcasting & whatever's on your mind
When:  Tues @ 6:30 p.m.
Where: Cafe Cyclo, in Cameron Village

2020 Cameron St
Raleigh, NC 27605 (map)
(919) 829-3773

Who: Bloggers & people who want to blog (Podcasters welcome!)

Hope to see you there!

via Josh

Mena's Corner: Movable Type (Six Apart)
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Barenaked Ladies Meetup in Islamabad
draws men looking for naked chicks

Barenaked Ladies Meetup in Islamabad
draws men looking for naked chicks 08/11/2004 02:44 AM
There's a Barenaked Ladies Meetup where fans of the Toronto band can get together in cities around the world and discuss the Ladies' goofy brand of upbeat pop. The Toronto BNL Meetup has 10 members, but the Islamabad, Pakistan Meetup has 55! How is such a thing possible? Turns out they're not fans of the Barenaked Ladies, the band -- they're fans of bare, naked ladies, the concept:

alivo
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kukucoo
I AM TO SEE AND FEEL HOW BEAUTIFUL YOU AS A WOMAN ARE.

LostAlone
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Old Tokyo

Old Tokyo 01/03/2005 10:24 AM
Old Tokyo. Photographs from the early decades of the twentieth century.

Off to Tokyo

Off to Tokyo 03/06/2004 01:56 AM

See ya later Zell am See and thanks for all the wienerschnitzel. Sorry about the sparse blogging the last few days.

In Tokyo

In Tokyo 04/09/2004 04:09 PM
How can you NOT like a country where even toilet seats come with remote controls?

Anyhow... This is my first trip in Tokyo where I'm staying in a hotel. Always before have I done the backpacking thing, staying in friends' homes or renting an apartment. But... The amount of politeness that the Japanese are pouring over you when you stay in a hotel is overwhelming. TWO beautiful girls escorted me to my room, and even the desk clerk was bowing over backwards at the inconvinience I had to endure when there were no non-smoking rooms available. It was funny, though, to hear a Japanese person say "impossible". I would've expected "difficult" (which usually means the same thing), but telling someone outright that something cannot be done? Amazing.

Oh well. A shower, shave and Pocari Sweat make me a man again. Woohoo! Tokyo! :-D

(Interesting tidbits learned from fast-food friends in the airplane: Apparently, in Malmö (Southern Sweden), 67% of women giving birth come from the Arabic countries. The implications are left to the reader as an exercise; I'm going out :)

L.A.'s Little Tokyo Gets Wi-Fi

L.A.'s Little Tokyo Gets Wi-Fi 05/13/2004 12:23 PM
A non-profit group is funding a Wi-Fi network in L.A.'s Little Tokyo District: The network will be built by eWAN and the city of L.A. is offering access to light poles and rooftops for the network. Users will pay comparable rates to DSL or cable service. This is an interesting partnership between a community group, the city, and a vendor to offer Internet access in an area that may be underserved....

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Some really amazing costumes can be seen here. And by amazing I mean interesting, and by interesting I mean freaky.

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