Boston User Group Calendar
The Boston User Group has an event calendar for Boston area computer events. Many of these events are relevant for startups. Some are networking events, others are user groups for programming languages.
{ Monthly Archives }
July 2008
Web Innovators Group 18
The next Web Innovators Group event is coming up this Tuesday, July 15. WebInno is an event featuring presentations by startups and lots of time afterwards to network. Several hundred people attend, including founders, people looking for work, and investors. This is one of the best events in Boston, and I highly recommend it.
The demos for WebInno18 have been announced. I’m looking forward to the WebNotes presentation by Ryan Damico. I had the chance to meet Ryan at the last WebInno, and I liked his concept.
If you are planning on attending, please RSVP for the event. Details for the event are listed on the RSVP page.
Video from Last Mobile Monday Event
This is a video of the last Mobile Monday event that I previously blogged about. The event was about mobile web browsers.
Professional Networking Events in Boston - Mark’s Guide
Mark’s Guide was recommended to me as a resource for finding technology and startup related networking events, but it also has networking events for many other interests.
Mobile Monday Boston
Mobile Monday Boston is a group for those of us interested in mobile device opportunities. They host regular events, keep a blog and online discussion group, and are a great resource for Boston startups interested in mobile technologies.
Their last event took place just yesterday. It was titled Browsers — Driving the Web, or Driven by the Web?, and it was a panelist discussion about mobile web browsers. The moderator was Ed Mitukiewicz of Orange Labs Boston, and the panelists included:
- Keith Waters - also of Orange Labs
- Mike Phillips - Co-Founder of vlingo
- Brad Lassey - Mozilla, working on mobile Firefox
- Franklin Davis - Nokia, business development
- David Carson - Google, technical lead for Android browser
The event was hosted by Orange Labs in Cambridge, and their offices were very sleek and modern.
The discussion covered a lot of basic ground involving mobile enabling the web. Questions and topics included:
- Interesting facts and figures about the mobile industry:
- Around the world, more mobile devices exist than PCs. There are roughly 3 billion mobile devices and 1 billion PCs.
- In many countries, mobile phone penetration is high but access to PCs is low. This means that for many people, a cell phone was their first web enabled device.
- 1 billion mobile phones are sold per year yet…
- Less than 1% of all web browsing is done from phones
- Diversity of platforms and devices
- Applications versus widgets versus mobile web
- Web transcoding, content proxies, etc. for mobile devices
- Resources for developers:
Afterwords there was snacks and drinks at the Royal Sonesta hotel. I had a chance to meet some of the organizers and panelists. Alessandro Pace, one of the organizers, showed me some demos of Flash running on his phone.