The Find Your Fast website that took the award was the central site for a larger integrated program I had designed to introduce a new game engine for 3DVIA and position it alongside the companies existing social 3D publishing suite.  It also took the Best in Show at the W3 this year as well.  I could describe it but this one is better experienced by clicking on the image above.

As I mentioned earlier, they spared no expense this year and put on quite a show.  Congratulation to Kiki Mills and everyone at MITX for putting on a first-class event.  I was only sad to see that no one was actually Kanye’d this year!

The 2 pictures above were taken with my iPhone and I only wish I had the NIKON.  The picture on the left is me with the crack team at Genuine Interactive.  Check out their augmented reality application that was connected with their print ad in the this years event program.  Can you find Chris (on the right of the pic) do his best Lord of the Dance impression?

See you next year!

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The Web Innovators Group or Webinno23

I only wish that I could make it myself!  Unfortunately, I have another commitment that I can not break but that should not stop you. I really need to work my schedule better. It seems that this is a common theme for me and Webinno but you can check out some of my previous posts on the Webinno events here.

When: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 6:30 PM (ET)

Where:

Royal Sonesta Cambridge
40 Edwin H Land Blvd
Cambridge, MA 02142
Yahoo | Mapquest | Microsoft

Main Dishes (presenting at 7pm)

• Book of Odds – Pre-launch Sneak Preview – Amram Shapiro
• Epernicus – Eric Silberstein & Mikhail Shapiro
• BatchBlue Software (BatchBook) – Pamela O’Hara

Side Dishes (demo’ing throughout the evening)

• Clickframes (by Beacon16) – Vineet Manohar
• BetterLesson – Alex Grodd
• Baydin – Alex Moore
• TheIdeaStartup.com – Matt Chepeleff and Ray Di Nizo
• Happn.in – Jay Boice and Matthew Latkiewicz
• Tripleseat Software – Jonathan Morse

Special Optional Breakout Session – “An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Bootstrapping PR” (held at 8pm)
Entrepreneur and marketing/media executive Mike Troiano will host a conversation with a panel of media reporters/columnists/editors including Scott Kirsner of the Boston Globe,Wade Roush from Xconomy, Peter Kafka from AllThingsD, and Bob Brown of Network World.

Despite the fact that media coverage is as an essential component of any web start-up’s marketing mix, full-blown PR support may not be in the cards. This on-stage discussion will provide the inside scoop on engaging with the media – everything from how entrepreneurs can generate awareness of their company through the media to what do you need to know before you connect with the press. In addition, panelists will cover questions like “What’s the best way to engage with reporters?” “What do reporters care / write about?” “What could entrepreneurs learn from PR people?” and “What really ticks reporters off (pet peeve)?”

It looks like another great event.

Please RSVP for the Event Here:
September 29^th Web Innovators Group

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The video below is an interview posted on Boston.com.  Did anyone get the CNN Live video to work today?  It never seemed to be live.

It’s been a long time since MC Hammer jumped back in to the spotlight in an attempt to reinvent his career as a social media expert. I am not sure it has really worked.  What do you think?

If you are interested in what happened at the event today, Mike Prolux posted a great collection of speaker quotes and Hill Holiday also put up a live post from the event.

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My favorite demo from the main 3 presenters had to be Totspot but Zeer and WebNotes both look like promising startups. Of the side demonstrations, it was great to see former colleague Michal Hlavac from local virtual world CreaturePark and to meet Robert DeFranco from 211me. I also had a chance to meet upcoming blogger Amanda Gravel of SocialHoneycomb – add her RSS feed to your reader.

Pictures: You can check out all of the pictures on Flickr. If you have pictures of the event, please add them to the Boston Tech Events group that I just started on Flickr.

Social Media: You can follow the event on (Summize) Twitter Search or join the new Webinno room on FriendFeed started by my colleague and FF star Hao.

Presenters: Please check out each of the local startups from the event last night.

• Totspot – Adam Katz
• WebNotes – Ryan Damico
• Zeer – Michael Putnam
• 211me – Robert DeFranco
• WordChamp – Daniel Blumenthal
• PaperG – Victor Wong & Roger Lee
• Creaturepark / Ingeeni Studios – Michal Hlavac & Henry Kaufman
• YouCastr – Ariel Diaz, Jeff Hebert, Matt Hodgson, & Brad Johnson
• LuckyCal – Sanjay Vakil
• Snipd – Alex Schliker
• Tikatok – Sharon Kan

The next event will be September 15th!

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I will attempt to attend all of these…hope to see you there!

• Build Guild, July 8th, 6:30PM
  Salem Beer Works [ REGISTER ]
  The new kid on the block and my winner for the best use of Twitter to promote an event, Build Guild brings together the cream of the North Shore web design crop in one event.  I love an event that brings together the web, micro-brews and  my old stomping grounds.
• WebInno18 – July 15th, 6:30PM
  Royal Sonesta Cambridge: [ REGISTER ]
  Back after a short hiatus, WebInno is back with a jam packed list of companies including Totspot, WebNotes, Zeer, 211me, WordChamp, PaperG, Creaturepark / Ingeeni Studios, YouCastr, LuckyCal, Snipd, Tikatok
  
• NSWG, July 17th, 6PM
  The Grog (Upstairs) [ REGISTER ]
  Another great event for the North Shore weberati, the North Shore Web Geek event is a monthly drinking / networking event at the Grog in Newburyport set for the third Thursday of every month.
• PodCamp3 Boston – July 19 – 20
  Joseph Martin Conference Center, Harvard Medical School [ REGISTER ]
  Considered an “unconference“, the next installment of social media popstars Christopher Penn (no, not that one) and Chris Brogan’s PodCamp comes back to Boston. Check out the list of presenters already signed up for the show.  This show also takes the “open” concept to the next level by publishing their books.
• TECH Cocktail Boston 2, Boston – July 24th, 6:30PM
  Tequila Rain by Fenway [ REGISTER ]
  If you liked the PopSignal event earlier this year and are looking for the party side of Boston web networking, TechCocktail is your event.  Check out the photos from last years TechCocktail event.

There are actually quite a few events and conferences in the area this month and next month even brings the Mashables event series to Boston…am I not cool because I do not have an event attached to my blog?

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Had a great time last night at the North Shore Web Geek meeting.  I arrived a bit late so I did not get a chance to meet everyone there but I’ll put it on the list for next month if I am not traveling.   The great thing about this event is that is not too large yet.  It is just a small gathering of web industry people that live up in the great white north.

I did get to meet some very interesting people including JC from VendorCity and Joshua Porter who recently released Designing for the Social Web.  He is also working with Chi.mp (actually out of Honolulu) a top-level domain company that is going to try a different take on social networking, content management and identity.  You can sign up for the beta on the Chi.mp site.

Today, I got pinged about yet another North Shore web industry event that will happen on July 8th in Salem at the Salem Brewery.   Marc Amos & Angelo Simeoni (love the CSSboy url – is that the new Cabinboy?) will hold their first web networking event called “Build Guild”…an event that I first thought was a WOW gamer club but looks to be another great networking event.

Now web heads on the North Shore will have 2 excuses per month to drink on the job!

• North Shore Web Geeks
  Every 3rd Thursday @ The Grog, Newburyport
  Start between 6 & 7
• Build Guild
  Every 2nd Tuesday @ Salem Beer Works
  Starts at 6:30 ( RSVP )

See you there!

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I also spoke with quite a few small startups either are launched or just about to get going including 2 "wisdom of the crowd" (love the buzzwords) plays that were interesting.  There first person I talked with was Craig from a NH based startup called Vendorcity.  Vendorcity will create a new way for SMBs to source services. There was also micro-entrepreneur James who is working on a stealth way for open source projects to "crowd source" (buzzword again) their project management ideas.  I’ll keep you updated on both startups as they develop.

And not to be outdone, tripadvisor pulled out their full-sized mascot. I wonder what the executive meeting was like when they debuted this costumed character?  Who pulled the short straw to where this last night?

Cheers!

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Sitting through the business presentations for each of the finalists in the category was fascinating and a worthwhile experience. Having other entrepreneurs present their pitch to you is a great way to gain a different perspective on how to deliver a message and capture someone’s attention.

I should have more on the finalists in the coming weeks leading up to the big announcement of the winners. Here are all of the finalists for 2008.

If your company is listed here, please read the 93Startup Profiles post and email me your information. I’ll try to get a post out soon.

Collaboration & Social Networking

• Acquia, Inc.
  Acquia – Commercially Supported Drupal
• Awareness
  Awareness Enterprise Social Media Platform
• Punchbowl Software
  MyPunchbowl.com
• Mzinga
  Mzinga – Market Leader in Business Social Media
• WorkLight Inc.
  Secure Web 2.0 Consumer Tools in the Workplace
• StyleFeeder
  StyleFeeder – Personalized Shopping Engine

Analytics & Business Intelligence

• Progress Software Corporation
  Complex Event Processing and Event Processing Made Accessible
• Visible Measures Corp.
  Measuring and Monetizing Internet Video
• SiteSpect
  Non-Intrusive Multivariate Testing for Web Site Optimization
• Lexalytics
  Text Analytics Beyond The Document Summary

Content Management

• Aetna
  Aetna SmartSource
• EveryZing, Inc.
  EveryZing, Inc.
• FlightView
  FlightView’s Real-Time Flight Information

Data Management

• Progress Software Corporation
  Breaking down data silos to achieve true SOA
• Certica Solutions, Inc.
  Certify: K-12 Data Certification Software
• Dataupia
  Free Your Data with the DataupiaT Satori Server
• mValent
  mValent Integrity v5
• Permabit Technology Corporation
  Permabit Enterprise Archive Data Center Series

Data Protection

• Double-Take Software
  Double-Take® 5.0
• ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
  ExaGrid Disk-Based Backup with Data De-duplication
• Diligent Technologies Corporation
  ProtecTIER – Diligent’s Game-Changing De-duplication Solution
• Veracode
  Veracode, Inc.
• VidSys
  VidShieldT Physical Security Information Management System and platform

Enterprise Technologies

• BBN Technologies
  BBN TransTalk – Winning Hearts and Minds by Breaking Down Language Barriers
• Marathon Technologies
  everRun VM: World’s First Fault-Tolerant, High Availability Software for Server Virtualization
• GotVMail Communications, LLC
  GotVMail Virtual Phone System
• Virtual Iron Software, Inc.
  Virtual Iron Version 4.2
• ZINK Imaging Inc.
  ZINK Zero Ink Digital Printing Technology, featuring ZINK Paper

Marketing/Customer Relationship Technologies

• HubSpot
  HubSpot Internet Marketing System
• Neolane, Inc.
  Neolane – New generation marketing that delivers
• Network World (IDG)
  Network World iDemand
• Mall Networks
  Shop.org/Cyber Monday
• Visible Technologies
  TruCast
• Chitika, Inc.
  Viral Brand Advertising Units

Mobile

• Azimuth Systems
  Azimuth Systems ACE 400WB MIMO Channel Emulator
• iSkoot
  iSkoot for Skype
• Monitise Americas
  Monitise Americas: Mobile Banking and Payments Provider
• Pyxis Mobile
  Pyxis Mobile’s Application Studio
• Mobicious, Inc.
  SnapMyLife

Video

• Brightcove
  Brightcove Internet TV Platform
• Gotuit Media Corp
  Gotuit VideoMarker Pro
• PeerApp Ltd.
  Intelligent Media Caching for Accelerating the Video Internet
• Lycos
  Lycos Cinema
• PermissionTV
  PermissionTV’s smartplayer Redefines Online Video

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From the invite…

POPSignal parties are aimed at bringing together the local tech and startup community in a fun and informal environment. There is no format, presentations, or speeches. However, there is always a free open bar, free food, music, fun activities from sponsors (see below), and great conversation. You must RSVP at http://popsignal.eventbrite.com.

Join us for an evening of fun mingling with other technology enthusiasts, VCs, bloggers and entrepreneurs on May 15th, 2008 at Tequila Rain near Fenway Park. The event is from 6:30pm – 9:30pm.

You must be 21+ to attend and must be on the RSVP list for the event to get in. Space is limited, so please RSVP only if you plan on attending. Can’t wait to see you there!

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POPsignal

Date
Thursday, May 15, 2008

Time
6:30 pm ET – 9:30 pm ET

Location
Tequila Rain by Fenway
3 Lansdowne Street
Boston, MA 02215

Map
Google | Yahoo | Mapquest | Microsoft

Link To This Event

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Courtesy my RSS reader, BUZZ in the Hub & Datum.

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Can you tell where the action is in an industry by where the notable events are being held? I was checking out the upcoming web 2.0 event listings published today on Mashable and noticed (with one exception) that all of the events are being held 3,000 miles away.

Here is a condensed version of the list (minus a few) – you can check out the full list on Mashable.

• SMX Social Media Marketing – April 22-23, 2008 – Long Beach, CA
• New Communications Forum – April 22-25, 2008 – Sonoma County, CA
• Web 2.0 Expo – April 22-25, 2008 – San Francisco, CA
• TECH Cocktail – April 24, 2008- Washington, DC
• DealMaker Forum – April 30, 2008 – San Francisco, CA
• Sun Startup Camp – May 4-5, 2008 – San Francisco, CA
• The SanFran MusicTech Summit – May 8, 2008 – San Francisco, CA
• O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference – May 12-14, 2008 – Burlingame, CA
• Communitelligence Social Media Conference – May 21-22, 2008 – Los Angeles, CA
• Google I/O page. – May 28-29, 2008 – San Francisco, CA
• Under The Radar Conference – June 3, 2008 – Mountain View, CA
• Twiistup – July 17, 2008 – Los Angeles, CA

Where are the big web events in the Boston area?

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Some resources for Boston area events:

• MarksGuide
• TechVenue.com
• MITX Event Calendar
• Xconomy Event Calendar
• Webinno
• Nantucket Conference
• ROFLcon

Note:

- Updated list with Webinno and Nantucket Conference – Thanks Scott!
- Updated the list with ROFLcon – thanks Tom!

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