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Meet me at NYC’s Internet Week 2010

June 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Community, Events, Industry

Internet Week 2010, starting today and ending on Sunday, is a wide array of events all around NYC raising the profile of our ever-growing tech industry.
I’ve been generally underwhelmed by the daytime offerings, but will be out and about each night.
Where you can find me (and if you see me, say hello!):
Monday, June 7
Zappos CEO [...]

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Sketchnotes from UK UPA’s UX Clinic

June 1st, 2010 · 2 Comments · Events, Pleasure, User Experience

Like I mentioned in my post on UX London, I also had the pleasure of being on a UK UPA panel with Dave Gray, Jeff Patton, and Stephen Anderson titled UX Clinic. We spent about two hours answering the audience’s questions — some previously submitted and some on the fly. It was a blast.
Eva-Lotta Lamm [...]

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NY Tech Meetup — February 2010

February 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Events, Technology

This month’s NY Tech Meetup was titled Rally for the Future. With almost 700 people in attendance at FIT’s Haft Auditorium, NYTM veered off its typical format of 7 presenters for 5 minutes each. Instead a wide variety of people gave impassioned arguments about how to bring New York to the forefront of the technology [...]

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NY Tech Meetup: The European Edition

January 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Events

Last night, Dawn Barber and Meetup.com CEO and co-founder Scott Heiferman hosted a special edition of NY Tech Meetup at Meetup HQ.
NY Tech Meetup: European Edition gave 11 startups from all over Europe the chance to wow us tough New Yorkers with 3-minute demos of their webapps. The companies are all 2009 winners of [...]

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New to New York?

November 13th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Events

My new friend Dave Dawson recently graduated college and moved from Cambridge to NYC. While I was timid and intimidated when I first entered the working world, Dave is quite the opposite –– he is eager to put himself out there, meet lots of new people, and see what the city has to offer.

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