Attack of the Alpha Adopters
Last night was my first time attending a Boston Web Innovators Group meeting. I have to say that it wasn’t quite what I was expected. MUCH more crowded and shorter then I even imagined.
Two products really stood out in my mind as ones that smart VC people will invest in. Check these guys out as I think they are onto something.
MyPunchbowl at it’s simplest description is a much better version of evites. But, what I like about it is the clean simple interface and the way it leverages what other people have done. What I mean is that I can look at where other people have held events in other cities, who did they use as a cateror and check out photos they and their friends took and posted to Flickr. The fact that it leverages other technologies rather then forcing you to put everything in yet another social network (Y.A.S.N.?) make me happy. There is something here and I’m going to have fun watching it grow.
MobaTalk still has my mind in overdrive this morning. After the meeting the founders joined some of us for coffee and dessert nearby and the conversation was amazing where this could go. Imagine a plug in to your already existing blog that will allow people to EASILY post video, audio and text base comments. Imagine if I could have a widget on my blog that shows the last 5 comments I left through this system on other blogs and people could go and check out the posts and the comments. It’s simple, powerful and damn I want it on my blog NOW! How these guys have skirted under the radar is beyond me. After last night I hope people step up and make this as big as it could be.
There were other products. I like the potential of Guild Cafe for gamers and spotstory for those with wanderlust.
Of course the best part for me was sitting around a table and recording a Slackercast with Chris Brogan, Steve Garfield, Dan Gorgone and Bryan Person. Then later the guys from MobaTalk joined us and so did Indigo from Top Ten Sources.
January 31st, 2007 at 11:00 am |
Michael Bailey has been working his ass of with the MobaTalk system for the last year and two. I hope he and new CEO Jeff Persch get the recognition — and funding — that they deserve.
You’re right, C.C. This service should be huge!
January 31st, 2007 at 11:07 am |
Good to see Michael from MobaTalk rolling… he’s a great guy. He really hasn’t skirted under the radar. His first product was MyChingo. MobaTalk is the bastard powerchild of MyChingo. Michael has been intimately involved in podcasting for a while, and is actually helping to organize Podcamp Midwest here in Kansas City. All of us here in town have been anxious to see it unveiled.
January 31st, 2007 at 11:16 am |
Not sure if MobaTalk is available to me via Wordpress or a plugin I use for my streeming media, but I have it available in my WP admin dashboard. Pretty neat. I’d be able to tell you for sure IF MY BLOG ADMIN PAGE WASN’T BLOCKED BY THE ASS CLOWNS I WORK FOR.
January 31st, 2007 at 1:44 pm |
Hmm, I missed Brogan up here, AND Garfield, Person, and you too, bruh. Not sure how that happened! Somebody hit me via SMS next time! Let technology guide your hustle
I need to get down with Mobatalk — it could come in handy in the very near future.
January 31st, 2007 at 4:07 pm |
I had such a killer time. Thanks for hanging out. We had a hell of a time. — Chris…
January 31st, 2007 at 5:23 pm |
Just saw this and remembered the conversation from last night.
http://www.nick.com/nicktropolis/comingsoon.html?_requestid=1073954
January 31st, 2007 at 8:13 pm |
[…] Ben Saren of Citysquares and Your Suspect sums up his experience from the previous WebInno here. It is surprisingly similar to ours (except I didn’t get a beer and a burger after!) Greg Peverill-Conti at Over the River also covers the event here. C.C. Chapman also gives us a mention. […]
February 1st, 2007 at 4:34 pm |
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