Event: Six Hour Startup Conference [link]
Date: Saturday, May 31, 2008
Time: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Venue: Columbia City Theater, Seattle
Price: $99
Presenters: Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op), Julie Wiediger (Axios Law Group), Dan McComb (Biznik), Carolynn Duncan (FundingUniverse.com), Keith Gormezano (Consultant), Tony Wright (RescueTime), Jim Cooley (stealth startup).
Event: MIT Enterprise Forum: The Business of Personal & Public Data: Creating Value and Protecting Privacy [link]
Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Time: 5:00 - 9:00 PM
Venue: Hyatt, Bellevue
Price: $48 until May 22, $54 until June 4, $60 at the door
Presenters: Janis Machala (Paladin Partners), Shane Atchinson (Zaaz), Mark Britton (Avvo), Joe Giordano (PayScale), Naveen Jain (Intelius)
Event: Lunch 2.0 @VHoldr [link]
Date: May 30, 2008
Time: 11:30AM - 1PM
Venue: VHoldr, Seattle
Price: Free
Unless you don't know what Web 2.0 is (in which case you should not be reading this blog), Twitter has become quite a popular service. Either by the people using it, by the talks by the watercooler or by the constant press about its downtime, Twitter is another way for people to kill time and broadcast their lifes.
In one sentence, Twitter is a like blogging, but you have just 140 characters to write each post and people can "follow" you (and you can "follow" them).
Quite a few of Seattle 2.0 entrepreneurs are Twittering nowadays. It's hard to define the content of those "tweets" into a single category, but they go from the personal ("I'm ordering dinner"), to the venting off ("I just came out of a stressful meeting"), to the question format ("Where can I find ...").
If you just want to know what the top 10 most followed Seattle founders, CEOs and CTOs are twittering about, check the list below.
- @randfish - Rand Fishkin (SEOmoz) [picture]
- @davidgeller - David Geller (EyeJot, WhatCounts)
- @npost - Nathan Kaiser (nPost)
- @webwright - Tony Wright (RescueTime)
- @daveschappell - Dave Schappell (TeachStreet)
- @hansomli - Hans Omli (Frigy)
- @briandorsey - Brian Dorsey (Noonhat)
- @kickstand - Jordan Mitchell (Others Online)
- @asteele - Alan Steele (MergeLab)
- @kmerritt - Kevin Merritt (blist)
There were quite a few others that didn't made the top 10, but they include many known local names like Bryan Starbuck (TalentSpring), Bryce Baril (MarketOutsider), John Musser (ProgrammableWeb), Marcelo Calbucci (Sampa, Seattle 2.0), Max Ciccotosto (Wishpot), Vivek Bhaskaran (Survey Analytics), Mikhail Seregine (ClayValet) and many others.
