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Last night’s first-ever was a great opportunity for business-owners, entrepreneurs, and developers to get together and share ideas. Organized by Dan Grigsby, and Luke Francl, the event drew attracted a diverse group of about 90 people who came to watch the six demos. A big thanks goes out to sponsors New Counsel, Ventera, and Slantwise Design for making the even possible.

The presenters were:

• Robert Metcalf of FlySpy.com, who showed us how visualizing the airfare marketplace can help people make better decisions about where and when to travel (I plan on using it to find a better airfare for my trip to RubyConf).
• JRuby’s Charlie Nutter, who (as always) wowed everyone with his guru-like understanding of how Ruby works.
• Jon Dahl, who talked about SaySwap, a video-game sharing site built in Ruby on Rails built by his company, Slantwise Design.
• Aaron Fulkerson of MindTouch talked about DekiWiki and Dream (sorry, I missed most of this one, anyone want to fill me in?).
• Garrick Van Buren showed off Feedseeder, a sweet-looking blog aggregator that tries to fix what a lot of other readers have gotten wrong. Best of all, Garrick told me he was able to learn a few things from looking at the Feedmarker source code! Go open source!
• Brian Huff demoed Bookmarkit.org, a free service that allows you to submit a bookmark to multiple social bookmarking sites with the greatest of ease.

I had the good-fortune of being asked to greet people at the door, so I got to meet more interesting peoplel than I’m capable of remembering (sadly). But it was definitely encouraging to see so many other entrepreneurial people gathered in one place; makes you want to get out there and do something!

Last Modified : September 6th, 2006
Filed under : Ruby on Rails, Web2.0, Entrepreneurship
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