Blogger/Web2.0 Mixer Event #2

Roger Kondrat over at TechWinter organised the second Blogger/Web2.0 Mixer Event last night, and a great success it was. About 40-50 bloggers, startups and web entrepreneurs got together for chat, beer and chips, at All Bar One in Soho.

I met some interesting people, including:

• Chris Toudic of Jobneters, a new job network which has just gone live.
  
• Chris Scollo and Philip Wilkinson of Crowdstorm (good to see you guys again), a new Social Shopping site which launched in public beta last week.
  
• Ewan MacLean from SMSTextnews, who was very enthusiastic about all things mobile. He agreed to interviewed for a podcast by Andy White, of Summit Solutions, who was polling people about their Blackberries. Ewan made some very interesting comments about his use of mobile email devices.
  

Thanks again to Roger for organising the event; keep an eye out on his
blog for future events (I'll almost certainly mention it here too, when
there's more info to pass on).

Geeks Galore

Three events coming up in the near future, which readers might find interesting. I'll probably be at a couple of them.

London Geek Picnic
When: Saturday, 26th August @ 15:00 - 22:00ish
Where: Hyde Park, London
More details from: London Geek Dinner blog

London Geek Dinner with Ben Metcalf
When: Friday, 1st September @ 18:30 - 23:00 ish
Where: The Bottlescrue, 53 - 60 Holburn Viaduct, London, EC1A 2FD
More details from: London Geek Dinner blog

Blogger/Web2.0 Mixer Redux (No.2)
When: Monday, 11th September @ 19:30 - 23:00ish
Where: All Bar One, 36-38 Dean Street, London W1D 4PS
More details from: Roger Kondrat's Technological Winter blog.

Thick Squared

Following on from my post on RugbyMad about how thick can you get (travel agents' feedback from customers), I see The Register is running a poll for readers to decide who handled the most stupid help-desk call. There are some crackers there, but I think my favourite has to be my rabbit's dead :-D

I'm till having aggro with Technorati, as posted yesterday.

Without me doing very much, recent posts on RugbyMad seem to be indexed (I've not tagged any posts on that blog yet) but further back than a couple of weeks and there's nothing found when searching. Meanwhile, the scoped search for this blog still seems to do five parts of naff all. Hopefully they will sort it soon.

On a more positive note, I'd like to thank Roger Kondrat for giving this blog a plug over at Technological Winter, and his help with aiding this relative blogging-newbie overcome the trials and tribulations of the technology :-)

Tonight I'm off to the London Geeks' Dinner to hear Chris Anderson speak on the The Long Tail as a sales model, which I hope will be interesting. I'll post my thoughts soon.