I’ve been here less than 36 hours and am already having a phenomenal time.
Last night, after a quick nap, I met up with Wayne Sutton (@waynesutton) and Chris Owens (@ocell).
If you’re in online marketing, especially social media, and you don’t know Wayne Sutton, get familiar with him. He not only gets it, he also puts the work into it. If someone were to hire him to let him loose on the social media world, we should all be scared.
Chris is a fantastic product designer finishing up school at NC State. He showed me the cell phone design he put together, and I was totally blown away.
After dinner, we went to Sooz’s (@Sooz) house for her “eviction party.” There, I ended up meeting Todd Van Hoosear (@vanhoosear), who’s one of the most well-spoken people I’ve ever met and really gets it when it comes to social media. His clients are definitely in good hands. I’ll be climbing with him tomorrow night, and can’t wait to talk more.
Today was spent getting around town with a friend, getting familiar with the T, seeing Paul Revere’s house, and getting some work done. While I was at Andala Coffee House (I’ll definitely be going back) for dinner and coffee, I found out from Aaron White (@aaronwhite) about DevHouse.
DevHouse ended up being totally awesome. Lots of really smart people, doing really cool things, in a really short amount of time. I was totally stoked. (See my Twitter profile for live Twittering of it)
There, I met Mark Soper, Costas Boussios, and another guy named Ben (didn’t get full contact info, but I’m sure we’ll meet again and I’ll post about it in here. He gave me some fantastic advice and first-hand experience about eLance.com. I’m writing project descriptions tonight.) who happens to be more on the business and marketing side than the tech/programming side.
The projects shown at DevHouse were totally awesome. I can’t describe what it’s like to be around so many smart people who are putting together really cool products. It’s definitely something to be experienced, and just reinforces that we’re in such an amazing time in history right now.
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I found out that my Neat Receipts scanner isn’t made for Mac. Gotta send it back and get a Mac one this week. Or maybe I’ll get the VMWare app for creating a Windows environment and hack at that…I may be doing that anyway.
One of the great things I’m loving about Boston (especially Cambridge) so far is the strong sense of intellectualism and community. I’m going to be putting together a whole post on this topic, but I think it’s amazing to be at a coffee shop at 11pm on a Sunday night and eavesdrop on such great conversations.
What kind of projects did you use it for?