Chicago Beta

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This week I checked out Chicago Beta, a networking group which had its third meetup on December 12th.

It was pretty cool. I went around and described the Linkspank concept as "MySpace meets Digg," and made some vague allusions to the Secret Weapon Under Development.

There were web developers there and it was cool to meet people who were ready, willing & able to get involved with a startup, unlike all those business school students who TALK about their PASSION for startups and then go work for non-startups. :-)

Rags showed up and we chatted a while with some interesting folks, including Eric from Feedburner. I've always been interested in Feedburner, the supreme king of RSS feeds. One topic of our discussion is how small a percentage of the population knows what feeds are, how it's a pain in the ass to add them to readers and pages mostly, how IE7 may speed adoption.

The event could have used more people and more logistics but it's totally cool that such a thing is going on. Next month is another bigger event, TechCocktail -- note URL on that link :-) -- and Linkspank will potentially demo there and unleash the Secret Weapon Under Development.

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