Meet local professionals, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts interested in the Semantic Web. Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/lotico-list Homepage: http://www.lotico.com twitter tag: #lotico Please be advised that all public data of this meetup will be published as linked data on the world wide web. By acknowledging this welcome message you agree to this practice. If you have any questions about this practice please don't hesitate to ask the organizer of the group.

Eastbay Localprenuers Meetup In order to survive as an entrepreneur, it's crucial to understand how to make the right connections, get the tools and inspirational education in order to grow your business. Eastbay Localprenuers Meetup brings you fresh speakers, monthly training and networking to jump-start your projects and dreams. • Have great business ideas; however you don’t know where to start? • Clueless about Internet Marketing 101? • Have a website that's not working for you? • Need to …

Silicon Valley Web Builder (SVWB) is a web organization dedicated to providing web builders with useful and informative resources. We promote technological innovations and address technical challenges facing the web community. SVWB invites expert speakers to address important and critical aspects of launching, building and growing successful websites, web applications and web-based businesses. SVWB efforts cover every aspect of web building including user experience design, information architec …

The online media is drastically changing the fashion industry and the way consumers interact with fashion brands. Meet the people that lead the fashion revolution online - fashion bloggers, new media publishers, entrepreneurs, industry insiders, fashion PR reps, and web savvy trendsetters. You must a professional within the fashion industry and have an online presence to join this group. This is the SF chapter of NYC based Fashion 2.0 meetup, founded in 2008. We are currently working on get …

This group is forum to gather and share experiences around Cloud Computing, especially Amazon Web Services. If you have used EC2, S3, Amazon Payments, Mechanical Turk or are interested in learning more about how others have, come join our group. Cloud Computing is changing rapidly so if you are involved in the cloud or interested in learning about how Enterprise companies are leveraging the cloud, stop on by.

This group is catered for people who are looking to partner up or simply network with like minded individuals trying to make a difference. San Francisco Technology Startups and its people share a common vision, to be the first: First to see an opportunities, first to define categories, and first to revolutionize the industry. This Meetup will host meetups every month, so please stay tune for more details. I am currently looking to complete The Leadership Team at San Francisco Technol …

Freelance web work is lonely and isolating. We want to meet others that we can socialize with, learn from and maybe work with. All web disciplines welcome - design, development, IA, project management, whatever.

SILICON VALLEY FORUM (SVForum) Web Apps & E-Commerce - Special Interest Group (SIG) WeCommerce Blog - http://wecommercesig.wordpress.com Web Apps & E-Commerce - Special Interest Group provides a forum for web app & e-commerce developers, product, finance, and marketing professionals to interact and discover ways of growing their ventures. The SIG welcomes experienced professionals and new entrants. The agenda features speakers from companies, VCs, financiers, product managers, and marketers. I …

Cloud Computing and Virtualization are transforming the technology industry. The SVForum Cloud Computing and Virtualization SIG meets monthly to discuss the impact these new technology platforms is having on infrastructure, operations, and applications from a user and vendor perspective. For more information visit: http://www.svforum.org/cloudsig. The cost to attend is $20.00 (note: it is free to attend if you are an SVForum member with proof of membership).

Core group has worked with new technology startups for over 18 years. How to take a social media or technology start-up company from idea concept through funding and global market. Whether family shoestring budget, angel investment or VC venture capital the principles for success remain the same. With the warp-speed changes in digital, mobile and hyper-localized marketing as well as consumer savvy rewards-based technologies emerging every view days we would love to meet and chat about some basic …

Do you keep up with the latest trends of web technology?Do new web analytics startups excite you?Are you curious about HTML5, CSS3, and more? We welcome all professionals involved with web technology, including website development, web analytics, social media, mobile apps, CRMs, and cloud. If you're a:- web designer, - web developer, - web marketer, - or anyone else who loves web technology, then this group is for you! We'll talk about the latest trends, share our ideas about what works and w …

Pylons Project technologies powers many important and varied web sites that call the bay area their birth place. The python web frameworks pyramid, pylons, groundhog and turbogears all are stewarded by the Pylons Project Community. This group exist to help the folks in the bay area who build these sites share their experiences, knowledge, and love of beer as well as to help other learn how they can benefit from the only python web framework unafraid of admitting it's passion for Egyptology and I …

Are you a professional in a web-related field? A Tibet supporter? Interested in helping to make change happen? This group is for professionals working in web-related fields who support the Tibetan people's cause and want to help by contributing their ideas, skills and energy in a collaborative, stimulating atmosphere with like-minded people. We would like to form a think-tank of talented people from multiple disciplines to creatively explore how web 2.0, digital video and social media can be us …

Bring Your Site, Improve Your Design Are you building a website without a designer? Do you feel like there's something wrong, but can't quite put your finger on it? Are you a designer looking for some feedback? No matter how much time you’ve put into your website, chances are it could still benefit from a designer’s “fresh pair of eyes”. We’ll review your website and make suggestions for improvement. We’ll go through examples and analyze the content, typography, look and feel, accessability, etc …

A community of women in technology where we talk tech in a non-judgemental friendly environment. Goals: A monthly happy hours where we will talk about a pre-decided topic based on group suggestions. Eg: technology(Hadoop, Ruby-On-Rails etc.), latest start-up trends, use of latest technology in our daily lives etc.. Please don't feel you have to be an expert on that topic or for that matter know anything about it. If you are just interested in knowing more about it this is the place for you. We a …

We're a group of web developers an designers based in San Ramon that we tired of having to go to SF or the South Bay to meet up with others to talk shop. We're thinking a casual monthly meetup for drinks and grub to start and see where it goes from there.

Social information (our preferences, shares, tags, comments, collections, etc.) is the fastest growing and most valuable type of information on the web.  We have given the responsibility of stewarding that data to just a couple companies.  This is a problem. We need to rethink social.  Does it need to be an end-to-end service where the price of participation is the forfeiture of our data?  Does it need to have just a single interface, designed and served by the company that sells our data? Or ca …

Design&Startups is a group for the best web, mobile, and graphic designers in the Bay Area. With growth and focus shifting from only technology to beautifully designed technology, Design&Startups wants to be the central place to learn about it. We will interview amazing designers, provide access to great products, and showcase beautiful work. Join us if you believe in a more beautiful web.

East Bay Technology Executives (EBTE) has been formed to take advantage of and leverage our common East Bay location and unique cultural attributes. To create a foundation of shared experience, membership is open to people living in who live in the Bay Area's 510- and 925- area codes...and are current or former: officer-level (VP or more senior) executives and entrepreneurs/founders from technology companies of all types (hardware/software, communications, digital media, Internet, cleantech, et …

At OkCupid Labs, we're focused on building great technology to connect and match people. The Labs Technology Meetup group is a forum for intellectually curious engineers, math geeks, designers to meet up and talk about new product prototypes and data systems that help people in their search for connections both on and offline. We're big fans of: Lightning talks Skills workshops Happy Hours Great design User-centric development Some of our Meetups will focus on: Ruby, Rails 3, Backbone, Heroku, P …

Think of Converge-SF events as a venue to explore the intersection between design and technology. We hope to bring you inspiring speakers, letting them narrate their creative efforts by way of the presentation of a project. We will cover the many technologies which are used across the design and development workflow and delve into one or two of these technologies along the way. Find out more about us and view past presentations at Converge-SF.org Live Webcasts at: http://experts.adobeconnect/con …

Are you a kickass web designer and or web developer? Do you design drool inducingly beautiful websites and/or code PHP in your dreams? Come by at our social mixer for some great food and super conversation. This event is sponsored jointly by StopTheHacker and our partner Dreamhost. We would love to get to know you, chat about what kind of websites you design and what you use, how you handle challenges through the process and post delivery. Dreamhost and StopTheHacker will present a quick deck of …

A place to learn and discuss new developments in web technologies. We are not focused exclusively on any one language or framework. Instead, this group is to help developers explore the rapidly changing world of web development and understand new technologies and techniques that might fit their needs. We'll try to have a diverse set of events from speakers, to tutorials, to hack nights.

The goal of this meetup group is to develop an interesting community of web publishers Join this group if you like: Publishing websites (blogs, forums, wikis, etc.) Web programming Tech meetups Startups

Good morning African American web professionals. If you professionally develop code, media, content, or strategy for the web, please come and join us for a networking waffle breakfast.

Fashion Technology (FT) Accelerator is a program in Silicon Valley exclusively dedicated to start-ups at the intersection of fashion and technology. FT Accelerator works with a selected group of companies that are already generating revenue and are typically ready to achieve sustained growth. For pre-revenue start-up there is FT Start-up Showcase, a monthly discussion / demo centered around different topics and challenges facing the Fashion & Retail industries at the intersection with Technology …

This group is for those interested in the power of social media and web analytics. We will be discussing best practices and challenges faced when managing the vast amount of data now available.

Elcom Technology Inc. (Elcom) is a global provider of enterprise web content management solutions. We assist mid-enterprise organizations to achieve their corporate objectives for Websites, Intranets, Portals, Mobile Web, Social, eCommerce, Learning Management and Online Marketing. We wanted to start a Meetup in the SF Bay Area to help customers, prospects, developers, content contributor's, system administrator's overcome the frustrations often associated with planning, designing and implementi …