There are more bloggers in Brooklyn than any other place I know of. Just look in the Tea Lounge in the middle of the day. What are they all doing? Blogging. Add to that all the web designers, developers, web video producers, and we *are* the center of the web universe. So I thought we should have a meetup that meets in the center of the universe, BKLN, where we can get together and meet, talk, have a beverage. Last Wednesday of every month, usually.

This group is for those interested in the emerging field of Cloud Technologies, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise 3.0 and related fields. These include cloud-enabled databases like Couchbase Single Server CouchDB, virtualization clouds and many enterprise SaaS and PaaS services. Support for this group provided by GoChat: GroupChat, IM, VideoChat & FileSharing between visitors on your website http://www.GoChat.us FAQ: What is Enterprise 2.0? It officially means embracing Web 2.0 tools and technologies …

The Creators Project is a global culture and technology initiative created by Intel and Vice in order to showcase artists, musicians, and filmmakers, and enable them to realize new artworks. The project includes an online community, a content creation studio, and global events. We bring together hundreds of artists using technology to push the bounds of creative expression. The Creators Project meetup series will showcase exemplary artists and ideas at the intersection of culture and technology, …

Technology and the web have changed how fiction, poetry, essays, and memoirs are being distributed, and have begun to alter the process of writing, reading, sharing, and consuming texts.  Words are finding new modalities, and innovators across disciplines have begun to experiment with how technology might improve their creation, curation, and consumption. Code Meet Print is the community at the intersection of texts + technology that will contemplate, define, and help build better interfaces for …

Black Tech is a meetup group to establish a community of technology professionals that help to advance startups born in the black community. No, you do not have to be black to join the group! But you do need to be committed to enhance the experience of a minority startup. The basic format of our meetups will be as follows: Intro and Thanks - 2 minutes or less Topic Speaker - 15 Minutes Speaker Q & A - 15 Minutes Break -  10 minutes Startup Showcase - 30 Minutes (2 early stage startup's @ 15 …

The masses should have access to the tools, people, and resources to learn technology and help us continue to grow the IT sector in New York City! The biggest players in NYC tech scene come together to help shine a light on the latest goings on for both experienced and novice/aspiring techies. The best way to learn is to be interactive. Learn from the professionals, have your questions answered real-time, discover new tech, and hear stories that inspire. NYC boasts the best and the brightest, th …

A group of web developers meets monthly to build web apps and learn how to do it right and fast using open source, web standards and various API (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Meetup and more). @StartupAPI The list of topics ranges from Security and Identity to Usability and Analytics. If you know a good topic we should discuss, please add it to the wiki, maybe even add some links to good articles / videos about it. We also code web applications right at the meetings - using whatever we want …

Usergroup for developers, designers and enthusiasts of Microsoft's XAML technologies in the New York Tri-State area, including Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight, Windows Phone, and the new Metro interface being introduced in Windows 8. While our meetings focus on Microsoft technology, we welcome all who are interested in RIA technology, including Adobe Flash and Flex.

Technology shifts and transforms, but the law often remains stagnant. This group asks a few simple questions: How can we use technological developments to address legal deficiencies? And how can lawyers start to think more like hackers? This monthly meetup challenges Legal Hackers to flesh out problems and then develop solutions through legal and extra-legal mechanisms. Join us as we tackle these tough issues and create tangible solutions. There are two requirements to be Legal Hacker: attention …

Ever combined the Web, Second Life, World of Warcraft, Google Earth, Nintendo, Xbox Kinect, Facebook, Moore's Law and the unfolding human experience into a single thought (which, perhaps, you then Twittered over your iPhone)? Working on an art or web or game or virtual world project? Have an avatar? Are an avatar? Think video games can save the world or that the world is already a video game? (Or think that's the worst thing you've ever heard?) Does Snow Crash ring any bells even if you're way t …

This group is for people who work in the web startup industry who play or are learning to play acoustic instruments in old time, folk, or bluegrass style music.  Vocalists are also welcome! We will learn from one another, practice together, and jam. Please respect that this group is currently only for web startup people and is only for old time / folk / bluegrass music.  If you do not work for a web company and have no interest in playing that type of music, please do not apply to join.  Thanks …

Data is all the rage these days, often presented as the next big trend in the evolution of the Web, and the next big opportunity for internet entrepreneurs. This Meetup focuses on the business aspects of the data revolution: startup opportunities, new products, business models, funding trends, emerging players, and ways for existing startups to leverage their data. Technical aspects will also occasionally be discussed, but attendees do not need to have a technical background. While hosted at Blo …

What has happened to the north Brooklyn tech scene?!?!?! You Cant tell me that everybody went to Etsy?!?!? Seriously though, I am a systems engineer trying to find some new local talent, and I am picking up the bar tab to get people to hang out, and discuss the things that they like/dislike about technology, and to see if there is a good place for them to join my team.

The purpose of this meetup is to connect Fairfield University Alum's who work as Technology professionals in and around New York City.

Meet others who use Plone (www.plone.org), an open source content management system that makes it easy to build full-featured websites. YouTube Video for the Plone NYC Users Group http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnttWju8BGw Plone adheres to web standards, is cross-platform, multi-lingual, and has a friendly, worldwide community of developers and users. Plone and its underlying technologies Zope & Python can also be used to create web applications, including mobile apps. Gather to share kno …

High Tech meetup is for Entrepreneurs and inventors who are working on cutting edge technology. This is not a meetup for just web or another exercise app. It is geared at high tech startups involved in non standard and potentially revolutionary ideas and products. Granted, everyone thinks what they make falls into that category.As an example this meetup is for people involved in material modeling, robotics, machine learning, mobile apps that are deeper than a server+table/map UI. You got the pic …

Network & Learn To Become More Successful! If you enjoy Professional Socializing, Sharing and Learning Events this group is dedicated to creating the perfect opportunities for you to participate. Join Us With ONE EASY Click - All Profile Questions are Optional! Join us if you are an entrepreneur, solo-preneur, or art-preneur and want to meet new friends and make lasting connections which is the primary and best way to grow your business! Here, you will learn from top experts about marketing a …

VentureOutNY is focused on helping to enable international startups to launch and succeed in New York City. Based on the philosophy that talent is evenly distributed but opportunity is not, VentureOutNY’s mission is to bridge that gap between the entrepreneurial talent abroad to the vast opportunities in burgeoning technology community in New York. Through regionally focused events, VentureOutNY introduce the world’s most talented international entrepreneurs to the startup ecosystem in NYC, fast …

Girls in Tech is a global organization focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of powerful, influential women in technology and entrepreneurship. Girls in Tech chapters such as this one engage the local community of women in the technology and entrepreneurship spaces, as well as highlight the specific industry concerns in each geographic region. Thank you for joining us! See you soon. Visit use at: http://girlsintechnyc.com Follow us on Twitter: @gitweet and @gitnyc and Facebook! L …

A group dedicated to learning and mastering the Play! web application framework. The group was started by engineers at Gilt to help foster and learn from the Play! and Scala communities in NYC. As we dived deeper into this amazing web framework, we wanted to be able to connect with other engineers in the NY area to share our experiences, evangelize, and learn. No matter if you're a Play! expert, a Scala beginner, or just interested in what makes this web framework different, Play! NYC is here to …

As of April 2011, this group will discuss "website marketing methods", (Google Adwords, Facebook Ads). Google Adwords is great, but I would like to expand the discussion Here's the original greeting from the previous organizer: Everything you ever wanted to know about Google Adwords, who invented it, how it will be regulated, how it works, why it works so well, the magic behind it, and why Google's implementation of this amazing technology is causing so much fraud - more than $3 billion a year i …

This is a group that thinks technology can do a lot to address the challenges in our food system. A bunch of us met at SXSW Interactive in 2010 and realized we were all thinking about how we could harness web-based tools to communicate about food, provide information about food in a new and meaningful way, inspire broad interest in a healthier food systems, and design products that make it easy to find healthy food.

The New York Metro CodeIgniter user group. For newbies and power users! Come network, laugh and learn!

For folks that didn't manage to get tickets to larger NY tech events, folks that like to code, build web sites and pitch business plans around. This group is geared to a more low-key technical/informal crowd. Idea is to try some informal meetups around the technical issues over a beer.  Folks can pitch their idea whether technical or business based.

Social networking for greater NYC librarians and library students. All sectors and backgrounds accepted. Come discuss developments in the field, explore professional opportunities, examine emerging technologies, and engage in good old-fashioned librarianship! Social media: Please follow us on our meetup BLOG. We're also on  Twitter.  Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, LibraryThing, LinkedIn, Goodreads & YouTube. What social media sites are you on? NEW:  Meet our Mentors! Click HERE to learn more …

AlleyWatch is a news, culture and technology property dedicated to the creation and fostering of startups and related organizations. For more information, please follow AlleyWatch on Facebook and Twitter.

What is crisismapping? Crisismappers are online teams of people who gather and provide data online to people responding to and people caught up in disasters. Crisismapping has been around for a while, but for most people it started with the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, where all the government and NGO information needed to respond to the earthquake was lost in the earthquake. We created online maps from satelllite images, put SMS and media reports onto an Ushahidi map, got documents into Sahana, …

Afigma is a vision of the future, where humanity strives to achieve two things; space development and transcendence of a human into a "mage". To make this vision a reality, five things are required. First, people willing to believe and support Afigma. Second, the way of Tau, which is the core philosophy of Afigma. Third, the advanced Technology(IX-POINT Texnologies Inc) and (Orga Industries Inc.) industries that can research and develop the tools for accomplishing the vision. Forth, The Ban …