June 18 Meetup
Posted by brandon on 22 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
20 people showed up, which is pretty cool.
Fish Fishman, AKA Tuna Oddfellow within Second Life, stopped by with his wife. Fish is a professional magician, and also more or less an Internet celebrity now. His wife was formerly with the EFF and worked on Tor. They are starting a machinma production company, in this case using game engines to create videos.
We heard what it was like working for Jim Cramer, the Mad Money guy.
We got an introduction to a project for proper display of text on a variety of screen sizes. This was pretty cool because if the screen is super small, it would actually change the semantics.
We talked about virtual goods, and if the money spend on them is just a short lived fad or a viable long-term replacement for all the things we know, like greeting and holiday cards.
Albert the V.C. stopped by as well.
Spread the word about the meetings. All of us hope to meet more local entrepreneurs.
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