If you live in the DC area and you’re into web development and blogging, you’ve probably heard of TECH Cocktail. If you haven’t then let me enlighten you. According to their website,
“TECH cocktail, a community building startup founded in May 2006 by Frank Gruber and Eric Olson, offers events and community-powered projects open to bloggers, technology enthusiasts, entrepreneurs & professionals interested in technology in under served technology communities.”
Viq and I at DC TECH Cocktail 5
Essentially it boils down to a happy hour of technophiles networking with each other over free drinks. It’s actually a really great opportunity if you’re even remotely related to the field. I went to TECH cocktail DC 5 recently, and it was held at the LeftBank in Adams Morgan. I met a whole slew of Web Developers, Designers, Photographers, Lawyers, even Venture Capitalists at the event. There were some pretty prominent people there including Brian Williams, the CEO of Viget Labs.
Hopefully TECH Cocktail comes back to DC because it was a great event. Hopefully some new faces will show up and continue the trend!
Check out the latest invention from Google, http://www.google.com/squared/. You can receive some pretty cool combinations from using this service. I’m not sure how to best describe it’s practical usage.
I typed in parrot fish and google got back to me with some pretty interesting results. First of all I never even knew there is an actual parrot fish, second I like how the third result is ethics, as if to say if you could genetically create a parrot fish, should you?
Have fun playing around with it. This could’ve been a useful tool in college.
