Jon is announcing new social networking features at Confabb, so now I get to mention it, too. :)
It was fun to build the personal messaging, buddy lists, and user search for Confabb, building on the work I’d done and the ideas I had for ConferenceMeetup.
Now that some of my client work is starting to see the light of day, I guess it’s time to add Clients page to my site.
I just launched a ConferenceMeetup site for RailsConf 2007. As I wrote in my post announcing ConferenceMeetup, this was an app inspired by what I wish I would have had when I attended RailsConf 2006 and RubyConf 2006, and I hope others attending RailsConf this year will find it useful.
If you’re planning on attending RailsConf this year, you’re welcome to create a page for yourself at the RailsConf 2007 ConferenceMeetup site. You’ll need to enter the conference password to create your account. The password is “chunky bacon” (without the quotes). With the huge turnout that’s expected to be at the conference, this may be the best way to “bump into” the people you’d like to meet while you’re there.
If you have comments or suggestions about the site, I’d love to hear them. Feel free to let me know what you think.
I was a little surprised to read about Confabb this morning. I’ve been working on a similar type of application, ConferenceMeetup, in my spare time.
After going to a few conferences, I really wanted a tool that could help me connect with other people while at the conference, so I built one. The idea behind the app is to provide a private community site for conferences where their attendees can learn about each other, connect with each other, and provide feedback to conference organizers and presenters about the presentations.
It’s been a fun project, partly because Rails makes it so easy to build these types of applications. I think that ConferenceMeetup would be useful to have at any conference. In fact, I appreciate the validation of having some smart people agree with me on the value of having such a service. :)
Update:
After reading Tim’s comment for this blog post, I was reminded that I didn’t mention Web Connections (which I had intended to do — sorry, Tim!), the app that he built that has the same sort of theme. I saw his app after building ConferenceMeetup and I really liked it. I agree with his comment that it really is about the community of people that are participating in the conference. Connecting with the people there makes the event much more enjoyable.
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