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...meanwhile, are reporting a crescendo of interest. Since June - following Glee's May premiere - the number of neighborhood songster gatherings listed on Meetup.com has nearly doubled, and participation has jumped 45% from 27,475 on June 1 to nearly 40,000 today. "[Glee] kind of inspired me," says recent Meetup convert Jessica Lin, 28, of Santa Clara, Calif., who enjoyed listening to a cappella groups as a student at the University of California, Berkeley, and now gets together with half a dozen or so Silicon Valley buddies every week to sing. Meanwhile, over in Michigan, it took just one episode...
...long been a good venue for finding volunteer opportunities. Now a new site called AllforGood.org draws together listings not only from traditional volunteer sites but also from Craigslist and Meetup. And it makes it easy to share these opportunities with friends on social-networking sites...
...party to be at the home of former Hardball Producer Tammy Haddad. Meanwhile, the tag "#nerdprom," given to the event by twittering dinner attendees "caused confusion" in the wider twittering world, said one outsider-tweet, "as it was scheduled between the #startrek convention and the middle aged basement dwellers meetup." Following are selected #nerdprom (or alternatively #whca) tweets (all times Eastern Standard...
However, the everyday problems of Baghdad were evident to even the most ardent of optimists in the delegation, which included executives from Google, YouTube, Meetup and other tech companies. For example, embassy officials had arranged a number of informational meetings in Baghdad, including a conference call with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih. "It got disconnected," said Jared Cohen, the State Department official who chaired the delegation. "We had to call back a number of times." (Read about celebrity twittering...
...this whole Twitter thing as a social experiment," says Burton. "When I meet fans, normally a studio or somebody has set up an event and there is an agenda. Now I can do it myself." Burton plans to host another meetup in the future, though he has to be careful, he says, because his wife doesn't like them. "She said it was dangerous," says Burton. "Then again, she's from Indiana...