Rhett McNulty, Shopit COO, and I flew up to Frisco for the day to attend the Socialmedia OpenThread meetup.  The flight was delayed, the train ride was sweet, and the beer was tasty.

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Eddie Smith and the rest of the team from Socialmedia put together a very nice meetup atmosphere with a little financial help from SUN.  There was lots of guac, salsa, chips, cheese, fresh fruit, nuts, and beer, OH MY!

We also received some sweet tee’s that said “Flex your apps” from Socialmedia (I wore mine today with my TOMS shoes).

My favorite presenter would have to be Paul from hi5 (Google was good too :-)) because of the tutorials (thanks!) and the fact that they are changing their page time-out interval just for us (thanks again!).

It was also nice chattin’ it up with one of the engineers from facebook (Luke Shephard). Cool guy.  He and I were discussing some issues they were having with their new east coast data center (ECDC) and memcache (hehe).

David King of (Lil) Green Patch was also there giving pointers.  It was great to meet and talk to him at the end of the presentations to get some dos and don’ts when it comes to the success of social applications.

After drinking some Blue Moon, and then finishing up with a little Pacifico… I think Pacifico was the better of the two but left me with a headache for me to enjoy on the flight home.

Because we couldn’t find a taxi near the Socialmedia offices at Pier 38 we had to take a Lincoln Continental, how awesome is that?

All in all, I had a good time.  Met cool people, learned some things, got a few questions answered, and even met a few app developers (Nimit Maru) of some of my favorite apps like Typing Tutor.

Until next time,

–Troy (apps honcho)