Our brilliant app developer Troy, and our COO Rhett, attended the recent Web App Dev Meetup hosted by the kind folks at Mahalo Wednesday night.

The first event speaker was Eric Marcoullier, CEO of Gnip. Eric spoke about the Gnip technology, which is focused on reducing the pain of constant pinging to servers every 15 minutes for updates from data providers such as Flickr, Twitter, Mahalo, etc. Hoping to amplify focus on creating great applications instead of aggregating data.

The second, a great presentation from Chris Schalk and Kevin Marks, Google Developer Advocates talking about Open Social; seamlessly getting user’s information out to the rest of the universe through a common API for social applications across multiple websites.

The event was a success…free education, free networking, and free food. What more could you ask for in a meetup? Looking forward to the next!

I feel like the whole world’s a-Twitter these days! So we’ve finally jumped on the Twitter bandwagon. And from the experience so far, it’s no wonder people are addicted to this new communication phenomenon.

If you haven’t heard of or checked out Twitter yet; it’s a service for friends, family and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through quick, frequent communication that pretty much answers one question: What are you doing?

On our Shopit Twitter you can find out about our latest company info, keep up with stuff were blogging about, and even see what we’re up to in the office. So start following us, and let us know if you are tweeting too!