Drinks On Tap http://www.drinksontap.org A Boston Area Mobile Developers' Meetup - iPhone, Android and more. Thu, 10 May 2012 14:40:57 +0000 en hourly 1 Drinks On Tap #14 Follow-Up http://www.drinksontap.org/drinks-on-tap-14-follow-up/ http://www.drinksontap.org/drinks-on-tap-14-follow-up/#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 14:40:57 +0000 Michelle.Buchman http://www.drinksontap.org/?p=220 THANK YOU to all attendees who came out to Drinks on Tap last night. We’ll let everyone know details on the next event in the upcoming weeks. Feel free to share photos of the event on our Flickr group or leave a review on Meetup.

Here are links to the apps demoed last night:

-Pocket Share: An app that identifies third party apps installed on a device and presents them to the user. The list or individual apps can then be shared for marketing purposes, as a wish list, recommendations, etc. The app facilitates creating affiliate links to the AppStore, generating affiliate revenue for apps that you share with others.

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-Swap.com Market: Turn anything you have into everything you’ve always wanted with the new Swap.com Market – a vibrant, worldwide community of swappers listing thousands of new items up for grabs each and every day.

-Tasted Menu: Sitting at a restaurant and wondering what to order? Open up the Tasted Menu app, click on or search for the restaurant you’re at, and within seconds see the best dishes offered and comprehensive menu information.

-VoIP Drupal: VoIP Drupal is a framework for apps to be built upon. Build apps that support and work with your website, shopping cart, etc. The framework facilitates construction of unified communications systems integrating SMS, e-mail, web, and voice along with well defined API that can be extended to other VoIP services. Simple, yet powerful PHP-like scripting language with a short learning curve.

]]> http://www.drinksontap.org/drinks-on-tap-14-follow-up/feed/ 0 Drinks On Tap #14 http://www.drinksontap.org/drinks-on-tap-14/ http://www.drinksontap.org/drinks-on-tap-14/#comments Mon, 07 May 2012 15:45:46 +0000 Michelle.Buchman http://www.drinksontap.org/?p=210 THIS WEDNESDAY, May 9th, we’ll be holding the latest edition of our Drinks on Tap event at Tavern in the Square, Allston (161 Brighton Ave.) The night runs from 6-10pm with demos starting at 7. Be sure to RSVP and join our new meetup group here: meetup.com/drinksontap Additionally, make sure to tweet with the #DrinksOnTap hashtag as well.

The demos that evening will include:

-Pocket Share: An app that identifies third party apps installed on a device and presents them to the user. The list or individual apps can then be shared for marketing purposes, as a wish list, recommendations, etc. The app facilitates creating affiliate links to the AppStore, generating affiliate revenue for apps that you share with others.

-OfferBeam: OfferBeam is the first and only location specific targeting engine triggered by the customer journey. It’s cloud based technology allows clients to instantly communicate with customers to engage and win their loyalty.

-VoIP Drupal: VoIP Drupal is a framework for apps to be built upon. Build apps that support and work with your website, shopping cart, etc. The framework facilitates construction of unified communications systems integrating SMS, e-mail, web, and voice along with well defined API that can be extended to other VoIP services. Simple, yet powerful PHP-like scripting language with a short learning curve.

-Grasshopper: The phone system for entrepreneurs. Grasshopper is a virtual phone system that can help businesses stay organized with the volume of calls they have coming in. Sound professional and stay connected.

-Thumbs Up: Thumbs Up is a simple mobile app that lets you and your friends instantly share moments of TV in real time. It’s the easiest way to privately share moment-by-moment reactions to your favorite shows with your close friends.

DrinksOnTap is a social meetup for Boston area mobile developers (iPhone, Android and more). We are always looking for amazing demos from companies in the Boston mobile community. If you’re working on something that you want to show off, we want to see it.

]]> http://www.drinksontap.org/drinks-on-tap-14/feed/ 0 Drinks On Tap #13 http://www.drinksontap.org/drinks-on-tap-13/ http://www.drinksontap.org/drinks-on-tap-13/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:17:21 +0000 Michelle.Buchman http://www.drinksontap.org/?p=160 On March 26th, join us at the NERD Center in Kendall Square, Cambridge MA for the next edition of Drinks on Tap. The event runs from 6-10PM, with demos starting at 7. Be sure to RSVP and join our new meetup group here: meetup.com/drinksontap Additionally, make sure to tweet with the #DrinksOnTap hashtag as well.

Sponsors for the evening include:

Founded in 2003 by Gregory Raiz, Raizlabs has a focus on building world-class mobile software. We partner with companies, agencies and startups that believe mobile is bigger than just building an app.

 

The Microsoft® New England Research & Development Center (NERD) is a key part of a long term strategic investment by Microsoft to build a world class center for research and innovation right in the heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

 

At Microsoft, we’re motivated and inspired every day by how our customers use our software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what’s most important to them.

 

TripAdvisor® is the world’s largest travel site, enabling travelers to plan and have the perfect trip. TripAdvisor offers trusted advice from real travelers and a wide variety of travel choices and planning features with seamless links to booking tools. TripAdvisor-branded sites make up the largest travel community in the world, with more than 50 million unique monthly visitors*, and over 60 million reviews and opinions. The sites operate in 30 countries worldwide, including China under daodao.com. TripAdvisor also includes TripAdvisor for Business, a dedicated division that provides the tourism industry access to TripAdvisor’s millions of monthly visitors.

 

 

Viximo helps mobile game developers add a social layer to their games by offering both iOS and Android SDKs to create a social SuperGraph from Facebook, Twitter, and the native Address Book.

 

 

 

 

Brine Group is a professional recruiting firm providing the highest quality permanent placement services for the IT and Computer Software employment markets.

 

 

 

LabelTop Software is a small mobile design and development company in Portland, Maine. We are especially proud to help publishers take advantage of the mobile platforms and thrive.

 

 

 

MassChallenge is the largest-ever startup accelerator and the first to support and the first to support high-impact, early-stage entrepreneurs with no strings attached. Benefits for startups include top mentors, free resources & office space, and over $1M in annual awards with no equity taken.

 

Demos for the evening include:

  • Microsoft: Microsoft’s Chris Bowen will be giving a brief tour around the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, showing the user experience, demoing features, and including a glimpse of the tools and developer experience for creating Metro-style apps.
  • TripAdvisor: TripAdvisor has also announced its new HTML5 cross-platform tablet app, now available in the Android marketplace and iTunes appstore. This free app features a clean and simple interface, making it an easy way for travelers to access the millions of reviews and opinions on TripAdvisor. Travelers can see a list of top ranked hotels, restaurants, attractions and more in a destination and use filters to make quick comparisons and choices to meet their travel needs.
  • Owlchemy Labs: The creators of Snuggle Truck, will be showing the first public demo of their brand new unannounced work-in-progress iOS title.
  • Viximo: A location-based mobile game that takes advantage of each aspect of the Social Zone API by allowing a player to search for and connect with friends from their social network, and then place virtual “bombs” at specific locations that trigger a mobile alert when another player passes by that location.
  • Portland ParkSmart: Built with collaboration from the City of Portland, the app helps people deal with parking and avoiding tickets.
  • LOCPix: App allows you to browse and share classic photographs.
  • GymPact: App that uses cash incentives to get people to the gym.
  • SessionM: A new type of minimization platform for mobile apps.

 

DrinksOnTap is a social meetup for Boston area mobile developers (iPhone, Android and more). We are always looking for amazing demos from companies in the Boston mobile community. If you’re working on something that you want to show off we want to see it.

]]> http://www.drinksontap.org/drinks-on-tap-13/feed/ 0 Drinks On Tap #12 http://www.drinksontap.org/drinks-on-tap-12/ http://www.drinksontap.org/drinks-on-tap-12/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:58:32 +0000 Michelle.Buchman http://www.drinksontap.org/?p=151 Tonight, please join us for app demos, drinks and mobile development chat at Drinks On Tap #12. We’ll be at The Asgard Irish Pub and Restaurant from 6PM – 10PM. Demos will begin around 7PM. RSVP for tonight and join our new meetup group here: meetup.com/drinksontap. Make sure to tweet with the #DrinksOnTap hashtag as well. Demos tonight include:

  • Gimme 5 from Mobinett Interactive, Inc.: Gimme 5 provides access to the Preserve® Gimme 5 recycling program’s network of over 200 drop off locations nationwide for #5 plastic poly-propylene (PP) recycling.

 

  • Woven from Litl, llc.: See all your photos together from popular photo sharing sites with Woven. Designed for the Apple iPad, Kindle Fire, NOOK Tablet™, and most popular Android tablets, you’ll never forget a moment with this elegant, simple photo viewer.

 

  • SolidWorks 2012 from Raizlabs: A highly polished mobile application for the SolidWorks 2012 conference, for Android, iPhone and iPad.

 

  • TripAdvisor Tablet from TripAdvisor: TripAdvisor’s new and still unreleased HTML5 hybrid tablet app on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and iPad 2.

 

  • Notestar by Yamaha from RocketFarms: Yamaha’s new sheet music store and player, made in Central Square by Rocket Farm in conjunction with Noteflight.

 

  • mScribble by Panpipes Ho!, llc.: Do you love to improvise music? The mScribble app has built-in knowledge of the rules of harmony, melody and rhythm in a variety of muiscal styles. You can expressively shape melodies by tapping and sliding a single finger over the entire touch screen.

 

DrinksOnTap is a social meetup for Boston area mobile developers (iPhone, Android and more). We are always looking for amazing demos from companies in the Boston mobile community. If you’re working on something that you want to show off we want to see it.

]]> http://www.drinksontap.org/drinks-on-tap-12/feed/ 0 We’re moving our events to meetup http://www.drinksontap.org/were-moving-our-events-to-meetup/ http://www.drinksontap.org/were-moving-our-events-to-meetup/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:59:16 +0000 graiz http://www.drinksontap.org/?p=147 We’ve been currently maintaining our postings on our blog, then emailing folks using mailchimp and then taking registrations over eventbright. Yuck. Seems like a lot of work for getting folks to a bar. We’ve setup a meetup group over at meetup.com/drinksontap. Let us know if you like this new system.  We’ll keep the domain DrinksOnTap.org so you can still come here for updates.

]]> http://www.drinksontap.org/were-moving-our-events-to-meetup/feed/ 0 DrinksOnTap #11 – Pre-Holiday Edition http://www.drinksontap.org/drinksontap-11-pre-holiday-edition/ http://www.drinksontap.org/drinksontap-11-pre-holiday-edition/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:52:03 +0000 aimee.silverman http://www.drinksontap.org/?p=135 Please join us for an evening of merriment, cocktails and app demos at our next DrinksOnTap event on Monday, December 5, 2011.  We’ll be at the Asgard in Cambridge from 6PM – 10PM.  Let us know if there is an app you would like to demo!

 Register here: http://drinksontap11.eventbrite.com/ 

]]> http://www.drinksontap.org/drinksontap-11-pre-holiday-edition/feed/ 0 DrinksOnTap #10 – Fall 2011 http://www.drinksontap.org/drinksontap-10-fall-2011/ http://www.drinksontap.org/drinksontap-10-fall-2011/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:53:22 +0000 graiz http://www.drinksontap.org/?p=121 Come catch up on what’s been going on in the Mobile community at our next DrinksonTap event on Monday, September 19, 2011.  We’ll be at the Asgard in Cambridge from 6PM – 10PM.  We’d love to hear from you if  you have an app you would like to demo.

 Register here: http://drinksontap10.eventbright.com 

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Following all the amazing announcments at WWDC we wanted to get together and celebrate iOS 5 and all the cool new things announced.

When:  June 13th  6:00pm-10:00pm

Where: Asgard Cambridge

Registration:  http://drinksontap9.eventbrite.com/

Agenda

6:00PM-7:00PM Drinks & Networking

7:00PM-7:45PM App Demos scheduled:

  1. SavingStar – SavingStar is a nationwide, totally digital grocery & drug store coupon solution available in over 24,000 grocery & drug stores nationwide.
  2. DayTripsAtHand – An innovative, location-based travel app supporting discovering and exploring day trip destinations all over New England.
  3. FreeTimeApp – Free Time finds time between your events. Powerful filtering allows you to locate your free time in any situation.

7:45PM-10:00PM Drinks & Networking till you get tired & go home.

]]> http://www.drinksontap.org/drinksontap-9-post-wwdc-wrap-up/feed/ 0 DrinksOnTap Joint Event with Mobile Monday and MassMobile http://www.drinksontap.org/drinksontap_momo_2010/ http://www.drinksontap.org/drinksontap_momo_2010/#comments Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:38:06 +0000 graiz http://www.drinksontap.org/?p=109 We’ll meet at The Greatest Bar near North Station.  We won’t have demo stations, but if you have a mobile app you’d like to show off, bring it along.

Date: March 28th, 2011.  Time: From 6 to 9pm

Place: The Greatest Bar (next to North Station) 262 Friend Street, Boston, MA (map)

Cost: $0.  Cash bar.

Register now.

This event is organized by:  Mobile Monday,  MassMobile,  DrinksOnTap.org

]]> http://www.drinksontap.org/drinksontap_momo_2010/feed/ 1 DrinksOnTap #8 – E-commerce edition http://www.drinksontap.org/drinksontap-8-e-commerce-edition/ http://www.drinksontap.org/drinksontap-8-e-commerce-edition/#comments Thu, 27 Jan 2011 03:58:09 +0000 graiz http://www.drinksontap.org/?p=104

This edition of DrinksOnTap is going to be e-commerce themed. We want to see your bar-code scanning, e-commerce transacting, credit card swiping, shopping cart powered demos.

We’re still open to other demos, games, apps but if you have an e-commerce bend we want to hear from you.

As usual the event will be held at the Asgard Cambridge, in the back-room. We setup the event but remember it’s a cash bar.  We hope you can make it.

When:  February 8th  6:00pm-10:00pm

Where: Asgard Cambridge

Registration:  http://drinksontap8.eventbrite.com/

Agenda

  • TBD
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