Meetups Everywhere & Annotations Hackfest

Meetups Everywhere: Twitter API

Twitter is changing the way we communicate worldwide.  App developers like you are building great apps regardless of your proximity to Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco.  Chirp was an awesome way to bring together all the app developers around the world, but what about the other 363 days a year?  The answer: Meetups Everywhere.

Just announced at TechCrunch Disrupt, Meetups Everywhere allows meetups to be organized anywhere, anytime based on a common theme.  We just created one for meetups around the theme of the Twitter API (click to go to the page).  

The goal of these meetups is to just get people talking about developing on Twitter: show off your app, talk about challenges your having developing your app, talk about what you’re working on and just build a more collaborative environment in your area.

Already, there are 9 meetups schedule in 5 countries on 3 continents.  If there’s one in your area, we hope you can attend and if you’d like to organize one in your city/town, please feel free; Meetup Everywhere let’s anyone, anywhere create a meetup that will show up on the main page.  We’re happy to help promote any meetup organized.

If you’re in the Boston/Cambridge area on the evening of June 16th, we hope you’ll join us at the oneforty offices for our meetup.

Annotations Hackfest: May 29th & 30th @Twitter

The first Meetup Everywhere we have listed is Twitter’s Annotations Hackfest this weekend.  It starts Saturday at 1pm and runs through to judging by Paul Graham of Y Combinator and Ron Conway of SV Angels on Sunday.  This is your first chance to get a shot at working with the Annotations.

There’s been a lot written about the potential of Annotations and so we hope you’re excited as we are.  This is a great opportunity to develop apps for Twitter that are more than features within the platform and instead something amazing on top of it; be the Zyngy of Twitter, not the Superwall.

Can’t make it to San Francisco? Ryan Sarver announced on the Twitter API Google Group that they’ll be looking to remotely communicate with anyone interested in working remotely.  Just fill out the form on their event page and denote you’re working remotely (http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/05/annotations-hackfest.html).

As a last bonus note: We’ll feature any apps built over the weekend on our homepage on oneforty if you add them and tag them as “annotations hackfest”.

Will you be hacking this weekend or joining other developers at a Twitter API meetup?

Notes

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