Last night Colleen Moffitt, Melissa Liton, Paulette Zimmerman and I had the opportunity to attend TechFlash’s launch party at the Palace Ballroom. What a fun night! It was terrific to catch up with the movers and shakers in Seattle’s tech community.
Highlights of the TechFlash event included mingling with Jeremy Lewis of Big Fish Games; chatting up Brian McAndrews before he shared his insights on the future of online advertising; catching up with Ken Myer, WTIA President and CEO; and talking with Blake Cahill of Visible Technologies and Rahul Sonnad and Autumn Radtke of Geodelic, Nick Wingfield with Wall Street Journal as well as countless others and friends.
After the TechFlash launch party, we headed off to Capitol Hill to catch up with Danielle Morrill at Pelago’s Whrrl party. Colleen and I enjoyed talking with Danielle (who is also our cousin) to learn more about Pelago’s Web/mobile application which is designed to leverage an individual’s social network using mobile location technology.
With Whrrl, a person can find out where his or her friends are, determine what they’re doing and where they’ve been. In effect, your friends light up your map with their experiences so you can discover cool places, events and even new people that you might otherwise have missed. You can use Whrrl on a Web browser, via SMS, or as an application on your mobile phone.
All and all it was a fabulous evening. If you were at either of these events, send us a comment we’d love to hear your impressions.