Oct 16

#latenightcrowd October Festival At 11pm – 4am

Where? Alice’s Lounge 3556 W. Belmont Ave. Chicago, IL

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It’s that time again, folks. #latenightcrowd will once again gather for fun and frolic. This month’s location: Alice’s Lounge in Avondale. Located at the northeast corner of Belmont and Central Park, the #77 stops right in front, and the Blue Line and Expressway are a mere 3 blocks away. Perfect location for #latenightcrowd festivities, and for a quick getaway if needed!

Rumor has it there will also be a Bleeding Heart Bakery cake for @Mitch134‘s birthday, and for whoever else is celebrating this month.

PS, While not a Halloween party, costumes are highly encouraged, and will be laughed at accordingly!

Whrrl Presents: Life in Perpetual Beta Screening At 8:45pm – 10pm

Where? Beatles Revolution Lounge at the Mirage Hotel & Casino 3400 Las Vegas Blvd South Las Vegas, NV

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Whrrl Presents a screening of the film Life in Perpetual Beta

Blog World Expo attendees: Come join us for an exclusive screening of Life in Perpetual Beta, a documentary film exploring the cultural shift occurring now due to our ever increasing access to technology.

Life In Perpetual Beta is produced and directed by first time filmmaker Melissa Pierce, and features technology and trend spotting heavy weights such as Seth Godin (author Tribes), Daniel Pink (author A Whole New Mind), Jeffrey Zeldman (CEO Happy Cog Design), Baratunde Thurston (Online Editor of the Onion) Juliette Powell (Huffington Post),Biz Stone (COO, Twitter) Carin Goldberg (Principal, Carin Goldberg Design), Gary Vaynerchuck (Host, Wine Library TV) and many more. It was crowdsourced and funded using social media.

The film is not about the very rich and very poor, but rather, it’s the first documentary to study those artists and entrepreneurs in the middle whose passions power the economy, creating new businesses, new business categories, and occasionally entire creative ecosystems – those whose efforts to live a more creative and authentic life create opportunities not just for themselves but for dozens and sometimes thousands of others. Whether they create web software, design posters, perform as musicians, or run entire musical tours, what unites these disparate creative entrepreneurs is their ability to sell their work without selling their souls.

Life in Perpetual Beta has been shown at the Chicago Independent Film Festival, The Los Angeles Hollywood Film Festival, The DUMBO Arts Festival, Seattle Geek Week, Digital Capital in Washington DC, and several private venues. It garnered a Merit Award at the Los Angeles Hollywood Film Festival.

More Info: http://lifeinperpetualbeta.com…

College Color Showdown At 6:30pm – 9:30pm

Where? TBD Chicago, IL

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Many of us started as runners in high school and college growing accustomed to represetning our school colors everywhere (even beyond the track). Lately, I’ve noticed lots of trash talk on Twitter about representing that college school spirit, football loyalty AND @KTTape.

So, here’s the deal, come get your run on all West-Side-Story-showdown-college-style. *Tentatively* KT Tape will supply the college colors (details coming soon–not all team colors available). You supply the apparel, accessories and school spirit! Whether you ran in high school or college, picked up running later down the road OR you want to show the group which college football team you support, we’ll see you there!

We’ll meet at a location soon to be disclosed. The people with the most school spirit gets their school colors (if available) in tape for #CM10, bragging rights on Twitter for the season, and other prizes. Because, in college football, to the victors go the bragging rights and, as for the losers, there’s always next year.

And, of course, we all know the big U of M v MSU game is the night before #CM10. Which color will you be sporting race day? Who knows, maybe KT Tape will agree to supply special #CM10 school spirit taping!

And, for my part, M Go Blue!

More Info: http://www.kttape.com/kt-tape-…

Saturday Brunch Club at Rockit Wrigley At 12pm – 2:30pm

Where? Rockit Wrigley 3700 N. Clark St. Chicago, IL

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Join our #BrunchClub for Saturday brunch at Rockit Wrigley. We meet, we eat, we chat… and or, yes! There are Bloody Marys! Saturday specials at Rockit Wrigley include $5 Bloody Marys, Mimosas, Margaritas & Mojitos. The Bloody Mary garnish bar is spectacular. And chef Amanda’s food is delicious! Come out, come out, wherever you are.

Those who are so inclined are welcome to follow brunch witha trip to Guinness and Oyster Fest, which a few of us will be headed to (Roscoe, between Leavitt and Damen).

On Wednesday, September 22, we’ll be hosting our 2nd Meetup Everywhere event where groups all over the world rally together to answer life’s hard-hitting questions. Together. Then later, bring what they discovered back online to share with the community at large.

Meet up and discuss what makes your city a great place to live and work. Why is it not so great? With enough support, what could you change?

HH Reunion

Where? Quartino 626 North State Street Chicago, IL

When? Jul 15, 2010 6pm – 8pm

Add to your calendar: Outlook Google iCal Yahoo!

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Hey y’all! It’s been far too long since a bunch of us have caught up, so we figured it was about time for a happy hour reunion!

We’ll be going to Quartino’s in the Loop, it’s a cute little Italian place. Check it out here:
http://www.quartinochicago.com…

Thursday, July 15, 2010 from 6:00 PM – 11:00 PM (CT)

OfficePort Chicago

9 W. Washington Chicago, IL

We would like to invite you to a party at which we want to celebrate our vibrant community in Chicago. We want to give a chance for each mobile company/start-up/developer to introduce themselves. Our mission tag line…

“Chicago the hub of mobile development!”

This party is a part of the preparation for the next year’s MEGA TRADE SHOW MobileAppEx in Chicago.

Twitter handle: #ChicagoAndroid

SPONSORS: please review this page (click here).

 

OUR SPONSORS:

 

 

Agenda:

Presentations: “What I am doing in mobile space and what do I need from you, the community, to become more successful.” Presenters should send in a single full-screen image for the presentation (png or jpg format) to Uki@ChicagoAndroid.com.

“Elevator pitch” SPEAKER LISTING (1 minute each, unless a sponsor):

• Uki D. Lucas (ChicagoAndroid.com): our agenda
• Michael Labowicz (Motorola): DROID X introduction
• Bruce Montgomery: Chicago as a hub of mobile development
• Chris Sweis: JunoWallet.com (platinum sponsor – gift cards)
• Keith McGorisk: Mobile Visionaries
• Darrin Stern: MobileAppEx
• J. Schwan, Kelly Manthey: Solstice Consulting
• Anthony Hand: MoMo Chicago
• Jason Goodrich: Space Apart
• Todor Krecu: mobile marketing
• Erin Waldron: Wow Bao (gold sponsor – Hot Asian Buns)
• Vera Kimmi: Forte Consulting Group
• Antonio Wells: AndroidTapp.com reviews
• Jason Shah: Mediafly.com
• Nicholas Aiello: MeStream app for video streaming (silver sponsor)
• Matt Wojtowicz: Android at Loyola University
• Juan Bonfante: Android/Flash/Twitter app
• Chris Phenner thumbplay.com (give-a-way sponsor)
• Jinnan Sun (Motorola): DROID X raffle (gold sponsor)
• … let Uki know if you want to pitch.. 

Media coverage: take pictures and videos and upload to: 

• http://www.youtube.com/group/mobileappex
• http://ChicagoAndroid.com/photo
• livestream: http://www.livestream.com/droidxchicago

Verizon Wireless will start selling the DROID X from July 15 for $199 with a 2-year contract, after a $100 rebate.

“Elevator pitch” is a very short, no-nonsense, summary of your idea, activity or proposal to a VIP (very important person like media, investor, president, CEO, etc.) usually presented when you catch that person on the elevator ride, or in similar situation. After the pitch they may invite you for the longer talk where you give them one page “executive summary”.