MiniBar London (June)
I made the trip to London on Friday afternoon for this month’s MiniBar. As always an excellent event, and I as I arrived a bit early (well an hour) I got to have a really good chat with Christian before hand and get some interesting ideas for marketing Tactile CRM.
I had a chat and dinner with Kai (a friend from university) from Webconverger (a great product with big potential I think); an interesting converstation with somebody who wanted $15m to model London in 3D on the web to then plonk geodata on it. Not sure of the viability of it and thought a Google Maps mashup might be a good starting ground to prove that it works. Nick Halstead from fav.or.it was also there (I first met him at Fuel Conference on the Sun Startup Essentials stand), he had some interesting ideas for marketing/sales as well as managing to have a stack of free drinks various people brought over for him when they went to the bar due to a mix up!
I met and spoke to loads of other interseting people, failed dismally trying to do a qik stream of one of the talks, but got an old fashion photo (below) of the guys from School of Everything presenting on stage.
The event was sponsored by Channel 4, and Matt Locke gave a quick couple of minutes to introduce the program they are working on. I first saw Matt Locke when I visited the Thinking Digital conference in Newcastle and the stuff he is in involved in with Channel 4 looks/sounds pretty cool.
Unfortunately I am not around for the next one, but keep an eye out on the meet us category of the blog for when we are next there.
UPDATE: Kai managed to video some of it: