On the back of the last, successful, MySpace DevJam earlier this month - Metarand has announced 3 more events throughout July in Sydney, Melbourne and Games(?).
These events are a must attend for everyone who codes and has an interest in building social media apps.
There will be door prizes and the opportunity to head over to San Francisco and/or Tokyo…
Anyway, head over to the site to check out the details.
I went to Sydney OpenCoffee this morning where I ran into Dean McEvoy from Booking Angel.
Some of you may remember that the other day I said I didn’t get Booking Angel. You can check out the details here - but the important bit is that now I do and I’m going to explain why.
Booking Angel is about enabling tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of restaurants to benefit from the new ways that people search for information about restaurants.
It’s about getting those restaurants to see the value in the Internet and to use Booking Angel as their trusted advisor and provider when, and as, they choose to leverage the Internet more to drive business.
It’s about developing a relationship now, using familiar tools, so that when we’re ready for a semantic web driven by web services that Booking Angel will be the service provider of choice.
And all this with little to no barrier to entry for the restaurants and a small charge only when someone actually books.
Oh yeah, and it adds value for the end-users too (no more double handling - just search and book without having to go grab a phone)
Let me see…
Hmm - OK, maybe I get it now 
