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Apr 11

Let’s mesh @ The Irish Embassy

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After a lot of work behind the scenes, the preparations for mesh ’08 and our new event, meshU, are nearly complete. We’ve got some great keynotes – Matt Mason, Club Penguin’s Lane Merrifield and Warner Brother’s Ethan Kaplan – and some terrific panels featuring people such as blip.TV’s Dina Kaplan, Digg’s Daniel Burka, RedFlagDeals’ Derek Szeto and and Techdirt’s Michael Masnick.

Needless to say, we’re excited! So, let’s get together for some pre-mesh conversation, food and a few adult beverages on April 21 at The Irish Embassy. (Update: why not drop by the Facebook page and let us know whether you’re coming)

Here are the details:

When: Monday, April 21

Where: The Irish Embassy Pub & Grill, 49 Yonge Street (Click here for the Google Map.)

Time: 7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Tickets are going fast for mesh and meshU. You can purchase your mesh tickets here, and your meshU tickets here.

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Apr 11

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Ryan Carson at mesh and meshU

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Avi Bryant One of the great privileges of travelling to conferences is you get to meet extraordinary people – people who inspire you. About two years ago, on a long day after speaking at Web 2.0, I bumped into Ryan Carson. We’d never met, but we’d exchanged emails and talked on the phone. We decided to grab a quick bite to eat and a long story short, over the next three hours I discovered I’d found a kindered spirit.

Ryan is a sharing entrepreneur. Using his blog, other peoples blogs and his conference company, he invests a tremendous amount of energy sharing what he has learned building several businesses – including two web applications (DropSend and Amigo).

Ryan is going to speaking at mesh about “founders stories” and meshU about making the jump from your 9-5 to becoming an entrepreneur:

Leaving your 9 to 5 to launch your own company is exciting but a bit scary. With everything riding on your success you need to make sure that you have the best advice from the folks who’ve done it all before – that’s where this start-up workshop comes in.

I’m delighted to have Ryan (who’s flying from England to join us) at meshU and mesh, and I want to congratulate him and his wife Gill on their one week old boy Jackson. Thanks for coming Ryan; especially during such a special time.

Apr 10

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CommunityLend.com Gets Fresh Coat of Paint

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Only time will tell whether Canadians embrace peer-to-peer lending as enthusiastically as consumers in the U.K. and the U.S. but Toronto-based CommunityLend’s new and improved Web site is impressive – clean, sharp, easy to navigate. Given that educating consumers is going to be a significant challenge, CommunityLend’s Web site will clearly be an important marketing and sales.

We’re excited that Michael Garrity, CommunityLend’s co-founder, president and CEO, will be participating at mesh one of our marketing panels. Given his experience, which includes being vice-president of sales and marketing with ePost, Mike is sure to provide some valuable insight.