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mesh meetup and meshU student tix

By mesh news, meshU

One quick reminder and one update on meshU:

The quick reminder is that we’re having a mesh meetup at the Irish
Embassy
tonight (April 21) starting at about 7:30, so swing on by if
you’re in town and get some pre-mesh socializing in — the snacks are
on us.

The update about meshU is that we’re releasing a batch of 25
discount-priced ($30) student tickets for the day-long workshop event (more
info at the meshU site), so if you’re studying Web
design or development or programming or anything along those lines —
or know someone who is — be sure to book a ticket soon, because they
will probably go quickly.

To be honest, offering student tickets was something we meant to do
from the beginning, but it kind of slipped through the cracks during
all the planning of mesh and meshU — thanks to a number of our
friends and fans for calling us on it. We think it’s a great way of
giving back to the community, and helping the young Web developers and
designers of tomorrow.

mesh on!

mesh08 keynote: Garrett Camp of StumbleUpon

By mesh news, mesh08 news

A quick update to let everyone know that Garrett Camp, one of the founders of StumbleUpon, is coming to mesh 2008 as our keynote speaker for the business stream (you can see the other keynotes here, as well as some of the other great speakers and panelists we have lined up). We’re pretty excited to be able to bring one of Canada’s leading Web entrepreneurs to Toronto for one of mesh’s “keynote conversations.”

Garrett co-founded StumbleUpon in 2001 with several university friends while he was finishing his degree in software engineering at the University of Calgary. He and a couple of the other members of the StumbleUpon team later moved to San Francisco after getting venture financing, and last year the company was acquired by eBay for $75-million. Garrett is still responsible for StumbleUpon’s product design and strategy, and the service has more than 3.5M members.

mesh on!

Let’s mesh @ The Irish Embassy

By mesh news, mesh08 news, meshU

Mesh-4After 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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