Bloomington Startup Weekend

(This sounds like some sort of exciting, maybe slightly off-color, night club.)
Most of the User Experience (UX) group is at the School of Informatics right now. We’re still establishing the basics behind the business and the needs so we can do some actual interface design.
As I mentioned before, we’re really feeling the stress of [...]

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Well, not help, but coffee makers. If you’ve got a coffee maker that you’d be comfortable bringing tomorrow and Sunday, please do. We’ll take good care of them, and, as of right now, we have coffee coming (freshly ground!) from Bloomingfoods.
If you’re willing to loan out your coffee maker for a day or [...]

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Andrew has described this weekend as a series of sprints for all of the different groups involved.   As Friday night draws to a close, the User Experience group is definitely sprinting.  The stress level is pretty high, but necessity is the mother of invention, right?
We’re presenting an idea right as I type.  One of the [...]

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Brainstorming while waiting on a final few sentence description on what the product will be. In the mean time we are searching domains. Having some good luck…. with some funky names. We are trying to come up with a name by tonight… Event Flock seems to be the leading candidate.
Current list:
EventFlock
Goto see what
Flutter Out
Scoutable
Event Heard
Whatsyourleisure

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The dev group started off with getting everyone connected to the server one of our team members brought in and set up. I’m sitting next to it.
We’ve gone around the room and given a short, short description of our skills.
We decided earlier on LAMP (PHP) because there were more PHP people than others.
We’re discussing the [...]

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Event Fandango - Ok, so we won’t be calling it that.   From here on out my updates will be from the PR and marketing team, and other teams if I get bored.  Naming is next and really tough.  Here are a few we really like so.
EventHeard, Event Flock, YourDailyScene,

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It is 7:30 and we have started the pitches
Here is what we have so far:
What’s Popular Where
Wife 2.0
Napster for Textbooks
Employee Jobsite
1suck.com - Forums without borders
Fandango for all events
Need Coordination
Computer Recycling
20 seconds of fame
Electric Taxi
Free WII
One Call for a Cab
Video Game - Academic Planner
Bad Tutorials
Guild System for Video GamesDelete Comment

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Here I am in Bloomington about to work with a team of 100 strangers to launch a business in 54 hours. The weekend atcually sold out late Wednesday so if you were closed out, or just want to keep track of our progress, check out the Start up site . There will be photos, blogs, [...]

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One interesting side-effect of participating is that I’m finding it difficult to get online to post things. Here’s a quick update …
We are currently re-pitching from our initial list of ideas, having pared down to:

Greenhouse—exchange of trash-for-treasure + sustainability competitions
Fandango for Events—clearinghouse for disparate event systems, allowing purchase of tickets from search
Wife 2.0—connect services and [...]

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