"Yea, I think it's mostly a matter of commitment / incentives. If you've established yourself as a ringleader, either for financial or social reasons, then you'll be much more incentivized to work on getting people to an event and making sure they have a good time, etc. You'll contribute more information about that event and rally everyone to buy into whatever system you're using." Go to thread

"Thanks Adam. A big difference, as far as I see it, is that these other business focus on professional event organizers (with Meetup perhaps going after the more quasi-professional organizers, but ringleaders none the less). With Plancast, we were trying to get peers to share events more than event organizers, so the incentives and behaviors were very different. And it's a lot harder to monetize, since if you're building organizer tools, you have opportunities to charge (for ticket sales or group management functionality, namely)." Go to thread

"We raised $835k, spent most of it (but not all). ..." Go to thread

@connor thanks, but which one did he show you?

I just unlocked the "Fresh Brew" badge on @foursquare for checking in at coffee shops! http://4sq.com/J8plio

@buzz congrats! that's big news