Bay Area Web Performance is focused on making the Web faster and smarter! Our members are passionate about the user experience and the Performance community here in Silicon Valley. We'll meet regularly to discuss, delight, and inform ourselves on the hot topics and industry happenings in the Web Performance world! Join us!

Let's build tomorrow's Smart Cities  and Networked Society together    A place for Mobile Web Apps developers, end-users, entrepreneurs, local industries and communities stakeholders involved in evaluating, developing and providing web and mobile web applications as well as anyone wishing to learn about the business opportunities and mobile lifestyle experiences the newly created Mozilla marketplace and other mobile web development environments (Participants in the W3C Mobile Web Platform Core C …

Internet marketing encompasses a broad, diverse set of processes: search, content networks, email marketing, affiliate networks, video ads, social media, viral marketing, and more. Our organizer, Bill Belew, is The Traffic Professor = his primary source of income is from blogging AND he pays his sizable Silicon Valley mortgage from his blogging revenue. He is also the author of the best-read How to Blog for Money and Web Traffic series. We meet regularly to discuss how to utilize these tools to …

… Our partners and sponsors: Attensity Corporation Attensity helps companies better utilize customer conversations in emails, documents, call notes, surveys, web communities, forums and social media as a corporate asset. Attensity listens to, analyzes, relates, and helps you act on these conversations through sophisticated semantic technologies that power a complete Customer Experience Application Suite, with applications that help you effectively respond to customers, route communications, pr …

We are a collaborative community consisting of women engineers, developers, or who are interested in learning web development.  We make it possible for women who are working on their projects to ask for advice and get feedback from members of our group. If you are working on a project (or want to get started with your project), you can join our private Posterous blog. http://womenintech.posterous.com This will be our main place of discussion where we share our ideas and give each other feedback. …

Hands on meetups (lectures, classes, demo talks) with free compute time sponsored by Amazon AWS. We focus on giving members the opportunity to learn and share with the rest of the programming community.  

How about having one group where you see your startup dreams coming true? How about meeting the Gurus/Mentors for entrepreneurship/legal/marketing/internet marketing/technology at one stop? And How about not spending a penny for all above? NOPAY is the place for you, whether you are an inventor or designer with product idea or  if you have just re-engineered some ideas and you feel you can do better with a start up or  if you are a thinker with an idea for startup or  if you are a developer/c …

This group is the West Coast version of the Manhattan-based ed tech meet up that brings educators, ed tech entrepreneurs and investors together to create a cultural shift in the way we teach, learn and thrive as a community. We have teacher panels, entrepreneur presentations and investor feedback in a bi-monthly meetup series. It's a great place to talk about apps, community, politics, funding, education, training and professional development for a 21st Century global education system.

This Bay Area meetup is for all the Flex, Flash, and AIR junkies working on Flex apps or want to get involved in Flex on the Flash Platform. The idea is to get together, network and share experiences, designs, components, best practices, learn something new and so forth. We have a strong relationship with the Adobe development teams and Evangelists who frequently present at our monthly sessions in San Jose and San Francisco. Website: http://www.silvafug.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/silvafu …

… Stanford Graphics Lab, Stanford Humanities Lab Ray Tracing with the NVIDIA OptiX Engine by Austin Robison, NVIDIA Graphics on the Web: Going Beyond Images and Rectangles by Vladimir Vukicevic, Firefox Caustic Real Time Ray Tracing by James A. McCombe and Alex Kelley, Caustic Graphics Hot Research in Silicon Valley by Avi Lev Robinson-Mosher, Solomon, Boulos, Stanford Computer Graphics Lab Photoshop CS4 Extended and 3D by Nathan Carr, Aravind Krishnaswamy, Pete Falco, Zorana G …

MechaWorks is proud to host the first WordPress event group in Silicon Valley. We love WordPress, it has helped our business grow tremendously. So, we felt that we need to give back to the WordPress community. We'll be hosting monthly events to help bloggers meet up and chat about the platform that they use everyday. Share cool tips, new uses, and commiserate when WordPress isn't feeling well.

Welcome to Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs & Startup Group! Meet other local entrepreneurs /founders/Hackers, VCs, and leaders for the mobile / Internet industry, including Android, iOS, WP, blacberry, HTML5 , Facebook, Chrome, and cloud! Come to our events to network and share your stories. Hear how others have overcome hurdles and achieved success. All are welcome! This fast growing Entrepreneur community is the the place to network with the like minds. And also, its a great place to help individ …

… Open Wireless Architecture (OWA) was proposed to balance the above requirements in commercial mobile communications with converged multiple air interfaces in a cost-effective and spectrum-efficient way. Our research discovers that when the wireless transmission bandwidth is enough, the information processing consumes much more resources and energies than the transmission processing in the mobile device. If we can reduce the processing burdens in the mobile device including baseband signal proces …

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"The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do" ~ Steve Jobs                   Welcome!  Thank you for joining!  If you are new to Ruby on Rails or an intermediate, advanced Ruby on Rails Engineer - you will love this group!  I plan on offering the following: 1.  Variety of Ruby on Rails classes.  These classes will be offered for beginning RoR developers or intermediate/advanced level. 2.  Presentations given by guest speakers(RoR developer …

  Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of Silicon Valley -  the innovation capital of the world. The advent of the Digital Age has democratized innovation and entrepreneurship. Never before has it been more possible for anyone from anywhere,  with  a great idea and a burning desire to succeed,  to make it big, and in the process, change the world in a relatively short period of time. HP, Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Yahoo,  eBay, Amazon, Google, Facebook and many, many, many other i …