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!

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 …

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 …

… 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 …

… Time: Thursday Weekly 12:15pm   Location: 2953 Bunker Hill Ln #400 (4th floor), Santa Clara, CA   Agenda: 12:00 pm: Open for Registration 12:15 pm: Networking 12:30 pm: Toastmasters Meeting 1:30 pm: Adjourn   Website: http://svetc.org   Other web sites: Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Toastmasters Club:   http://svetc.org Easy-Speak:  http://sventrepreneneurs.easy-speak.org Google Groups:  http://groups.google.com/group/sventrepreneurs-tc Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/svetc.org Linkedin: …

… The programs look at all aspects of business intelligence including analytics, reporting, online analytical processing, data mining, web analytics, business process intelligence, operational intelligence, business performance management, text mining, predictive analytics, competitive intelligence and more. We meet on the third Tuesday of each month at SAP Labs in Palo Alto. The cost to attend is $20.00. For SVForum members with proof of membership it is free to attend. For more information visit …

Environmental design, landscape, and horticulture/agriculture issues will continue to be a growing field! I'm seeking members who want to balance both practice and theory to engage in meaningful projects that either build our skills, or make a profit. I believe this approach is the best way for communities to prosper. A good way to achieve this would be to use environmental design programs, such as Foothill and UC Berkeley as templates. Here are some careers that these programs influence; Arbori …

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.

… 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 …

This is a group for any and everyone who has a goal of breaking into the advertising industry. I'm talking about all aspects from copywriting and art design to web development and digital creativity- any and everything that is going on in advertising today. The purpose of the group is to network with other individuals who are also on the way towards a career in the ad world, swap horror stories, talk about the ads that are grabbing peoples' attention, and even collaborating on each other's portf …

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of Silicon Valley -  the innovation capital of the world. Never before has it been so possible for anyone from anywhere,  with  a great idea and a burning desire to succeed,  to make it big and change the world in a relatively short period of time. Taking a startup from idea to IPO has taken on mythical proportions in Silicon Valley. Many dream the dream, with hopes of launching the "next big thing". We are a community of entrepreneurs, technologists, acade …

This Meet Up Community is for finding pre-seed funding for iPhone, and Android app development. This group is being set up for for connecting professionals with experience in finance, product development, sales, marketing, and business development to fund and/or create new businesses around the iPhone and Android platforms. Come network, learn, and help new ventures in Silicon Valley launch. We get together monthly to share projects, opportunities, and how-tos related to developing businesses on …

Come join an informal group of Ruby programmers hacking on our own code and group projects. Bring your own laptop and share in the benefits of learning from others. Ruby is all about making programming more fun. This group is a great way to learn the latest tips and tricks, and meet fellow hackers. A lot of other groups are geared towards presentations and big meetings. They are great for the "see" and "hear" components of learning. This group is all about coding within a small community. …

We are Tech in Motion: Silicon Valley. This group is designed for anyone and everyone interested in technology. If you are a tech lover, an expert in the field or simply want to know more about the industry this is the place for you. Tech in Motion is designed for you, so let’s make this group amazing and help bring the sprawling Silicon Valley Tech community closer and do something great! Have something cool you want to hear discussed? Tell us about it!   We already have 2 staffing firms dedica …

This is one of the oldest groups on meetup.com and we still welcome new members! 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 are writers and aspiring writers. We are bloggers and wannabe bloggers. We meet regularly to interact with serious and not-so serious bloggers. Our organize …

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