http://www.geeksouth.com Spreading the technology goodness across the south Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:18:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It has been quite a while since the first GeekSouth meeting went down (December 21, 2005!!!).  When things first started coming together we quickly slapped up this Wordpress blog, the forum, and the wiki. Honestly the forum and the wiki never got off the ground.  The wiki was plagued with wiki-spam, ... http://www.geeksouth.com/2008/06/28/geeksouth-website-20/ Do you have a smoking fast or uber-cool system or tech gadget you would like to show the Geeks? On Saturday June 21, 2008 at noon, come for a Geek South Lunch time event.    We want to see computer equipment, cell phones, GPS, PDA, calculators or some other ... http://www.geeksouth.com/2008/06/16/high-end-vs-low-end-tech-gadgets/ This Saturday, May 24th, Geeks with Grills!  We are planning to have a LOW-TECH GeekSouth meeting this time, so your laptops and mobile phones won't be necessary1.  Just bring yourself and an item from our punchbowl list (you'll be getting an e-mail soon) to the cookout!  We will be meeting ... http://www.geeksouth.com/2008/05/21/geeksouth-cookout-this-saturday/ The kickoff meeting of the newly-formed Western North Carolina .NET Developers Guild, on May 13th, will feature a presentation on “Building Next Generation Web Applications with VS2008” given by the Carolinas’ Microsoft Developer Evangelist Brian Hitney. WHAT: WncDotNet is a newly formed developer group dedicated to promoting Microsoft .NET technology and ... http://www.geeksouth.com/2008/04/23/announcement-western-nc-net-developers-guild-kick-off/ Via Knoxville twitter user @whodini, we have learned that there will be a Happy Hour Tweetup today at Aubrey's Peppermill at 5pm. I know next-to-nothing about Knoxville so I won't attempt to post a Google Maps link.  However feel free to leave more info in the comments. Also, make sure you are ... http://www.geeksouth.com/2008/04/23/knoxville-tweetup-today/ Come out this Thursday, April 17th at 7pm our monthly GeekSouth Dinner.  This month Lee Trout will give a presentation on Flash: Leveraging Flash as a desktop development platform great for startups and mature businesses who need graphical interactive experiences at a fraction of the cost of custom ... http://www.geeksouth.com/2008/04/14/leveraging-flash-aprils-fun-geeksouth-dinner/ So I thought from time to time I'd post some info on a new site or other geeky thing that gets my attention. First installment... Muxtape. The site is best described by its own tagline: "a simple way to create and share mp3 mixtapes".  Creating an account is dead simple (you ... http://www.geeksouth.com/2008/04/05/austins-site-o-the-moment-muxtape/ Don't forget to join us this Thursday March 20, 2008 for a presentation given by Nathan King. Nathan is the CEO/Chief Architect at JETPAC.tv, LLC. He will be telling us Geeks all about sites like Quik, Seesmic, and currentTV. I am sure we will also hear a ... http://www.geeksouth.com/2008/03/18/all-about-video/ Big thanks to Kyle (www.digital-fridge.net) for setting up the Zazzle shop and to Jeff (www.jefferyrainey.com) for the logo. Grab your GeekSouth T-shirts here: http://www.zazzle.com/geeksouth_shirt-235879916788313502 ShareThis http://www.geeksouth.com/2008/03/11/show-off-your-geek-pride-grab-your-geeksouth-t-shirt/ http://cinch.blogtalkradio.com/4042263095 We used Eric McCarty (from fellowtip.com) and his cellphone to record a brief podcast using the very cool new API from blogtalkradio.com. Thanks geeksouth - you rock! Jose ShareThis http://www.geeksouth.com/2008/02/19/geeksouth-phone-podcast/