Frogmetrics, OMGPOP, Posterous, Scribd, Inkling, Xobni, and Loopt nominated for TiE50 Awards

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by jeremymims • 17 years ago

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Voting ends May 7th.

jeremymims3• 17 years ago

Voting ends May 7th.

ivankirigin3• 17 years ago

When I got an email about the event, I thought it was spam. Is it well regarded?

Generally, how is one to tell that an industry conference is good? I'm not a fan of awards for the sake of awards.

zaidf• 17 years ago

TiE is pretty legitimate, probably one of the older, more well-known organizations in the Valley. They have serious pull. ie. Tiecon East in 2007 had John Kerry as a speaker.

jeremymims3• 17 years ago

I had a conversation with one of their representatives just to figure it out. Their list of speakers and panelists is very legit (http://www.tiecon.org/home/program/speakers_and_panelists) and they seem to be sponsored by the right kinds of companies.

Alex3917• 17 years ago

"Generally, how is one to tell that an industry conference is good?"

After messing around with the concept for the past month or so, I think actually you can learn a lot about a conference based on its twitter traffic. For example, here are is my compilation of the tweets from Blogwell last week:

http://www.squidoo.com/blogwell-ny-2009

Of course that doesn't help you for this event, but Squidoo is actually coming out with a module to facilitate making pages like this in a week so I'm hoping that more people will start making them about other conferences in the future. I think you can get about 80% of the insights from the conference in ~15 minutes this way, so from the reader perspective its great.

Frogmetrics, OMGPOP, Posterous, Scribd, Inkling, Xobni, and Loopt nominated for TiE50 Awards

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