Geir Freysson – The Internet Industrialist

I went to Songkick’s hacker meetup #5 yesterday and listened to Francesco Cesarini and Oscar Hellström from the Erlang training centre demonstrate the glory of the erlang programming language. Other presenters were Jon Vaughan from Bionic Books (accounting 2.0) and  Alex “Million Dollar Homepage” Tew who gave a demo of his new startup, PopJam.

Other people I met there were from Playfire, Hypernumbers and Timetoast.

The mastermind behind the meetup, Ian Hogarth of Songkick, wrote an article on Techcrunch recently titled Hey, Hackers need friends too! explaining the thinking behind the event.

A vast majority of the people at Hacker meetup #5 were people straight from the trenches, i.e. founders and techies. This was a refreshing angle compared to various other networking events. Kudos to the Songkick folks for the initiative.