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Many of you have already heard this, but I helped organize a Jelly in Manhattan on my way home from Delhi to San Francisco, and Alex Goldmark covered it for Marketplace on NPR. (This is our second time on NPR. The first was September of last year)
Here’s the audio segment:
And here’s some video they shot, featuring a whole bunch of friends and Jelly regulars!
Link: Marketplace at Jelly (Full MP3)
Posted on 26 May '08 by Amit Gupta, under Jelly, NYC, nextNY. Comments.
A new project I’ve been working on with Darrell Silver, Erin Sparling, and Lee Semel launches today: CommandShift3.
It’s like Hot or Not, but for websites.
Started on a lark during a NYC Jelly session with Adam Varga, Darrell Silver, Dan Lurie, Erin Sparling, and Lee Semel, we’re really proud to open it up to the world today.
Much thanks to everyone who’s given us advice and support, including the celeb designers who recorded short videos we’ve hidden in the site for you to find. (Khoi Vinh, Matt Linderman, Taylor McKnight, Derek Powazek, Brad Smith, Ryan Sims, Dan Cederholm, Chris Messina, Ben Brown)
Posted on 11 December '07 by Amit Gupta, under CommandShift3, Design, Jelly, NYC, Technology, User Interface, nextNY. 5 Comments.
A quick update from Jellyland…
Quite possibly the largest Jelly yet takes place in Atlanta, GA this Friday.
Also on Friday, the ever-popular Austin Jelly, and the one that started it all, Jelly in NYC returns to House 2.0 this week.
Coming up next: Chicago Jelly (organized by my pal Sean Johnson!), Boston Jelly, Jelly in the O.C., and Manilla Jelly.
Recently: Houston Jelly and Singapore Jelly.
Gathering steam: Milwaukee Jelly, Tuscon Jelly, and San Francisco Jelly. (I know, I know, I’ve been busy!)
… and some recent press: we were on the Clark Howard radio show, and the hugely popular video blog, The JetSet Show.
Here’s the JetSet clip:
NYC-born Jelly’s been spreading right proper lately, with six events coming up in the next 6 days!
That includes Houston, TX (#1), Austin, TX (#2), Stockholm, Sweden (#2), New York City (#29), Boston (#2), and Cincinnati (#2). Whew!
Here’s the Jelly update email I just sent out, via Campaign Monitor, who’s sponsoring Jelly with free email lists for each city’s event. Thanks guys! (Thanks also to pbwiki, which sponsors with a premium wiki account.)
p.s. If anyone knows how we can get a copy of the Today show interview on Jelly on November 4th, please email me! (I haven’t seen it yet.)
Posted on 13 November '07 by Amit Gupta, under Community, Jelly, Technology, nextNY. Comments.
Returning to its founding location, Jelly is at House 2.0 this Friday (10/26) in Manhattan. All are welcome.
Newcomer Jelly in Sydney starts up this Friday as well, organized by Cameron Adams and Tim Lucas, followed by the first Jelly in Austin organized by Dusty Reagan next Friday. Both look like they’ll be sizable events!
Finally, Jelly in Atlanta had its first event last week, and in the past few weeks there’s been interest from people in Denver, Chicago, Singapore, Sydney, Portsmouth, Portland, Hawaii, Hartford, Tel Aviv, Tampa Bay, LA, and San Francisco! (See wiki.workatjelly.com for more)
Help spread the word to your friends in these cities!
Posted on 22 October '07 by Amit Gupta, under Jelly, NYC, San Francisco, nextNY. 4 Comments.
Jelly’s back tomorrow in a brand new location in Williamsburg. (Thanks to my friend Mark Low for hosting!)
RSVP if you’re gonna be there. We’ve got a great lineup so far. Hope you can make it!
Today’s Morning Edition featured a segment on Jelly, our casual coworking project. Thanks to Brad Linder for putting together a great segment!
Link: Working from Home Turns Social with the Internet (MP3 version)
Posted on 12 September '07 by Amit Gupta, under Jelly, NYC, Personal, nextNY. 4 Comments.
News of Jelly, our casual coworking session:
Posted on 21 August '07 by Amit Gupta, under Jelly, NYC, nextNY. Comments.
Jelly, our twice-monthly casual co-working session stretches its legs and visits Brooklyn this week. Thanks to Dave, Josh, and Saha for hosting.
Visitors from all boroughs are welcome. If you’ll be there, add your name to the list!
Posted on 14 August '07 by Amit Gupta, under Jelly, NYC, nextNY. Comments.
As many of you know I’ve been following the evolution of Facebook pretty closely, so I was interested to see Plaxo’s rumored response land today.
Up till today, Plaxo has been an address book management tool that’s gotten decent adoption among the business crowd. It syncs with your desktop (Mac or Windows) and makes sure that when one of your Plaxo-enabled colleagues changes his contact info, your copy is auto-magically updated. It’s useful.
Today they slapped on a social network. And surprisingly, it’s not half bad.
So what’s wrong with it? Well the site feels a little creaky and doesn’t work in Safari yet, but that can be fixed. The bigger problem is you have to create all your connections all over again!
It’s astonishing that this is the case, but despite the fact that Plaxo Pulse has access to my address book (and the best tools of any social network for keeping it in sync) it’s not smart enough to connect me to the people I know automatically (say, by looking to see if each of the people in my address book also have me in theirs.)
Instead, I must invite people to my network one-by-one. (screenshot)
Plaxo’s done some smart thinking in designing Pulse, but it doesn’t seem to be an open platform (yet). And do we really want to go establish our connections one-by-one on yet another social network?
Related: Brian pointed me to his posts on Portable Social Networks as part of the work he’s doing with Tantek and others.
Posted on 6 August '07 by Amit Gupta, under Business, Technology, facebook, nextNY. 3 Comments.
Wired just posted an article about Jelly, the quirky little twice-a-month coworking session I run from my apartment.
I even got a straight-faced joke in(!):
They started by informally inviting people over. Then a friend set up a wiki, another created a Google group, and soon people they barely knew were showing up. Anyone is welcome to attend — so far the open admission policy hasn’t led to any incidents. Were there to be any riffraff, Gupta feels he could control the situation. “I’m exceptionally strong,” he said.
Thanks to Anna Jane Grossman for the great article!
Link: Wired: Freelancers Forgo Office Space for Casual Coworking
See also: Jelly in the NY Post
Update: The story also hit Buzzfeed, my favorite meme-tracking news site. I made a short video that shows what it’s like at Jelly.
Posted on 20 July '07 by Amit Gupta, under Business, Entrepreneurship, Jelly, NYC, Technology, nextNY. 1 Comment.
After last week’s packed session, I’m putting together a second Hackathon for facebook developers in NYC next Monday, July 2nd. Come and work on your apps, ask questions, and get feedback.
Thanks to friends Andrew Parker and Union Square Ventures for hosting this time!
Link: RSVP Here
Posted on 26 June '07 by Amit Gupta, under Business, General, NYC, Technology, nextNY. Comments.
If you’re in NYC and working on a Facebook app (or want to be) come and chat with some likeminded folks next Wednesday at 7pm. Location TBD.
Posted on 6 June '07 by Amit Gupta, under Business, Entrepreneurship, NYC, Technology, facebook, nextNY. Comments.
Jelly, the twice-monthly coworking session Luke and I started at House 2.0 over a year ago, was recently mentioned in an article about coworking in the New York Post! Also featured in the piece, friends at Coworking Brooklyn and Nate’s Café Bricolage! (See also: Jelly on the Freelancer’s Union Blog)
Thanks to Kiera Butler for including us in her story.
Anyone is welcome to join us at Jelly. Check out www.workatjelly.com to learn more and email me to get on the list.
Posted on 22 May '07 by Amit Gupta, under Jelly, NYC, Technology, nextNY. Comments.
Amit's an entrepreneur.
His latest project is Photojojo. If you like photography, you will like Photojojo.
Before Photojojo, he was a founder of The Daily Jolt, an online community on 100 college campuses, helped create a non-profit called ChangeThis with Seth Godin, and brought the technology un-conference BarCamp to NYC. He also started a weekly casual coworking session called Jelly.
And he's consulted for companies such as Pearson, Apple, and Creative Good and co-authored The Big Moo, a WSJ best-seller, with Seth Godin, Malcolm Gladwell, Guy Kawasaki, Tom Peters, and others.
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