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)

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)

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:

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.)

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!

RSVP if you’re gonna be there. We’ve got a great lineup so far. Hope you can make it!

Link: Working from Home Turns Social with the Internet (MP3 version)

• We had a great Jelly in Brooklyn last week. We’ll be doing Jelly in Brooklyn more frequently.
• Jelly in Manhattan this Friday. (Thanks to Darrel Silver for hosting.) RSVP if you’re coming, all are welcome.
• We’re looking for Jelly venues in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and anywhere else. If you’d like to host a future Jelly, get in touch!
• Miriam Warren @ Yelp is working on getting a Jelly in D.C. up and running. If you’ve got friends in DC, help spread the word!

Link: RSVP for Jelly in Manhattan Friday, 8/24

Visitors from all boroughs are welcome. If you’ll be there, add your name to the list!

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.

• They recognize that the newsfeed is one of the killer features of Facebook, and that many of us already live online on many different sites. So they let you link up with your existing webservices (screenshot) like Twitter, Flickr, Picasa, your blog, Del.icio.us, Last.fm, My Space, Xanga, LJ, Yahoo 360, etc. Smart.
• They also recognize that being able to control who sees your information among groups of people you know — your business contacts, your friends, and your family — is a common request on Facebook. So they let you control it on a feed-by-feed basis. (screenshot)
• They’ve even built in lightweight twitter/pownce-like functionality (screenshot) and, like everything else on Plaxo, given you control over which of your groups sees what you want to send.

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.

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.

Thanks to friends Andrew Parker and Union Square Ventures for hosting this time!

Link: RSVP Here

RSVP for NYC Facebook Developers Meetup

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.

We’re just blocks from almost every subway line, and everyone is welcome. If you want a change of pace from working from home or the office, add your name to the list!

Link: Jelly on Thursday, April 12th, 2007

A short clip from last week’s Jelly. We had people soldering at Jelly for the first time at a Jelly last week. (Yay for hardware!)

If you’re interested in coming to our next Jelly coworking session in midtown at House 2.0, drop me a line and I’ll add you to the list. All are welcome!