I have to admit that walking into an elementary school at 9am had me in a pretty grumpy mood with low expectations for Boston Barcamp 3. As is sometimes the case (in very, very rare circumstances, I assure you) I was wrong. The event was great. Absolutely everybody there was interesting and had something cool to say. The talks were great and I came away with a renewed passion for my own work. I spent a lot of time pursuing topics that were interesting to me and had no impact on my business. I also spent time talking with other people interested in the mobile device space as well as startups in general and got a tremendous amount of valuable feedback.

It’s impossible to talk about everybody I ran into and everything I saw, but here are some of my personal highlights:

• Dan Grover from Wonder Warp did a fun and really informative talk on iPhone programming. Scarey stuff.
• Matt from Pandemic Labs did a talk about viral marketing. At first I was concerned that nobody at a tech meetup would want to talk about such things but I was surprised to find this presentation was a great success.
• Attended an interesting talk about turning twitter into a distributed service. This was interesting because I have not been following the drama around twitter but apparently this is quite an exciting topic.
• At least three different people that gave Andrew and I clever things to think about when trying to sell the service we are creating to businesses.
• Got the founder of MyPunchBowl.com’s opinions on a number of issues including SEO and the importance of creating only one product.
• Saw a lot of the people I met at the Cambridge Enterprise Web 2.0 Meetup.

Unfortunately I will not be able to attend the second day, but this is a great event and well worth your time guys!

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