Semantic Web in San Diego Meet local people interested in the Semantic Web, an initiative by the W3C [ http://www.w3c.org] to make the web "one giant database": The Data Web. We address technologies such as RDF, RDFS, OWL and applications that help to develop or that use ontologies, controlled vocabularies and rules systems in the enterprise and on the World Wide Web. The existence of a semantic web meetup group in San Diego will hopefully stimulate information exchange, and the growth of this …

The Social Media Chamber of Commerce is an organization whose mission is to enhance business results for local businesses and organizations that employ a social media marketing strategy or that wishes to develop one. It is primarily an educational organization, but also seeks to provide the technical tools necessary for businesses to take advantage of the most powerful and productive marketing platform available in the 2010's -- social media. Not only is social media marketing a good value for …

I got a call several weeks ago, it was a very typical conversation. The lady on the other end was frustrated, bordering on angry. Who was she angry at?  The answer was so common: it was "us": web developers, web solution providers.  She felt cheated and robbed.  Her story as a litany of failed solutions, money wasted, and what she perceived as outright lying and cheating. She no longer trusted anyone in the web development industry. This always makes me a bit angry as well.  Part of anyone's rep …

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The Founder Institute encourages technology entrepreneurs to launch a meaningful and enduring technology company. This group is open to all technology entrepreneurs. Many Founders/Entrepreneurs that belong to this group will be graduates of The Founder Institute. The benefits of belonging gives you access to fellow founders - strong peer group – in the San Diego Market.

This is the San Diego Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH, slated to build local interest on computer graphics and interactive techniques, for educational, artistic and scientific purposes. It's free to join this Meetup ($0), but we encourage you to become a Full Member in order to enhance your involvement, opportunities, and chances to receive cool giveaways! To join as a Full Member for a year, just make a $20 PayPal donation (note 'Chapter membership' and member name in the donation comments), or you can …

San Diego's tech community is growing rapidly, with meetups increasing in number and programmers of all types getting together to learn, hack, and drink beer. Sadly the web community, despite being increasingly dependent on Javascript knowledge to be on the cutting edge, has been lacking a Javascript meetup group to share information about the latest and greatest. No longer! This group exists to connect people of all skill levels who are working with Javascript, facilitate the flow of knowledge …

Meet with other developers, web operations, system administrators, designers, and business professionals who are looking to make their site and application faster, enhance the user experience, and lower abandonment rates and make more money.

The San Diego Joomla Users Group is for Joomla users, administrators, designers and developers to bring the best of Joomla to San Diego. Joomla is the world’ s most popular open source CMS (content management system). With 2.7 percent of the Web running on Joomla, the software is used by individuals, small & medium-sized businesses, and large organizations worldwide to easily create & build a variety of websites & web-enabled applications. All levels of experience are welcome!

Internet Marketing & SEO for Wordpress in Business is open to anyone wanting to help others; or anyone needing help with their online business; or anyone wanting to increase their online presence for their retail business. Focused in North County Coastal, the founding member has made millions online and believes you have to "give it away to receive it".  Nothing comes without hard work. If you're willing to learn, share and do the work; you will succeed. A group of like minded web entrepreneurs …

This group is a place for developers to learn more about MongoDB, an open source, document-oriented, nosql database. If you are facing challenges with MySQL or Postgres or Oracle and want to explore a more flexible, scalable alternative, please join us at one of our monthly sessions. We typically meet on once per month and enjoy a presentation on MongoDB.

SandCHI is here to enrich the San Diego UX community. HCI, UX, IxD & Usability professionals and students network, share ideas, research & best practices. We meet every 3rd Wednesday evening Jan - October. Our meetings are free and open to the public. We welcome people from all fields - developers, SEO experts, marketers, etc. You do not have to be a Human Computer Interaction practitioner to come to a meeting.

Are you developing or interested in developing cross-platform mobile applications for iOS, Android, Windows (even Blackberry)? Come join us to learn, share, and keep up with the highly dynamic landscape of developing mobile apps with PhoneGap, Titanium, Corona, Rhomobile, Appmobi, impactJS, Sencha, RedFoundry and all the other tools out there. @SDXMobileDevs

I am passionate about the PHP community and am just now moving to San Diego. I have participated in OrlandoPHP for a year and a half and want to bring my experience to SD. I also want to meet like minded people, come out of my shell some and help others out of theirs as well. I am looking for members of all ranges of experience.  I feel that there is always something to learn, even if you are a current expert.  And also, sharing your knowledge with others is priceless.

Connect locals in San Diego that use Salesforce to keep up to date with the ever evolving platform

The United States of America JOBS Act enacted on April 5th, 2012 allows a person or company to raise funds through many investors. Crowdfunding and its many investment possibilities have been put into the spotlight. This group will host mixers to discuss the pros and cons of crowdfunding, the platforms available for crowdfunding, and the types of crowdfunding investors will be looking for. Investors, business owners, startups, entrepreneurs and more are invited to join us!

Whether building a web, mobile, or gaming backend, Operations is using development tools to make it work. We primarily focus on systems automation and site reliability engineering. We're interested in the built-in facilities in Linux and the BSDs to programmatically seed and deploy. We primarily focus on Open Source solutions, but it is good to keep an eye out on the alternatives. This includes automated deployment to private cloud (eucalyptus, openstack), public cloud (amazon web services, rack …

Greater San Diego area based user-group focused on bringing Hadoop users together to discuss use-cases, share problems and solutions as well as learn new skills for building large-scale Hadoop-based systems and Bigdata solutions.

106 Miles is a network of startup founders, engineers, and friends. Our mission is to educate and empower entrepreneurial engineers. Our values are Reputation, Innovation, Solidarity, and Education. This is our San Diego group; see also our, LA/OC Group, and our flagship Silicon Valley group. Please join us if you're a founder or engineer (or friend!) and... * You have worked at a startup, * You want to work at a startup, * You have started a company, and/or * You want to start a company. …

Second Screen TV, Second Screen is a term that refers to an additional electronic device (e.g. tablet, smartphone) that allows a television audience to interact with the content they are consuming, such as TV shows, movies, music, or video games, extra data is displayed on a portable device synchronized with the content being viewed on television. Beyond the above, using a tablet to select info about a specific object you see on TV like you do with web pages and getting that info on your table i …

This is a group for anyone looking for a coworking community of interesting people to talk to, collaborate with, and bounce ideas off of. You bring your laptop (or whatever you need to get your work done) and a friendly disposition. We may host a lot of designers, developers, and internet types, however we'd also like to meet musicians, cooks, sound designers, tea sommeliers, product designers, photographers, writers, and more. Some of us may be entrepreneurs or freelancers. Others work in an of …

This group is for people interested in building search based applications, enterprise search applications, shallow analytics applications using search technologies.

Full Stack: North County is an event where web designers and developers can come together to learn from and teach each other about emerging technologies. While speakers at Full Stack focuss primarily on Ruby, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, we encourage all local web professionals to join us for vivid discussions around technology across the stack in any language.