Investor Ron Conway estimates real-time data is 1 percent to 2 percent of Web content (2009). In three years, it will climb to 25 percent of the content on the Web. That will make the market a $5 billion opportunity. “I think this is the next multi-billion dollar market.” – Ron Conway The real-time web has the potential to disrupt and fundamentally shift the way we communicate. This is THE meet-up to attend if you are shaping or wanting to know the people, technology and thought-leaders of th …

Future of PHP Web Apps is a Hacker Social event for PHP developers developing the future of Web Apps. We're about knowledge sharing, technology exploration, and ad-hoc collaboration on PHP. Come to have fun, learn things, build things, and meet fellow developers. Lightning Talks will be held towards the end of the evening - so come demo your exciting PHP projects!

SILICON VALLEY FORUM (SVForum) Web Apps & E-Commerce - Special Interest Group (SIG) WeCommerce Blog - http://wecommercesig.wordpress.com Web Apps & E-Commerce - Special Interest Group provides a forum for web app & e-commerce developers, product, finance, and marketing professionals to interact and discover ways of growing their ventures. The SIG welcomes experienced professionals and new entrants. The agenda features speakers from companies, VCs, financiers, product managers, and marketers …

The Silicon Valley DART Meetup aims to: * Promote the use of the DART programming language and related technologies * Educate through high-quality and applicable presentations * Induce interactive discussions and forums * Be a resource hub for whomever is interested in web development in general and DART in particular * Develop close ties and relationships with the industry mentor companies and educational institutions in the United States and worldwide

Bring Your Site, Improve Your Design Are you building a website without a designer? Do you feel like there's something wrong, but can't quite put your finger on it? Are you a designer looking for some feedback? No matter how much time you’ve put into your website, chances are it could still benefit from a designer’s “fresh pair of eyes”. We’ll review your website and make suggestions for improvement. We’ll go through examples and analyze the content, typography, look and feel, accessability, etc …

Learn how Appcelerator's Titanium platform empowers Web developers to take their existing Web skill sets and build fully native applications for both iPhone and Android. Developers without knowledge of Objective-C or Java -- the languages traditionally used to code iPhone and Android apps -- can still create native apps quickly and easily using the JavaScript, HTML and CSS knowledge they already have. Attendees will walk away with a larger understanding of how these new aspects of Titanium are s …

We are a collaborative community consisting of women engineers, developers, or who are interested in learning web development.  We make it possible for women who are working on their projects to ask for advice and get feedback from members of our group. If you are working on a project (or want to get started with your project), you can join our private Posterous blog. http://womenintech.posterous.com This will be our main place of discussion where we share our ideas and give each other feedback. …

Greetings web, social, console, mobile game and application developers, game designers and entrepreneurs. You will recognize the Silicon Valley, San Francisco, East Bay IGDA Chapters and other Bay Area Game and application developer group friends here. All are welcome. Join us to grow and present your games and apps and related tools and platforms. Find other game developers for your projects. Get or give advice on design, funding, art, technical architecture, careers for your game or applicatio …

Hey there! I am posting this as a  Meetup to find others interested in talking about development with PHP CodeIgnigter or Expression Engine platforms. If you are, drop me a line and we will set up a meeting time. Thanks, Christian

A place for SugarCRM developers to hack, integrate, develop and socialize. If you have an integration you want to show off, a hack you want to implement, or just want a chance to talk to other people developing on SugarCRM including the SugarCRM development team, this is the place for you.

The place for Google Chrome & cloud computing developers, cloud computing entrepreneurs, users, involved in planning and implementing applications for Chrome as well as those wishing to learn more about the business opportunities related Chrome. We get together monthly to share solutions, opportunities, and how-tos related to Chrome browser, and Chrome OS. Experienced developers, newcomers, and people with ideas are all welcome. We've enjoyed presentations from developers, entrepreneurs, and exp …

We are a Silicon Valley meet-up group, interested in connecting folks who are passionate about the certification space and interested in building certifications for the Devsquare OpenPBT platform. If you are a developer/hacker or a subject matter expert (SME) — who is passionate about certifications — please join us. For more information: http://devsquare.com'

There are DOZENS of game development events and groups with very specific topics in the Bay Area. Attempting to go to all of them is insane. Let's use this group to discuss what we've learned at other venues. This will be our crowdsourcing for indies project! This group is a place for independent developers who live near Mountain View, Palo Alto, and Los Altos to discuss design trends, platforms, tools, testing and sales techniques, the media, the IRS, lawyers, cloning, pirates, advertising, pub …

The Silicon Valley BlackBerry Developers Group exists to connect developers in Silicon Valley interested in gaining and sharing knowledge about developing on the BlackBerry platform. This includes all BlackBerry handsets and emergent BlackBerry devices such as the PlayBook. We meet about once a month in the Santa Clara area. Meeting topics and styles will range from month to month but will primarily be technically oriented. Anyone interested in BlackBerry development is welcome to join a meetin …

The SVForum Software Architecture and Platform SIG offers a forum for members to discuss and learn about new and emerging technologies in software architecture, development tools, and platforms. At the monthly meeting, there is a technical presentation involving software tools, techniques, platforms, or architecture used to capitalize on an emerging market opportunity or solve an enterprise computing problem. Software tools include emerging functional languages such as Scala or F#, HTML5 or new …

This is a group for anyone who's interested in or has used the Box platform. If you're interested in APIs or cloud computing, come check us out!