Today I found out about a kool new group that is forming here in the area called Kansas City Startup Drinks.  What is Startup Drinks you might ask?

a) A drinking group with a startup problem.
b) A low key, unstructured group drinking (coffee, beer or spirits) event that happens in cities across the world
c) Therapy for startup junkies (you don’t have two days to go to a conference, but you do have two hours and would love to stay involved in the community)

Sounds like a great concept and I look forward to checking out any meetups in the future.

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To all you social media types in Kansas City it is that time again when we all get together for some food, fellowship, and fun!

As always the event is open to all and free (besides what you want to purchase food wise).  There will be some discussion on a topic around social media and you can meet some of those peeps you follow on that little service called twitter.

below are a few more details on the event and if you could jump over the the smckc site and rsvp so we can get a count that would be great.

Hope to see you there!

Time: May 1, 2009 from 7:30am to 9am
Location: First Watch – North Kansas City
Street: 409 Armour Road
City/Town: North Kansas City, MO 64116

Whitney Mathews of the local Kansas City company Spiral16 recently sat down with a local blogger/podcaster Ed Roberts who runs the KC Weather Podcast and they discussed using social media when it comes to reporting or talking about severe weather

Some new features Ed has added when it comes to sever weather in the social media realm is adding a chat room for everyone to get together and interact with Ed and others as well as using the hashtag #kcstorms on twitter.

[Listen to the podcast]

I got a good laugh out of this one. Enjoy!

Found a kool way to update twitter and facebook at the same time via twitter while adding some extra functionality like using the hashtag #fb to post your tweet as well as changing @mentions to the persons real name. Its called Tweetface and its a snap to get up and running.

Features:
* Post tweets as Facebook Status Updates
* Post links you tweet on your Facebook Wall (so your friends can watch videos and see pictures right in their News Feed)
* Ignore @replies
* Change @mentions to real names
* Only post the tweets you specify to Facebook (if this is all you want, Selective Twitter is the app for you)
* Track links posted to Facebook with awe.sm

Pretty much all you have to do is connect via Facebook Connect, setup some options, and then you are ready to go!

One thing I will mention in my early testing is I would like to see the conversion of @mentions to use just the first name rather then the whole name.  An example would be when i did and @msgigglebox who is my wife it converted it to Allison Smith on facebook.  Now this is correct but when I a put that on Facebook it just seems weird to be mentioning here with her complete name.

example:
Allison Smith and I went to the mall today would like to see Allison and I went to the mall today

Other then that so far I think it is a pretty kool little app to help in updating both twitter and facebook right from a twitter itself.

So today is the last day of the April and traffic/readership wise it has been the best month I have ever had.

This week alone I have had 2 days with over 1,000 page views in a day, I passed my previous monthly page view total and went over 6,000 and thanks to the 2 huge days I am about 40 page views away from hitting 8,000 in a month! To me that is awesome!!!

Now I love the stats and they are great to see where you are going but more then that I love getting content out to people about things I enjoy or events and such i get to experience. I have made some great friends, learned about a lot of kool things and been able to attend some great events just because of this blog.

So I pretty much wanted to write this post to say thank you to everyone who follows my posts, comments, or shares the things I throw up on here. You guys are the best!

College Humor has a funny segment where they bring twitter to our real lives.  funny stuff.

Eclectic Method brings you The Tarantino Mixtape. Enjoy!

Eclectic Method – The Tarantino Mixtape from Eclectic Method on Vimeo.

One of the kool new features added to the beta version of friendfeed is the ability to share posts from the service. You can share them on Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Del.icio.us, and even embed it into your page like I did below with one of the Talk Social News episodes with my fellow Social Geeks contributor Wayne Sutton.

Definitely a very kool way to share stuff you find on FriendFeed around the interwebs as well as pretty easy to execute.

Here is another example…with a picture I had posted on FriendFeed. As you can see not only do you get the picture embeded but you get the likes and comments and you can even posts a comment right in the embedded item that will show up for all to see! Very kool. I think I will keep playing with this and see what different ways I can come up with to rock the house with this functionality.

“Rise Above the Flock. Rate a tweet to the Top Chirp.”

TopChirp was one of the many startups that came out of Startup Weekend Kansas City and I think you could define it best as digg meets twitter allowing you vote on tweets and with enough votes it could become the top chirp.  Since it just came out of startup weekend I thnk it would be safe to say its in a very beta stage but will be interesting to see it grow and where it goes from here.  Check out the presentation the group did Sunday night.

[topchirp]
[topchirp on twitter]