Originally published on Thursday, August 01, 2002
Interview with Scott Heiferman, MEETUP
by Jim Cashel
August 2002
Scott Heiferman is Co-Founder and CEO of MEETUP, an online site which helps people meet others with similar interests. Some of the most active users of MEETUP to this point are online community members seeking to meet other community members offline. Prior to MEETUP Scott founded i-traffic, an online ad agency now owned by Omnicom. We asked Scott about MEETUP and other cool community sites...
More: http://www.onlinecommunityreport.com/features/heiferman
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Site helps people meet
A new Web site called "Meetup" (www.meetup.com) has a simple goal: It wants to help people with the same interests use the Internet to meet in person.
Fishing for new friends? A Meetup on aquariums is set for Aug. 12. Want to find people who share more than their feelings? A Meetup on file-sharing kicks off on Aug. 5.
Here's how it works: You go to the Meetup site and select a city. You check the more than 300 topics listed for ones that interest you. Then you go to your meeting.
Meetings are unmonitored and run by whoever shows up.
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Link: http://www.freep.com/money/tech/buzz1_20020801.htm
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