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This group is designed to explore the ways in which social media and technology can help bring arts and culture to the masses. "Democratizing" the arts has been a long-standing goal in the art world, and no medium makes it more feasible than the web.

1,059
members
4.50 4.5022 (22 ratings)

The Y+30 is designed as an authentic forum for discussing what the world might look like in +30 years. We ask which trends and technologies are emerging today that will have formative effects on the not to distant future. our blog: http://Y30.IT/

1,251
Futurists
4.00 4.0054 (54 ratings)

The coworking community is composed of entrepreneurs, freelancers, telecommuters, and other location-independent workers who seek to work alongside one another and share resources. This Meetup group will offer events ranging from workshops to talk

705
Coworkers
5.00 5.0013 (13 ratings)

This group explores how web technology can be used in support of grassroots organizing and social activism. Like many tech meetups, we will gather together simply to share ideas, experiences, new tools, and a few laughs, so that we can better achiev

383
grassrooters
5.00 5.0012 (12 ratings)

ISOC-NY is the Greater New York Metropolitan Area chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC). We are a 501c3 non-profit. The mission of (ISOC-NY) is: 1. in support of ISOC, to assure the beneficial, open evolution of the global Internet, 2. to

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ISOC-NY members
5.00 5.002 (2 ratings)

Got an invention and want to learn how to license or launch it? The Inventors Association of Manhattan (IAM) is for you. Do you offer professional service to New York inventors, like new product design or patent development? The IAM is for you. Every

512
Inventors and Service Providers
4.50 4.5032 (32 ratings)

Ever combined the Web, real life(tm), Second Life, World of Warcraft, Google Earth, Nintendo, Facebook and the unfolding human experience into a single thought (which you then Twittered over your iPhone)? Working on an art or web or game or virtual w

372
Avatars
5.00 5.004 (4 ratings)

Colossus in 2012! Discuss, Learn, Implement, our Silicon Overlords!

108
members
5.00 5.009 (9 ratings)

Cloud Computing represents a new, better and perhaps cheaper way of delivering enterprise IT. Join our discussion on Cloud Computing and Web Services - Start up, learn, meet, collaborate and grow. Let's dig in. Amazon Web Services, Sun, 3Ter

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Clouders
5.00 5.0017 (17 ratings)

New York Philosophy brings the idea of the salon to Manhattan. Members engage in reasoned, yet passionate, discussions while enjoying food, drink, and socializing. Topics range from matters of the day to matters of all time. Our monthly events ra

1,783
Philosophers
4.50 4.5069 (69 ratings)

The NYTA has monthly meetings of NY transhumanists. We also sponsor the printing and distributing of transhumanist literature at bioethics conferences, and other gatherings. Funds are used to pay for hosting, printed flyers, and advertising.

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Transhumanists
4.50 4.505 (5 ratings)

On the 1st Tuesday each month at 7PM, 6 people get 5 minutes each to demo something cool to New York's tech community (geeks, investors, entrepreneurs, hackers, etc)

12,499
NYC Technologists
4.00 4.00206 (206 ratings)

NY Video is the world's largest organization of web video entrepreneurs. We meet monthly in NYC to showcase and discuss the emerging trends of our industry. Each month local startups and media companies launching new products dem in front of hundreds

3,364
Online Video Founders & Pros
4.50 4.5028 (28 ratings)

The NYC Bio Meetup is sponsored by NYC Bio - a not-for-profit organization established to facilitate collaboration, innovation and entrepreneurship in the NYC community. Our goal is to build and sustain a thriving NYC biotech cluster encompassing bi

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Biotechnology Enthusiasts
4.50 4.5024 (24 ratings)

Learn about and discuss the accelerating change in technology, science, society, business.

416
Future Saloners
4.50 4.5023 (23 ratings)

Gathering of people interested in search and discovery and the related fields -- information gathering, extraction, and retrieval, natural language processing, text analytics, data mining, sentiment detection, named entity recognition... Some exam

194
Members
4.00 4.0022 (22 ratings)

In 1968, Czechs & Slovaks under soviet-dominated communist rule yearned for a say in the governance of their own country. A blossoming of political discourse in cafes and pubs led to demands for self rule in the capital. Unfortunately, the Prague

527
Armchair Diplomats
5.00 5.0017 (17 ratings)

Smart movies are not dull. Keep them playing on the big screen by going to see them in packs.

889
Arthouse Film buffs
4.50 4.507 (7 ratings)

This is a social networking group for NYC area Java developers, managers, recruiters, basically anyone with an interest in Java technologies. We feature technical presentations. Feel free to bring a presentation, a demo, flyers, make an announcement

1,122
Java enthusiasts
4.00 4.0029 (29 ratings)

GNU and Linux are two of the most prominent examples of free software development. In the spirit of community-built software, twice a month we get the local community together to discuss topics of free, libre and open source software, the GNU/Linux o

581
Linux Enthusiasts
4.50 4.5010 (10 ratings)

Meet other local iPhone Software Developers. Discuss ideas for applications and techniques and approaches for developing them.

1,053
Software Developers
4.50 4.5037 (37 ratings)

A regular weekly meeting for marketing, media & technology innovators, entrepreneurs and investors. Inspired by the London OpenCoffee Club. Every Thursday at 9:15AM at Taralucci E Vino (15 East 18th St./Union Square) Follow Tweets about this

858
Innovators
4.50 4.5019 (19 ratings)

Meetup with other local supporters of the online communities in Second Life and OpenSim! Explore business/development opportunities in Second Life and OpenSim.

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Virtual World Enthusiasts
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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. The meetup format is inspired by my experience with foafcamp's and unconference style community event

1,215
members on the Semantic Web
4.00 4.0068 (68 ratings)

A monthly gathering where we each take turns sharing our favorite art or culture: songs, poems, stories, paintings, photos, etc... We each bring something, created either by us or by others, present it, and then respond to each other's offerings.

686
Passionate & Creative People
5.00 5.0045 (45 ratings)

The NY Quantified Self meetup is modeled on the Bay Area Quantified Self Show & Tell meetings started in 2008 by Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly in the Bay Area. Your host for the NYC meetup is Steve Dean (Twitter @sgdean). Write us with your recommendatio

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Self-Quantifiers
4.50 4.5010 (10 ratings)

NY Tech Sales and Marketing meetup puts on sales and marketing focused meetup events for technology sales and marketing decision makers and practitioners. The meetups take place in New York City and are designed to offer a forum for New York City bas

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IT/Tech Sales & Marketing Pros
5.00 5.008 (8 ratings)

This meetup consists of different groups of people reading certain material to different degrees of depth and intensity. Books we've read in the past are Descartes' 'Meditations', Hume's 'Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding', Kant's '1st Critique'

532
Philosophers
5.00 5.0073 (73 ratings)

For startup entrepreneurs who are passionate about developing customers and markets in a disciplined, iterative, and measured way. The Lean Startup is a trademark and service mark owned by Eric Ries

382
members
4.50 4.5024 (24 ratings)