If you haven’t already seen today’s national tech news, Providence-based startup Swipely has just announced a limited beta launch of their highly-anticipated “social shopping” service. Better still, they also announced a $7.5 million Series A round, led by some of the tech world’s savviest investors.

But here’s the best part, Swipley will be giving its public demo at tomorrow’s Providence Geeks dinner!
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Swipely CEO and Providence-native Angus Davis was not only the youngest employee at Netscape during its halycon days, but also a co-founder of interactive voice-leader TellMe, which Microsoft acquired a couple of years ago to the tune of close to $1 billion. Takeaway = Swipely is one to watch.

 

As always, for first-timers here are the details on the Geek Dinners:

• The event itself is FREE! Beverages and food are for sale at AS220’s bar and new restaurant.

 

• It’s totally casual. Wear whatever, bring whoever, arrive and take off whenever! And don’t worry about eating or not – come famished or full – eating is optional, and frankly, the least of the festivities (that’s not say the food isn’t good – it’s actually great)

 

• Topics of conversation will vary as they will at any gathering of geeks, but many of us will be talking about AJAX, mash-ups, start-ups, new devices, innovative business models, interaction design, social computing, digital art, web services, etc. etc. etc.

 

• There is Wi-Fi so bring your connected device of choice.