matt.gillooly (Matt Gillooly)

Interests

coffee, design, IPAs, irish whiskey, Martial Arts, music production, ruby, social software

Web Links

FuseCal
FuseCal Blog
Public Display's RINexus profile
Mashable City
MattGillooly.com

About Me

By day, I'm the Product Manager for the FuseCal.com. In my spare time, I'm trying to make Providence the world's mashup capital, via MashableCity.org.

Back in the day, I co-founded East Transit Techologies, and before that, I studied Computer Science and Math at Brown.

My proudest accomplishment is snatching the lowest RI Nexus user id (16) of anyone not directly affiliated with this site or RIEDC.

Recent Content

Title: Werewolf (a.k.a. Mafia) (Forum) Submitted: April 10th, 2008 - 3:03pm

One of my favorite (and completely unexpected) experiences from SxSW was being exposed to the game Werewolf. Not only is it a lot of fun, but it turns out to be a great way to get a group of people talking and inadvertantly networking.

A number of folks I met there were from a group in Portland, OR that has monthly Werewolf meetups. Would anyone here be interested in meeting up in Providence for an occasional game?

Title: SxSW (Forum) Submitted: March 3rd, 2008 - 5:37pm

Anyone else planning to attend the SxSW Interactive Festival?

This will be my first time there... any hot tips from SxSW veterans?

Title: RI Has Fastest Broadband (Forum) Submitted: January 17th, 2008 - 2:43pm

The Communications Workers of American measured the median broadband access speeds in each state... RI wins!

Title: We know who Jack is, too! (Forum) Submitted: January 8th, 2008 - 3:23pm

Jack Templin has been picked by Providence Monthly as one of the 15 "people to watch" in 2008.

http://www.gcpvd.org/2008/01/07/we-know-who-jack-is/

Congrats, Jack!

Title: Google Maps Street View in Providence (Forum) Submitted: January 2nd, 2008 - 6:38pm

I can't decide whether this is just awesome, or if we should feel a little violated... either way, like it or not...

Google Maps Street View is now live for Providence

Did anyone see the camera vans when they were crawling the city?

Has anyone found any interesting activity in the footage?

Title: Amazon EC2 (Forum) Submitted: December 29th, 2007 - 10:51am

I was curious if anyone has any experience with Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) service, and would be willing to tell me about your experiences with it. We're investigating it for use in products at Public Display, and it looks great on paper. Any hidden downsides we need to be aware of?

Recent Comments

Source: Concentric @ the Colonial (Event) Submitted: May 8th, 2008 - 6:11pm link

Word. I wound up with an unprecedented 3 copies of the Concentric event in my Google Calendar- all from various feeds I subscribe to, none that I directly entered.

Derive what you will from that as far as how big this is going to be...

Source: Werewolf (a.k.a. Mafia) (Forum) Submitted: May 1st, 2008 - 10:31pm link

THANKS so much to everyone who came out.

I had an awesome time playing with y'all and look forward to many more games. Let's make it even bigger next time!

Cheers cheers cheers,

Matt

Source: Werewolf (Event) Submitted: April 29th, 2008 - 2:33pm link

More info: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/523686/

Source: Werewolf (a.k.a. Mafia) (Forum) Submitted: April 29th, 2008 - 2:29pm link

k00k - It looks like we'll have around 15 people so far, which is actually the perfect number for the bar's sake. It's not enough that we'd split into 2 groups, so we'll have some pretty long rounds... people that get eliminated early in each round will have plenty of time to work up a good bar tab!

Source: Werewolf (a.k.a. Mafia) (Forum) Submitted: April 29th, 2008 - 11:48am link

Latecomers are, in fact, allowed to play!!!

Source: Keep Connecting the Circles Redux: Let's get "Concentric" May 8th (Blog) Submitted: April 28th, 2008 - 6:21pm link

This looks really awesome. I'm probably going to have to miss the first half of it, but I hope to see you all there!

Source: Web 2.0 Expo coming to NYC (Forum) Submitted: April 28th, 2008 - 6:15pm link

We're back from Web2Expo in San Francisco, and it was definitely worth the trip, even despite some fairly major snafus.

We were in the Long Tail Pavilion, which certainly attracted the right crowd to our booth: early adopters and venture capitalists. I think FuseCal demoed really well and made a great impression. For sheer fun, SxSW still wins in my book, but for return on investment, I think this trip might have been our best yet.

I don't have a whole lot of media from the trip to share, but I did give a video pitch in our booth that you can see in our blog at http://blog.fusecal.com/2008/04/web2expo-video-pitch/... Perhaps it gives something of a feel for the expo floor?

Source: Werewolf (a.k.a. Mafia) (Forum) Submitted: April 28th, 2008 - 4:04pm link

We now officially have space reserved!

Providence Werewolf
Wednesday, April 30 at 6pm
Jake's Bar and Grille (map)
373 Richmond Street
Providence, Rhode Island

Again, please RSVP either in this thread or via my contact form, so I can let them know if our expected turnout changes. Thanks, and see you Wednesday!

Source: Werewolf (a.k.a. Mafia) (Forum) Submitted: April 25th, 2008 - 5:17pm link

Okay, folks, let's make this happen at 6pm on Wednesday, April 30th. I'll try to reserve the space for us in the next few days... if you're planning to attend and haven't posted in this thread, please do so, so I have a better headcount.

Source: Werewolf (a.k.a. Mafia) (Forum) Submitted: April 22nd, 2008 - 10:06am link

We had a room full of close to 30 people (mostly newbies) going at one point in Austin. So, I'm not very worried about having too many people... the biggest limitation will be the size of the space we find (and to a lesser extent the number of people willing to take a turn moderating).

It's easier for me if folks would try to get when2meet working, but if it's acting weird, feel free to post in this thread which of the following evenings work for you: