Pain in the A Q&A: At SXSW with Venmo

And we're back...with another edition of our "Pain in the A Q&A." Two editions, actually. One is with Jameel from Venmo.com, which you can find below from SXSW. Venmo allows people to send money via a mobile platform, and has cool colorful shirts. They also chat about the pains of making meetings, but how meebee.com can take that pain away and give you more time to do fun stuff!


The second video is another interview at SXSW, but all in Japanese! Yup, JD flexes his languages skills (he used to live in Japan as a media juggernaut).


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Pain in the A Q&A: At SXSW with SoundCloud's Alex Ljung

meebee's CEO JD caught up with SoundCloud's CEO Alex at Austin's SXSW festival. They rap about Alex arriving at the massive festival of SXSW, and the great growth that SoundCloud.com is receiving - from guitar players at home to The Smashing Pumpkin's Billy Corgan. The also tackle the fact that Alex was having trouble meeting up with a friend due to a "messy mix" of SMS, phone tag and email. Alex is now going to check out meebee.com because of it! Enjoy the short video clip...

Video credit goes to MyLocationScouts.com, who helped us out at SXSW. They're the first nationwide rental database for independent filmmakers and a one stop shop for finding shooting locations, props and equipment - no matter what the budget.

Pain in the A Q&A: At SXSW with Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh

meebee CEO JD caught up with Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh at the South By Southwest festival (SXSW). They rap aboout the best of the buzzing festival so far, such as the Delivering Happiness Book Bus that is party-hoping around Austin and spreading the good word of Hsieh's new book, "Delivering Happiness." Hsieh breaksdown all that he learned in business, "from the lemonaide stand to LinkExchange to Zappos," plus how the science of happiness can be applied to business.

They also hash over the annoying back and forth of texting and email, and how meebee.com can help alleviate that wasted time and energy.

Video credit goes to MyLocationScouts.com, who helped us out at SXSW. They're the first nationwide rental database for independent filmmakers and a one stop shop for finding shooting locations, props and equipment - no matter what the budget.

Shots from SXSW: Ashton Kutcher, Evan Wiliams, Brian Solis...

Our CEO JD is spreading the good word of meebee at this year's South By Southwest (SXSW) festival. Enjoy the (almost) real-time shots of his experience mixing it up with geeks, web celebs and party goers alike. Shots of meebee CEO JD hanging out with web celebs at the Austsin's SXSW and Paris' LeWeb.  Check out Twitterholic Ashton Kutcher, Brian Solis, Zappo's Tony Hsieh, Jason Womack, Foursquare's Naveen Selvadurai, others...



Photo credit goes to MyLocationScouts.com, who helped us out at SXSW. They're the first nationwide rental database for independent filmmakers and a one stop shop for finding shooting locations, props and equipment - no matter what the budget.

meebee shout out to MyLocationScouts

We want to give credit to MyLocationScouts, who helped us out at SXSW. They're the first nationwide rental database for independent filmmakers. Through them, you can create a profile for your location (personal property and equipment to earn 100% profit. No commission and no transaction fee), browse a nationwide database of willing property renters and communicate directly and use sample contracts, find talent, barter/trade, hire a location scout and research each state's film incentive programs. MyLocationScouts is a one stop shop for finding shooting locations, props and equipment - no matter what the budget.

Parties Galore: SXSW and St. Patrick's Day!

meebee is all about having a good time. Our sole purpose is to save people time and energy so they can do more things that they want to do. Like partying. Like drinking good beer. Like going to massive festivals (for more of our CEO's adventures at SXSW, click here). One of the most celebrated holidays, St. Patrick's Day, is just around the corner. So if you can't be at Austin's SXSW, then get to one of these three fun zones to have a pint of Guinness and sing "Danny Boy" 28 times.


Dublin, Ireland - Can't leave out the biggest St. Patty's Day heavy hitter. A gigantic festival takes over the streets, almost Carnival-like. Also, check out the Dublin Hop On, Hop Off tour.

Boston, MA - It claims to be the most Irish city in the US. True or not, it's a fine place to be on the green holiday. Check out the Go Boston Card that gives you discounted access to over 70 attractions.

Anywhere, World - Just about any decent city has an Irish pub. Or two. Or 14. So find yours, throw on some green and saddle up with a finely poured Guinness. That guy or girl next to you is ready for a jolly good time!

Happy St. Patrick's Day from meebee!

meebee featured in the Technology Media Blog of MediaMan

With our CEO JD at SXSW and now this feature by MediaMan, meebee is getting some great buzz! In Technology Media blog of Media Man Australia, meebee gets some good print. A couple highlights that Greg Tingle noted:

"meebee is a cool new app that will take the hassle out of meeting with your friends."
"Best of all meebee will contact you about meetings, in the way you prefer i.e. vie email. Its FREE and remarkably simple to use – 3 steps and you are finished!"
Get the full write up here...
And get SXSW tips and the latest from JD's SXSW experience here.

HELLO SXSW!

Just touched down in Austin and it’s true that everything’s bigger in Texas and SXSW is no exception! We're already hearing a lot of talk about the best places to eat and hangout inside SXSW and on the streets of Austin. Here’s a list of some of the top places people having been buzzing about:

Best Places to…

Grab a Beer: The Ginger Man 

Grab a Slice: Home Slice Pizza 

Pig out on BBQ: Smitty’s Market 

Get into a bar-brawl:  Donn's Depo

Attend a Tiki Themed Party: Gowalla Tiki Room 

Chow on Late Night Grub: La Mexicana 

Will add more after we do some additional exploring. Don’t forget to use meebee.com to meet at all these great spots! 

Want to go to SXSW? Or make cash doing so?

Calling all female geeks, web socialites and VIPs!

Want to get in to SXSW? Going to SXSW but want to make some extra cash? Then why not help out a startup web 2.0 site by doing a little bit of promo work? If you're a local, or someone who knows SXSW inside out, then let us know about your SXSW chops and we'll choose 1 or 2 lucky people to have a blast at this year's SXSW! (whether we pay for your flight, ticket or in cold, hard cash depends on the applicants). You'll be helping out our CEO JD with photos, videos, passing out meebee goods and more.

Email us at meebeebuzz [at] meebee.com and prove to us you can make a difference at this year's interactive festival. Please send a couple of photos, a few paragraphs and/or an online profile to show up what you got!

For the rest of you - we look forward to meeting, sharing and partying at this year's SXSW!
Check out our tips and tricks in getting the most out of SXSW.

meebee to rock SXSW

It's official, meebee will be buzzing around the highly anticipated 2010 SXSW event in Austin, Texas. With an estimated 60,000 attendees from all over the globe, the event should prove to be a wild ride filled with film stars, rock stars and computer stars alike. It's going to be our first year in attendance so we have a lot of things on our to-do list. Here's just a few:

Help others network to the max

So you've arranged your SXSW schedule down to a tee and refuse to miss a single event, good for you! But don't forget - it's much cooler if you roll to each event with a group rather than flying solo. Instead of creeping around by yourself, meetup with your friends using meebeee. Attending different events with a group will make it much easier to meet and network with other attendees.

Get interrupted by Kanye

We're not sure if he'll be in attendance again like last year, but if we are giving a speech, presentation maybe even a performance he is the man to ruin it. It's been too long since the Grammy's it's about time for a comeback! 

Tame the killer bee

We like to think that we know a thing or two about bee's and because the largest bee is located in Texas we will have to meetup.

Get everyone buzzed

The meebee crew will be doing everything possible to make this the best SXSW to date! At meebee.com, we work hard and play harder so keep any eye out for our meebee gang and you will be guaranteed an unforgettable time!

Hook up VIP'S

For select VIPS the meebee crew will be giving away a variety of awesome prizes, VIP cards to help save you time and money and a select few will have a chance to receive the Amazon hit "Your Time, Your Life!" 

Let us know what you like to do at SXSW and what you think we should add to our list. See you there!