This month at Austin on Rails is guaranteed to take you on a magical journey. We’ve scheduled two talks that will inspire you; one that will change the way you make friends and another that will make you want to redesign your app. This month’s meeting is organized by Dave Rupert.

How Richard Found Friends - Richard Schneeman

So you’ve got a social web application, and you’ve got users, but you’ve got a problem…your throngs of users could be a tad more social. Your mission is to make your service more useful to your users, by helping them to find friends and stay active.

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So, SXSW Interactive is over and it was good.

Particularly, I heard that the Austin on Rails SXSW Happy Hour sponsored by OtherInbox and FiveRuns was good. In years past, we’ve skipped the March meeting because we used to do mid-month meetings and it always coincided with the festival. Now that we’ve adjusted to Fourth Tuesday, we will be having our regular meeting this month. Wow, seeing you guys two times in one month! Remember, you can always come out to Cafe Bedouins to work on your projects on Tuesdays at Thunderbird if you would like as well.

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