For those of you who have dealt with infinimedia in the past, and I mean late 90s, you know that we ran a pretty popular mac site: mac-mania.com which later evolved into macinstart.com (I wanted to build a portal, hah!). So anyway, we’ve got a lot of old domains piling up and I figured its time to revive them. A LOT has changed since we initially started those sites, and we probably could have generated a fair amount of passive income from those domains over the last few years had we monetized them properly.
With that in mind, we think we’ve got a killer idea for you, the adoring public, to try out. We’ll be unveiling the network of sites this weekend hopefully. We’re building mini communities around them and loading them up with the tools you need to express and interact with each other. So stay tuned, we’ve got a bunch of announcements coming over the next week.
Last year around this time we posted on our old blog about the start of refreshmiami, the adhoc group we brought here to Miami. Originally the idea for creating the group was to give us a new venue in which to be able to talk about web2.0, design, and everything internet here in Miami. After almost a full year (i think april was the first meeting), I’m happy to say that we’ve accomplished quite a bit in that time.
From our initial meetup that was attended by just 5 of us, to next week when we are having speakers flying in from all over to present, I would like to think we’ve come a long way. We now have 94 people who are members of our group, meaning we’re basically on path to hit 20x growth in under a year (easy when you start from so little). Hopefully over the next year we will see similar growth and can get to 1700 members throughout the south florida area.
The last year of organizing the group (with the amazing help of the community) has been an amazing one, people have made new friends, made new connections, gotten new jobs, learned alot, and most importantly connected with the community they never knew was here. I am glad infinimedia has been able to be a part of this all, and hope that we can see a lot more growth and evolution from the group in the months and years to come.
The infinimedia team is off to Texas for the next four days for the SXSW interactive conference. None of us will be speaking this year, but maybe next year.
You can check us out at the refreshworld meetup today at 4pm where our sponsored shirts should be on display. If you can’t make it, come look for either myself (Brian) or Xavier throughout and say hello.
We are aware of the problems with the design, it is far from finished, but we are working on it as quickly as possible.
