Machinimoo

I love the sheer amount of homebrewed companies that are coming out of Austin. It seems like everyone is pushing some kind of product. It’s like a magical mixture of Disneyland, Willy Wonka, and umm … IKEA.

One of the projects that I recently discovered was Zitefight, which came from @hayesdavis on Twitter. Two pictures are pitted against each other in a manner not unsimilar to Hot or Not. Viewers then pick which one they feel has more style. When you’re done voting on that one, it gives you the results, as well as two new pics to battle it out. As of Saturday night, they received 25,000? votes on pictures since their launch on Wednesday, July 30th!

When I saw the number of people that had RSVPd for the Conjunctured launch party, I couldn’t believe it! 113 people said they were attending, and I’m willing to bet that at least 100 people showed. While that’s a nice sized group, it was quite cramped in the house. In addition, someone apparently bumped the air conditioner controls and turned it off, so it was hotter inside than out!

For those not in the know, Conjunctured is the first coworking space to open in Austin. They’re also supposedly the first coworking house in the world! The venture is run by four hip, enterprising young gentlemen. If there’s a geek meet, you can find them there, which is nice to run into the same people everywhere. It kind of makes me feel like Austin is home.

For more pictures, check out the Conjunctured Flickr photo pool.

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