I was at the Metaverse Meetup and Book Release Party at Third Ward - Williamsburg, Brooklyn last weekend and had a great time - mentioned that UgoTrade would be posting about the party with some photos, etc - well, here's the post - What The Metaverse Can Teach The Paraverse: Don’t be boring!

I left just around 11PM, last Saturday night - but if you ask me - I should have stayed out longer because if I had … I would have ended up at a much more interesting party at the Brooklyn  Marriott Hotel - oh well..you can't go to every great party - but this one would have been worth it - had I known it was going to happen - I would have stayed and went to it - here's what I missed care of UgoTrade -:

"…My interview with Peter Ludlow was conducted by email because the book party was too much fun. I could not ask one of the hosts and a man in demand to retire into a quiet corner. The book party was also a metaverse meetup and packed with Second Life movers and shakers including, Nathan Freitas of Cruxy, Joshua Fouts, Rita J. King of Dancing Ink Productions (Eureka Dejavu in SL - see her blog for more on meetup), Marvel Ousley (see he post on SLNN), Andrea Foster of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Eric Reuters, Jessica Segal (aka Pica Paperdoll, Electric Sheep Company, Andy Fundiger, Marshall Sponder (see his post), Morton Swimmer, California Condor, Donald Schwartz Image Link Productions, Dean Pence, and many many more. I posted some pictures to Flickr.

Notably the party was held in 3rd Ward the artists/entrepreneurs city in a warehouse that is home to WelloHorld - the start up that is the brainchild of co-author Mark Wallace, with Christian Westbrook and Jerry Paffendorf. They are on stealth mode so Mark declined an interview until their launch. But I did snap this chart pinned to their office door that might give some clues to their direction.

The after hours party that Peter hosted back in the Marriot by the Brooklyn bridge was also too entertaining to interrupt. It included both a screening of Peter’s screenshots taken through “dawn of the metaverse” and a very rock ‘n roll drama with the hotel security who were bent on ending the party early.

In the picture below Ron Blechner (aka Hiro Pendragon) talks with Peter Ludlow about Peter’s early experiences in Second Life. Mark Wallace is on the left and Boris Kizelshteyn of Combined Story (aka Adonis Bussy in SL) is seated on the couch.

(I took the pictures out - but you can go to UgoTrade and see the whole post).

Darn….. like I say, you can catch some of parties most of the time - or most of the parties some of the time - but I think I've learned that …you learn the most and get the most done ….. in terms of business and learning new things - at parties - or at dinner - in a social setting - not so much at the conference.

Just like the LeWeb3 07 thing - most of the real action is not at the conference - per se - it's hanging with the people between and afterwards that most of the real learning happens - and that's the main reason to go, believe it or not.