The party/event I attended tonight at Etsy.com and Make.com headquarters in New York (Brooklyn) - I did not know about it before hand - and were it not for an email from Eric Singer of LEMUR, I'd have missed it.  Among those who attended was Nick Denton of Gawker.com who I spoke with briefly.  Also had a very good conversation with Nathanial Freitas of www.Cruxy.com  (I'll do a whole post on Cruxy.com soon enough).

I also found out about Virtual Worlds 2007 Conference here in New York City next week and immediately applied for a Press Pass for that (we'll see if I get one); the other challenge might be to have the time to go to it.  Fortunately, there's also a Metaverse Meetup  taking place next Friday night, March 30th, in the East Village - and I'll be going to that meetup (now that I know about it) - thanks to  Nathanial for telling me about it.  What's also great - www.ElectricSheepCompany.com, who are developing a Web Metrics Package for Second Life, will be at the meetup and is sponsoring Virtual worlds 2007 Conference.

But perhaps, for me, the biggest issue I have is getting executive buy in for me attending all these conferences - which - in a way, makes perfect sense that I should attend.   If I'm able to obtain a press pass to Virtual Worlds 2007 you can be sure I'll be blogging live from it - and taking some video at this one too.

Here's some pictures from tonight's party at Etsy.com and Make.com's digs in downtown Brooklyn:

I took several pictures of Etsy's offices but did not like how they came out - my camara does not do a good job in low light situations.  

I also spoke with Matthew Stinchcomb who started Etsy.com with his wife in their Brooklyn Apartment - and now they have this wonderful space in Brooklyn - that people can come to and work at making things during the day.  I'll write a post about that too. 

Also had a nice conversation with Vanessa Bertozzi who works at Etsy.com; found out from Vanessa what it takes to rank well on Etsy.com and I'll talk about that in another post soon.   Vanessa Bertozzi and Hanna Shell made a movie they're selling on Etsy.com called SECONDHAND - the URL is www.secondhandfilm.com.

I'll cover more about this meeting in a couple of other posts here and at www.Artnewyorkcity.com.

The energy and people were really, really nice.

I think this person had created a musical instrument from a hot iron.  There was alot of stuff like that going on tonight.   I also spoke again to Phillip Torrone, Senior Editor at Make.com - I met Philip two months ago at the LEMURPlex and wrote about it here and on www.ArtNewYorkCity.com.