Dear Nest-h??kchen *
Saturday was the first PlugLondon event in central London. 50 software developers (and one web designer) met in the fancy Skype offices over pizza and beer. And then went to the pub for more … socialising.
We saw demos from MySociety, Ebay Europe Innovate, BBC Backstage, DAO-Consumer, Yahoo! Development center and Nestoria among others. The focus was clearly on presenting new projects and APIs and getting feedback from fellow programmers. Some projects are still alpha or closed so I can’t link to them 
As for the Nestoria API presentation (slides): I’ve never had such focused questions and suggestions, e.g. how to find duplicate photos. Several people in the audience have used our API in the past, one is using it in a Yahoo! Pipes project to find a flat in Brighton right now.
PlugLondon #2 might have a different format. 3.5 hours on a Saturday afternoon was a bit short and there wasn’t enough time to chat between the demos. I’m looking forward to the next one!
(photos from codepo8’s Flickr stream)
* old German expression for last-born/youngest child in a family
