bowling 2.0 featured on ABC 11pm News

Posted September 25th, 2006 by Vinnie Lauria who is: My Meetro Online Status

Last Thursday, ABC 11pm News featured bowling 2.0 as a new way for internet entrepreneurs to ‘interact and do business’ – I’m glad to see that drinking is officially a part of that ;)

The Final Days!

Posted September 2nd, 2006 by ryanne hodson who is: My Meetro Online Status

Bowling 2.0: The Final Days

The last two nights of Bowling 2.0- T-Shirts and the Final Sweep by Socialtext. We had a great time videoblogging you all. Hopefully we’ll have a videoblog team on the league next time! Enjoy!
-Ryanne and Jay from RyanIsHungry.com

See the Flash Version Here.

Bowling 2.0 featured on NBC 11pm News – Channel 11

Posted August 30th, 2006 by Vinnie Lauria who is: My Meetro Online Status

bowling 2.0 has had a number of news sources cover the event because it would seem to be pretty indicative of another ‘bubble.’ Here’s NBC’s 11pm News on Channel 11 out here in the bay area.

I had a nice ‘jab’ at geeks staying away from the more ‘athletic’ sports…

Socialtext steals #1

Posted August 30th, 2006 by Vinnie Lauria who is: My Meetro Online Status

Monday’s night games were a great match up. We had Women 2.0 vs. 3bubbles&stirr dueling it out on lanes with bumpers (since they were in the last two slots ;)

The first half of the night was a position round for all the teams. The second half of the night had the top two teams dueling it out in front of a crowd of 60 people cheering on one of two teams. We even had a news station there capturing all this on video.

It was quite the upset, just a few weeks ago, Socialtext was hanging around 4th place. In the past 3 weeks, they’ve pulled out all the stops to bring their standing into 2nd with the start of the finals. it was a social network vs. wiki challenge, who would win?

Well, the wiki seems to have kicked ass and taken names. Socialtext came from behind to beat facebook and steal the bowling 2.0 title.

bowling 2.0 Final Rankings:
#1 – Socialtext
#2 – Facebook
#3 – Meetro

Entering the finals

Posted August 21st, 2006 by Vinnie Lauria who is: My Meetro Online Status

Tonight is the freaking night. We finally got our bowling shirts in, the finals are kicking off, everything is looking good. Tonight, ALL teams will play 2 games. Next week, ALL teams will play 1 game at the start of the night, and then the top TWO teams will battle it out.

Here are current standings.
stats
So facebook is holding strong in #1, meetro and veeceebo are tied, and women 2.0 still isn’t making the charts…

New photos added

Posted August 14th, 2006 by Vinnie Lauria who is: My Meetro Online Status

Check out the photos section as we have a number of new photos added (thumbnails below from Will)

socialtext steps it up a notch

Posted August 14th, 2006 by Vinnie Lauria who is: My Meetro Online Status

will pate's flickr photo

So Facebook is still holding tight on #1, Socialtext has inched their way to #2 and Meetro/Flock/and Veeceebo are tied (taking #3, #4, #5 respectively.)

yummy stats

Posted August 7th, 2006 by Vinnie Lauria who is: My Meetro Online Status

They’re here…

We removed the handicap from the league, so the old rankings are OUTTA here!!! Click the pics below for a larger file.

 

 

Rankings as of week 4 [Aug 7, 2006]

  • #1 – facebook.com [7 wins, 1 loss]
  • #2 – meetro.com [5 wins, 3 losses] (currently tied with flock)
  • #3 – flock.com [5 wins, 3 losses] (currently tied with meetro)
  • #4 – socialtext.com [5 wins, 1 loss]
  • #5 – VeeCeebo [5 wins, 3 losses]
  • #6 – videoegg.com [4 wins, 4 losses]
  • #7 – a9.com [4.5 wins, 3.5 losses] (how you get a half I have no idea)
  • #8 – skype.com [3 wins, 5 losses]
  • #9 – mymint.com [3 wins, 5 losses]
  • #10 – pbwiki.com [2.5 wins, 5.5 losses] (what’s up with these 1/2 points???)
  • #11 – 3bubbles.com & stirr.net [2 wins, 6 losses]
  • #12 – women 2.0 [0 wins, 8 losses] (come on now, is the sterotype really being fulfilled?)

Files

If you would like to run some of your own stats, feel free to play around with this spreadsheet that Dan Bragiel put together:
* bowlinginfo.xls

New Video: A9 vs. VeeCeebo

Posted August 3rd, 2006 by ryanne hodson who is: My Meetro Online Status

Bowling 2.0 A9 vs VeeCeebo

Click here to view the Flash Version.

Another fun night at Palo Alto Bowl! Video by Ryanne and Jay from RyanIsHungry.com. Enjoy!

Why?

Posted August 3rd, 2006 by Vinnie Lauria who is: My Meetro Online Status

The question “Why?” gets asked a lot. It’s a very good question, other then a shrug of the shoulders and a ‘why not’ response, bowling 2.0 grew out of a half joke between members of the meetro team. Being that meetro is social software that encourages people to meet in the real world, and we here at meetro are always looking for a good reason to throw a party, we were brainstorming some ideas of events to throw around silicon valley.

There are too many events that are heavy on the professional and networking side, but not many events where people just hang out, drink a few beers, and trash talk the competition. We started tossing around ideas of competitive sports, but quickly threw that idea out as we figured most geeks aren’t too physical! Then a joke came out… “Why not bowling?” After we all had a few good laughs, we said, wait a minute, bowling would be kinda cool… After all, it’s a sport, it’s competitive, beer pitchers are of the plenty, and it’s completely ironic to have all these high tech companies hanging out in such a low-fi atmosphere. Half the bowling machines look like they were produced before the Atari was invented!

So we thought about the idea a little more and decided we needed to make this happen. We reached out to a few companies and ppl really bit into it. We started talking to bowling alleys to see what was required to start a league. Heck, most of us here at meetro hadn’t bowled more then a dozen times in our life. For some, the last time they bowled was at a friends 6th grade birthday party.

We sent out a few emails and everybody was really excited on the idea. So we reached out to a few more companies, and they were excited about the idea as well. Then it was picked up on valleywag and interest exploded, we had to start turning companies away!

bowling shirts logo

Posted July 25th, 2006 by Vinnie Lauria who is: My Meetro Online Status

Our long awaited shirts are approaching completion, here’s a sample of what the back of our shirts will look like:

bowling20back

New Video: Skype vs. PB Wiki

Posted July 25th, 2006 by Vinnie Lauria who is: My Meetro Online Status

Many thanks to Ryan Is Hungry who filmed another fun night at Palo Alto Bowl for Bowling 2.0. This is a great video of Team Skype and Team PB Wiki dualing it out on the lanes…

bowling 2.0 infocast

Posted July 18th, 2006 by Vinnie Lauria who is: My Meetro Online Status

Tea Time

As part of a podcast segment on Tea Time, they asked me a few questions along the lines of “What’s happin’” in sunny palo alto, tune in to some details on how bowling 2.0 got started. Or just make fun of my stutter on the segment intro.

Download MP3.

a9 takes #1, Tortelano is proud…

Posted July 18th, 2006 by Vinnie Lauria who is: My Meetro Online Status

Mercury News article

a9 takes the lead and veeceebo is trailing in 12th, you would think we ranked the teams alphabetically…..

So we had a mention in the Mecury News today where a number of teams were profiled. However, at the time of publishing, they seemed to have made an error with my name, calling me Vinnie “Tortelano” which is pretty far off from “Lauria” but at least it still falls into the same ethnic pool ;)

Another name mistake takes the cake though, pbwiki’s name is displayed on the alley boards. The alley mistook their company name for pbwili.com! There’s no domain there yet, but I have a few thoughts on an interesting web2.0 site that could fill pbwili with more then just P&B.

Ohh, and the stats from week #1 are up.

Game 2 starts tonight

Posted July 17th, 2006 by Vinnie Lauria who is: My Meetro Online Status

Hey folks, our next game sets of tonight at 7pm at Palo Alto Bowl (4329 El Camino Real)

I swung by the alley last Thursday to see if they had scores tallied up yet, but they were having some computer issues (it’s that old pre 1.0 technology.) I’ll be able to pick up last weeks scores tonight and post them here.