The International Multilingual User Group has been a forum for language technology professionals and users since 1987. We meet regularly in Silicon Valley. If you work with or work on computers, tablets, smart phones, software, websites or other projects in more than one human language, please join us! Read on...

… ocial media strategy, social software, information architecture; content strategy, branding, online marketing, public relations; online journalism, opinion blogging, new media; web design, web development, search engine optimization; graphic design, user experience, usability; Web 2.0 technology, tools, services; software architecture, programming. Through a series of informal meetings we will identify areas of opportunity, analyze issues and challenges, brain storm ideas, and explore possib …

Samsung's bada is a new smartphone platform that allows developers to create feature-rich applications that elevate the user experience in mobile spaces. Long story short, Samsung is aiming to bring the smartphone experience to every mobile phone user in the world with a robust, feature-rich, yet affordable mobile platform. With over 1M Samsung bada powered units sold worldwide in just 4 weeks, Samsung's Bada mobile initiative is off to a great start!

This is a community of mobile product managers, UX researchers, developers, and designers who meet to share our experiences with the process, challenges, and joys (!) of developing mobile products (apps and mobile web too!) There are lots of awesome Meetup.com groups that focus on the dev/tech side of building for mobile. The emphasis of this group is on research, requirements gathering, definition, UX, product management, and design of mobile apps and sites. Come on over, we'll put on a fresh p …

With technologies such as Google Prediction API and mahout, it should now be easier to add for your website users: recommendations, separate ham from spam, and predict what newsletter content they will not consider spam. Let's explore and discuss these new technologies together and how we can use and efficienly implement/deploy them in our websites/projects/communities. Other applications of prediction/classification/clustering/collaborative filtering that I haven't thought of are welcome!

Meet fellow Coincident Developers in your area! Discover more about interactive media/video. Learn how to use Coincident's technology in order to increase user experience and engagement. If you are interested in interactive media or a current Coincident Author, this group is for you!

SF Creative Coders is a meetup every few weeks to bring our local community of hackers, designers & creative technologists together to share experiences and build new friendships here in the Bay Area. The goal is to get outside and meet fellow coders while enjoying the amazing beauty that is San Francisco. Our conversations tend to center around the intersection of human / computer interaction, emerging technologies, and interface design. If you are interested in the above, passionate about UI/U …

… Based on the earlier work of Anders Ramsay and the Agile Experience Design meetup we co-host in New York, and a highly provocative and productive Agile UX retreat in San Francisco at Cooper Design in January 2010, we couldn't help but continue the discussion. Come share Lean UX insights, with some of the folks who put the name to the idea. Share successes and cautionary tales, and learn from peers in the field, while we learn from you, and test our own hypotheses. Please join us!

Group for marketers to share our experience with Marketo. We are not affiliated with Marketo.

This group brings together front end developers working at the intersection of web development and design to foster collaborative dialogues on the convergence of web development and user experience design best practices. The best front end web developers have a whole host of engineering tools in their development kit, plus a wealth of knowledge and understanding of interaction design, user needs, persuasive design, hierarchies of data, navigation systems, user journeys, visual interface design, …

Mobility in Enterprises is a meetup for people to exchange ideas on how today's enterprises should embrace Mobility on the consumer and enterprise front to increase revenues, achieve higher productivity and create newer business models to transform business. The meetups would be speaker sessions, panel discussions and happy hours to mingle with like minded individuals.

StartUP Product Talks is an event for people passionate about process necessary to guarantee that products are being developed that create, serve and invigorate the market, delight users, have design integrity, inspire ecosystems and make a difference for every human involved with breathing life into and consuming that product. We started StartUp Product Talks to facilitate conversations about the many common challenges faced by people who identify as professional product managers, AND those who …

Game developers today live in a challenging climate: gaming has never been a more crowded space than it is now. In this environment, how do you attract users, differentiate your game from competitors, and still make enough money to keep the lights on?   Existing methods of game monetization are starting to get stale.  Virtual goods have become a commodity, in-game advertising intrudes on the user experience, and level packs require continuous time investment to create new content. Game developer …

Anything social sales: from new business models like free trial, freemium, in-app purchases to use of social media for lead generation and sales to social products of the future. Meetup for sales stars, other customer facing personnel and growth hackers to compare notes on what works and what doesn't.

Presentations, discussions, and implementations of In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI) or other vehicle / automotive projects emphasizing those utilizing open source or built with open source tools.  Safety, fuel-efficiency, and innovative enabling applications beyond entertainment are especially of interest, as are fleet vehicles, farming equipment, heavy machinery, marine and aviation applications -- all sorts of intelligent transportation systems. Non-coders who are more involved in business, polic …

The WebGuild holds monthly events for web professionals in Silicon Valley. If you fall into one of these groups this is the perfect forum for you. 1. User Experience - web designers, localization specialist, qa, web analytics 2. Web Applications & SaaS - developers, architects or technologists and other on the web operations side. 3. Internet Marketing - Search Engine Marketing or Search Engine Optimization, web analytics and social media Our events provide you with a forum to learn abo …