Often in tech reporting, you’ll hear a lot about launches, acquisitions and failures. What you don’t hear enough about are the makers who iterate in relative silence. For all of the hyped startups of this world (Color anyone?), there are a lot of startups that chug away without the fanfare. So to celebrate those startups building solid and useful products, we’re starting a new series called Happy Appiversary. As the perhaps clunky name suggests, we’ll focus on startups that are celebrating an anniversary and review their progress.
Lanyrd has been described as a “Wikipedia for conferences,” because it aggregates digital content from conferences – such as slideshows and videos. It’s also a social network of sorts for conference attendees and enables non-attendees to track events virtually. Lanyrd celebrated its first anniversary last week, according to a blog post by co-founder Natalie Downe. Let’s check out how Lanyrd has developed over the past year and why you should use this excellent service.
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