I went to the TriOut launch tonight, held at the Research Triangle Headquarters in (drumroll please…) RTP. The event, put together by Triangle locals Lawrence Ingraham, Wayne Sutton and Jen Nixon, celebrated a location-based app created just for the Triangle, N.C., area known as TriOut. (Quick introductions: Lawrence designed the app, Wayne pulled together the community and Jen landed these stories in the Durham Herald-Sun and the News and Observer).
If you’re an iPhone user, download the app, or check out the brand spankin’ new Web site www.trioutnc.com to try out its features. (One of the best: You can plan an entire night out based around one restaurant by using its “nearby bars” (or clubs, or stores, or coffee shops, or bars) option.) A mobile site and BlackBerry/Droid apps are in the works.
It was great to see local tweeps, take fun photos with the TriOut logo, try tasty Smokin’ Man BBQ and see an iPhone cake live and in person – but one of the best moments of the night was this statement by Lawrence, captured on Twitter by Ginny Skalski:
This got me thinking about my own move to Raleigh as a freshman at N.C. State University, nearly six years ago. I came mainly on the recommendations made by my dad, who waxes poetic on his days at State on a regular basis. I wasn’t completely convinced it would be the place for me, but the school – and the entire Triangle community – quickly changed my mind. The people I’ve met and the things I’ve learned after graduation, especially in the social media/Web space, have been invaluable.
I was talking with someone today who made a comment that “it’s not like someone would move to Raleigh to be in the middle of the national social media scene.” I’d have to disagree, and credit people like Lawrence and Wayne – and the community that rallies around people like them and ideas like theirs – as proof to the contrary.
Tags: Ginny Skalski, iPhone app, Jen Nixon, Lawrence Ingraham, location-based apps, North Carolina, Raleigh, Triangle, TriOut, Wayne Sutton
Thanks for the post Karlie. Yes the Triangle is awesome.
02.18.10 at 4:51 pm
Karlie,
I think we all have a poor image of Raleigh before we arrive. I moved here in 1984 as a high school student before attending NC State. After moving to Washington DC and Charlotte after college I moved back to Raleigh as it has always had a great creative class of people.
02.18.10 at 9:52 pm
Karlie,
I think we all have a poor image of Raleigh before we arrive. I moved here in 1984 as a high school student before attending NC State. After moving to Washington DC and Charlotte after college I moved back to Raleigh as it has always had a great creative class of people.
04.23.10 at 11:55 am
Amy – thanks for the comment! It really is true, and I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks so!
04.23.10 at 2:37 pm