Johnny Monsarrat Moves into Boston Globe Headquarters with New Events Business

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Johnny Monsarrat Moves into Boston Globe
Headquarters with New Events Business
(1888PressRelease) Johnny Monsarrat, the founder
and first CEO of Turbine, Inc., has moved his new
business, Hard Data Factory into the Boston Globe
Headquarters. Johnny Monsarrat and Hard data
factory are the makers of largest calendar of
high-tech and business networking events in the
world. The Globe, as part of the new deal will
have use of Johnny Monsarrat's giant
calendar. Boston, MA-NH - Johnny Monsarrat and
his company moved into the Boston Globe's
incubator space this week as part of a new
business deal. Monsarrat is best known as the MIT
alumnus who was founder and first CEO of Turbine,
Inc., the videogames company that made Lord of
the Rings Online and was acquired for 160M by
Warner Brothers. Now he runs Hard Data Factory,
which makes the largest calendar of high-tech and
business networking events in the world. As part
of the new deal, the Globe will have use of the
Boston area component of this giant
calendar. Johnny Monsarrat said, "The most
difficult aspect of maintaining a calendar -
especially one as large as this one - is data
entry. People hate to type in their events even
once, never mind into every calendar they can
find. So we make it easy with technology." Here
Monsarrat is referring to what he calls "Baby
Skynet", a doubly patented technology for
gathering events and other data from public
websites. By drawing events from hundreds of
source websites, including business forums,
networking sessions, entrepreneur opportunities,
and high-tech meetups, his firm now lists more
than double the business events of the closest
Boston competitor.
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How the Globe will use the data has yet to be
announced, but the calendar is already available
for view on the Hard Data Factory website, and
through a free mobile app for the iPhone, iPad,
BlackBerry, and Android. Now Johnny Monsarrat has
his eye on still higher sights. "The next step
for us," he said, "is to gather the world's
largest arts database. Just here in New England,
we expect to find as much as 20,000 events every
month. Now that's a big calendar." About Johnny
Monsarrat Johnny Monsarrat lists more than 10,000
events every year through New England's most
popular events blog, Events INSIDER, and has been
a regular guest for 4 years on the Out With Joe
radio show. Previously he set five world records
through Wheel Questions, a community art project
that took the advice column concept from
newspapers and placed it into a kiosk on the
street. To learn more about Johnny Monsarrat and
his calendars, see http//bostoneventsinsider.com/
contact.html http//www.harddatafactory.com/