Brad and I attended the TechCrunch Meetup 8 tonight. The venue was BED (warning: obnoxious website). I think BED is going to need an exorcist to clense the venue of the level of nerdiness it encountered tonight. There were companies everywhere running demos on sexy, thin Mac monitors.

The New York area had flood warnings, and it was pouring out, so the crowd was fairly small. I prefer it that way; it lets you walk around a bit more and gives the party some room to breathe.

I met a few interesting entrepreneurs, a lot of PR firm reps, and some biz dev people. But, the highlight was the atmosphere and the odd match of sexy venue juxtaposed with techie geeks. Thank god there weren’t any booth babes.

The quote of the night for me was tasteless, but nonetheless entertaining in the way that I find trash tv entertaining (offensive, yet you can’t turn away). An attractive girl passed in front of a few guys I was talking to. One guy says, “That has to be user-generated content.” Another says, “I bet she’s viral.” Everyone cringed.

I hope TechCrunch comes back to NYC soon. It was a pretty fun time.