"Some way of formalizing or aggregating the concept"... like StartupCrawl? :-) http://startupcrawl.com/ http://startupcrawl.com/ (My startup, Sauce Labs, partic

"Some way of formalizing or aggregating the concept"... like StartupCrawl? :-) http://startupcrawl.com/ http://startupcrawl.com/ (My startup, Sauce Labs, participated in the crawl in 2009 -- it coincided with RubyConf that year, so there was a lot of flow-over traffic from RubyConf go-ers.)