Sometimes in the world of tech you will meet people that you
know are head and shoulders above the rest. Before you even see
their product, you know you’ll use it (or fund it or write about
it) simply because the things that they do can’t help but be
great.  Jana Trantow is one of those people, and MetroGnome is
what she has built. What is it? In short, it’s a way to discover
the events that are around you. But it’s far more than that,
because it also uses your everyday life to suggest events that
you are nearly certain to love.  The space is crowded, and
Trantow knows this. But she also knows that the space is full of
applications that don’t really answer the questions that are
being asked, and in some cases even complicate matters. So when
I had the chance to talk to Trantow about MetroGnome, I had a
lot of questions for her.  What Is it?  In short it’s an
application for the iPhone that makes it easy to discover events
that you love. An event, by the MetroGnome definition, is a
pretty liquid thing. “Anythi