Category: conference

conference, web stuff

BarcampBrighton – Portable Information

A group panel about portable data and information Jeremy Keith Microformats – semantic web hCard is probably the most popular. there is an existing format called vCard. hCard is a 1:2:1 mapping of vCard. Use of vCard info on a web page. same details as in your address book/phone. the idea behind microformats is not […]

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conference, technology, web stuff

BarCampBrighton – the morning so far

I decided last night to come down to BarCamp Brighton, when I saw there were some tickets made available.  A friend was travelling down so I got a lift straight to the campus and arrived just as it was kicking off.  The usual introductions were made and everyone did the traditional standup and give three […]

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conference, marketing, sxsw

Self-replicating Awesomeness at SXSW

Deborah Schultz, Chris Heuer, Jeremiah Owyang, Tara Hunt, Hugh MacLeod, David Parmet  DP: Brian Oberkirch put this together – he asked 2 questions. How to market into community without being too marketer like. And how do you build a community around what you are doing?  What does ‘no marketing’ look like? How can we use […]

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Sexual Privacy Online – SXSW

discussing the aspects of Sexual Privacy online.   Violet Blue, Jonathan Moore, John d’Alderio, Zoe Margulis, Jason Schultz VB: fetishes…online allows you to seek this even if you did not seek in real life, but could cause issues. online can be a healthy way to let people express their fetish. Sexuality and sexuality online calls into […]

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conference, socialmedia, sxsw

Charlene Li and Revolutionaries at SXSW

Charlene Li about the changing  of corporations and social media. Examples of the change: the HD DVD key and Digg. Jericho and the peanuts. Shaun Daly was a fan of Jericho drove the change – you had to have something physical that CBS could not ignore. They bought it back, and it’s doing OK. CBS […]

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conference, games, sxsw, web stuff

SXSW – ARGS and Games

Dan Hon, Tony Walsh and Dee Cook Tony Walsh, Phantom Compass, Toronto, Games design. Fallen, Regenesis. Dee Cook, working on ARGs, since 2003. Worked on World without Oil Dan Hon, Six to Start. worked on Perplex City, working with Channel 4 education DH: ARGS are a new way of telling stories, using all forms. People […]

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Steven Johnson and Henry Jenkins

Keynote at SXSW Saturday. Notes, not a true live blog. Henry Jenkins and Steven Johnson SJ: have you seen another wave of the backlash, the dumbing down? HJ: these things do come in waves and we’re probably overdue. Never underestimate the desire of parents to see their children as dumb, it’s easy to imagine our […]

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conference, socialmedia, sxsw

What teens want online and their phones

Anastasia Goodstein brings together a group of teenagers to talk about how they use mobile and the web. they are early adopters but the tech needs to meet core needs. This is atalk with a panel of teens from ages 12-17 What do you like?  Goodreads.com, cos a social network site, plus reviews of books, […]

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conference, travel

Journey to SXSW

That was an interesting 24 hours, but not too bad as people who travelled via Dallas, where everything got cancelled due to snow. Getting to the airport took a bus and 2 tubes; on arrival I found that all the check-in desk luggage computers had gone down so there was a small bit of chaos. […]

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Keen vs Leadbeater

Monday night, I wandered over to NESTA for a debate between Andrew Keen and Charlie Leadbeater, to promote the launch of Charlie’s book We-Think. I think this is about the 3rd or 4th time I’ve seen Keen in action and of them all, I enjoyed this the most, as he seemed less likely to try […]

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conference, life, travel, Visiting

A week in London

I spent last week in London, the first time I’d been back since I moved to New York. A great week was had, a combination of work and pleasure. had some interviews and met up with some headhunters. I’m back in London permanently from January and this was setting up some things. No idea how […]

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conference, entertainment

Henry Jenkins and Josh Green Opening Remarks

An opening introduction to the conference. Tex Avery 1953 The TV of Tomorrow – started off by showing the start of the cartoon. the film shows some of the things that are still relevant today – simplifying the TV, specialised devices, disruption to social life, gaming systems, the conference is ‘Futures’ as there can be […]

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BIF and Mark Cuban by Walt Mossberg

Mark Cuban  Owner, Dallas Mavericks (among other things)  www.nba.com/mavericks Cuban is an active investor in leading and cutting-edge technologies and owner of the Dallas Mavericks. Prior to his purchase of the Dallas Mavericks, Cuban co-founded Broadcast.com, the leading provider of multimedia and streaming on the Internet. Today, in addition to his ownership of theMavericks, Cuban […]

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BIF and Joseph Coughlin by Walt Mossberg

Joseph Coughlin Director, Age Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology web.mit.edu/agelab/index.shtml Coughlin is founder and Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab – the first multi-disciplinary research program sponsored by government and business to understand the behavior of the 45+ population as decision-makers, consumers, patients, caregivers, advisors and technology users. WM: you run the age […]

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BIF and another Maverick panel

A panel discussion with the 3 previous speakers, moderated by Bill Taylor, you had William Herp. Robin Chase and Jack Hughes. BT: What are the surprising barriers> WH: the biggest challenge, getting the biggest customer group, those who only use airlines and do not think there us an alternative. it is getting all the team […]

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BIF and Denise Nemchev

Denise Nemchev President, Stanley Fastening Systems www.stanleyworks.com Nemchev is President of Stanley Bostitch, a Division of the Stanley Works. The Stanley Works is a worldwide supplier of tools, hardware and security solutions for professional, industrial, and consumer use. Stanley Bostitch is a $600M division of SWK headquartered out of East Greenwich, Rhode Island employing nearly […]

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