6 month ago
plasticbag : I think it's in Swedish - an article about my thing at ETech that I don't understand in the slightest. Anyone help? - Particularly horrified by the picture, which captures my exhaustion and desire to get into trouble only partly as well as it gets my double chin and my 'raises handbags' gesture.
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7 month ago
philgyford : YouTube - Ignite ETech 2008: Matt Webb - Matt's fun five minute whizz around fictional versions of the solar system. Wish I'd been in San Diego and Austin this past week.
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7 month ago
philgyford : Yahoo! Developer Network: Fire Eagle Launches - O'Reilly Conferences - Tom Coates launching Fire Eagle. Yay congratulations Tom (and team)! We miss you over here you know.
plasticbag : Yahoo! Developer Network has video of me doing the Fire Eagle launch on stage at ETech - Nice and short. Ten minutes. I want to do more talks that length, I think. It looks like I came across reasonably well, anyway!
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7 month ago
plasticbag : Fire Eagle - Easily share your location online! Personalise lots of sites and services! - We've just launched. I couldn't be more excited about this. 10,000 invitation codes are out in public right now and we're going to be announcing it formally on stage at ETech in an hour or so.
Simon Willison : Welcome to Fire Eagle! - Welcome to Fire Eagle!. It’s launched! A service and accompanying API for saving your physical location and selectively sharing it with applications that you trust.
Rod Begbie : Fire Eagle - Fire Eagle has launched -- a broker for your physical location, which other applications can use to improve user experiences. It's really just APIs and geekery at the moment, but the applications that use and enable it will start appearing pretty quickly #
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14 month ago
jcgregorio : O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2008 • March 3-6, 2008 • San Diego, California
plasticbag : The call for participation for ETech 2008 looks set to try and get the vision thing back... - I hope it works. ETech is one of those most fickle and confusing of events. It's not quite what it says on the tin and yet at times—apparently randomly—it has been mind-blowingly awesome...
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jcgregorio : O'Reilly Radar > Focus of the Next ETech
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19 month ago
Simon Willison : From Pixels to Plastic - From Pixels to Plastic. Awesome talk given by Matt Webb at ETech, on the emerging culture of Generation C, cheap hardware prototyping and physical extensions to the online world.
Rod Begbie : From Pixels to Plastic (Schulze & Webb) - Matt Webb's talk from ETech -- Encouraging us to use physical hardware to extend the online experience. Interesting stuff. [via] #
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21 month ago
wearehugh : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | ETech 2007 APP Interop Testing - sadly, i will not be going to etech this year. save a spot in the backchannel for me.
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22 month ago
Linkorama : Putting the Fun in Functional - Amy Jo Kim on game design
WillPate : Game mechanics in social software
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22 month ago
plasticbag : Webb's keynoting at ETech. That's going to be fun. - Lovely topic and one which he's going to knock out of the {insert sporting metaphor}.
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merlinmann : Conference convo [Scribbling.net] - "Her: Fuck that. Do it! They need more people there like you. Me: You mean people with breasts?"
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31 month ago
Rod Begbie : RSSBus - These guys were presenting at ETech. It has to be said, I'm still thoroughly flummoxed as to what problem they think their technology is solving. Seems like a horrible bandwagon-jumping to me. #
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31 month ago
plasticbag : Ben Edwards report on the ETech Warewolf gaming experience... - I think ETech's Warewolfing was some of the best I've ever played - even more enjoyable (if less well-played) than the stuff from FOOCamp last year. Brains! BRAINS!
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31 month ago
WillPate : Finding Free Tech Conference Podcasts - Because not everyone can make it to every tech conference.
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31 month ago
Rod Begbie : Skobee - I missed their session at ETech (Thursday morning was sleepytime for Rod), but this app looks cool. It's like a fuzzy evite -- Contact your friends to say "Let's do something next week", then let the software manage when people are available and what the #
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31 month ago
plasticbag : Stamen design provided a backchannel visualisation for ETech - Seeing it near the end of the week basically freaked me out, but now with a bit of perspective this is one classy little app!
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31 month ago
Rod Begbie : Hobbes vs Rousseau on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Best slide of ETech -- From Clay Shirky's talk on internet community behaviours. #
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31 month ago
Rod Begbie : Marshmallow Shooter - The most fun you can have with PVC tubing and marshmallows. Esther "Deadeye" Dyson terrorised Makefest with this. [via] #
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31 month ago
Rod Begbie : Zazzle.com - 'Architecture Help Dark T-Shirt' T-Shirt - Spotted at ETech. Made me chuckle. #
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31 month ago
Rod Begbie : Ning at Emerging Technology '06 - Yoz's talk has convinced me! Ning looks like it could be a really fun shared platform for swift hosted development. #
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31 month ago
Rod Begbie : PgFoundry: Query By Example - "Query by Example" dataminingy plugin for PostgreSQL. The ETech demo wasn't that compelling, but it looks like it could have potential for "agile" data-prodding. #
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31 month ago
Rod Begbie : How Game Mechanics Can Make Your App More Fun - Some ETech links. This was my favourite talk yesterday (and one I stumbled into by accident when another room was full). Using the fun things we see in games to make your (social) software more engaging. #
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31 month ago
Rod Begbie : O'Reilly Radar > Entrepreneurial Proverbs - Marc Hedlund's "Proverbs" for engineers who want to be entrepeneurs. Great stuff. #
Paul Hammond : O'Reilly Radar > Entrepreneurial Proverbs - These are basically little nuggets of wisdom for bite-sized nutrition
philgyford : O'Reilly Radar > Entrepreneurial Proverbs - I'm a sucker for lists of start-up rules like this that I'll probably never need. (via Boing Boing)
Matthew M. Boedicker : entrepeneurial proverbs - (via Boing Boing) [via]
Linkorama : Entrepreneurial Proverbs - good tips all
François Nonnenmacher : Entrepreneurial Proverbs
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31 month ago
kellan : "hey conference organizers, wireless connectivity is part of your marketing budget." - truer words #
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