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Brady Forrest

http://twitter.com/brady


Areas of Expertise:
  • web 2.0
  • emerging technology
  • location

Biography

Brady Forrest is Chair of O'Reilly's Where 2.0 and Emerging Technology conferences. Additionally, he co-Chairs Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Berlin and NYC. Brady writes for O'Reilly Radar tracking changes in technology. He previously worked at Microsoft on Live Search (he came to Microsoft when it acquired MongoMusic). Brady lives in Seattle, where he builds cars for Burning Man and runs Ignite. You can track his web travels at Truffle Honey.

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Ignite Los Angeles on 7/21! Submit a Talk

July 02 2009

Ignite is coming to LA! As always speakers will get 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds. We're going to be holding the geek event at Cinespace in Hollywood on 7/21. Submit a talk now. This will be the first Ignite in Los Angeles; it is co-hosted by LA Geek… read more

Everyblock's Code is Open-Sourced

July 01 2009

The code for Adrian Holovaty's Everyblock has been released. The open-sourcing of the site's system were apart of the Knight News Challenge Program. Everyblock is very impressive site that aggregates and geocodes local data -- news, crime, fire, restaraunt inspections and reviews - and then lets users define their interests… read more

Bing's Sanaz Ahari on System Feedback (2 of 2)

June 30 2009

A couple of weeks ago Bing had a small search summit for analysts, bloggers, SEO experts, entrepreneurs and advertisers. It was held in Bellevue; they put us up in the hotel and fed us. While there we received demos from Bing project teams. I was able to snag an interview… read more

Bing's Sanaz Ahari on Query Level Categorization (1 of 2)

June 29 2009

A couple of weeks ago Bing had a small search summit for analysts, bloggers, SEO experts, entrepreneurs and advertisers. It was held in Bellevue; they put us up in the hotel and fed us. While there we received demos from Bing project teams. I was able to snag an interview… read more

Scott Berkun on Why You Should Speak (at Ignite)

June 26 2009

A lot of people feel that Ignite is great training for speakers. The strict format and auto-advancing slides can really solidify your self-confidence. Scott Berkun, the author of Making Things Happen and of an upcoming book on public speaking, did a talk on just that at the last Ignite Seattle.… read more

How Active is Twitter Now? Tweespeed

June 26 2009

As of Friday, June 26th, 2009 at 1:10PM PST Twitter is pumping out 13,574 tweets per minute. I know from TweeSpeed, The Twitter Instant Speed Meter. The auto-refreshing application averages the last five minutes of Twitter's public timeline to get its figure. The simple app was built using" Java (JSP),… read more

Case Study: Twitter Usage at Wordcamp SF

June 25 2009

One of my many hats is as an events organizer. Twitter has become an invaluable tool for me to gauge the mood of the attendees. Are they excited by the current speaker? Bored or excited at the latest news? Are they having a good time? And most important, are they… read more

Bing and Google Agree: Slow Pages Lose Users

June 23 2009

Today representatives of Google Search and Microsoft's Bing teams, Jake Brutlag and Eric Schurman respectively, presented the results of user performance tests at today's Velocity Conference. The talk was entitled The User and Business Impact of Server Delays, Additional Bytes, and HTTP Chunking in Web Search. These are long-term tests… read more

Before and After Shots of Google's Iran Maps

June 22 2009

There many places in the world where it is not possible for larger companies to map them. These can be for economic reasons as is the case for Black Rock City (the temporary 40,000 person home for Burning Man). Or for political reasons as is the case for Iran and… read more

Geolocating Your iPhone Users via the Browser

June 18 2009

Hallelujah! Geolocation is available in the iPhone's browser. I was thrilled to finally have this app ask to use my location. This is only true for the new 3.0 version of the browser (oddly, geolocation is *not* available in the Mac version of Safari 4). Adding the ability to geolocate… read more

Want a Map of Tehran? Use Open Street Map or Google

June 17 2009

All eyes are on Tehran right now. As the center of the Iranian election protests the city has become increasingly important to websites this week. To keep their site up-to-date with this latest crisis area Flickr switched out the Yahoo road Map with Open Street Map. When I heard about… read more

ARhrrrr! : Augmented Reality Zombie and Helicopter Game

June 16 2009

Augmented Reality is going to be coming to a phone near you very shortly. All it takes is a decent processor, a camera, a compass and a GPS -- all of which are becoming increasingly common on smart phones (Android phones and the iPhone 3GS qualify). It's going to be… read more

Hands-On with the iPhone 3.0 OS; Search is the Winner

June 15 2009

The iPhone 3.0 OS is going to be released this Wednesday. It will be available to all iPhones (for free) and iPod Touches (for a small cost). The iPhone 3GS will ship with it. The new OS became available last week to those willing and able to try it out… read more

XKCD on the Future Self

June 12 2009

This morning's XKCD, Latitude, spells out one of the reasons people will be wary of setting up continuous location trackers: the future self. The future self forgets that they are sharing their location and then act as if no one knows where they are going. In this case Megan's friend… read more

Search for Developers

June 11 2009

Diagnosing Technical Issues With Search Engine OptimizationView more OpenOffice presentations from Jane Robot. Vanessa Fox just posted her slides from her talk Diagnosing Technical Issues With Search Engine Optimization. They are packed with handy SEO/SEM suggestions, checklists and resources. It's worth going through at least once.... read more

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Podcast Leaving Sticky Shadows with Michael Sharon
Publish Date: Jun. 9, 2006

Brady Forrest interviews Michael Sharon about leaving notes, pictures, or audio messages about places you've visited from your mobile phone in this Where 2.0 conference preview. (11 minutes, 34 seconds)

Podcast Mobile Gaming with Greg Trefry and Kevin Slavin
Publish Date: Jun. 6, 2006

Brady Forrest interviews Greg Trefry and Kevin Slavin about some of the mobile games that they've been working on developing and launching, in this Where 2.0 conference preview. (10 minutes, 48 seconds)

Podcast Josh Peterson from the Robot Co-Op
Publish Date: May. 26, 2006

Brady Forrest interviews Josh Peterson, CEO of The Robot Co-op, in this Where 2.0 preview podcast. Josh talks about his "network of networking sites," which includes 43 Things, 43 Places, and 43 People. At Where 2.0, Josh will be presenting 43 Places, where a user can list up to 43 places they'd like to go during their life. The site allows people to share stories about places they've been and read stories about places they'd like to visit. (13 minutes, 38 seconds)

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