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Ignite Show: Andrew Hyde on The Posting Economy
October 30 2009
Andrew Hyde runs Ignite Boulder and works for Techstars. In this week's episode he shares his thoughts at Ignite ATL about the rapid economic shifts that can be caused by user-generated content. Andrew calls this the Posting Economy. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United… read moreNavigating the Future: Take Me to Bob
October 29 2009
Google has just announced a free turn-by-turn navigation app for Android 2.0 in the US (Radar post). Google Maps Navigation relies on Google's own mapping for routing you. As with many navigation devices you can search Business Listings. However, they are also including data not traditionally available to navigators. In… read moreGoogle Shrinks Another Market With Free Turn-By-Turn Navigation
October 28 2009
Google has announced a free turn-by-turn navigation system for Android 2.0 phones such as the Droid. Google Maps Navigation is only available in the US right now. Google's release of a navigation is huge, but not unexpected blow to Tomtom (owner of former US mapping data partner Tele Atlas (Radar… read moreOnline Where 2.0: iPhone Sensors for Developers
October 28 2009
It's difficult to make it to every conference and yet there are always new developments, technologies and issues during the off times. So we are trying something new. a series of Online Conferences that will happen through out the year. We just had a successful one on eBooks for our… read moreMax For Live: Making Musicians Into Programmers
October 26 2009
Ableton's Live is one of the top music creation and performance platforms out there. It is a complete music suite with instruments, sound management and a performance interface. It is used by DJs, bands, and hobbyists. At a cost of several hundred dollars Live is within reach of most tech-savvy… read moreIgnite Show: Kathy Sierra on Feeling Better is Better
October 16 2009
If you want to be successful with your customers, you need to make them feel succesful. It's all about them achieving awesome. This week, Kathy Sierra explains some of the secrets for creating passionate customers. This is an area that Kathy knows well. She has classes on the topic around… read moreSnow Leopard Is Location-Aware
October 15 2009
Shortly after installing Snow Leopard I saw the first evidence of the new location services built into the operating system. I got the new version of Clarke, a Fire Eagle updater. After the install a window appeared that asked me if I wanted to share my location with an application.… read moreRandom Hacks of Kindness: Disaster Relief Codejam
October 15 2009
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and the World Bank are getting together to support disaster relief projects. The first Codejam will be Nov 12-14 i the Bay Area. You can sign-up now. The list of proposed projects is online. What is Random Hacks of Kindness? It is an initiative that brings together… read moreGet That Vaccine, It's Going to Be a Bad Flu Year
October 13 2009
Map: International Co-circulation of 2009 H1N1 and Seasonal Influenza (As of October 9, 2009; posted October 9, 2009, 3:00 PM ET) All signs point to a bad flu year and it's going to be primarily from H1N1 (swine flu). H1N1 now accounts for over 50% of the fu cases around… read moreWeb 2.0 Expo NYC Early Bird Pricing Ends Today
October 08 2009
The Web 2.0 Expo NYC is just over a month away. It's our East Coast gathering for the builders of the web. The speakers are there to share their learnings, techniques and tools. Major development topics include realtime protocols (like PSHB), HTML5, and machine learning. Mobile development and app stores… read moreMagic Wand: Accelerometer + Remote Control
October 07 2009
Last week at a Gadgethon, I got to set my eyes on the Magic Wand in action. It's a motion-based IR remote control. The person demoing the soon-to-be-released product was able to turn on his iPod, change the volume, and (after only two tries) turn off the music. The wand… read moreSeptember 28 2009
I just left Amsterdam with Geeks on a Plane. We were there for PICNIC, an annual technology-art conference in Amsterdam. One of the highlights of the conference are the RFID projects. Each attendee is given an RFID tag (an ik tag) that can be linked to their conference social network… read moreGeeks On a Plane Head To Berlin and Prague
September 24 2009
The Geeks on a Plane group has left London and is currently in Amsterdam attending PICNIC. On Saturday we'll be headed to Berlin. On Monday we'll be in Prague. If you're in those cities consider coming by our events. In Berlin we will be at Atoms&Bits, an unconference, on Saturday… read moreA Computing Future from Microsoft: Large and Cheap Displays
September 24 2009
Chris Pratley, the head of Microsoft's Office Labs, gave the PICNIC audience a peek into the future they envision when planning their products. What is that future? It was encapsulated in the above video that they made a year ago. Some of the technologies (Augmented Reality and realtime language translation… read moreIgnites Around the World: Amherst, NYC, SLC, Portugal, Austin, Prague and PICNIC
September 21 2009
Ignites, where speakers get 20 slides and just 15 seconds a slide, have spread to almost 50 cities since starting in Seattle. Some of them are helped, sponsored, or coordinated by myself or other O'Reilly employees, but most of them are run by a local community. There are at least… read moreRecent Posts | All Posts
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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)
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)
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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