Brave Tech World

February 13, 2007

TUE 13 FEB 2007

Ignite Seattle tonight! By Marcelo

 

    For the 3 people that read this blog, I reminder that I'll be giving a 5 minute (!) talk at Ignite Seattle tonight. The event seems to be very cool and a lof of interesting people will be there.

 

Location: CHAC (Capitol Hill Arts), Corner of 12th Ave and E. Pine St.

 

The speaker list is below. I'm the on the second set (9:30 PM).

 

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First Set of Talks (8:30 PM)

1. Brady Forrest (O’Reilly Radar, Ignite!) - Greetings & Salutations
2. Matthew Maclaurin - (Microsoft Research) - Programming for Fun/Children/Hobbyists/Hackers
3. Elisabeth Freeman (Author in the Head First Series, Works at Disney Internet Group) -The Science Behind the Head First Books: or how to write a technical book that doesn’t put your readers to sleep
4. Scott Kveton (JanRain) - OpenID
5. Avi Geiger - “Power Consumption of Home Computers and Incandescent Lightbulbs” (Brady’s note - trust me this is going to be an eye-opening talk)
6. Ryan Stewart (ZDNet’s Universal Desktop; Threecast) - The Rich Internet Application Space: Everything from where AJAX fits to Apollo to WPF to the Flash Platform
7. Nancy White (Full Circle Associates) - What the Bleep is a Community Technology Steward?

Second Set of Talks (9:30 PM)

1. Hans Omli (Shoestring Ventures)- Elevator Pitches and Parallel Entrepreneurship
2. Sarah Davies (Freedom For IP) - Share and share alike: GPL, Creative Commons, and the future of digital freedom
3. Lars Liden (Teachtown) - Utilizing Web Technology to Help Children with Autism
4. Kurt Brockett (Identity Mine) - A Look at Windows Presentation Foundation
5. Marcelo Calbucci (Sampa) - Dr. Watson for AJAX
6. Lee Lefever (The World Is Not Flat) - Adventures from a Year of Multimedia Travel Blogging: A few inspiring stories from a year of travel blogging across 29 countries that produced 500+ blog posts, 24 original videos and 14,000 photos.

7. Barry Brumitt (Google) - MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters

Third Set of Talks (10:30 PM)

1. Ellie Lum (R.E.Load Bags) - “How R.E.Load Makes Their Bags”
2. Leo Dirac (Rhapsody) - Transhuman technology trends and their implications for a theory of morality

3. Deepak Singh (business|bytes|genes|molecules) - An Open Scientific Future
4. Mike Acuri (Ontela) - Escaping the Empire: how to leave a big company
5. Heater Ralph - Art or science? A multi-person pogo stick
6. Jordan Mitchell (CEO, OthersOnline) - Distributed Social Networking and a New Metaphor for Search
7. Corprew Reed (American Society for Information Science & Technology) - What the heck is the Pacific Northwest Chapter of ASIS&T?

 

TUE 13 FEB 2007

Blog posts are out, comments are in By Marcelo

    Maybe I'm not the first one to notice this... wait... I'm not the first one to notice this for sure, but it is very interesting and relevant nonetheless.

    I use a feed reader (Bloglines) to read more than 180 blogs every single day. Lots of noise, some good stuff here and there. But on the last few days I need to find more information about company X, or VC Y, and, as expected, I found several blog entries on those companies and VCs. But the blog posts were not that insightful.

    For example, on TechCrunch, most of the posts are neutral, some positive, some negative. The interesting stuff is happening on the comments... OMG! How did I miss that before. There are disgruntled employees, premium customers, former partners, current employees, happy customers, sad customers, everybody talking about the company and the dirty little secrets that are way more interesting.

    Another blog that has lots of good anonymous, thus juicy, comments is John Cook's Venture blog.