You should check out Placesite – they’ve been working on a project that takes wifi and allows people to broadcast their interest – hopefully he can get a Placesite set up at an upcoming conference – it’d be interesting to see it in action and see if it can improve on existing technology.

You should check out Placesite – they’ve been working on a project that takes wifi and allows people to broadcast their interest – hopefully he can get a Placesite set up at an upcoming conference – it’d be interesting to see it in action and see if it can improve on existing technology.

I like that you highlight intention (instead of attention). This makes a lot more sense because I went to eTech with the intention to learn, to meet interesting poeple, to get inspired by their creativity, to figure out if I still care about technology, and to figure out where my talents as a designer fit in with emerging technology.

My attention should have been a funtion of what my intentions were.

When my attention was being demanded by things that didn’t align with my intentions (like when I was in session that were not as impressive as their titles implied and I knew there must be something more interesting going on) was when I got frustrated. But when my attention and my intentions aligned, like they did in Kathy Sierra’s tutorial on Creating Passionate Users, I felt inspired.

It would have been great if I could have broadcasted to the schedule and to everybody else there, what I was interested in, what I was there for, what kind of connections I wanted to make … even though the unplanned meetings turn out to be the most intersting and valuable any way (like who take a cab with from the airport) … but it would be cool to be able to see who might be interested in what knowlege and skills I have to offer and let people with knowledge and skills offer be able to know more clearly what I’m intersted in.

Something tells me it will be more like that next year. A friend of mind did something like this for the TED conference, it would be cool to see that type of technology used at conferences like eTech.

But in general, intention is the master of attention and aligning the two is a key to passionate users.

I’m imagining what my site where I say what I want looks like … I like the idea a lot.

I like that you highlight intention (instead of attention). This makes a lot more sense because I went to eTech with the intention to learn, to meet interesting poeple, to get inspired by their creativity, to figure out if I still care about technology, and to figure out where my talents as a designer fit in with emerging technology.

My attention should have been a funtion of what my intentions were.

When my attention was being demanded by things that didn’t align with my intentions (like when I was in session that were not as impressive as their titles implied and I knew there must be something more interesting going on) was when I got frustrated. But when my attention and my intentions aligned, like they did in Kathy Sierra’s tutorial on Creating Passionate Users, I felt inspired.

It would have been great if I could have broadcasted to the schedule and to everybody else there, what I was interested in, what I was there for, what kind of connections I wanted to make … even though the unplanned meetings turn out to be the most intersting and valuable any way (like who take a cab with from the airport) … but it would be cool to be able to see who might be interested in what knowlege and skills I have to offer and let people with knowledge and skills offer be able to know more clearly what I’m intersted in.

Something tells me it will be more like that next year. A friend of mind did something like this for the TED conference, it would be cool to see that type of technology used at conferences like eTech.

But in general, intention is the master of attention and aligning the two is a key to passionate users.

I’m imagining what my site where I say what I want looks like … I like the idea a lot.