Tag: events

  • What I learned at ad:tech

    What I learned at ad:tech

    What a difference a year makes! Last year is seemed as if blogs were only given a polite nod and tolerated as something vaguely interesting but mostly for the geek fringe. The majority of the attention was given over to the SEO black arts. This year blogs are a given while the social media darlings…

  • eTech Day Three Roundup

    I’m going to harness the community to sum up today’s sessions. Tim Bray sums up the various product pitches. Something has been bothering me about the format of the conference. Each session is so rushed that there is little room for Q&A following each presentation. As a result, you don’t often get a chance to…

  • eTech Day Two quote of the day

    Email is an attention chipper/shredder – think "Fargo" – very graphic image.         – Linda Stone    

  • Multi-touch Interface shown off at eTech

    Totally cool – they had Jeff Han showing off his touch screen interface. I got a pointer to this a couple of weeks ago and was blown away – someone at Yahoo called it “web 5.0” Here’s a page with a video showing it in action – must be seen to be fully appreciated. UPDATE:…

  • Ray Ozzie at eTech

    RSS is the DNA wiring the web, the connecting tissue between active web sites. Part of the current excitement around mashups is that it’s moving these "composite applications" up to the level of the scripting programmer. The closer you get to the user, the closer you get to real domain expertise. Cut/Copy/Paste – these commands…

  • eTech, Day One Keynotes

    Lots of stimulating discussion today. If I can boil it down to themes I would say that the both the tutorials that I went to earlier and the keynotes I attended tonight asked us to center back on the individual. Flashy applications and rounded corners are all well & good if they contribute to the…

  • eTech, Day One Tutorials

    Today I went to the tutorial sessions here at eTech in San Diego. I attended: Creating Passionate Users 2.0 with Kathy Sierra From Coder to Co-Founder with Marc Hedlund Highlights following:   

  • SD Forum Search SIG – Demos

    Product demos for edgio.com, oodle.com, and googlebase

  • SD Forum Search SIG

    Got here a little late so I’ll just slip in my notes mid-session. Attending: Greg Sterling (The Kelsey Group) Bindu Reddy, Product Manager, GoogleBase Craig Donato, Founder, Oodle Keith Teare, Founder, Edgeio The discussion is about three online classified services.