Archive for July, 2006
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
I will be posting a consolidated wrap-up of Gnomedex 2006 later (as soon as I can get links to the mp3 and video files for the conference) but for now...
2 things have happened post-gnomedex that need to be pointed out above all the news (how big Second Life is getting) ...
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Saturday, July 1st, 2006
Chris and 3 VCs on stage
Chris gives the elevator pitch
new look and feel thanks to liquid orb
300 searches ou tthere that output rss
make your own - tag is your own - functional more than anythign else
organize by category - through the feeds -
todd cochrane launched blubrry with rss search
easily readable ...
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Saturday, July 1st, 2006
PT rocked gnomedex last year
Makers Bill or Rights
return of kit culture
poeple doing interesting things with rfid
nixie tubes
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Saturday, July 1st, 2006
Bloggers love to bitch about things
complaints about the current world of social software, media - how do we make it more useful and understandable
shannon - too much social software - designed inclusively
value is diminishing
why you use these services vs how or what it does
make them less complicated and not in ...
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Saturday, July 1st, 2006
Project Goals -
Annhiliate Bill Gates and feast on the bloody remains of his shattered empire
Liberate the world from the encumbering bondage of proprietary software
make it simple
talk to the masses
didnt want to take the linux route
take it to the audience to the most people possible
competitioin - pushes them
IE - 95% of ...
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Saturday, July 1st, 2006
How to be a Creative Leader
the programmer dungeon - does it work - do we have stories
- devs need to control their environment
- werner - keeps team small
teams should not be larger than you can feed with 2 pizzas
cannot have group meeting without regulating it
Jim Roberts - when they whine ...
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Saturday, July 1st, 2006
Awesome - beth from SL has been participating at gnomedex this weekend and today gave a group of us a short tour in second life.
Discussed:
Avatars
Construction
Land
Cool spaces (art gallery, fan-built MYST game, record label online with lounge for listening to artists)
Quick primer on buildinf objects in 2L
AWESOME - easily the best ...
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Saturday, July 1st, 2006
boundaries between fans and presentation/music
How do fans interact
how to give power back
2 spaces - stage and audience space - existed since greek times
power of fan, power of audience
participatory culture
REM - SD 2003 - estab norms of space
fans determin the set list
bands control over the audience becomes complicated
audience organzied by another ...
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Saturday, July 1st, 2006
Chris Messina and Tara Hunt (founders of Citzen Agency) kicked off their discussion with a silent keynote presentation for the Gnomedex crowd. The slides were great (and can be found here) and really seemed to set the tone for the discussion.
What is a non-zero sum game?
building out infrastructure for what ...
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Saturday, July 1st, 2006
Pud discusses his sites (f*ckedcompany, Mobog, others)
his presentation is 20 minutes of me me me
discussion - VC, experiences with old school press
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