May 2009
9 posts
Bye bye San Francisco
Seems like virtual and real world are colliding…
Noes, the big map markers are here… couldn’t resist, fab stickers Google
And the lounge has clearly stolen the Dopplr logo for someone who travels mostly to they blue and magenta cities. San Francisco is pink on the Dopplr scale so that’s clearly right. If my brain was more awake I’d fire up photoshop, look up the...
TWTRCON - or how I came to hate the tw and love...
I spent my last morning in San Francisco at TWTRCON - “the first conference entirely focussed on Twitter as a business platform: how to use Twitter to reach and engage customers, influence opinions and activate markets.” - their words not mine. I’ve started to get quite a knee jerk response to putting tw in front of things… enough already, today brought forth such utterly...
Google Wave Hackathon at Mountain View
At I/O there were some really interesting Office Hours sessions where you could go and talk to the engineering teams about questions and issues. I wanted to find out a bit more about Wave and so went along to their APIs one. At the end of a really interesting chat an understandably tired Douwe gave me a mysterious looking card and invited me to come up to Mountain View the following day to hack on...
Google I/O day two
Bit late on writing this up, but later in the day I’ll write up what kept me busy yesterday.
Day two was really all about Google Wave for me. I think it’s quite revolutionary and watching the keynote I felt I was watching something that could have profound implications for communication and collaboration, both in the wider web and in particular within organisations. Oh and it has a...
AppEngine Task Queue - that's just what we wanted
Well today has been quite a day at Google I/O. First of all the morning keynote about Google Wave was just mindblowing with the possibilities for this new protocol. It has profound implications for how we communicate and co-create and I’ll probably write something up after the Wave API session I’m now waiting for. One of the things I was excited to see before the conference was the App...
Google I/O day one
So yesterday was pretty interesting, and not just because of the free Android phone (I was in the audience at WWDC when they gave away the iSight, next time at a conference I want a pony or a unicorn). More on the G2 later.
For once at one of these conferences the keynote was really fantastic. Last year’s was interesting, but not earth shattering. This years really was revelationary and I...
Brief look back at Somesso
Just over a week ago I was speaking on a panel at the Somesso conference and obviously getting things in place for me to come out to San Francisco for Google I/O has slowed down me gathering some thoughts about the conference.
I thought it was an excellent and thought provoking event. The stand out talks were really the ones which encouraged me to get involved, Stowe Boyd, Lee Bryant and Umair...
QNTMFSLC - a game of espionage over Twitter
Clearly QNTMFSLC (Quantum of Solace without the vowels) is an attempt to come up with a game which has a completely unpronouncable name, which having tried to tell people the name is something which worked. I was asked by Alex Fleetwood and Holly Gramazio of the lovely Hide and Seek to come up with an idea for a game for their Bond, James Bond sandpit. I’d been thinking about the Twitter API...