My little sister’s picture of a trifle that she made at my parent’s place in Israel shows up in an article about scalable web apps written by Cal Henderson over a year ago. Random coincidence?
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I’m going to be speaking at a couple of events later this month – next week Thursday, I’ll be in Chicago at Forrester’s Consumer Forum 2007 on a mobile social panel with Nick Tommarello from Urban Interactive and Vidya Lakshmipathy from Forrester. Here’s how they describe the overall conference:
Fueled by cheap devices and pervasive access, individuals are increasingly taking cues from one another rather than from institutions — a phenomenon that creates chaos for traditional brands, sellers, and media outlets.
Sound fun right?
The week after, I’ll be in Palo Alto, on a panel rather aptly named “Introducing the Seventh Sense: Location Awareness“. Sam Altman from Loopt is the speaker, and there are some interesting panelists in the house and of course, it’s in Silicon Valley. Should be a lively event.
Finally – the week after that, I’ll be at the Navteq Connections event and then CTIA. Should be a fun trip. Give me a shout if you want to meet up while I’m out there.
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:-) turns 25
:-D, <3, :*, :p, 😉
Does anybody know when all the other little emoticons were born?
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Israel, then Prague, then Israel again.
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Join the British Secret Service on Facebook.
While casually poking around the crack du jour – i.e. Facebook – tonight, I started searching for a friend working at the Intelligence group and Facebook casually informed me that some people from the British Secret Intelligence Service were on there too:
Huh? What? That’s pretty crazy. I mean, I realize that actual people work for these organizations, but don’t you think they’d have some type of restriction on identifying themselves as being part of a covert government organization? Doesn’t this negate the whole point of the word “Secret” in their name?
My next attempt was to see if someone like say Valerie Plame… er… Wilson was on there too?
Sadly, she wasn’t there, and even if she was, it’s too late for her. Some other Facebook-lovin’ recruit of the CIA is just hanging out, waiting to be discovered by the next Scooter Libby. A casual search turned up networks for the FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency (which could be the American one or the Indian branch) and not much else. Israel’s Mossad and Shin Bet are noticeably absent, as is Zimbabwe’s Central Intelligence Organization, Belarus’ KGB, Russia’s GRU and FSB and other popular covert workplace networks. Luckily, the Watercooler Interrogation Society, and the Boardroom Templars haven’t broken their cover yet. I’m looking at you Dennis, Frank and Kevin. Don’t even think about it.