Category: Life
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A great quote at the VLAB panel
Earlier this week, I participated in an MIT-Stanford VLAB event entitled “Introducing the Seventh Sense: Location Awareness”. The VLAB is a volunteer, non-profit organization promoting the growth and success of high-tech entrepreneurial ventures by connecting ideas, technology and people. From my own experience helping out as a volunteer at Mobile Monday NY, I know how…
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A trifle bizarre
100_6370, originally uploaded by minky sue. 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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Upcoming events in October
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…
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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…
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Five things I love and hate about the iPhone
As the sheer volume of iPhone articles, posts, videos and hacks rises to epic proportions, threatening to displace cute baby pictures from their strangehold of the premier position atop the Internet, I thought I’d toss my hat into the ring on the side of the humble iPhone and give the cute widdle guy some badly…