Archive for November, 2005
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By category: Current Events, Design, Engineering, Events, Life..., San Francisco, Social Web.
If you’re in the Bay Area this weekend (December 3rd, 2005), join us at BrainJams.
BrainJams Events are open spaces where the participants decide on the content of the event within a basic framework that includes one on one knowledge networking in the morning and open discussions on how to best use emerging technologies in the afternoon.
The format for the two morning sessions borrows from Speed Dating and Knowledge Cafes: Talk one on one with somebody in your group for 5 minutes. Rotate to a new person every 5 minutes. Repeat until you’ve spoken with each person in your group. Same thing in the second hour, but with a new group of people and ideas. Before lunch you’ll have shared passions and projects with more than 20 people.
After lunch is a quick Teen Panel moderated by Noah Kagan. We’ll hear how social services, blogs and communities are being used by this demographic.
The rest of the afternoon is for three tracks of quick, user-led sessions. Not demos, but real people sharing knowledge about which tools they use, and how.
It is a chance for new comers and everyday people to learn from the “powerusers” and other real people just like them. It is a chance for people to suggest new ideas for making the tools more useful. It is a chance for us to begin gathering stories of how people actually use the tools many of us are building. … Each session will have a Jam Leader and a Podcaster/Vlogger who will help facilitate the conversation and keep it on track.
It’s looking like a very interesting day full of passionate people. Come join us.
Thanks to Chris Heuer for organizing this, what a guy.
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By category: Browsers, Front End Engineering, Tools.
According to Eric Bangeman over on the arctechnica blog, Firefox 1.5 is going to be released this week with an accompanying marketing blitz.
There’s no word yet on any of the official Firefox sites, but judging by the distance between availability of the three Release Candidate builds, this week seems about right.
Stay tuned…
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By category: Cool, Gadgets, Info Mgmt, Photos, Search, Social Web, Tools.
riya_reg_step1
Originally uploaded by natekoechley.
At brunch this morning, I received an email invitation to play with the early “soalphaithurts” alpha of Riya. Riya is consumer facial recongition software. After you name a face, it will scan and auto-tag the rest of your photos.
The concept is great; I took 9000 photos on my backpacking trip earlier this year, some help tagging them is very welcome.
Anyways, I just signed up and installed the uploaded. It takes quite a while to upload and process the photos, but in the meantime check my screenshots of “Nine Step Registration Process” and the “Six Page Tour”.
More Riya details, screenshots and first impressions coming soon.
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Originally uploaded by natekoechley.
Marshal is our new cat. We got him a couple months ago. He lives in NYC with Aimee. I’m not the hugest cat person, but he’s pretty fun to play with, and super cute. He’s about four months old in this picture.
Here’s a photo set (12 pics) of him.
Peter at the White House
Originally uploaded by natekoechley.
My brother Peter, who works for The Onion attended the Press Club dinner at the White House earlier this year.
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By category: Design, Engineering, Social Web, Tools.
Michael Arrington, “dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new web 2.0 products and companies,” writes on his TechCrunch blog today about Companies I’d like to Profile (but don’t exist). It’s a pretty interesting list of problems yet to be solved. I’ve been hoping for #1 (Better and Cheaper Online File Storage) for a long time — I believe it would be great for many people. As a voracious consumer of online content, I’m personally looking forward to #8 (Podcast Transcriptions).
While we’re talkin’ wishlists, I’d also propose #8b — the reverse of #8 — which would take a text document and turn it into a podcast.
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