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Gnomedex 8.0 Day 2 - Closing Thoughts
We have shown you the tools now go out and use themMany conferences have been about educating and evangelizing to people how they should use tools like blogs, podcasts and social networks. There has definitely been a shift in the winds. At this point, people who want to know about them or learn about them, have at some level. Now it is not about education but about implementation and adoption. I think you will see this trend continue at future conferences, but you saw it first here at Gnomedex. You can use this technology to not only build your business but make positive change in the worldFrom watching Beth Kanter raise $3700 to send a girl in Cambodia to college, to using Twitter to get a audience following the Mars Rover, to Salaam Garage using social media tools on their photo/video trips, everyone can use these tools to make a difference in this world. All of the attention for these projects and their popularity would not have been possible with out tools like blogs, podcasts, twitter and flickr to name a few. Everyone needs to go next year - yes, everyone.Chris Brogan summed it up the best in his post “I found Gnomedex to be the single-most valuable conference for me and my own personal and professional development that I've attended in the last 12 months. (In saying this, I realize that I'm rating it over my very own PodCamp Boston and several other events where I know and love the organizers. To you, I say, "I loved your events as well. They were also useful to me.") It will be interesting to see what comes next year, and I will certainly plan to attend. You should, too.” See you next year for Gnomedex 2009. Gnomedex 8.0 Day 2 - Saturday Afternoon SessionsAfter another great lunch and conversations in the hallway, we began the final afternoon session of discussions. If it was anything like yesterday, it shouldn’t disappoint. Jon Malkin of Vocal JoystickJon works with user interfaces and there is no easy way to describe this session other that a really cool way to interface with a computer. With the use of vocal tones he was able to program the mouse cursor do all kinds of things and when used in combination he was actually able to play a video game. All everyone talked about how this could do amazing things for disabled individuals to interact with a computer when they never could in the past. The Hubble Project (not the telescope)The Hubble Project was presented by Arvind Krishnamurthy and Ethan Katz-Bassett. Hubble helps find black holes across the internet. Specifically, looking at why some websites become persistently unreachable. A black hole is when paths are available to a web server, but traffic persistently does not reach the server. So how long do black holes last? According to a 3 week study start 9/17/2007, 31,000 black holes involving 10,000 network had 60% last more than 2 hours each. For more information, check out the website and to see it working go to http://hubble.cs.washington.edu BoxeeDave Mathews is serial entrepreneur having served as the Forward Thinker at Sling Media, identifying consumer trends leading to the development of the latest in digital media products. Prior to Sling, Dave was handpicked by the former chairman of Radio Shack as the Director, Product Innovation to develop their modern home strategy. Before joining Radio Shack, he was co-founder of Digital:Convergence – creator of the CueCat - a first-ever consumer barcode reader, distributed through Forbes, Wired, Parade and Nielsen Media publications. He is the "user experience guy" at boxee and a consumer product expert, specializing in the convergence of digital entertainment devices. Boxee is essentially an open source version of Apple TV that allows you to put it on any kind of hardware. It is currently in Alpha and I just got an invite to try it out. I will do a review in a future post. Mars 3.0 with Scott Maxwell
Scott’s goal for the presentation was this: “Ultimately, my goal is to ask the audience to help design the future of space exploration — what I'm calling, admittedly with a certain bias, "Mars 3.0." How could NASA use the Net not just to communicate better with the public but to actually enable the public to meaningfully participate in this grand adventure? To help the audience help me, I start with some background about JPL's role within NASA, summarize how Mars 1.0 and Mars 2.0 worked, and describe how we drive the Mars rovers today. Then I discuss some of the legal, contractual, and practical restrictions on involving the general public in our mission. Finally, I'll invite the audience to suggest approaches and help solve some of the problems that currently stand in the way of Mars 3.0.” He showed beautiful pictures of the Martian Landscape and blew people away with pictures of wispy clouds that you would have thought was taken right here on earth. He showed Mars moons eclipsing the sun, how far the sun was and how small it was compared to what we see on earth. Then came the little yellow dot. At the end of his presentation he showed a picture of a small yellowish dot. I thought it was another picture of the sun, but it was a picture of earth. Sounding like the Heir Apparent to Carl Sagan, he had the audience in complete silence as he said “everyone we know, we love and ever met, all our wars, our disagreements are on what Carl Sagan calls that Pale Blue Dot”. It brought chills to me and everyone in the room and showed us for that moment how things we think are so important are so insignificant in a huge universe that is just waiting to be explored. He finished and then… HE GOT THE FIRST STANDING OVATION FOR GNOMEDEX 2008 and the SECOND IN GNOMEDEX HISTORY. This picture below shows it. It was awesome and would compete with any presentation given at TED. It was very cool to be a part of this kind of history. BugLabs Overview with Jeremy Toeman
Here is a link to his presentation slides and video of his presenation on the Bug Labs site. He also announced a contest for everyone at Gnomedex and watching to come up with their own use of the Bug Labs components. It is located here. Enter (here) by Friday, 8/29. Reps from Bug Labs and Gnomedex will review the submissions, and pick the winners! Gnomedex 2008 is a wrapWith a final session of Ignite Seattle! we are done. Some closing thoughts in my final post. Gnomedex 8.0 Day 2 - Saturday Morning SessionsWell, its the final day of Gnomdex 2008. It was a late night for most who went to the party at Showbox, a Seattle landmark where I personally have seen Pearl Jam, Mudhoney and Nirvana in my much younger, grungier, and thinner days. We jumped right in with another presentation of more highlights from Ignite Portland and Josh Bancroft Heated Discussion with Sarah Lacy and my fellow Gnomedexers
Managing Online Relationships with Eve Maler of Sun MicrosystemsTo change things for a more calmer discussion, Eve Maler of Sun Microsystems was next up. She presented her take on Vendor Relationship Management and the issues and opportunities it shares with other disciplines; here are her slides. In summary, VRM is similar to CRM but the difference is that there a mutually beneficial data sharing relationship that people would have. There are new data standards that take data sharing while being secure to a whole new level. I invite you to review her slides or go to her blog to learn more. The Adeona Project - “LoJack for your computer” Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service. This means that you can install Adeona on your laptop and go — there's no need to rely on a single third party. What's more, Adeona addresses a critical privacy goal different from existing commercial offerings. It is privacy-preserving. This means that no one besides the owner (or an agent of the owner's choosing) can use Adeona to track a laptop. Unlike other systems, users of Adeona can rest assured that no one can abuse the system in order to track where they use their laptop. They described the motivation, design, and evolution of the Adeona laptop tracking service, as well as briefly give a high-level description of some of our other pursuits in academic computer security research. They also gave some hints of what's in store for future versions of Adeona. With that, we are ready for lunch. In the next post we will cover the afternoon sessions and have some closing thoughts on the overall conference. More Recent Articles
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