The panelists for the forthcoming MIT Technology and Entrepreneurship Forum (to be held on March 2nd at the MIT Stata Center) have been announced on the TEF site. On the IT panel, the panelists are moderator Randy Adams, founder and CEO of Searchme, David Diamond, COO of Tourtellotte Solutions, Douglas Wyatt, CTO of McAfee SiteAdvisor, and myself. (The TEF is MIT’s largest student-run conference and is focused on sharing knowledge about entrepreneurship and technological innovation.)
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I’ll be visiting Cambridge, USA at the beginning of March to be part of this year’s MIT Technology and Entrepreneurship IT panel (see last year’s site).
Hopefully I might get to meet up with some local Semantic Web people and talk about SIOC or other projects; if you’re there and free on the 1st or the 3rd of March, let me know.
Happy Hallowe’en!
Al Gore, who recently produced the film “An Inconvenient Truth” about greenhouse gases and the unfolding impending climate crisis (saw it recently, it’s good, like going to a plenary lecture about doomsday), has been hired by the British government as a lobbyist to combat global warming.
More at the Irish Times.
I blogged yesterday about testing the Slingbox; today I saw the TiVo in operation via the Slingbox - even cooler! Not only can you watch your live TV, but you can set stuff to record and watch it later. Screenshots below, showing the TiVo remote control via a Slingbox (that’s Tim Robbins waving a shotgun at Tom Cruise on HBO) and the “Now Playing List”.
Mixed feelings on my last day in San Francisco: sad to be leaving one of the coolest cities I’ve been in, but looking forward to seeing home and family. I’m sipping my Starbucks Chantico hot chocolate and thinking of the things here I’ll miss (that being one of them). Other things I’ll miss:
- Cheap prices of jeans and clothes in general, either in normal stores or outlets. I bought a pair of Levi’s jeans for $10.84, including tax. $10.84; so good I said it twice.
- Seeing stuff on TV first. I’ve watched the first three episodes of BSG; who knows when it’ll make its way to European TV.
- Big American brunches. As good as a proper Irish breakfast. English muffins go great with eggs.
- Events. There are so many techie events here in the Bay Area it hurts for a geek like me to leave. But it’s also a great place for concerts and shows. We’re going to see Jim White tonight in the Great American Music Hall on O’Farrell. The Pernice Brothers are playing as well.
- M-bags. I love sending home big bags of used books via the USPS m-bag media mail service.
- The BMG music club. 12 CDs for the price of 1. Enough said.
- Lipton Brisk iced tea and Mountain Dew. The latter is not essential, but I like it sometimes. I also like powdered Gatorade (bringing some home).
Product placement in films is driving me crazy. I went to see the Island, and still can’t figure out how Puma and Aquafina and Xbox made their way into the controlled environment of the cloning centre. It reminded me of seeing the impossible Powerade ads in the virtual world of Matrix Revolutions.
Went to the SDForum / SoftTECH event on online communities last night in the Golden Gate Club in the Presidio.
The photo shows the panel of speakers: Scott Wilder from QuickBooks, Tony Christopher from Digital Places, Sylvia Marino from Edmunds, Zack Rosen from CivicSpace, and the chair Eugene Eric Kim from Blue Oxen. Eugene is going to next week’s Wikimania so we’ll no doubt meet there again…
There were some questions about integrating other technologies such as VOIP and SMS into online communities; Zach gave an interesting description of how Asterisk could be integrated into an online community; I briefly mentioned Regi’s Boards Beep project on boards.ie which generated a good bit of interest.
Met a bunch of people there, including Kare, Nancy, Kaliya, Billy, Clay, Ron, and Chris. Had a good chat with Kieran from CivicSpace about the SIOC Drupal module.
On Tuesday evening, I met up with the meetup.com San Francisco weblogger group, where we talked about blogging for business and profitability (lots of topics related to our it@cork Blogging for Business event). Had some interesting discussions with Paul, Chris, and Gavin.
Afterwards, I went along to this month’s Tag Tuesday event, featuring the podcast cataloguers (sp.) Odeo. The photo shows a shot of the tags from their website demonstration, and that decapitated head belongs to Niall who I met at the event. Dia dhuit, Niall! Also talked to Ryan (again), Eran (discussed microformats corresponding to SIOC) and Tantek from Technorati, Amber, Rabble and Blaine from Odeo (chatted about YARS), Evo and Mark from Jedi, Ashton (sp.), and David from USF.
I visited DERI Stanford today; didn’t get to meet Charles or Michael but had interesting chats with Nat and Tim about some of their work (e.g. games.stanford.edu).
Axel from DERI Innsbruck is currently here on the exchange program; Chris is also visiting here at the moment.
Got a day tour to Yosemite on Thursday. What a wonderful place. The views are just spectacular, and you may get some idea of this from the pictures I managed to get with our fairly basic camera.
Normally this (one day) wouldn’t be enough, but it was really, really hot there, so in one way I was relieved we weren’t staying too much longer. But will definitely have to go back again; this was my second visit (the last was 16 years ago).
Whew! I’ve days of adventures to catch up on. Our car rental was due back on Wednesday, so we crammed in as much as possible at the beginning of the week. Plus the fact that we went on a trip to Yosemite meant that I’ve been offline for most of the week…
Anyway, drove down the coastline along California 1. We were starving, but found a great little spot called Gayle’s where we loaded up on breakfast croissants and coffee. Then went on to the pretty town of Monterey, perused the shops and visited the impressive aquarium (and of course I took lots of photos of the fishes). After that, we went on to the even prettier town of Carmel-by-the-Sea.
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