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Lost in Translation: Nuances of European Social Media
Today I filled in to host a panel on European Social Media at SXSW. And boy, did I enjoy this session – the audience just rocked, and my colleagues and buddies Igor Schwarzmann (@zeigor) and Kevin Dykes (@kdykes) I had a a great time.
There’s a number of points that I’d like to share with [...]
New School: Crowdsourcing 101
At a recent meeting, Trebor Scholz, curator of the Institute for Distributed Creativity mailing list (IdC), host of collective.net and organizer of the Internet as Playground and Factory Conference, kindly invited me to give a brief talk at an undergrad class he teaches at the Eugene Lang College of New School University. So while I [...]
Call to action: Help me with a panel on European Social Media (by Friday)
I need your help. A few hours ago I was contacted by Robin Grant of UK-based social media agency We Are Social, who told me he could not make it to his own talk at SXSW this Saturday, and could I step in. Speaking at SXSW seems like a pretty big thing to me (hey, [...]
SXSW prep
Just a brief status update – I’ll be at SXSW Interactive from Friday to Tuesday. If I don’t reply to any of your emails or calls, please bear with me.
I’m writing this from New York, more concretely from a friend’s apartment where I have access to wireless. It seems there is still not one [...]
Augmented Reality vs Adblocker
Architect Keiichi Matsuda ’s take on augmented reality. I wonder what this would look like with a decent ad blocker?
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Update: Thanks for KoopTech for pointing out what the video looks like without the augmented reality layer:
Ignite Berlin Videos
Monday night Matt and I hosted Ignite Berlin as part of the Global Ignite Week. I had a tremendous time there watching all these really smart people give rapid-fire talks of five minutes each. (Thanks folks!)
You can find all Ignite Berlin talks on IgniteShow.com or jump straight to the videos below:
Edial Dekker: Stop creating, [...]
Ignite Berlin: the definitive speaker list
It’s on! We just posted the speaker list and schedule for Ignite Berlin. And after reading the proposed talks I have to say I can’t wait to see them this coming Monday.
Here’s the list of speakers:
Edial Dekker: “Stop creating, start collecting”
Ahmet Emre Acar: “Lessons from a Caveman”
Markus Andrezak: “The Why and How of Kanban”
Philip [...]
UX Lx: User experience in Lisbon
A brief announcement for the user experience experts out there: UXLx is a unique three-day User Experience event set in sunny Lisbon, Portugal on May 12-14 2010. This year’s speakers will include Steve Krug, Jared Spool, Peter Merholz, Luke Wroblewski, Dan Saffer, Donna Spencer, Dana Chisnell, Brian Fling and Bill Scott. It’s really quite an [...]
Google, Privacy, Germany
We’ve been discussing the unholy trinity of GPG – Google, Privacy, Germany – a lot recently. And by “we”, I mean in one swoop all the web scene, Germany and the media here as a whole, but also my friends and I. (One of those friends works at Google, so we can bounce ideas off [...]
Open Design & Tinkering in Berlin
Lately so much has been going on in Berlin that has to do with the whole field of open design, tinkering, DIY – and last week was another highlight. I had the chance to drop in at the Open Design Workshop at Betahaus. (Sadly I could only pop in for a few minutes, but that [...]
