Monthly Archives: March 2009
Free mentoring offered on Ada Lovelace Day
Who was Ada? Ada Lovelace was one of the world’s first computer programmers, and one of the first people to see computers as more than just a machine for doing sums. She wrote programmes for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, a … Continue reading
SXSWi: Monday teh 16th
Spent all day in Microsoft BizSpark Accelerator where the cream of the internet start-ups compete via 2-min elevator pitches to be crowned winner in their category. Kind of a Crufts for online business. Best in show were: Innovative Web technologies … Continue reading
Hashtag Kebab aka ‘the art of conference jacking’
Undoubtedly the best twitter hashtag of SXSWi, #kebab quickly became the WTF session of the whole interactive festival. Set up by School of Everything, Tuttle, Fix My Street and others, it was a word-of-twitter-mouth, rogue, wind-up unpanel that took over … Continue reading
SXSWi: Sunday the 15th
11.30am Making Whuffie: Raising Social Capital in Online Communities The language of the internet is lagging behind the tech and culture changes… which is presumably why ‘whuffie’ has been picked from a sci-fi story from the creator of Boing Boing … Continue reading
SXSWi: Saturday the 14th
11:30 AM Blog on Company Time and Get Promoted. Picked up a few tips here but generally the title promised a little more than it delivered. Most interesting was the issue of NOT linking: Apparently a municipality in California is … Continue reading
SXSWi: Friday the 13th
For the next few days this is going to function as my thought download receptable for all things mySXSWi – see post below – with quick summaries of ‘what did I learn, what did I gain’. Panel: My boss doesn’t … Continue reading
My SXSWi 2009 schedule
Here’s the beginning of my plan for South by South-West Interactive in Austin next week. (Yes, that’s Austin, Texas!) If you’re there and you want to meet, borrow my extension cord or tell me about something good going on, I’ll … Continue reading
