Giuseppe Taibi's Techlog » ETech ‘08

OpenSpime

yus — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:18:29 +0000

I am pleased to have joined the Advisory Board of OpenSpime.

Listen to the podcast about OpenSpime on IT Conversations.

Android

yus — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:03:18 +0000

Connecting Your Life to the Web, with Android

Wow..the speaker is not connecting at all with the ETech audience…people are puzzled by this guy’s sort of boilerplate content. So far all the content presented has been widely available on the web. Where is the dough?

10 minutes later…ok, a *very simple* demo of Android…audience still puzzled…

…back to obvious thinghs…aarrghhhh. Google knows better!!!

4.5 Million Fairies Created

yus — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:25:52 +0000

Where? At Disney.com.

Beyond RIAs: Rich Internet Experiences

Ringtones: The ONLY way to make money with music in China

yus — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:21:03 +0000

Futuretainment: The Asian Media Revolution

The Internet in China is predominately about entertainment ( 94.2% ).

Instant Messaging and online multimedia is far bigger than browsing. In fact, a significant number of Internet Cafes DO NOT HAVE A BROWSER on their PC!! Mobile growth is phenomenal. Some of the best sellers books are WRITTEN on mobile phones.

www.thetomorrowcompany.com

TIM! TIM! TIM!

yus — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:03:38 +0000

Day 3 at ETech and MegaPhone has another great game to play as the audience fills the room. I managed to yell “TIM!” like a maniac and scored #2!

mydaughtersdna.org

yus — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:37:58 +0000

My Daughter’s DNA: A Father’s Odyssey in His Daughter’s Genome was an amazing and touching presentation by Hugh Rienhoff, a father who used publicly availble information on the Internet to go the extra, extra mile for helping his daughter. To me this is a phenomenal example of the need for patients to be better informed in order to be active participants of the medical process and ultimately get better care. The web is the best medium for doing just that. I recently was the technical architect of www.wegohealth.com, a resource built for allowing users easy access the best health information publicly available and help each other on health issues.

All details on this talk on MyDaughtersDNA.org.

Peter Norvig’s Talk at ETech

yus — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:07:01 +0000

Peter Norvig is about to deliver a talk titled: Practice Makes Perfect. I studied Bayesian Networks on his book while doing research for my doctorate in Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing. Norvig now works at Google (where else?).

Noteworthy: Google Sets. Try it with “cat”, “man”. See the result?

ETech 08 | Day 2

yus — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:03:54 +0000

Architectures for massive multi-player games.

10,000 players is NOT massive

Building online games are $30+M investment

Solution: Project Darkstar

Massive games platform should look like trading platforms

Project Wonderland is for 3D virtual worlds

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Place Matters: Social Encounters between the Physical and the Digital - churchill@acm.org

Tim O’Reilly Keynote at ETech

yus — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:14:27 +0000

Swivel

Sicily!!

Sicilians were Hackers!! Temples. Dyonisios’Ear. Archimedes.

Dome of Pantheon in Rome. Cement was made by some hackers.

Aviation. Spirit of St. Louis.

Passion, Love, Excitement, Energy.

Hackers don’t take ”It’s impossible” as an asnswer.

For us, flying is received knowledge. For the early aviators, it was personal knowledge.

Open-source Hardware.

From people typing on keyboards (PC) to Ambient Computing era.

OpenMoko

Personal Genetics

mydaughtersdna.org

23andme

Syntetic Biology

The Man Watching - Poem

Debugging Hacks

yus — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:53:53 +0000

I just joined Debugging Hacks: What They Never Taught You About Solving Hard Bugs and it is already a lot of fun!