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Category: Conference

  • Think and a Drink

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    Last Thursday I was invited by Gareth Rushgrove to speak on a panel at Codeworks’ Think and a Drink event in Newcastle. Each month Codeworks orients the evening around a theme of interest for the (paying) audience…this month, the focus was on Web 2.0 & Business with a pair of talks from Gareth Rushgrove and…

  • Going Solo

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    Stephanie Booth was the first person I met exclusively through Twitter. Steph met my friend Ian at a conference last year, she mentioned her grandmother was from Leeds and Ian suggested we meet next time she came to visit her family from Switzerland. As a prolific blogger, and someone with an emotional bond with Leeds,…

  • Leeds City Centre Vision Conference 2008

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    Last Thursday I braved the howling winds and driving rain to attend the 2008 edition of the Leeds City Centre Vision Conference, at the invitation of the city’s Chief Economic Services Officer, Paul Stephens. Upon entering the main hall, I felt immediately out of place as the only person not wearing a suit – though…

  • ETel & eComm 2008

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    We first started talking about an O’Reilly telephony-themed conference around the time of Foo Camp 2005. A few months later we successfully pulled off ETel 2006, one of the most critically well received tech conferences in the O’Reilly portfolio, followed just over a year later by ETel 2007. Each edition created a space for communities…

  • We Made A BarCamp!

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    Wow. We did it. We made a BarCamp! We’ve been pinching ourselves that we pulled it off in just 28 days – sponsors, ticketing, food and venues. But that’s only half the story, in the end it was you guys – the BarCampers – that made everything work. We wondered if people would show, if…

  • From Cellphone To Computer

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    Two broken teeth, a missing passport, a closed airline route, two delayed flights, several sleepless nights and a set of wonky video-chat tests later, our Web 2.0 Expo Berlin talk – From Cellphone To Computer – finally made it to the stage on Wednesday afternoon; here’s the final presentation… Rather than speaking about a singularly…

  • BarCamp Leeds {2007}

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    It’s ON! After month’s of speculation, logo contests, false starts and calendar battleship across Upcoming and the official wiki – BarCamp Leeds is set for Saturday 17th November! With only 24 days before the event we decided to go for a single day BarCamp this time around…if things go well, we’re planning a full weekend…

  • Web 2.0 Expo Berlin

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    Ian Hay and I have been invited by  O’Reilly’s Brady Forrest to run a session on mobile trends at Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin next month. Strangely, neither one of us can remember writing this abstract… — From a Mobile Telephone to a Computer – a Reality Dysfunction The mobile phone is becoming more advanced,…

  • Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0

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    The emergence of web culture continues in the North of England with next week’s inaugural Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0 conference, hosted by the University of York and focusing largely on the emerging culture around social media and its implications for the social sciences. MIT’s Web Science Research Initiative, augmented by the participation…

  • Future Of Web Apps Expo

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    Wow – it’s come around quicker than I expected. Ryan Carson’s Future of Web Apps returns to London in October, along with a brand-new expo event. Carson’s VP of Sales, Andrew Calvo has told me he’s offering startups a discount on the basic exhibit package, reducing the standard rate of £ 2195 + VAT to…