March 2008

As an anthropologist, this panel was, of course, intriguing to me. Expanding beyond your own comfortable perceptions of the world is a difficult thing for most people, and the software and gaming industry are running into the usual (and some unusual) problems as they expand beyond the U.S.: ‘Redrum in the Rue Morgue’: Collaboration in […]

In Google rankings, roughly 80 percent is what people are saying about you and 20% is what you are saying about yourself. (Biggest thing is your title tag) Good content gets links, don’t let Search Engine Optimizers (SEOs) write your content. SEOs are basically made up of failed journalists. Write it yourself or hire a […]

The LOLWUT (icanhascheezburger.com) panel is giving out cheeseburgers. LOL no wai! Teh Internetz R serious biznes. For more on the Lolcat phenomenon, check out the entry at Wikipedia. This was a fantastic (and funny) panel on the contradictions of this successful site. Fazia Rizvi

Peter Kirn cdm: Create Digital Media Joy Mountford VP Design Innovation, joymountford.com Jon and Theresa here at the Data As Art panel, in an extremely packed room and a British-accented panelist. Her name is Joy Mountford and she’s the vice president of Design Innovation. Peter Kirn of Create Digital Media is with her. We are […]

This was my first session, so I missed a good bit and most of the stuff being discussed went over my head, but one of the panelist did succeed in catching my attention. Joe Sanders , a writer for books, magazines, TV and the Website. Sanders wanted to try out a new theory – basically […]

Some interesting points Mark Zuckerberg made in his keynote speech: Facebook’s goal is to help people communicate more effectively and to extend relationships beyond face to face The best way to make a site is from the bottom up, from the users and not necessarily from the “creators” Facebook is launching in France tonight The […]