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Filed under 'etech'
➠ September 19, 2010
From Coder to Co-Founder
Recap of a great talk given by Marc Hedlund at ETech in 2006. Re-reading this now, it’s fascinating how much had lodged itself in my brain as “obviously true” and thus subconsciously shaping my decision to start Offline Labs.
➠ March 30, 2007
From Pixels to Plastic (Schulze & Webb)
Matt Webb’s talk from ETech — Encouraging us to use physical hardware to extend the online experience. Interesting stuff.
➠ March 27, 2006
➠ March 13, 2006
Skobee
I missed their session at ETech (Thursday morning was sleepytime for Rod), but this app looks cool. It’s like a fuzzy evite — Contact your friends to say “Let’s do something next week”, then let the software manage when people are available and what they want to do.
➠ March 10, 2006
➠ March 9, 2006
Hobbes vs Rousseau on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Best slide of ETech — From Clay Shirky’s talk on internet community behaviours.
Ning at Emerging Technology '06
Yoz’s talk has convinced me! Ning looks like it could be a really fun shared platform for swift hosted development.
PgFoundry: Query By Example
“Query by Example” dataminingy plugin for PostgreSQL. The ETech demo wasn’t that compelling, but it looks like it could have potential for “agile” data-prodding.
O'Reilly Radar > Entrepreneurial Proverbs
Marc Hedlund’s “Proverbs” for engineers who want to be entrepeneurs. Great stuff.
How Game Mechanics Can Make Your App More Fun
Some ETech links. This was my favourite talk yesterday (and one I stumbled into by accident when another room was full). Using the fun things we see in games to make your (social) software more engaging.
Three Roombas enter, One Roomba leaves
Hardcore Three-way Roomba-on-Roomba Action.
➠ March 8, 2006
Roomba Rumble
Two remote-control Roombas battle it out at Makefest.
➠ March 7, 2006
Multi-Touch Interaction Research
The coolest demo so far at ETech. Whizzy touch-screen Minority Report style interactions.
➠ March 6, 2006
My main thought from day one of ETech…
"Branded Lanyard" would be a great name for a rock band.
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This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.