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That’s what Chrissie Brodigan overheard. Some of the twitterholics got together tonight and actually met up face-to-face. I mean actually shaking hands and seeing eye-to-eye… I know, crazy right?
Continue reading NYC Tweetup. Or, Face-to-Face Support Groups for When Twitter’s Down
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Well, I wanted to get my hands dirty in the IDE. So, I went to the SDK installation, and xCode introduction. I’ve been through the tutorials, but thought that some real face-time instruction would be good.
Continue reading iPhoneDevCampNYC pt.2 - Sessions and Explorations
So, made it to another NYC tech event. On a Saturday no less. Anyway, this was the first BarCamp I’ve ever attended. I’ve been wanting to attend one for quite some time and was bummed to miss the big one a couple months ago. This however, made up for it because we covered one of my favorite topics: experience design. Oh wait, yeah, on the iPhone. So, even better.
Continue reading iPhoneDevCampNYC pt.1 - Oh, the People You’ll Meet
That was probably more “eeee”s than you could ask for, but I couldn’t help it.
Eric Litman is a young VC from WashingtonVC who sobered the whole group with one simple facts about his industry:
DON’T GO LOOKING FOR MONEY<
Eric brought light to distinguish something I personally found valuable: Social Capital is more valuable than Money Capital. Making friends is more important than making money, but either way
Continue reading NextWeb NYC Web 2.0 Meet-up Pt.3: Eric Litman on No-VC and Gary V on Legacy as Currency
Extreme social collaboration. This is real stuff. Real biz model. Real work being done here.
If you’re at the TED conference in SF a few weeks ago, you might have heard of them. They put their product to the test and had some of the most brilliant minds in technology develop a product using their platform.
Basically, in about 72 hours, through Kluster’s Collaboration platform, an entire product replete with marketing campaign and logistics.
Now, I want to be clear about thier “platform,” This is not like OpenSocial or Facebook; that is, a framework for coders on which to program. Their framework is comprised of real people creating real products…. with, get this, are you ready, their imagination!
Kluster has their own currency called “watts.” Watts do translate into real dollars when projects are complete.
To be honest, I didn’t get all the details, but I did speak with, Ben Kaufman after his presentation, and the implications of this project hits hard to what the new economy is about: earning by doing. Which segue’s nicely to the final presenter.
More to come…
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