In December of 2005 I had the opportunity to invite Umair Haque – who was then running a consultancy called Bubble Generation – to Sony during an internal week-long technology and strategy sharing event. I had been following Umair via his blog and felt Sony should hear what he was saying. Thanks to a skeptical [...]
In collaboration with the folks at Web Directions East and in anticipation of their first conference in Japan, we’ve put together a 2kurabe widget with a custom “skin” (theme)!
At the moment there is only one 2kurabe, but more will appear automatically as the WDE team adds them.
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Web Directions East is coming to Tokyo! November 7th to 9th.
English announcement
Official Japanese site
If you’re living in Tokyo and developing for the Internet, you probably don’t want to miss this event. Keep an eye out for a partnership with [...]
For English speakers living in Japan and enthusiastic about CodeIgniter, there will be a lecture / gathering (and ostensibly a party afterwards) at the Open Source Conference next week / end.
最近話題のCode Igniterにご興味を持っている方へ、来週のオープンソースカンファレンスでCodeIgniterのセミナーが行われます。是非参加を！
CodeIgniter is a wonderfully light yet robust and easily extendable PHP framework that has helped me develop miistation.com, kirakirajin.com (now defunct), and 2kurabe.com quickly [...]
The Carson Workshops’ Future of Web Apps, which I blogged about last month (day 1, day 2) has put most presenters’ materials online as .mp3 files, with corresponding slides when available. If you’re looking for something with a theoretical bent, I recommend listening to Jeff Veen’s presentation. Dick Hardt’s take on identity and [...]
Digital Garage along with Joi Ito hosted a conference titled The New Context covering the future of web 2.0. I was returning from San Francisco the night of the first day so I unfortunately missed Lawrence Lessig’s keynote, but Gen kindly scored me a free ticket for all of day 2 (thanks Gen!) so [...]
(Day 1, if you haven’t read it yet.)
What’s Next For Web Apps: Building the Next Flickr
The second day started off with Michael Arrington of TechCrunch zipping through a host of up-and-coming as well as going-down-in-flames startups, and discussing their strengths and weaknesses. He started off his presentation with a catchy anecdote – that PlentyOfFish [...]
AJAX is roller skates for the web – Bruce Sterling
As part of my reconneissance trip to the Bay Area over the past two weeks, I attended the Future of Web Apps workshop hosted by Carson Systems at the beautiful Palace of Fine Arts Theater, just across the street from the Presidio where George Lucas [...]
Have a moment to (finally) update my blog while waiting for the next session, so thought I’d post a short one. You’ve mostly likely heard about the latest Apple news and announcements, so I’ll spare the details. Suffice to say, looks like SGI and Sun Microsystems are in trouble. With the latest [...]
Fascinating account of the All Things Digital conference hosted by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. David Horniki of Venture Blog gives his rundown here. The bullet points, followed by some choice quotes:
Gates hates Google
Jobs hates HP, Dell, Gateway
Fiorina hates Dell (and pities Sun)
Rollins hates HP (and R&D)
Ellison hates Gates
When asked why it was [...]
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