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Wander Proof your loved ones - alzheimer/child proof
Dina Kaplan
The Art of Serendipity: Networking Without Networking
Jodi Gersh
Sammy Haroon
Mushon Zer-Aviv & Josh Klein
Relationship: It's Complicated (Workshop)
Deb Schultz
Sammy Haroon
Gilad Lotan
Aviv Eyal
DJing in a party with just your iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad (Workshop)
Sammy Haroon
Hanan Lifshitz & Deborah Uri
Game Mechanics
Jodi Gersh
Itzik Ben-Bassat
Simplicity
Gali Ross
Joe Brodecki
New Technologies and Social Media at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Gilad Lotan
Gilad Lotan
Visualizing Twitter: from #iranelection to silly memes - what can we learn through viz?
deb schultz
Jodi Gersh
Mushon
Matthew Snyder
"Show me the Money and get rid of plastic"- discussion of real stories of people making money these days in the mobile space and how you can do it? is there an art to it?
Nitzan Shaer- showing mobile love
All interested
As the Flotilla disaster unfolds, it'd be great to discuss why the Israeli gov't totally SUX at web-PR and at leveraging social networks online as a whole. Israel is fantastic at generating social applications and new technologies, yet when it comes to leveraging them for the benefit of our international political image, the government lacks all sensibility
Amir Kishon,
Sammy Haroon
Buddhist Philosophy and entrepreneurship – do they mesh together?
Amit
Pitaru
Why is most Interactive Art so annoying, and how to fix it.
Mushon
Gilad Lotan
Ronen Baran & Roy Baharav
3D or not to be
Making sense out of the development in the 3d world and discussing the future
Addy Feuerstein
The future memory of the digital age
The Intros
You define the agenda and the program at KinnerNet
Discussion:Invention To Innovation
In all your ventures, you have worked towards maximizing shareholder value first, customer proposition perhaps second and that's about it. Does this approach imbued in 20th century paradigms of problem solving work today? The first decade of the 21st century screams a loud, NO!
You are globally interconnected, always on, its on when you are off, yes, you are right, it is all because of the Net!
The “Invention To Innovation” (I2I) discussion will present a new actionable business framework for this interconnected world set in the context of 20th Century Problem Solving vs. 21st Century Dilemma Management (it will be explained in 60 seconds): Thinking towards long term sustainability of success with – wealth generation for shareholders for capitalists, recipient's need alleviation while sustaining the success for NGOs, happier citizenry for governments, etc.
With the help of co-hosts and participants, we will not only discuss but vigorously debate if the new I2I model that will be presented can:
(1) Allow entrepreneurs, non-profits, corporations, governments, etc. to be successful for their customers, recipients, citizens, etc., and (2) Enable a willingness in us as one of these entities to go beyond the quarterly profits and think for the long-term.
Interconnected is the key - KinnerNET represents the place where “collaborative co-creation” takes a new form. Come listen, participate, dare, be challenged, learn and walk away knowing you have contributed to what kinnernet is about!
Co-Hosts: Looking for you if you love to discuss and debate with intellect, respect and a desire to have fun.
Participants: You!!! [I don’t know the format so sign up for participation if it will get you up on the stage (if there is one)]
Looking forward to seeing all of you.
I'll attempt to demo without preparation the power of the interconnected world that is border-less and where flow of knowledge cannot be stopped.
NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND SOCIAL MEDIA AT THE US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
As a living memorial to the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum faces a unique challenge in the use of new technologies to further its mission to inspire people worldwide to confront hatred, promote human dignity, and prevent genocide.
Last month the Museum’s 30 millionth visitor walked through its doors. This took 17 years to happen. The Museum’s internet site however, had 30 million visitors in only one year. So, clearly technology offers the Museum the opportunity to reach and engage far more people than would ever physically visit it.
Thus, the Museum has embraced – and continues to explore – the potential of technology to reach people where they already live via social media, immerse virtual visitors in history via virtual worlds, engage constituents as creative partners via Twitter and in crowd-sourced research, and perhaps even to literally layer the past over the present to make otherwise invisible histories visible using augmented reality.
I am a member of the Museum’s governing board and will host discussion about how the Museum is currently using social media and technology, as well as where they are headed. The Holocaust Museum is in the forefront of museums using new technologies. Our hope is that this discussion will generate new ideas and help shape the Museum's future application of technology to its exhibitions, programs, and content distribution.
Please join me in this discussion.
Joe Brodecki joseph.brodecki@bernstein.com , facebook or cell 301-520-8587
Simplicity
Some of the most successful products managed to stay simple and provide basic needs and values that people look for. We will discuss that with an emphasize on high level Game Design elements. Please join me to discuss that and please let me know if you want me to allocate time for anything related that you wish to present as part of the discussion.
Hosted by: Itzik Ben-Bassat (ibb@gameground.com or ibb@wix.com) 646 269 5677
Game Mechanics
I’m intrigued by how game mechanics can transform mundane activities into fun (and often profitable) experiences. From frequent flyer programs that turned flying into a competitive pursuit to Foursquare that turned going to a coffee shop into a battle over ‘mayorship’, game mechanics can be a very powerful.
In this session we’ll discuss the principles of game mechanics, and if there’s interest, we’ll add an ‘add game mechanics to my start-up workshop’ where participants can brainstorm with others on how to integrate game mechanics into their start-up products.
Hosted by: Hanan Lifshitz (hanan at lifshitz dot com)
DJing in a party with just your iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad
(Workshop)
Bored of parties that just play tracks in a loop from an iPod without smooth transitions between the songs? Take your party mixing skills to the next level!
This workshop will teach you the basics of how to use your favorite Apple mobile device to play a great music mix at a party using the cutting-edge mobile DJ apps. Using just your mobile device, cheap Apps and your existing music collection, you can do most of what digital DJs can do with laptop + expensive desktop software and dedicated hardware. Digital DJing is a fun hobby. You just need to practice and to understand the theory...
Bring your fave tracks on your laptop (mp3, aac, wav, aif, wma, ogg). I'll be giving up to 25 free codes for iPhone DJing software (http://djmixer.fm) so you'll be able to run it for free and get started quickly...
On the theory side, I'm going to cover basic DJ techniques such as double-up, beat-matching, mash-up and tempo build-up.
Hosted by: Aviv Eyal @avive ae@djmixer.fm
I've been developing digital video music software and DJing around the US using laptops and digital vinyl systems for the last 10 years. I've been recently deeply involved in turning iPhones and iPads into highly capable DJ mixing tools with my company MSA (Musicsoft Arts http://musicsoftarts.com). I'm going to be showing several DJing and sound effects iPhone Apps that I use in my sets - not just my own software.
Participants: you!
Relationship: It's Complicated
(a workshop)
We have gone far beyond the point where social networks no longer are capable of adequately supporting our social life.
When the kid from kindergarten, your client, that annoying girl from college, mom, the neighbor, a colleague, grandma's friends, someone from some conference and mostly lots of people you have probably never met ALL WANT TO BE YOUR FRIENDS the system is broken.
It might be impossible for an algorithm to describe our social life which are both dynamic and not really "described" by us at all.
This often results in one of two common scenarios:
Disengagement from our social tools
Simplification of our social life to fit the algorithms.
Let's discuss this and to brainstorm some ideas to change either our social tools or our social life so they can better work together!
As they say: 'Better a complex identity than an identity complex’
Hosted by: Mushon Zer-Aviv, @mushon (would love to have co-hosts), Josh Klein, @joshuaklein [let me know if you want a third - den schultz]
Participants: you, you, you, you, you, you (and your friends)
I'd love to co-host with you especially because I think that I may have an utterly contrary perspective to yours - specifically that technology is actually degrading relationships in many ways because of the way in which it is disconnecting people with themselves :) Up for a debate in the discussion? :)
The Art of Serendipity: Networking Without Networking
Often the best business development deals, investors and speaking/travel opportunities come through chance encounters. But can luck be created? And if so, can you engineer your luck?
In this session we'll share stories of seeming serendipity and lessons for benefiting from networking without being "that guy" (or that girl).
If you don't come out of this session with a new take on, and inspiration for, deal-making we will not consider it a success. (And at Kinnernet, that would suck.) So, come prepared with, and for, some good stories and lessons and an active discussion of the art and science of serendipity for growing your business and your career.
Hosted by: Dina Kaplan + (come join)!
Participants: You Michael Parekh
Visualizing Twitter: from #iranelection to silly memes - what can we learn through viz?
Twitter is utterly fascinating in the aggregate, but when you look at most Tweets, they are far from interesting. However, by visually representing the data, we start seeing characteristics and attributes that we would not have been able to identify otherwise.
During the events following the Iranian Elections of June '09, Twitter was heavily used to spread the word about events as they occured in Iran. By attaching semantically similar messages and analyzing their differences, it is possible to visually see each conversational thread form - from start to end - and how it changes along the way, as people ReTweet, adapt and attach their own interpretations.
Similarly, by simple network analysis it is possible to sketch the spread of a meme, visually identifying attributes such as influence, flow, clusters and bridge nodes.
I'd love to demo some of these prototypes, and start a conversation around a new type of analytics tool that I am envisioning. Just like we have tools that help us understand who points to our website and where traffic flows from (e.g. Google Analytics), I believe we need to think about tools that help us identify our part of an online dialog. How we shaped and influenced a conversational topic, and how we got our friends and followers to engage!
Suggestions for more ground to cover? Not sure how long these go for.
Hosted by: Gilad Lotan + anyone else??
Participants: you all! Michael Parekh
WanderProof - Wander Proof your loved ones - alzheimer/child proof
more adults getting lost then children
An Open Source Adopt WanderProof Project & discussion about living/caring/preparing for loved one with alzheimers
the above WanderProof is a proof of concept, video can be seen here http://WanderProof.com - WanderProof is something my mother, my aunt and mother nature and i invented out of necessity - and would love to invite Kinnernet community to help think about all aspects of commercializing and even adopt it as a Kinnernet project - if maybe we can put our hearts/heads together and come up with some action or strategy or both - there are millions of people who could benefit from this including WanderProofing young children
May 7 2010 NY Times multimedia video piece on training police to deal with people who wander and have issues of natural and accidental occuring memory loss aka (also known as) Alzheimer, they have alsofound that there are more adults getting lost then children.
my interest is simple, to plant the idea that there are real options to alzheimers wander lust... i want to see a do it yourself approach, for people all over the world dealing with alzheimer wanderers to have freedom to make it themselves from pieces they find/buy from local hardware store or if not some way of outsourcing manufacturing/shipping/ordering it and install it themselves or with a handyman or contractor.
Background - my mother's family including my aunts and my mother have alzheimers - i took care of my lovely/elderly/fragile/stubborn, did i say stubborn... aunt Sonia for 12 years - and she was as stubborn as a wall, nothing could move her - and one day the unimaginable happened, un-beknownst to me while i and her daytime home attendant were at home she got upset about something, (which is not uncommon) she grabbed her jacket and quietly headed out the door - she went out for a walk and disappeared into the NYC twilight zone... frantically i searched all over our west side Manhattan neighborhood but to no avail. The police suggested i stay home and stay by the phone and that they will probably find her, eventually. this was before cell phone days, or at least before i had a cell phone... the police found my aunt 8 hours later in middle of the night among the homeless on 34 st and 9th ave - needless to say, no use questioning her - she didn't know where she was... i was happy and relieved to see her well and at home and safe!! - that night i put my attention to what was the first iteration of the WanderProof invention
my mother uses the one in the picture above and that is a story unto itself - my mother just came back from spending few months in Florida mostly in a rehab this time and was confused to say the least - my mother will be 98 by the time Kinnernet happens if all goes well - anyway as the story goes once upon a time i was visiting my mother sleeping in my old bedroom - and she was sleeping on her favorite couch in the living room, her husband was in the hosptial, and at 1am i get a call from security saying... "do you have an elderly gray haired lady staying with you"... i tried to say something coherent but couldn't find the words in my confused sleep state and he said please look where she might be sleeping and sure enough my mother was gone, gone gone as thoughts raced through my brain - as i frantically looked all over the house - no where was she to be found and i said to the guy on the phone in amazement again... but nothing could come out only thing could come out was, no!, and he said we have her "she is ok" - she was walking the halls looking for somebody and just then the doorbell rang and i opened it and there she was my little childlike mother standing there with a sheepish grin and next to her this giant of a security guy... she was trying to charm him and saying she was ok and knew where she was going... to visit a friend, she said... but i knew she didn't know where she was going... foto portraits of my mother series from a documentary on my mother so her great grand children will know here http://ViZualPoetry.com/mom - the next day i hunted the streets of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn looking for what you see above that i now call WanderProof and that same day i decided to assembly and drill the holes, take the still photos, video and build the web site - that was a few years ago - there is more to this story but that i will leave for the discussion
we will cover strategies for WanderProof and possible adoption by Kinnernet, invention, commercialization, alzheimers care and most important taking care of yourself too
fyi -i invented among other things a textile process for softening denim - stone washing process
all welcomed
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Discussion: Why is most Interactive Art so annoying, and how to fix it.
So many works of interactive art are annoying. I know so because I’m an interactive artist and for many years I’ve been annoying people with my work.
In this discussion/workshop/food-fight I’ll walk you through my attempt to make one – just one – interactive artwork that is not annoying. I’ll share some surprising anecdotes about what happened along the way.
I’d also like to propose that learning to fix annoying interactive art can be useful in more typical usability-design scenarios (kind of like how tight-rope walking might teach us how not to trip on our shoe laces). I’ll bring examples.
Some points for discussion, hopefully leading to a food fight:
- Most interactive art is not annoying, Amit is just a grumpy fool.
- There's nothing wrong with interactive art being annoying. Why even fix it?
.. Or the more artsy version of the above argument: Art is not design. There's no such thing as 'Fixing Art'.
- Can the same principles be applied to fixing all those annoying startups?
Hosted by: Amit Pitaru | twiter:@pitaru | pitaru.amit at gmail | http://pitaru.com
Get ideas from past kinnernet discussions:
The Idiots Guide to Basic Hebrew
What we need is a volunteer as teacher each day for 30 mins
Innovation; management; collaboration; team work and PASSION – through the eyes and words of Buddha: Oscar Wilde Mark Twain Shakespeare and Darwin…amongst others. Open your own thinking process by tapping into the great masters.
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." -Charles Darwin
Participants:
Eyal Ziv
Lior Shalev
Michael Parekh
The Future of Tech-Enabled Healthcare: Time for Creative Innovation!
A tipping point for technology innovation in healthcare:
healthcare is a $2+ TRILLION industry in the US alone
the current healthcare system is broken and needs to be fixed (soon!)
the US government will spend $30+ BILLION on innovative healthcare technologies over the next few years
the worldwide mobile footprint is pervasive enough to support health workers/patients almost anywhere
the global economic crisis has highlighted the need for change and created unprecedented openness to disruptive innovation
Whether it’s snap-ons for the iPhone, API feeds from the doctor's office, or tweets from an insulin gauge, bring your creative ideas about how to create and Songs for the band to learnSongs for the band to learnSongs for the band to learn utilize cutting edge technologies to transform healthcare! Join us for a discussion of the future of healthcare!
Hosts:
Ron Gutman & Brent Tworetzky
Participants:
Michael Parekh
Making Sense of Scents
Why is smell the most important of our senses, yet the least understood. What constitutes good smell and bad smell? Why is body odor good and bad breath bad? Smells and the brain. Smells and sex. Smells and the internet. Live demonstrations.
Hosted by: Jessica and Mel
Pilots an Extinct Species?
Only 105 years ago the Wright brothers performed the first controlled, powered and heavy than the air flight.
Today, 105 years later, almost all missions, military and commercial, can be preformed with no pilots on board, by UAV’s (Unmanned, Aerial Vehicle).
As Arlen Rens, a Lockheed Martin test pilot said:
"Airplanes are now built to carry a pilot and a dog in the cockpit. The pilot's job is to feed the dog, and the dog's job is to bite the pilot if he touches anything."
So back to the Million $ Q - Are Pilots – an Extinct Species?
Hosted by:Gabriel Shachor,
Participants: Steve Murphy - pilot (I'm not dead yet...)
It's the Creative Stupid!
It's not the economy. It's not the users. It's you. It's the creative.
A couple of months ago Randall Rothenberg (IAB CEO) went out with a call for the agencies to become more creative with their use of the Internet, and save the future of Internet advertising.
In this session we will explore some of the most succesful Internet campaigns of the last year. We will trade ideas on what is missing, what needs to be done and basically - how the hell can we make money from this Internet.
Hosted by: Shahar Nechmad, @nechmads.
Participants:
Michael Parekh
Learning to tell your story - the importance of personal stories in business
Why the story of *who* you are and *why* you do what you do matters
Learning to balance between being personal and oversharing
Figuring out the critical "kernal" of personal code that will engage your audience
Integrating your *who* with your *what*
How to tell a story to someone who disagrees or thinks you're wrong
Today's world is a hyper-connected one. And thanks to technology we know almost an excessive amount of information about what people are doing every day. However, this does not equate to knowing who they are or what engages them. In this session we're going to step outside the comfort zone and learn a bit about telling personal stories of self and finding a way to integrate that to your business life.
Host (and storyteller):
Cathy Brooks
Who You Calling User
Offensive UI Flops
Edo Amin
Interaction guru Alan Cooper talks about software that "offends" users. I get it. I'm a UX designer and a product manager, so I have a professional interest in UI that offends me. I collect screenshots of offensive stuff delivered by Intuit (see right), Brother, Microsoft, ConstantContact, etc. Do I want to get even? You betcha. In fact, I could ID the culprit in the development team if you line 'em up.
I used to limit my vendetta to occasionaly writing newspaper columns about bad UX (in a far away country I eventually had to relocate from). I still capture and collect the occasional flops - they're always good for a cheap shot at the expense of some poor and clueless corporation. Hopefully, my commentary and the discussion would redeem the karma. Voluntary attendance is required.
Particpants: Yael Sahar, Jay Meydad, Rick Segal, Steve Garfield
(sign up as participants; you will not be forced to talk.Paticipant signup is sometimes used to gauge public interest)
Participants:
Michael Parekh
Do Good 3.0
The internet has changed the way we communicate, learn, do business, find love and a whole lot more. But what about doing good? There are various philanthropic online services that try to harness the power of the internet, but I don’t know of any that have really moved the needle, turning people into more moral beings. I will host a discussion on whether a blockbuster “do good” site can be built or whether it goes against people’s self centered nature, plus, a brainstorm session intended to spec that blockbuster “do good” site…
A Brainstorming Session to discuss the future of today's prominent New Media Players (Facebook, Google, Apple, etc.).
Participants will team up to a number of "Boards". Each Board will simulate a futuristic Board disucssion of those Players.
Hosts: Tuvia Rosenthal & Eyal Keren
Suggestions, Registration, etc. : tuvia@meezoog.com , ekeren1@gmail.com
Participants:
Michael Parekh
Life and Love Among the Droids:
Everything you wanted to know about robots but were afraid to ask
Guy Hoffman
Having spent most of my waking hours in the last 7 years with social robots, I will host a discussion about our fears and hopes from our mechanical counterparts. Why bodies matter, even for AI; what theater has to do with robotics; and what can go wrong when you decide to put a robot on a theatrical stage. Videos of robots behaving well and less well will be used liberally in the session.
helping people to visualize their ideas and dreams
Introduction to stock photography
A picture is still worth so much more than than a thousand words ..or a video clip :)
Due to cool new cameras and available editing tools and courses many of us became amature photographers and enjoy it much!
now , lets say that out of 100 photos you take there are few that actually have a commercial value ...and lets also say that somewhere on the other side of the world there is an ad agency or an art buyer that is looking for the exact same photo you just took !
join us to the intro to stock photography workshop to learn what are the available options and business models out there , how to properly manage your stock collections , and how nowadays people are making passive income from their own habit while helping other people to visualize their ideas and dreams.
host: Eyal Gura
interested? eyal.gura
participants: Gabriel Shachor . Eyal Gura . You .
Social Sculpture "Meeting of Inquiring Minds"
Discussion/Collaborative Poem
by geo geller
on "the power of one is more then the power of none" jeff pulver, as it relates to how we as individuals, butterfly/bee's flapping our wings can make a difference and change the direction of a storm or even create a storm - given the present state of systemic meltdown we have the ability/opportunity to re-invent ourselves and change the past/future and if we are fearless and open minded enough explore building a society built on trust that serves we the people vs a society built on distrust/fear that serves its masters...
i/you/we will write down one liners taken from the conversation and compile them into a poem that i/you/we will record and read at the end and i will put it online as a random nonlinear poem - but aside from the above "maybe" we can walk away from the experience with some individual/collective action - this is an open discussion no leaders no followers with only one un-spoken un-written rule: you let people finish what they are saying as you would like that same ability too - food for thought - geo geller geo@MyOwnPrivateRevolution.com
"Without a Rose We Can't Do It"
SocialSculptureby geo geller
in tribute to Joseph Beuys 1972 social sculpture who would have loved Kinnernet-USA - i will sit at a table or walk around with or without an empty vase without a Rose - - i will be available to talk to anybody about anything...? i will also invite people to hold the rose vase and talk to anybody about anything as well - i will also record moving/still and audio of it as an art performance and eventually put it online - FYI this is a continuation of a series i have done over the years
"We Can't Do it without the Rose" Joseph Beuys 1972
The photograph (link) by Wilfred Bauer, shows Joseph Beuys, an artist with a social consciousness and also one of the prime movers & founder of the greens party in Germany at the desk of his Information Office at documenta V, Kassel in 1972. The Information Office was run under the auspices of the Organization for Direct Democracy, a platform for the propagation of the artist’s radical ideas, which he had founded the previous year. For 100 days Beuys tirelessly debated his ideas with visitors to the exhibition. On the last day, he fought a Boxing Match for Direct Democracy.
geo@MyOwnPrivateRevolution.com
Good Mistakes - Spirit/Art of Invention& Making Your Life an Art/Invention
combined workshop/discussion by geo geller
my definition of invention is - invention is seeing the obvious that nobody sees
in the early 1990's i was threatening to give a talk/workshop at Princeton Uni-verse-city engineering school and other schools on the spirit of invention and good mistakes so i will do this finally as a combined discussion/workshop, since i have the feeling there are a lot of us who are interested in invention at Kinnernet
the discussion/workshop will be on some of my experiences and insights from an un-book called a Good Mistake - the Spirit/Art of Invention & making your life an art/invention - that i am not writing because it would be a mistake to write it - food for your imagination
the discussion/workshop will be an open conversation exploring invention, the uncertainty principle, thought process behind the mind (my mind & maybe your mind too), invention as a state of mind, the tradeoffs of being passionate and being an inventor, when to let go of an idea, thinking, thinking too big to small, not thinking at all, my experience with patents (see below) and patents vs no-patents vs patience or being a patient (being seduced by your imagination, pygmalion syndrome), commercialization, open sourcing your mind, training your mind muscle, following your dreams, suspending your mind/pre-conceptions, synchronicity of inventions - the worst of all things for an inventor is whenever everything works fine you wonder what you missed syndrome - and after all is said i will unveil a few of my inventions never before seen and if you want to bring your own we will attempt to dissect them and the mind behind them - - and hopefully make some good mistakes and enjoy ourselves wondering about wonder
in 1987 i was finally* issued a USA patent for a textile process for softening denim - a stone washing like process - that my partners Cotton inc and Burlington Industries (the largest textile mill in the world at the time) thought would revolutionize the textile industry - Burlington built the largest and most expensive textile machine in the history of the industry and according to my patent law firm was unique in many ways but most remarkable for them was that burlington industries built the machine and commercialized the process before the patent was officially issued - (by finally - my patent law firm Ladas & Parry (largest patent law firm in world) and i had to wait for the patent officer to retire before the patent office supervisor personally called to say he didn't know why the examiner didn't issue me a patent but he was going to) - geo@GoodMistake.com
Amazon-on-Earth: Presentation and Discussion of Future Mobile Interaction with the Real World Scenarios
For the past few years I have been fascinated with how the mobile phone, the most ubiquitous end user computing platform, can interact with the real world. Some scenarios are obvious: it knows where we are so it can do a number of things (help us get somewhere, tell us what might be interesting near by, help us meet our friends, etc). Others slightly less so: using various sensing technologies (vision, electro-magnetic, etc) it can sense and identify objects nearby, and with that offer another set of scenarios (i.e. get movie trailers from a poster, buy tickets, etc). This discussion will start with an introduction to the field, a presentation of some of my work, and will open a discussion about possible future scanarios and business models.
Geeks at Home
Sharon Barr, Alon Cohen
Geeks are famous for going out with girls, having fun at bars and playing sports. No, wait. Geeks are famous for staying at home. But don't confuse geeky homes with any other home.
Make yourself at home with some cool innovations, including music, video and lights that follow you around the house, a faucet that recognizes your face, a 6 million dollar man gaming room, and more.
Join a discussion about media centers, home technology and more; share your own experiences and DIY know-how.
Building a Digital City
Marc Canter
I moved to Cleveland to work on innovating workforce development. All jobs of the future will require tech skills, we all know that - but the world of workforce development still thinks jobs are manufacturing based, union driven, 40 hours a week, go into the office and sit there - kind of jobs. I also think that multimedia content will continue to spread on-line, and eventually take over text as the predominant way that information is conveyed.
That means we're going to have to 'upgrade' the wikipedia to video, animations, visualizations, simulations, interactive games and everything OTHER than just text. If this sounds like the rap I used to give in the 80's - it is. We just ran into a roadblock called the 'web' in 1995. 15 years later we're ready to pick up our multimedia revolution where we left off.
A Digital City platform will provide 'Citizen Dashboards' to the populace and provide a software infrastructure of shared servers for developers to build on top of. This Digital City will require it's Digital Citizens to have tech skills, which will then lead to digital jobs. We're tying together jobs, multimedia and software infrastructure into a sustainable model for growth and new jobs.
UPDATE: By the time I see you all - I'll have a deal in place to take this dream to Lafayette, LA - thanks to David Isenberg! B'vaka Shah David!
Forgotten HTML5
Justin Day (justin@blip.tv / @potatono)
HTML5 is the hot new tech topic these days, but the video tag is grabbing all the spotlight. There are other great elements and APIs that make HTML5 a really important step forward for the web. In this session we'll review the forgotten parts of the proposed HTML5 spec and brainstorm on new and interesting ways to take advantage of these new features.
Bring a Chrome enabled laptop to participate in a cool demo of Web Sockets!
I totally am there - marc
I'll be there channelling Steve Jobs ;-) - Steve
Whither Art Thou Female Founders?
There's been a lot of discussions recently about the dearth of female founders in digital media and tech. In this session we'll delve into a frank, open (and, dare I say, potentially controversial) talk about the root causes for this. We'll also talk about the benefits and challenges female founders have raising money (at all stages of a company's evolution), conducting business, sales and other deals and working with male co-founders and employees.
We'll discuss the benefits or superficiality of some opportunities to correct the imbalance, from mentors to sharing resources to female-focused angel groups and VCs and some more radical ideas.
Join us if you're prepared for an honest, non-PC-impaired discussion of gender disparity. Come if you are looking to hire more women or to convince others of your opinion. Come if you want to share personal stories or fact-based positions in a lively, active discussion of the founder gender gap in our Internet ecosytem.
Hosted by: Dina Kaplan (@dinakaplan) + open to other hosts
Participants: Anyone who likes to talk or listen (or both)
Disposable Opportunities
After extensive research (i.e. 1/2 hour noodling on a white board) I've traced creation and sharing of images from approx 2000BCE to today, and note with the advent of digital cameras on phones we achieve a point where high quality images are essentially disposable; where the number of participants approaches a singularity; and the law of disproportionate returns starts to slow fundamental innovation. At this point barriers to adoption collapse to zero and usage proliferates and they become widespread ingredients in other communication/social phenomena.
I propose that by looking at other media and ways of expression (perhaps music) this way, we may find a predictive model of what technologies/medias may soon achieve disposable status and how they may become the building blocks for the next generation of social/communication applications. Either that, or it could just be a fun way to discuss tech trending and future projections.
Format could be flexible - but if there are a couple of interested co-hosts, we could attempt to make it fun by structuring discussion based on theatre sports. Audience shouts out ideas and concepts and hosts have to try to whiteboard/talk it through on their feet.
Hosted by: Steve Murphy (yhzmurphy@aol.com) + welcome other hosts
Participants: Anyone who enjoys trendspotting; theatre sports audience members (with or without boo bricks)
Is it disposable or can we extrapolate new kinds of infrastructure that have built in media galleries filled with reusable assets, models, background, soundtracks, sound EFX, animation moves, scripts, UI objects, Open Data and other forms of free stuff? - marc
Excellent Point - by disposable I mean that there is zero perceived intrinsic cost, so use (and re-use) grows exponentially, both in per user consumption/creation as well as proliferation of users. If canvas and paints are expensive, only artists will carefully create; if digital canvas and paints are widespread and free everyone can try as much as they want. The infrastructures you describe can allow intelligent recycling...and there-in lies the next generation of opportunities - steve
"Show me the Money" Discussions and Stories about how to make money in Mobile?
matthew snyder, founder ADObjects-Inc
I do not know about you, but 2009 was a rough year in all sectors... I had my own "Come Jesus" when it comes to making a living with mobile. Everybody is talking about Mobile, Mobile, Mobile as it is the new wave and thing to do, but who is really making a living beyond the Love.... In the movie the Graduate, Dustin Hoffman was told "Plastics"..... well that was the 1960's, and besides all the plastic bottles floating up on the shores everywhere, and the temperature now 3 degree's warmer, I guess we can say he was right and the "Plastic wave" really made money or helped businesses save a lot of money.... Now Mobile ( is another thing they talk about to replace Plastic's)..... Are they Right.....?
This past week, Mastercard announced the release of their Mobile API so that transactions could now happen fluidly via mobile by the end of the year. There goal was to get rid of "Plastic Cards", and it is the first step. I would love to get rid of that Plastic Card from my wallet. The other announcement was from Holiday Inn. They announced the elimination of the "plastic key cards" and let customers Check-in to there room directly with there mobile phones. Hey Foursquare you were right on the money! Checking-in via your mobile phone now means something....
Well all of these services are great, but will using a mobile phone instead of a plastic card mean more transactions and for Mastercard to make more money? How can I take advantage of this? In the case of Holiday Inn will they sell more rooms or get customers to pay more due to the fact it is more convenient. How did they qualify that one and sell it into to the top management. I could imagine all of the elder statesman of Holiday in sitting around the table thinking.....Yes- I get rid of the plastic with mobile and I made more money! Really? When this becomes the status quo amoungst many of the top hotel chains, will it not be so that it really does not do more then just eliminating the management and cost of the plastic? Actually the company that makes those plastic machines will probably go out of business.
The people that seem to be making money in mobile are the ones selling iPhone Applications. However, if you build will they come? Who has really made money with iPhone apps? It is a pretty simple formula, You make an app for $20K, then you sell it online for $0.99 cents..... if you get 26,000 paid downloads you break even..... ( Apple takes 30%). The challenge has been that 26,000 paid downloads just to break even is achievable, but then you break even..... you need to sell an additional 30K a year just to survive with a salary just for you, and then what about the ongoing dev. team....
With more and more content out there, the more and more fragmented it becomes and are users consuming more and more due to mobile that will lead to a business...
Well lets take the advertising business..... 500B strong in North America. Yes it is shifting from Traditional to Online ( and <0.5% mobile).... with the shift and more and more performance criteria we are actually seeing Brands and Agencies getting wiser and spending less. They can see the ROI.... So in the shift, media is loosing money..... Is mobile the "Answer" for these media companies?
We will debate, we will fight, we will burn our plastic cards ( Bring all those old hotel key cards....... for each one you bring we have a special give of mobile.....)
Hosted by: Matthew Snyder (@matsnyder2001 @adobjects) + open to other hosts
Participants: Anyone who likes to talk or listen (or both), Michael Parekh
* Anyone that had made a living with mobile must attend!
3D or not to be
According to all opinions, 2009 seems like the year that 3D has final broke through. The quality is finally there, the right content has been created, and best of all- people are loving it and ready to pay more.
3D has become one of the two hottest subjects that shake the entertainment industry.
Agenda:
3D – Why now? - Past, Present, Future
The next big challenge for 3D
!Glance at a new unpublished technology aiming to solve some of the problem
Glance at the effect of 3D on advertising
Discussion: Will 3D affect the status-quo in the entertainment world and our lives?
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