Posted in etech07, innovation, software development on 6 April, 2007 | No Comments »
Chad Dickerson presented his experiences with the Yahoo Hack Day at Etech 2007. This post can be fairly short. Yahoo regularly organizes internal hack days to get developers together to work on quick prototypes or demonstrations. There are just a few rules:
it’s about building stuff, not about powerpoint
the day goes for 24 hours, starts at [...]
Posted in etech07, interaction design on 6 April, 2007 | No Comments »
Raph Koster did a presentation called ‘the core of fun’ at the Etech 2007 (slides available). The main theme of the talk was about structure; ‘things that work’ have a certain structure. Also fun things, music is full of structure and so are games, art, etc. Often structure is limited within a grammar, understanding grammar [...]
Posted in etech07, innovation on 6 April, 2007 | No Comments »
Scott Berkun gave a fun talk on innovation at the Etech 2007. It was in line with his upcoming book (the myths of innovation). Mainly his presentation featured a lot of good quotes about innovation, which were pretty interesting. The most interesting quote was from William McKnight from 3M about his ‘innovation ethos’ (1948):
As [...]
Posted in etech07, interaction design, software development on 6 April, 2007 | No Comments »
The way Jeff Jonas gave his talk at etech07 was similar to the content he was presenting. His theme was ‘enterprise amnesia’. Jonas has a history in Las Vegas, where he worked on fraud detection for casinos. The main problem with these organisations is that the left hand does not know about what the right [...]
Posted in etech07, future, innovation on 6 April, 2007 | No Comments »
During the O’Reilly Radar Briefing at Etech 2007, there was a short but thought provoking discussion about energy. The discussion was with Alec Proudfoot, a co-chair of the Energy Innovation Conference 2007, Paul Kedrosky and Rich Miller. The interesting point that came up when web2.0 came up. Basically, web2.0 is all about centralization of [...]
Posted in etech07, software development on 5 April, 2007 | 2 Comments »
At the Etech 2007, Marc Hedlund and Brad Greenlee gave a technical talk about privacy techniques for web applications. They both work for Wesabe, a online community where people can manage their money. Users can upload their bank account information which is aggregated in the community. From the collected information good tips and recommendations can [...]
Posted in etech07, future, innovation on 5 April, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Although I missed part of this session, it turned out to be very interesting. Forrest Higgs presented his work on a self-replicating 3D printer. His goal seems very bold, but actually feasible: build a 3D prototyping machine for less than $500. It should be able to replicate most of its own parts.
Actually, during the talk [...]
Posted in etech07, future, innovation on 5 April, 2007 | No Comments »
Still having Etech 2007 on my mind. One of the themes this year was clearly the future of manufacturing. One session about this theme took place in the O’Reilly Radar Briefing.
A lot of people start hacking ’stuff’. Dale Dougherty is the editor and publisher of Make and was part of the O’Reilly Radar Briefing. I [...]
Posted in etech07, miscellaneous on 29 March, 2007 | No Comments »
Today just a few pictures from the Make: Fest at O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology conference 2007 (etech2007). The ‘fest’ was not that big, but there were some cool projects. Especially the 3D projects were awesome, all hacked together with fairly little resources and normal parts. Great stuff.
Here are also some pictures from the hotels I’ve been [...]
Posted in etech07, interaction design on 28 March, 2007 | No Comments »
OK, the title of this talk was a bit on the vague side, but it did turn out to be very inspiring. The bottom line was how to keep complex systems usable.
Charles Armstrong took stage for the first part. His point was about making ’sociomimetic’ systems easier to use. Sociomimetic stands for mirroring social behavioural [...]
