On Thursday night David Harper of Wireless Ink will be in town. So, I asked him if he’d be interested in coming to a geek dinner since a lot of Search Champs are in town too. He did and so it’s on. 6 p.m. on Thursday night. At the Crossroads in Bellevue.
David is the brains behind WINKsite. Here’s more about David on Charlie Schick’s blog.
The tickets for the Naked Conversations launch event are now sold out. It took less than two hours to hand them all out.
I have a handful of extras. I think I’ll put them on eBay. Maybe Jeremy Wright can sell them for us? He sold a blog last week for $65,000.
The response to this has just been astounding. Thank you and sorry to those of you who couldn’t get in.
They are in Wired magazine in Pittsburgh.
They are on walls near my office.
They are on cars on campus.
So, what’s the big deal? Tim O’Reilly is gonna beat up Bill Gates. That’s what I hear. Seriously, what is an open source advocate (Tim) doing on stage with Mr. Proprietary (Bill)? Hmmm. Maybe they’ll come up with a definition for Web 2.0? We’ll have to see. Hopefully no Web designers or developers will be hurt in the process.
Not interesting enough? We know. But we put up a ton of new info (yes, this is for Web designers and developers) and see that RSS icon? You know what that means, right? More stuff to come! (Tim O’Reilly on stage with Bill Gates isn’t the big news, but we gotta hold the really big stuff until later, which is why we’re doing the RSS feed).
Anyway, looks like the marketing team is going a little bit nuts in trying to get the word out about Mix06. Alright, who told THEM to work until 4 a.m.?
What a day. It was event after event and I just didn’t get time to blog or answer much email. It’s 1 a.m. here and I gotta get some sleep. But, wanted to post something quick. First, Mike Madison’s class was great. Had fun conversations about how to blog and the legal issues that might arise. Mike covers it on his blog. Here’s a photo of Mike with two of his students (they took me to lunch where we talked about Pittsburgh and lots of corporate legal issues).
But, that’s not what this post is about.
TechCrunch, seconds ago, posted an announcement and wiki for the Naked Conversations Silicon Valley Launch Event on February 17.
The TechCrunch parties are becoming world famous (we talked about them at the blogger dinner tonight) and this one is gonna be even a bigger deal than previous ones. We even have sponsors. Pluck, Pandora, Kaboodle, Zazzle, Rojo, Flock, and Eurekster aren buying food and other fun things for party goers.
Sorry, this is limited to the first 200 people who sign up. Hope to see you there!
Thanks to Michael Coates for wishing me happy birthday. I started out in this crazy world 41 years ago. Hey, I’m not even as old as the mouse!
What am I gonna do to celebrate? Start the day with breakfast with Greg Hughes. Funny that we’re in Pittsburgh at the same time (he’s my brother’s new boss). Hang out with law students — Professor Michael Madison invited me to speak to his class at the University of Pittsburgh.
Later in the evening I’ll be hanging out with Pittsburgh’s bloggers. Should be a fun day!
Why the headline? Cause I try to have a new experience every day. This is my first time in Pittsburgh, for instance.
So far my experiences have been great. Free wifi in the Pittsburgh airport. Free wifi in the Omni Hotel. And, lots of easily findable power outlets. Many hotels hide the outlets behind things, not here. Hey, I’m a geek and easy to please! 😉
Heheh, I never expected Chris to take my advice. I told him that he should take Gnomedex to a higher resolution. I guess his HDTV and Xbox 360 had an effect on me. Or maybe it was the pile of plasma porn at the CES show (by the way, HDTV manufacturers are already reporting hot hot hot TV sales lately, raising their profits and stock price).
Anyway, he just announced Gnomedex: A higher resolution.
So, what does “a higher resolution” mean? Well, it means your family room changes once it gets an HD screen. For the Web we’ll see WPF and Flash fight it out for “rich” experiences. For phones it means higher resolution screens which let you bring new experiences. For iPods it means video. For Windows users it means Windows Vista with its new experiences.
Hey, Chris, you should have the guy who developed Geometry Wars there. That guy is an awesome technologist (it’s one of the first games that takes advantage of all three cores on the Xbox 360).
I see the BlogHer conference dates are announced (July 28 and 29 in San Jose). Unfortunately it’s at the same time that the Imagine Cup finals are in India and I was already signed up to go to that. Major bummer. Out of all the conferences I missed last year BlogHer sounded the most interesting. Mostly cause it’s different. Seeing fat white guys talk all the time just gets really boring. Just told Maryam she should go and check out Blogher.
Speaking of Maryam, she went all gushy on me and wrote: In Defense of Geeks or Ten Reasons Why You Should Date a Geek.
She knows me so well. I do worship Maryam. I really miss her. Hanging out with Doc and Buzz is lots of fun, but they aren’t cuddly like Maryam is. Well, at least not in my opinion. Heheh.
Oh, and Maryam, the real test would be which would I look at first? Angelina Jolie in real life or Angelina Jolie on an 102″ plasma screen? I’d go with the plasma.
Shoot me, I’m a geek. 😉
Oh, and Brian, I have had people come up to me saying “you’re married to that famous blogger, aren’t you?”