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Entries from September 20th, 2008

Web 2.0 Expo NY: Friday keynotes

September 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Conferences

The wi-fi was down at the Javits Center during the Web 2.0 Expo NY keynotes on Friday. And the cell service was spotty. I did my best to capture some golden nuggets. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to go at my normal speed so I didn’t get as much down as I’d have liked. Hopefully video [...]


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Web 2.0 Expo NY: “10 Tips for Creative Environments” with Adaptive Path’s Bryan Mason and Sarah Nelson

September 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Conferences

The last session I attended on Thursday at Web 2.0 Expo NY was a talk by two members of Adaptive Path. Sarah Nelson is a design strategist and Bryan Mason is the former COO and currently a board member.
My Twitter notes from the session:

The Neo-Futurists: 30 plays in 60 minutes. 2-12 new plays every [...]


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Web 2.0 Expo NY: Chris Fahey’s “The Seduction of the Interface”

September 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Conferences

I was particularly excited to see my friend Chris Fahey from Behavior Design speak at Web 2.0 Expo NY this week. When I saw him speak for the first time at the IA Summit in Miami, I was really impressed with his delivery. This was his first time giving this talk, but you wouldn’t have [...]


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Web 2.0 Expo NY: Genevieve Bell’s “Designing for the Internet(s) of the Future”

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I had to miss the Thursday morning sessions at Web 2.0 Expo NY in order to get some work done. The first session I attended in the afternoon was by Genevieve Bell of Intel. As a former anthropologist and academic, the talk was much more research-focused than others, which was actually really refreshing — real [...]


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Web 2.0 Expo NY: Wednesday Keynotes

September 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Conferences

Wednesday afternoon at Web 2.0 Expo NY was a series of short keynotes. Most of them were very inspiring, in particular Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures and Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibrary TV.
Here are my Twitter notes from the keynotes:
“New York’s Web Industry From 1995 to 2008: From Nascent to Ascendent” by @fredwilson

@fredwilson’s slides designed [...]


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