Archive for April 27th, 2008

Barcamp is coming to Boston again!

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Well it’s not really ‘coming’ - it was here all along, just dormant. Here’s the down-lo:

BarCamp Boston 3
May 17-18, 2008
http://barcampboston.org/

BarCamp is an unConference, organized on the fly by attendees, for attendees. There is no registration fee, but you don’t just attend a BarCamp — you can participate in discussions, demo your projects, or join into another cooperative event.

Topics may include, but are not limited to: open source software, startups, UI design, entrepreneurship, AJAX, hardware hacking, robotics, mobile computing, bioinformatics, RSS, Social Software, programming languages, and the future of technology.

More information and free registration at:
http://barcampboston.org/

I’m coming. Are you?

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Ray Ozzie on Mesh

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

You might have missed the announcement of Microsoft Mesh. Cycnical me: these grand strategies come and go. I believe this is the second or perhaps third major iteration of Microsoft’s strategy in this area, in each case without an actual scaling implementation of same.At any rate, if you are interested in the whole memo that supposedly started it all, check this post Full Text of Ray Ozzie Mesh Memo from ReadWriteWeb:

"Excerpt: In its early days the web grew through the explosion of information portals as gateways to content, marketplaces for commerce, and communications tools such as email, IM and newsgroups that drove a sense of community on the internet. Over time, the significance of these “3 Cs” – content, commerce, and community – has expanded tremendously, growing in ways through which they‟ve become intermixed and mutually reinforcing."

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