People
technologists on Charlie Rose
Michael Arrington from Techcrunch
Rose: “Did you seek/get venture funding?”
Arrington: “You know, I’m not going to answer that question…I don’t want to answer that question”
Sam Altman from Loopt
“Loop transforms your mobile phone into a social compass to discover and navigate the world around you. Use loopt to see who’s around, what to do, and where to [...]
triumpth of the nerds: the rise of accidental empires
http://www.cosmolearning.com/computer-science/documentaries/triumph-of-the-nerds-a-history-of-the-computer/
TechFellow Awards
Events: 6/3/09 Rockin’ the Cloud with Reside
**Update: here’s the slideshow courtesy of Eric Scheel, Sr.Application Architect at Reside
Initial Impressions:
The Wayzata Ballroom is absolutely beautiful & they’ve done it right: plenty of good food & drink
This is a great promotional tool for Reside, I think any agency should do what they can to throw an informational/educational event. Bring people together around your [...]
smart people: Henry Jenkins & danah boyd
http://web.mit.edu/cms/People/henry3/
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/
Coming Soon to MN: 40 Ventures
h/t to the Minnov8.com for the audio (Minnov8 Gang Podcast #37)
Project Title: 40 Ventures- a “seed fund & venture development enterprise”
Organizers: Marti Nyman & John Montague
Strategy: 5 companies per year are taken in on full time basis to an environment known as “the facility”. Mentorships ensue with multi-party hands on development aimed at prepping the [...]
Review/notes-CATFOA 5/11
Thanks to Tim Brunelle for making this series of speakers and events possible. From what I understand, if I heard anything over current (5 tab) internet adventure, this will be the last one for this year.
Tissues
Anyways, we’ve got Michael Lebowitz (@bigspaceship) from Brooklyn NY here talking about advertising (yawn) in a post advertising world.
Ok, so [...]
Review: Adfed Mentorship Circle 5/6/09
Thank you to the AdFed for organizing this quarter’s “mentorship circle” at Spill the Wine in Minneapolis last night – much appreciated! The turnout was strong (40 ppl?), lots of fresh (and young) faces, a good sign that there’s new life out there.
So the whole time I was going to see/meet Jason Sack from Zeus [...]
CATFOA 4/27/2009 – David Armano
A whole bunch of Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn)
Reid Hoffman is the founder and CEO of LinkedIn, the online social network for “business people.” He’s caught may attention lately: First it was his Wapo op-ed centered around his 2c on ending the recession. Then came his interview with Charlie Rose (posted below). Finally, and my personal favorite of late, [...]
