Entries filed under 'Events'

Our Facebook application - friend finder for hotels

Filed under Applications, Events on 1.04.08

At the day job we’ve just launched a little side-project. Stay Together is a Facebook application that mashes up the existing Events data with Google Maps and our own worldwide hotels database, to let you find and book accommodation near where your event is taking place.

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Meet me at SXSW

Filed under Events on 18.02.08

I’m only posting this because I have nothing interesting to say at the moment. I’ll be at the Refresh get-together, various EllisLab events, the bowling, the Great British Booze-Up, and SXNW. And I might even make it to a few sessions and panels as well.

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XFN, relationship minefield

Filed under Internet, Events on 29.08.07

Although I’ve been aware of the XHTML Friends Network microformat, XFN, for some time—and was only recently reading about its genesis in John Allsop’s Microformats book—I’ve not previously had the need to use them. This site lost its blogroll somewhere around the second design iteration, and client work doesn’t offer very many opportunities to tag your nearest and dearest, so my first real hands-on experience came courtesy of this year’s dConstruct backnetwork, “the online space for d.construct 07 delegates”.

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BarCamp comes to Cambridge

Filed under Events on 22.08.07

Come Friday, I’ll be heading down to the inaugural Cambridge BarCamp, where we’ll “talk, demonstrate and discuss topics at the interface between science and technology”; well, I won’t, as I know next to nothing about science, but I’ll be talking about Refresh in the city, partaking of the free lunch, and generally mingling with other local geeks.

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Hackday goes off with a bang!

Filed under Events on 16.06.07

Sounds far too exciting – hope there were no [electrical] casualties…

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@media America

Filed under Events on 29.05.07

I can has podcasts? Um, apparently not. Who the hell made that decision?

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SXSW, Day 0

Filed under Events on 9.03.07

Our motel—straight out of My Name Is Earl, complete with tiny pool right next to the interstate—has a 24-hour diner right next door, so we’re sorted for breakfast at least.

Waitress: So, are you guys in for South By Southwest?
Me: That’s right.
Waitress: You’re in pretty early, it doesn’t start till Wednesday.
Me: No, that’s the music festival.
Waitress: Ah, you’re here for the film one?
Me: No…
Waitress: Oh, right—you’re GeekPeople.

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What I'll (Probably) Be Doing At SXSW

Filed under Events on 2.03.07

Amongst all the party planning I almost forgot that there are actual opportunities for learnin’ at SXSW (less than a week away now!)—so, after perusing the daytime programming here are the likely places I’ll be over the 4/5 days of the conference:

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