Relive the Heady BBS Days
June 5th, 2006
Check it out at sysoplink.com sysoplink.net
Very cool. What’s crazy is that Steve himself is only 18, so he didn’t get a chance to play with these systems as a kid! He approaches the project with the same wonderment of a cultural anthropologist, marvelling that we ever lived in an online world so different from the net today.
The process of 3D Animation
June 4th, 2006
Kelly Muir just gave us a complete story-board to rendering overview of the animation process at hatchling.com.
Take a look at the teaser trailer for their new short “The Toll“. Very funny
Christien Rioux with his pocket PC port of Quake 3
June 4th, 2006
Christien Rioux doing so much crazily fascinating stuff right now that I can’t even sum it up quickly. The picture here is him holding his Port of Quake 3 to the Pocket PC. He’s also finishing up VeraCode, a binary security analysis tool, in other words, send them your binary code (not your source!), and they’ll tell you what you need to fix.
He’s also the guy who wrote L0phtcrack 2.5, so he’s got some serious hacker cred.
Have I mentioned I love barcamp?
Barcamp Boston Updates
June 3rd, 2006
Chris Penn talks about Guerilla Marketing and Podcasting basics
Photo courtesy of jackhodgsonvia Flickr
I’m at Barcamp Boston right now, chilling out in the Monster.com offices. Being that I’m also editing a podcast at the moment, I’ll refrain from trying to write anything eloquent here and instead point you to Chris Brogan’s site where he explains our joint podcast with Christopher S. Penn (which I’m editing as we speak) and a bit about BarCamp Boston.
What is Barcamp
April 21st, 2006
BarcampBoston is coming up, and one of the members of an email group I’m on wasn’t quite sure what to make of it. The following was my response. I think it sums up barcamp fairly well from a personal perspective, so I’m reposting it here.
Barcamp is, simply put, an
unconference. No vendors, no high level keynote speakers, no preset
agenda.
People get together in a space (which is often loaned by a local
business) and talk about things they want to talk about. You’re very
much encouraged to present if you go. Attendees are also enlisted to
run all the tech, bring wifi nodes and projectors, and do just about
everything (including developing the presentation tracks) themselves.
It ends up working surprisingly well.
Oh yeah, and it’s free.
At BarcampNYC, I heard presentations from people who were actually
excited about what they were doing. I chatted with Andrew Baron of
Rocketboom and got inspired. I gave
a well-attended talk with John Resig on “gaming social networks” and using myspace for
promotions. I met and began working relationships and friendships with Amit Gupta, Chris Messina, and Tara Hunt. I connected with
bloggers, podcasters, coders, and “web 2.0″ business people.
At BarcampAustin, I chatted with Matt
Mullenweg from wordpress and sat next to Doc Searls for hours as we attended
the same talks. I heard about the municipal wifi network Austin is
building and the business and technological opportunities there. I talked endlessly with
folks about the potential of IPTV and why 100mbps to the home might not
be enough. I heard the beginnings of Tara’s Pinko Marketing and how
she’s using and building upon the cluetrain to promote Riya. I learned more and interacted more in
the 1 day at BarcampAustin than I did at the whole of the much bigger
and more expensive SXSW.
People don’t just present, chat, and connect at barcamp. Sometimes they
just sit right down and code. Mashups and new projects have resulted.
It’s an incredible event that’s spreading across the globe like
wildfire. You don’t need a massive convention to convey and consume
good ideas… We don’t need a “convention industry.” We don’t need to
fly all over creation to meet the movers and shakers - we’ve got plenty
in our own backyards. We just need to start getting together.
That’s what barcamp is about.
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