Each week, we create a new feature story that appears on the PCC homepage. This week’s story is about several new Community Education courses, including one on dog training. We needed a good photo to match the story … Fortunately, I had just the thing in my personal  archives: Meet Plinko, my friend Fish’s border collie […]

I was a bit too busy listening to take good notes, but here are a few that I wrote down :) Get off my lawn! Connections 1) stuff 2) people He’s doing a “logo dump” starting back in 1995. Showing the old gap between consumers and producers. APIs – Crazy Go Nuts! You don’t have […]

Scott Porad – CTO of the Cheezburger Network It’s not about the cats, it’s about people. 15-20,000 pictures every day submitted. Try to launch a site a week. How did we do it? 1) If you want to get more done, then do less – simple products, stick to one thing at a time – […]

Ward Cunningham – from AboutUs What is a link? “something you click to take you somewhere” “a relation to resources, possibly 0” – Ray Fielding Wiki turns the zero link (red) as an invitation. Blue – 1 Red – 0 Orange – 2+ (ambiguous, Portland OR vs Portland ME vs Portland Cement) Social Jargon: 1) […]

James Reffell Background: eBay, yahoo, usable security systems. Identifiers: alphanumeric strings that relate to individuals. Great story of how search was bringing “facebook login” to a ReadWriteWeb article. Best part is that many of the confused users were already logged in via Facebook connect on RWW. So, they succeeded – but not in a meaningful […]

Dave Selden – doing it yourself Up early to talk about beer! Started with a home brewing blog in 2005 – BS Brewing. How do you process the 2200 beers at the American Beer festival? 33 Beers – Scout book form factor – $1600 down, didn’t really realize the costs. – Not the fist with […]

Agnieszka Gasparska – Kiss Me I’m Polish Does Design matter? Side note: My answer? “Yes”, but that’s why they didn’t ask me to do the keynote :) Aesthetic and purpose can overlap. As can, art and math. And creativity and structure. Starts a project by asking the client for a book of visual references – […]

Christopher Fahey  – the Internet is not made of robots. If you have glasses or use a computer to do simple addition – then YOU are a cyborg! 1) don’t replace humans. 2) don’t try to replicate humans. However, we can build better products by thinking of the as human. We tend to think that […]

Came back a little late from lunch. Looking around, but haven’t spotted my friends from Metrofiets. Looks like they are doing rapid presentations. #1 The first presenter ( from bikehugger) just mentioned my tallbike locked up out front. #2 Brian hates bike thieves. Created stolenbikeregistry.com Future? Chip bikes like we chip pets. #3 Michael – […]

First session and I’m back with Tom who gave the class yesterday. And now to server-side js! About half the room uses php, almost everyone uses js. Advantage #1 – lots of developers already have experience. #2 – same code base on client and server. Lots of run times to choose from. V8, spider monkey, […]