Category: Conferences

Links From Wednesday 27th July, 2005

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Tom Coates asks where all the UK start ups are. Why are there no Odeos, Flikrs or Six Aparts in blighty? Link: Plasticbag.org More on Sony getting caught paying for airtime – Boing Boing links to a 1.1mb PDF that details off all the little perks these ‘desk jockeys’ recieved to push Beyonce instead of a tiny pub band round the corner that’s packing them in. I would like to ask them their show size and send one Addidas sneaker to them and send the other match when the airplay reaches @ least 10 spins. Link: BoingBoing (PDF Link at

OpenTech 2005 Thoughts After The Event

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So, OpenTech 2005, what did I think? Well, apart from my adventures with the iPod Shuffles (and my explanation is getting a nice tag-load of link love), I had a pretty good time. Not exactly stunning, but then I’ve found that most Tech Conferences in the last year or so to be more useful to me for the networking and staying in touch with people who may or may not be useful to me in the future. A case in point is Alfie and Suw, both of whom are now helping out Orgasmatones and All About Palm respectivly. Other contacts,

Pledge Banks – UK ID Card and UK Digital Rights

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In case you’ve not seen PledgeBank yet, it’s a site where people say they will do something, but only if a certain number of other people will join them in doing it. It’s had some great successes, probably the most notable one so far is reaching a £10,000 legal defence fund for those who refuse the UK National ID Card. So the following caught my eye, and is much more appropriate to my circumstances: “I will actively support those people who, on behalf of all of us, refuse to register for an ID card, and I pledge to pay at

The Apple iPod Shuffle Shuffle from OpenTech 2005

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Okay, not exactly one of my better ideas, but in the end nobody got hurt, and the iPod Shuffle with the PGP Private Key got back to it’s rightful owner. What am I talking about? My Physical Media Hacking experiment at OpenTech 2005. I’m still convinced the theory behind this is pretty sound (especially when you see the number of Apple fans defending the concept of the iPod Shuffleand the idea that listening to random music is the way forward). The experiment was planned to go something like this. Two pairs of volunteers would come forward from the OpenTech audience

Do You Know The Way [Home] From San Jose?

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Well the planned trip home got as far as sitting down in American 757, before we all got off again. Turns out the engines were not going to do the engine thing, so the flight was cancelled and we were ‘asked’ to call American’s Telecenter to get different flights out to New York JFK. I suspect that I was in a better position than most as my destination wasn’t actualy JFK, but London Heathrow, so I could take a flight from any of the American hubs that had a single seat to the UK (which I’m sure means Chicago, JFK,

I Hope You’re Adaptable, Dr Scott

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Friday after PalmSource DevCon. Here’s what the original plan was. Fly down to San Diego, meet up with Jim McMurray (mcunixjr on #joiito), hang around a bit, before some shopping on Saturday and fly home Sunday morning. Well, we changed the plans, and it was such a great day I’m glad we did. Joi Ito was going to be in LA, so Jim suggested meeting up in LA instead, along with Sean Bonne and Chris Hollands. Could I change my flight tickets? Turns out the answer there was no, my American tickets (being the cheapest of the cheap) were non-refundable