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12 Nov, 2008

Brendan McCollam - Without A Traceroute

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: conferences

Brendan McCollam [http://www.withoutatraceroute.com/] is a 2008-2009 Watson Fellow [www.watsonfellowship.org]. Here are my notes at his Haip 2008, lecture - Without A Traceroute - Traveling the world hanging out with hackers

What is the Watson Fellowship?
 
Basically, you make up some crazy project that you’re really interested in, and they give you $28,000 to do it.
Examples of Watson [...]

30 Oct, 2008

Use Firefox extension to solve your AJAX problems

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech| conferences

This are the slides from my talk at Widgets Web Expo, earlier this month. While the original title was a bit more conservative, the main purpose of the talk was to inform the interested public about the issues regarding AJAX, cross-domain post request and how it affects your application.
What I tried to do here, is [...]

10 Oct, 2008

Online buzz management for startups

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech| conferences

At Social Media Camp 08 I presented how Zemanta internally organizes buzz from bloggers and our work-flow. Basic idea is to use a bookmarking service, to categorize different responses, while at the same time use a collection of different tools like Google Alerts and Twitter Search to follow other mentions.
The whole setup seems obvious looking [...]

Tom Whitwell knows a lot about headlines, since he’s Assistant Editor, online, for The Times. This are notes from his talk at Social Media Camp ‘08.

If you’re using Gmail, you should start thinking about SEO-ing your subjects, so you’ll actually find something in 10-years time.
For first hundred years of newspapers, they were really rubbish at [...]

14 Sep, 2008

NY Web 2.0 Expo, BlogWorld, Picnic

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: conferences

People often tell me that I probably got the best job in the world. Lots of traveling, going to all the cool places and as many conferences as I can get myself into without being too sleep deprived.

Well, they’re mostly right. It’s a great gig, with a few of little problems, mostly anxiety the night [...]