Enter The Data Hugger
At the recent Gluecon event in Colorado, I was fortunate enough to run into my friend Sam Ramji from Apigee and took the opportunity to grab some time with him after he had delivered his excellent panel presentation which was intriguingly entitled “Globalization, Black Swans, and APIs”. It’s always great to bounce ideas and share [...]
Is there a disconnect between Big Data and the Web of Data ?
Image via Wikipedia ‘Big Data‘ is currently capturing the imagination, attracting hype, investment and ambitious startups in almost equal measure. Kim and Eric Norlin’s excellent Defrag and Glue events have gained big-name company, with O’Reilly‘s Strata and GigaOM‘s Structure both set to arrive in the first quarter of 2011. Venture firms like IA Ventures have emerged, specifically [...]
T Shirt Friday #46 – Glue conference
Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt offerings in the expectation that a company with [...]
Glue is Coming – Win Free tickets
In less than two weeks I’ll be winging my way half way around the world (for the third time this year). So why do I put myself through it? Well in part because I get to attend such awesome events as one I’ll be taking part in at the Omni Interlaken in Denver in a [...]
T-Shirt Friday #23 – Defrag
Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt offerings in the expectation that a company with [...]
T-Shirt Friday #16 – Glue
Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt offerings in the expectation that a company with [...]
T-Shirt Friday #7 – Mindtouch
Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt offerings in the expectation that a company with [...]
Some Conferences Are Worth Attending Even in Bad Times
Layoff news day by day, major conferences are getting canned left and right. In lean times, the Conference-in-the-Cloud concept starts looking more and more attractive. Still, there’s no true substitute for real, live, face-to-face discussions and networking. Except it does not really happen at a lot of major conferences: session rooms are often deserted, there’s [...]
Under the Radar: Cloud Computing & Business Applications – Call For Companies
Under the Radar is the Silicon Valley’s most established startup debut platform: a conference series organized by Dealmaker Media, covering business applications, social media, entertainment, mobility..etc. The 11th Under the Radar conference in Mountain View, CA on April 24, 2009 will focus on Cloud Computing and Business Applications – well, that’s a fairly wide definition, [...]
Come to Defrag: Denver, November 3-4.
Next week I’ll be in Denver, attending Defrag, a boutique, intellectual, intense, very participatory conference. I’m attending despite the fact that I’ve cut down on conference attendance, not because of the current economic turmoil, but largely due to burnout. After a while they just all feel the same: empty session rooms, bored exhibitors, people just [...]
Cloudy Thought: Silos, Data Portability, Glue and Integration
Over the last couple of days in various conversations I have been having about the Cloud some of the issues that I have hearing about are around: Integration with the Enterprise Applications Data Portability Silos of SaaS services. I think “Cloud” Service providers need to find robust solutions to address this space, but I think [...]
EventVue Chatter – Sometimes the Simplest Ideas are the Best
By Ben Kepes on December 9, 2009
At the defrag conference in Denver in November, many attendees were intrigued, excited and committed users of a product from Colorado company EventVue. EventVue was founded in 2007 by Josh Fraser & Rob Johnson. And they’re alumni of the inaugural class of TechStars. Originally the EventVue offering focused on attendee list functionality, giving conference attendees [...]
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