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ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 6 March 2010
March 6th, 2010
ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 6 March 2010
This week we added one of the most exciting events of the year to the calendar: the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit 2010. Sure, we’re a little biased, but we think the conference is the place this year to learn about mobile development trends. We hope to see you in Mountain View on May 7.
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11 March 2010: Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles VC and Angel Event
At FundingPost’s next event, a panel of investors who will focus on early-stage venture investing. We will be discussing trends in early-stage investing, sectors that these Angels and VCs look at, things that are most important to them when they are considering an investment and the best and worst things an entrepreneur can do to get their attention. Entrepreneur summaries will be given to the investor speakers and attendees – all of the investors will get your company description and contact info!
Additionally, there will be an optional pitching workshop lunch where we will completely deconstruct your elevator pitch, and work with you on formulating a clean and concise elevator pitch giving the important information that investors need to hear to make an educated decision on your company! Then you get to give your new elevator pitch in person to the panel of investors during the event! Click here for more information.
11 March 2010
During this weekly 60-minute online session, entrepreneurs are invited to pitch Sramana Mitra – entrepreneur, strategy consultant, Forbes columnist and author of Entrepreneur Journeys – their business ideas in a three-minute presentation. She will review the material in real time and provide feedback on each pitch, as well as address specific positioning questions from the entrepreneur. Afterwards, she will take questions about positioning from other participants. The session is open to 1,000 people to attend, but only the first five who sign up to pitch Sramana will have the opportunity to discuss their businesses.
12 – 16 March 2010: Austin, Texas
An incubator of cutting-edge technologies, the SXSW Interactive Festival offers five days of captivating keynote presentations, panel sessions, book readings, Salons and Core Conversations that provide hands-on training as well as big-picture analysis. In addition to the business opportunities at the Trade Show and Exhibition and the hands-on gaming fun at the ScreenBurn Arcade, SXSW Interactive provides an array of exciting evening events including the SXSW Web Awards Ceremony. More to the point, coming to SXSW Interactive is a great way to recharge your creativity.
The variety of programming offered at SXSW Interactive means that the event focuses as much on creativity as it does on technology. This focus is augmented by SXSW Film, which runs concurrently with SXSW Interactive and SXSW Music. Moreover, a full slate of parties and receptions during the evening hours help to accelerate the social aspect of the event.
For more information, visit sxsw.com, or for a handy survival guide click here.
15 – 16 March 2010: London, England
2nd Annual Social Networking World Forum — London
The 2nd Annual Social Networking World Forum takes place at the Olympia Conference Centre in London. The two-day event features four dedicated conference streams:
- Social Networking World Forum
- Enterprise social media
- Social TV World Forum
- Mobile Social Networking Forum
The event features key speakers from global brands, organizations, social networking publishers and developers, pioneering social media leaders, top agencies, content producers, and more.
- Full workshop program within exhibition area
- Evening networking reception
- Pre-show online meeting planner for delegates
- Free pass for exhibition only
22 – 26 March 2010: New York City
Search Engine Strategies New York Conference & Expo
Go beyond search at Search Engine Strategies New York. Learn the newest trends, strategic action plans, and technology that industry leaders are employing today. Our experts will trace the natural evolution of search exploring topics such as: digital asset optimization, mobile application development, transition from search to discovery and more.Book your pass today. Enter RWW15 to save 15% off the registration. Sessions include:
- Digital Asset Optimization
- Deep Dive Into Analytics
- Augmented Reality: It’s a Brave New World
- Bringing SEO In-House: The Pros and Cons
- Advanced B2B Search Marketing
- Duplicate Content & Multiple Site Issues
23 March 2010: San Francisco, California
After a long winter’s hiatus, S.F. Beta is back, for its forth year straight! Join hundreds of founders, investors, developers, and technologists for a lively evening of demos, drinks, conversation, and new connections. Early bird tickets are available, and they’re going fast. Register now for discounted admission. As always, we feature startup demos all night. This time around, the theme is Search & Discovery. If you’re building the next Google (or the next Google acquisition), we want you here! Email cperry@sfbeta.com for more info.
26 March 2010: San Francisco, California
The first Freemium Summit is a one day event focused on exploring what it takes to succeed under the freemium business model. Across all segments of the media landscape, entrepreneurs and executives are pioneering models that combine a free offering with a premium, paid offering. This hybrid business model is one of the most exciting areas of business model innovation impacting the world of media and the Freemium Summit will explore the most important topics on the minds of leading practitioners.
Confirmed Speakers: Toni Schneider, Automattic (WordPress); Matt Brezina, Xobni; Aaron Levie, Box.net; Phil Libin, Evernote; Tom Conrad, Pandora; Drew Houston, Dropbox; Ranjith Kumaran, YouSendIt; Ben Chestnut, Mailchimp; Lance Walley, Chargify; Isaac Hall, Recurly; and Lincoln Murphy, Sixteen Ventures.
March 29, 2010: Portland, Oregon
The social media conference for marketers, Social Fresh is not about concept, but focused purely on case studies from the front lines. Learn what social media can really do for business bottom lines. Over the course of the day, you’ll hear from 35 speakers from companies like Intel, Ford, Comcast, Nike and many more, as well as keynote Peter Shankman. Register now and use coupon code RWW15 for 15% off.
7 – 9 April 2010: Sydney, Australia
ConnectNow brings together international specialists and thought leaders in social media, emerging technologies and their intersection with business. Learn how the realtime web, location based services, augmented reality, ubiquitous computing and personalised services are changing marketing and communications. Understand the importance of trust in relationship marketing and what is “social currency”. For more info email info@connectnow.net.au.
13 – 15 April 2010: Dallas, Texas
PubCon, the premier search and social media conference, features the industry’s biggest names and key players shaping the future of the Web. PubCon South will include cutting-edge panel sessions exploring tracks dedicated to search, social media and affiliate marketing, an intensive professional search and social media training program, and some of the world’s top keynote speakers. PubCon South at Dallas will also hold a one-day, two-track slate of intensive educational training programs led by some of the industry’s most respected search professionals. The event takes place at the Richardson Conference and Civic Center. Register here.
16 April 2010: Mountain View, California
Under the Radar: Cloud is must-attend event for dealmakers and heads of IT from large enterprises, SMBs, service providers, carriers and media companies who are responsible for helping their companies leverage new technology and innovation in the fast-evolving IT ecosystem. Join us for the 15th Under the Radar conference, featuring a hand-picked selection of the world’s most innovative cloud startups among 350 top tech, media, telcom and finance executives. For ticket and more information, visit http://undertheradarblog.com.
16 – 17 April 2010: Royal Oak, Michigan
FutureMidwest is the region’s largest technology and knowledge conference. Founded by Adrian Pittman, Jordan Wolfe and Zach Lipson, FutureMidwest is the fusion of two successful conferences held in Michigan in 2009 – the Module Midwest Digital Conference and TechNow.
Both conferences highlighted how technology and digital tools have dramatically changed the way we do business and the effect this transition has had on companies. FutureMidwest kicks things up a notch with presentations, group breakout sessions, relationship-building opportunities and influencers who are taking action to redefine business in the digital age. Register here.
April 19, 2010: St. Louis Missouri
The social media conference for marketers, Social Fresh is not about concept, but focused purely on case studies from the front lines. Learn what social media can really do for business bottom lines. Over the course of the day you’ll hear from 35 speakers from companies like Ford, Best Buy, Scottrade, Hardees, CMT and many more. Register now and use coupon code RWW15 for 15% off.
19 – 21 April 2010: San Francisco, California
DrupalCon is the premier conference focused on Drupal, the award-winning open source content management framework that is galvanizing social publishing and web development today. For a registration fee of $195, attendees get three full days of sessions led by the best and brightest Drupal experts.
Drupal has been downloaded over 2 million times since its inception, and project growth has doubled annually for several years. Drupal is used to deliver a wide variety of application types including blogs, wikis, community networks, digital media portals, and web content publishing and management.
26 April 2010: San Francisco, California
Future of Money and Technology Summit
The Future of Money & Technology Summit will bring together the best and brightest thinkers around money, including visionaries, entrepreneurial business people, developers, press, investors, authors, solution/service providers, and organizations who work where cash and commerce collide. We meet to discuss the evolving ecosystem around money in a proactive, conducive to dealmaking environment. Featured speakers include Jolie O’Dell from ReadWriteWeb, as well as representatives from Wells Fargo Bank, Kiva, SharesPost, Jambool, Founders Fund, Outright.com, SoftTech VC, and many more.
Use discount code “rww” to get 10% off registration.
7 May 2010: Mountain View, California
ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit 2010
The ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit 2010 will be an exploration of the latest Mobile development trends – both the technology and the emerging business applications. Get ready to explore, think and create the future of Mobile with the brightest in the industry, your peers! As in our last Summit, The Real-Time Web, the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit is an unconference.
An unconference is a participant driven conference where the agenda is created on the day, in real-time and discussions are lead by conference participants. Read about the history of unconferences.
We will have two main tracks at this Summit – Development and Business – so the Summit will be of interest to managers, marketers, developers, innovators, entrepreneurs and thought leaders alike. Here’s a sample of some of the topics we’ll explore in both of these tracks.
- Geo-location services – what can you do using location as a platform?
- Commerce & Marketing – as more and more consumers use smartphones, how can businesses utilize this channel?
- Content, Publishing & Recommendations – the technologies and best practices.
- Mobile Social Networking – how to tap into communities on mobile devices.
- Internet of Things – the emerging opportunities from sensor and RFID data.
- Augmented Reality – the technology and business applications of AR.
- Native App vs. Browser Based – Including iPhone, Android, RIM, Palm, Windows Mobile and Symbian.
Click here to register now, or to become a sponsor, or to help shape the conference.
11 May 2010: San Francisco, California
FinovateSpring 2010 will again showcase the most cutting-edge financial and banking technology innovations to Silicon Valley and the world. With Finovate’s signature mix of short, fast-paced onstage demos (no slides are allowed) from handpicked companies and intimate networking time with their executives, this conference packs a ton of unique value into a single day.
Come see the cutting edge of banking and financial technology and network with hundreds of the leading financial executives, venture capitalists, press, industry analysts, bloggers and fintech entrepreneurs. Early bird registration rates are available.
May 17 2010: San Francisco, California
The SF MusicTech Summit will bring together 700-plus visionaries in the music/technology space – the best and brightest entrepreneurs, developers, investors, service providers, journalists, musicians and organizations who work with them at the convergence of culture and commerce. We meet to discuss the evolving music, business and technology ecosystem in a proactive, conducive-to-dealmaking environment. Enter the discount code “rww” to get 10% off.
15 – 16 June 2010: New York City
The Corporate Social Media Summit is a two day conference focused exclusively on how big businesses can take advantage of social media to enhance their marketing/comms strategy. Featuring:
- Practical and relevant insights from peers who have already used social media successfully
- 20-plus corporate speakers (including PepsiCo, Whole Foods, Dell, McDonald’s, General Motors, Citi, Johnson & Johnson),
- Best practice, benchmarks and practical next steps you can use to take advantage of social media in your business
- A tightly-focused agenda with 14 in-depth, practical workshops giving you knowledge on only the most critical business issues surrounding corporate use of social media
Save $400 if you quote RWW400 when booking. Book here.
29 – 30 June 2010: London
The 2nd annual Cloud Computing World Forum is the perfect event to learn and discuss the development, integration, adoption and future of cloud computing and SaaS. Building on the success of the 2009 show, this two day conference and free-to-attend exhibition will provide a focused platform for the global cloud and SaaS industry. Show highlights include:
- Co-located with CloudCamp London
- Co-located with Green IT conference
- Free-to-attend exhibition with seminar and scenario theatre
- Free-to-attend evening awards presentation
- Hear from leading case studies on how they have integrated cloud computing and SaaS into their working practices
- Learn from the key players offering cloud and SaaS services
- Evening networking party for all attendees
5 October 2010: New York City
FinovateFall will return to Manhattan on Tuesday, October 5 to showcase dozens of the biggest and most innovative new ideas in financial and banking technology from established leaders and hot young companies. The Fall event is the original and largest Finovate and features a single day packed with our special blend of short, fast-paced onstage demos (no slides are allowed) and intimate networking time with top executives from the innovative demoing companies.
FinovateFall is a unique chance to see the future of finance and banking before your competition and find the edge you need in today’s market. Early bird registration rates are available.
Download this entire events calendar in iCal format.
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Facebook Brags: 35% Adjusted their Privacy Settings
February 1st, 2010
Facebook Brags: 35% Adjusted their Privacy Settings
After Facebook’s recent privacy settings “adjustment,” the social network is now reporting that 35% users who had never before engaged with their privacy settings took the initiative to do so instead of accepting the updated suggestions put before them by the social network. To Facebook, this number is a very, very good thing. Although nowhere near a majority of users, this engagement rate is much higher than industry averages. Plus, as Facebook’s Director of Public Policy Tim Sparapani points out, “35% of 350 million users is an extraordinary number.”
But should Facebook really be proud here? What about the other 65% of users who blindly accepted the defaults?
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According to an article in Baynewser, Sparapani said that a typical engagement rate for users interacting with their settings is 5-10%. This information came out during a recent roundtable discussion organized by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The panel’s focus was technology and privacy. However, Facebook wouldn’t reveal what the number was prior to December’s appearance of the “privacy changes” dialog box splashed across the tops of Facebook homepages. This dialog box, something Facebook called its “transition tool,” was where the company explained the changes and asked its users to either accept the new recommended settings or make their own adjustments. It was the tool that thrust the once-private posts from millions of users into the light, making status updates public along with friend lists and Facebook page subscriptions. It was the tool that made Facebook function a lot more like rival Twitter, a social network for public sharing.
Flipping around the PR spin on this event, what we’re learning through Sparapani’s reveal is that the vast majority of Facebook users accepted the new defaults and then moved on with their life. However large Facebook’s network may be, however many millions 35% represents, however bigger a figure that is than the industry average, most would agree that it’s not a number worth bragging about…especially when most users have been duped into over-sharing content that they think is private.
Is 35% Worth Bragging About?
This raises the question, is Facebook truly proud of this change? Surely Facebook doesn’t think that the other 65% actually wanted their status updates public by default? There are plenty of indications that’s not the case. Outside of the numerous finger-wagging reports by tech industry pundits, analysts, and commentators, these changes have come to the attention of the general public in ways that few other esoteric reports regarding social networking settings ever have before. For example, internet users have been emailing around (warning, shameless plug ahead) this article detailing Facebook privacy settings so much that it landed on NYT’s most emailed list for days on end as the number one story. (It’s still there now, just further down).
If users weren’t generally outraged over these changes, there probably wouldn’t be a petition to sign nor would the FTC be receiving complaints about the matter.
Interestingly enough, it’s worth noting that users aren’t angry enough to actually abandon the social network – at least not in any significant numbers. They’re just mad. That speaks greatly to how deeply entrenched Facebook has now become as a part of our everyday communication infrastructure. The company can essentially bait-and-switch its millions of users, promising a private place for online socialization, then turn around and open up its network to the web at large, and they get away with it. Afterwards, the company gets to pat itself on the back that 35% of its users were smart enough to not fall for its tricks. Facebook, in our opinion, this isn’t something you should brag about. It’s not a move worthy of praise.
Biden’s "IP roundtable" brings together Big Content, FBI
December 15th, 2009
Biden’s "IP roundtable" brings together Big Content, FBI
Vice President Joe Biden has been one of the Obama’s administration’s point people on intellectual property. Biden attended an MPAA get-together in DC back in April 2009, where he told the assembled luminaries that they were going to love Obama’s choice for the new “copyright czar” position (officially known as IPEC). That choice was later revealed as Victoria Espinel, who actually attracted positive commentary from groups on all sides of the IP issue.
This week, Biden was at it again, hosting a roundtable on enforcing copyright infringement cases. Who was invited? Top names from the government, including Attorney General Eric Holder, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Biden, and Espinel, along with the heads of NBC, Sony Pictures, Warner Music Group, and HarperCollins.
Oh, did I mention that the guest list also included the heads of the MPAA and RIAA, top execs from News Corp., Universal Music, Walt Disney, and Viacom?
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Tags: Copyright Infringement Cases, Czar, Eric Holder, Execs, Fbi, Janet Napolitano, Joe Biden, Luminaries, Mpaa, News Corp, Obama, President Joe, Quot, Riaa, Roundtable, Sony Pictures, Universal Music, Viacom, Walt Disney, Warner Music Group |
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Le Web 2009 Roundtable: What Makes A Platform, Exactly?
December 9th, 2009
Le Web 2009 Roundtable: What Makes A Platform, Exactly?
This is an overview of what was said during the panel conversation at Le Web on Platforms, which was moderated by our own Mike Arrington. (right)
Lots of panelists for this particular discussion – the conference organizers managed to get all of these people on one stage: Ethan Beard (Director, Facebook Developer Network), Cristian Cussen (Director of Business Development at Ning), Brandon Duncan (Director of Platform Engineering at LinkedIn), John Ham (Co-founder & CEO of Ustream), David Jacobs, (VP , Six Apart), Mike Jones (COO, MySpace) and Ryan Sarver (Director of Platform, Twitter).
Michael Arrington: As we’ve learned today, Facebook Connect has really exploded. MySpaceID has had less impressive growth. Any comment on that?
Mike Jones (MySpace): MySpaceID is generally available, we’ve seen it been used on thousands of publisher networks, it’s growing. We think of it as a healthy platform, but we’re obviously going to be pushing more weight behind it – it’s still definitely a vital part of our strategy.
So how many people are actually signing in to websites using MySpaceID?
MJ: I don’t have exact numbers, but we’re talking millions.
You don’t feel like the online identity race is pretty much over, and Facebook and Twitter won?
MJ: I think it’s healthy to have multiple digital identity providers, as long as it makes things easier for both publishers and users.
What about LinkedIn are you guys playing along?
Brandon Duncan (LinkedIn): We recognize the value of the systems, and consider us active in this field. We’re evidently more in the professional sphere than the personal one, and there’s loads of interesting things we can do.
It’s not just about signing in, of course, but also taking your social graph with you wherever you go on the Web. Thoughts?
John Ham (Ustream): the interactive piece of the platform pie, the social aspect of it, is evidently great for live events and thus live broadcasting. We’re showing that off here at Le Web with the livestreaming of the event online and via the iPhone app.
Christian Cussen (Ning): At Ning, we look at it this way: Facebook is great for people who already know each other, Twitter is great for realtime, MySpace for entertainment … at Ning we’d like to allow people who don’t know each other, connect. We’re trending away from the whole friending thing, letting people communicate without actually being connected on the network. We’ll accomodate both of course, we want to both amplify using existing platforms and at the same time make it as lazy as possible for our members to use Ning.
Okay, but Yahoo made great promises about its Inbox 2.0 too and now we see them teaming up with Facebook for the social aspect after all. Do you really think a combination is viable?
CC: Definitely. At Ning, you can have multiple profiles and run more than one network with a single sign-on – adding Facebook Connect as a layer is not going to be a conflict.
BD: Agreed, just take a look at our integration of Twitter and LinkedIn.
There have been rumors about Facebook Connect soon getting deployed all over MySpace. Any comment on that?
MJ: We’re not making any announcements today. Let’s just say we look at all platforms and all possible implementations based on their merit.
Let’s talk about the way developers should be treated by the entity running the platform. Apple hasn’t been treating developers the way they should have, but users don’t seem to be minding all that much. Even though there are capable open platforms out there. Thoughts?
Ryan Sarver (Twitter): we feel we have no choice but to treat developers within our ecosystem extremely well, we need that alignment.
David Jacobs (Six Apart): It’s important to have an open platform, and the iPhone is a unique case for a multitude of reasons. But anyone else would be playing with fire doing it the way Apple does today.
Ethan Beard (Facebook): We have more than 350 million members now, so that’s our key asset, it’s what can make our platform unique. What’s important to us is that user experience has to come first. I actually feel for the guys at Apple for having to manage their platform the way they are supposed to. But then again, our developers demand changes too, and we listen to them.
Is Facebook treating its developers too well, though? Are you being too nice (e.g. Scamville kerfuffle etc.)?
EB: We obviously try to balance things, but we realize full well that we’re unable to solve all problems upfront. We try to be a healthy ecosystem first and foremost, and we address problems quickly in my opinion. The balance between treating developers right and maintaining a high standard in user experience is really the key here.
MJ: Same at MySpace. You want to commit to everything you release to third-party developers, push out things incrementally.
JH: Being a developer on many platforms, I’d say most are treating us right. It’s important for us, evidently, we want them to pay attention to our needs.
Has Apple treated you well?
JH: We just announced the live broadcasting app. Continuing our efforts for the iPhone platform has paid off for us.
And why did you stick with them? Despite the policy, and just because it’s too important to ignore?
JH: It’s very much a strategic platform for us.
BD: You don’t want to prescribe too many things to developers. We want to leverage the developer community so we can have stuff built that we couldn’t or wouldn’t build ourselves. Finding that balance is crucial.
CC: We put the user experience first for Ning Apps. Our most valued users are our network creators, so we wonder how to enable people with limited means make money off our platform, easily and quickly.
Whatever happened to OpenSocial? We don’t hear about it often.
CC: All Ning Apps are based on OpenSocial, so it’s a very crucial element for our strategy.
DJ: we look and consider every platform, because you just never know when and on which one the next killer app is going to surface.
Is OpenSocial still: “build once, deplay anywhere”?
BD: We’re continuing to support opensocial, and we take it seriously.
MJ: OpenSocial is a big part of MySpace too, and it works great. We keep on trying to improve the standards around it. I don’t see any controversy here.
Twitter is still young, and I admit when I first wrote about it I didn’t see the potential. But you’ve also never had the ability to grow along with your users, as it has surged so quickly. Do you feel you’re finally getting ahead of the curve now?
RS: We’ve had to grow up a lot this year, and the partnerships with Google and Microsoft are helping us a great deal. If you look at the numbers, you’ll notice we’ve grown to become much more stable now compared to the early days.
Do you think you have what it takes to scale to a billion users, one of the self-declared targets for Twitter? Will you be able to maintain control over the basic plumbing and keep things centralized?
RS: We think about the future, but a lot needs to be determined still. We don’t have any solid answers to your question at this point.
We need more controversy in this panel. You’re all getting along too much for my taste. But maybe that’s also a sign of the times. What is a platform anymore, anyway?
MJ: well in my opinion what Apple has is not a platform, it’s just a store, like Walmart. MySpace is more of a platform in my opinion: we help developers enhance their applications, not just run and distribute them.
EB: I consider Walmart to be a platform, actually. After all, the store sells stuff that other companies make. We shifted from the App Platform, which was more tech-oriented at first, to Facebook Connect. Now that it’s as broad as it is, we evolved into thinking of FB Connect as a data access layer much more than a platform. After all, you can use it on the Web, for desktop clients, mobile apps, etc.
MJ: What we’re seeing right now is definitely a new type of animal. Twitter is a platform, but it’s also more than that. It’s a different beast, it’s new, and frankly I don’t know how to call it anymore.
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Yahoo lets users tweak targeted ads ahead of FTC roundtable
December 7th, 2009
Yahoo lets users tweak targeted ads ahead of FTC roundtable
For users, targeted advertising has always walked a thin line between being useful and creepy. This is due in no small part to the fact that advertisers need to see people’s surfing habits before they can, well, target them. Yahoo has decided to head off some of that privacy-related criticism by launching a new tool that allows users to see how they’re being targeted and lets them control control various elements of the process.
Called “Ad Interest Manager,” users are able to see which categories they have been earmarked for based on their searching and browsing history. From here, they can turn certain categories on or off manually, and even opt out of the targeted advertising service altogether (though it might be more preferable if it was opt-in).
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The Engadget Show tapes today with HTC’s Drew Bamford and Chris Grant of Joystiq (and giveaways!)
November 22nd, 2009
The Engadget Show tapes today with HTC’s Drew Bamford and Chris Grant of Joystiq (and giveaways!)
The Engadget Show is happening again, humans! Today, November 22nd, we’ll be bringing that live magic back to the stage as we sit down with Drew Bamford (you can read a bit about him here), director of HTC’s Innovation Center (the place where things like the Sense UI are born).
We’ll also be joined by Joystiq’s Editor-in-chief Chris Grant for a special roundtable discussion focused on gaming, and we’ll be demoing a bunch of new holiday titles as well as Spawn Labs’ gaming placeshifter!
As a bonus, we’ve got giveaways for everyone in the audience, plus one of the lucky attendees will walk away with that Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 bundle we just got our hands on — and HTC will be giving away a Droid Eris as well!
The show takes place at the Tishman Auditorium at Parsons The New School for Design. As you may already know, we film live in front of an audience once a month — but if you can’t make it, don’t worry. We’re bringing the video back home to Engadget (and as a free download here, in the iTunes Store, or the Zune Marketplace) for your viewing pleasure.
The beautiful venue (which you can see in a photo after the break) is located at 66 W. 12th Street between 5th and 6th Aves. Seating is limited and tickets will be handed out on a first-come, first-served basis — which means if you want to join us in the audience for the show, you’ll have to arrive early and be prepared for a little wait.
Here are the facts you need to know about the show:
- The show is graciously sponsored by Nokia, and hosted by Parsons The New School for Design
- The total show length will be around an hour
- The amazing Glomag will be performing live along with visualist Dan Winckler!
Here is what you need to know if you want to be part of the audience:
- There is no admission fee — tickets are completely free
- The event is all ages
- The venue seats just over 450 people
- Parsons students are welcomed, and we encourage them to come!
- Tickets will be available for pickup at the Tishman Auditorium at 2PM on the 22nd, and we’re strongly encouraging people to get their tickets and not stand in line — if you have a ticket, you’ll have a seat!
- You’ll need to hold onto your ticket stub to be eligible for the giveaways
- You cannot pick up tickets for other people — if you want your friend to get a ticket, bring your friend!
- The show begins at 5PM, and doors will open at 4:30PM
If you’re a member of the media who wishes to attend, please contact us at: engadgetshowmedia [at] engadget.com, and we’ll try to accommodate you. All other non-media questions can be sent to: engadgetshow [at] engadget.com.
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The next Engadget Show tapes November 22nd with HTC’s Drew Bamford and Chris Grant of Joystiq
November 15th, 2009
The next Engadget Show tapes November 22nd with HTC’s Drew Bamford and Chris Grant of Joystiq
The Engadget Show is happening again, humans! Next Sunday, November 22nd, we’ll be bringing that live magic back to the stage as we sit down with Drew Bamford (you can read a bit about him here), director of HTC’s Innovation Center (the place where things like the Sense UI are born). We’ll also be joined by Joystiq’s Editor-in-chief Chris Grant for a special roundtable discussion focused on gaming. As a bonus, we’ve got giveaways for everyone in the audience, plus one of the lucky attendees will walk away with that Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 bundle we just got our hands on!
The show takes place at the Tishman Auditorium at Parsons The New School for Design. As you may already know, we film live in front of an audience once a month — but if you can’t make it, don’t worry. We’re bringing the video back home to Engadget (and as a free download here, in the iTunes Store, or the Zune Marketplace) for your viewing pleasure.
The beautiful venue (which you can see in a photo after the break) is located at 66 W. 12th Street between 5th and 6th Aves. Seating is limited and tickets will be handed out on a first-come, first-served basis — which means if you want to join us in the audience for the show, you’ll have to arrive early and be prepared for a little wait.
Here are the facts you need to know about the show:
- The show is graciously sponsored by Nokia, and hosted by Parsons The New School for Design
- The total show length will be around an hour
Here is what you need to know if you want to be part of the audience:
- There is no admission fee — tickets are completely free
- The event is all ages
- The venue seats just over 450 people
- Parsons students are welcomed, and we encourage them to come!
- Tickets will be available for pickup at the Tishman Auditorium at 2PM on the 22nd, and we’re strongly encouraging people to get their tickets and not stand in line — if you have a ticket, you’ll have a seat!
- You’ll need to hold onto your ticket stub to be eligible for the giveaways
- You cannot pick up tickets for other people — if you want your friend to get a ticket, bring your friend!
- The show begins at 5PM, and doors will open at 4:30PM
If you’re a member of the media who wishes to attend, please contact us at: engadgetshowmedia [at] engadget.com, and we’ll try to accommodate you. All other non-media questions can be sent to: engadgetshow [at] engadget.com.
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Licensing pact a big step towards fixing EU music stores
October 20th, 2009
Licensing pact a big step towards fixing EU music stores
Major members of the online music industry, including iTunes and Amazon, have signed an agreement with the European Commission to work towards more even and widespread music distribution across all of Europe. As part of the agreement, the music industry intends to do away with the limitations of the current licensing system so that music fans can have greater choice and clear usage rights, no matter where they are in Europe.
The agreement came after the fourth Roundtable on the Online Distribution of Music held Monday by Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes. Participants included Amazon, BEUC, EMI, iTunes, Nokia, PRS for Music, SACEM, STIM, and Universal. It was the first time the music industry has managed to agree on a common roadmap in Europe, which has been frustratingly segmented for years thanks to outdated licensing and rights practices in the EU.
Posted in Arstechnica |
Tags: Amazon, Beuc, Competition Commissioner, Emi, European Commission, itunes, Licensing System, Music Distribution, Music Fans, Music Industry, Music Stores, Nokia Music, Online Music, Pact, Participants, Prs, Roadmap, Roundtable, Sacem, Stim |
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