The coolest startup in Toronto has been recognized by the finacial post. They deserve all the attention and praise that they get because the company, it’s people, the technology, the setup, the scary lathe in the basement are all awesome.
Hey everyone I just wanted to invite people to participate in the TORONTO CATASTROPHE (design) SLAM "a day of dialogue over Toronto disaster scenarios".
This event is part of Digifest 2008 ( http://www.dx.org/digifest/ )
ONTARIO SCIENCE CENTRE -Sunday, March 30, 2008
THE TORONTO CATASTROPHE SLAM
"a day of dialogue over Toronto disaster
scenarios".
Be part of this unique day of dialogue and challenge for academics, students, professionals, not-for-profit and the public. The purpose of this event is to exchange knowledge and ideas with others on the topic of catastrophe, disaster and emergency. This is a rare multidisciplinary engagement that will include informative keynotes and participatory challenges that will be designed to examine scenarios including a Natural Disaster scenario, a Health Epidemic and a Security Crisis. For more info on the Catastrophe Slam check out http://digifest2008.wik.is/
WHAT IS A DESIGN SLAM
A Design Slam is where we have a fictitious group of stakeholders present a problem to groups "consultants". We will form these groups randomly at the beginning of the event. These ingenious and innovative people will have a set block of time to design and pitch their idea to the stakeholders.
We have 30 slots that we are opening up for free public registration to the Catastrophe Slam but I encourage you to check out the entire 3 day Digifest event for $25.
You can register for digifest here: http://www.dx.org/digifest/register.html
BUT if you want to sign up for the Catastrophe Slam only head over to
http://digifest2008.wik.is/
1. Create an Account on the Wiki.
2. Sign Up for the event on the signup page. No Charge
It should be a really great day we have some great people coming out to this event and it is a unique space to play in.
So I finally got the videos up from FacebookCamp2 and this was my favourite presentation – Top Applications and Why They Work by Jesse Hirsh. I have 4 other videos up from the event including a presentation by Ami Vora of Facebook Inc.
If you didn’t see the videos from FacebookCampToronto1 you can get those here.
Got to hang out at the first Toronto SharePointCamp and have a bunch of developer friends ask me, “What are you doing here, you’re not a developer”
I shot some videos of the event and even did a little bit myself before the show.
Download the Quicktime or Download the MP4
Download the Quicktime or Download the MP4
Download the Quicktime or Download the MP4
As part of the event Meagan Marks from Facebook.com presented “Best Practices around Product Design and Viral Marketing”. It was an excellent presentation that had a lot of great information. The Facebook people asked however that we do not broadcast the presentation. So I won’t but I’ll SHARE it. (at least for now – MP4 98megs)
The MP4 files are on my server and may be sluggish
There were more presentations including:
I’ll try to get them up soon.
Switching back to YouTube for this one.
Alec Saunders recently highlighted our little blog in a Tagging exercise and I am going to keep it going. Here are some blogs you should check out:
[tags]facebookcamp, BlogDay2007[/tags]
