Andrew Clunis gives a great introduction to the One Laptop Per Child project, shows us some of the interfaces and tells us what he is working on.
Grab the quicktime version from the Revver page.
[tags]barcampottawa3, olpc, onelaptopperchild, 100dollarlaptop[/tags]
Jess’s talk from this years Information Architecture Summit. LukeW took some good notes.
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Congratulations to Sutha, David and the team at Ambient Vector with the launching of Nakama.
What is Nakama?
Nakama lets you share pictures and videos from your phone with your friends on the web, and on their phones too, and there’s nothing to download or install.
What can Nakama do?
Want to post your pictures straight to your MySpace, Flickr, Blogger, MSN or other gallery or blog? Send a picture or video from your phone to go@nakama.ca and we’ll post it for you. Ever taken a great picture or funny video? Send it to your friends! Nakama lets you send it to ALL their phones in one step. It’s that easy: no more fighting with your phone or spending a lot to send it to each friend.
I’ll have to get a phone that lets me take pictures and video.
So one week later I thought I would talk about what a great experience BarCamp Ottawa was, I hope to do more events with the people from Ottawa [BarCamp Montreal : The Invasion] ;-)
I think the most valuable thing I took away from Ottawa (besides all the new friends) was a greater understanding of development beyond my software service industry world. I’ve got a taste of that in Toronto through TorCamp but the fact is that servicing government, financial institutions and other major corporations is still the driving force of the software industry in Toronto, IMHO. I was talking to my friend Jason who is an Ottawa ex-pat and he told me that he read that tech industry jobs are back to the levels they were at during the boom, but instead of these jobs being with large corporations (Nortel, Corel, etc.) these jobs are now dispersed over many small firms and start-ups. Getting to interact with the people who work in these companies and people who work for the federal government was tremendously insightful.
Many people have posted intellegently about the April 19th ICT Toronto gathering at the MaRS Centre, where ICT Toronto announced their “cluster development strategy” paper. Joey has extremely detailed notes and insight about the event, Mark offers his perspective and insight on the strategy and Tom took the coolest picture of the mayor I think I have ever seen.
The only thing that I’d like to comment on is ICT Toronto’s completely naive views on offshoring. How can they support a firm like IBM (not that IBM isn’t cool) offering consulting services in Toronto when their blended rate is supported by offshore development. Native Toronto firms will need to outsource to compete with these large American, offshoring firms and ICT Toronto should help Toronto firms establish relationships possibly by starting sister city relationships.
[tags]cluster, creativecluster, Ontario, talent, technology, Toronto[/tags]
So the big guy and I are heading out to Vegas with John and Gord from Navantis to attend Mix06. The first Microsoft conference for designerds (that was a total slip of the keys but I decided to keep it). I think we’ll be learning alot and we will try to let you know, plus we have a day-and-a-half in Vegas before we head to Vancouver for the IA Summit
