1. So I'm at an Emerging Technology conference and after hours of fiddling with LAN settings, reconfiguring network setup, enabling bbc-disabled hardware and generally tinkering under the wifi bonnet plus shouting at lapworth about how broken my new toshiba laptop is, Paula points out that I haven't switched the radio to on using the big switch on the front of the machine.
Please shoot me now before I start using the CD tray as a coffee cup holder.
2. San Francisco is very, very nice indeed. Great cocktails and shopping, wifi in most coffee shops, Industrial Light & Magic, nice cars, etc. The Golden Gate bridge is apparently orange, I jeered at Paula when she told me that and then was horribly proven wrong, it IS orange and International Orange at that, although it's clearly rusty poo brown and you're all weird.
3. Some neat pieces of social software to play with so far. Two things being demo'd here as part of the 'show', Intro and ConFab. ConFab has a neat map of the hotel, plus group chat and messaging, so you can wander around the conference virtually.. or do it IRL. It reminds me of Bianca's, although now when you hang out in the bathroom or pool, you really CAN hang out in the bathroom or pool while you're hanging out in the bathroom or pool, if you see what I mean.
Intro I've only touched on, but it has a lovely way of allowing you to describe yourself with drag-and-drop interest words... and it then maps you to folk like yourself. So it maps me straight to the bloke who designed ConFab, and I spent the morning in ConFab talking to the fellow who made Intro.
The emerging world is a small world... ;)
Posted by alice at April 22, 2003 11:11 PM