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Where 2.0 2011
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Where 2.0 2011, Genevieve Bell, "Context is Everything"
by OreillyMedia 10,525 views
Answering the question, "where are you," seems perfectly straightforward. It on the surface a question about location. However, location is not a straightforward as: I am here. Many of us own digital devices, services and applications that tell us where we are and where we should be going, or tell others where we say we are, or at least where might wish we were. In a world of GPS, 4-square, facebook places, checking in and google maps, how do we think about where we are? In this talk, Genevieve uses a series of ethnographic moments to challenge our notions of location, direction, and place to suggest some other ways of making sense of where we might be.
Genevieve Bell
Intel Corporation
Dr. Genevieve Bell is an Australian-born anthropologist and researcher. As director of User Interaction and Experience in Intel Labs, Bell leads a research team of social scientists, interaction designers, human factors engineers and computer scientists. This team shapes and helps create new Intel technologies and products that are increasingly designed around people's needs and desires. In this team and her prior roles, Bell has fundamentally altered the way Intel envisions and plans its future products so that they are centered on people's needs rather than simply silicon capabilities.
In addition to leading this increasingly important area of research at Intel, Bell is an accomplished industry pundit on the intersection of culture and technology. She is a regular public speaker and panelist at technology conferences worldwide, sharing myriad insights gained from her extensive international field work and research. Her first book, 'Divining the Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing,' was co-written with Prof. Paul Dourish of the University of California at Irvine and released in April 2011. In 2010, Bell was named one of Fast Company's inaugural '100 Most Creative People in Business.' She also is the recipient of several patents for consumer electronics innovations.
Moving to the United States for her undergraduate studies, she graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1990 with a bachelor's degree in anthropology. She then attended Stanford University, earning her master's degree (1993) and a doctorate (1998) in cultural anthropology, as well as acting as a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology from 1996-1998. With a father who was an engineer and a mother who was an anthropologist, perhaps Bell was fated to ultimately work for a technology company, joining Intel in 1998. -
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Where 2.0 2011, Jack Abraham, "The Internet's Role in Driving Local Store Foot Traffic"
by OreillyMedia 1,667 views
"The Internet's Role in Driving Local Store Foot Traffic in an Information Age"
Jack Abraham
eBay
Jack is the founder and former CEO of Milo.com, which was acquired by eBay (EBAY) in December 2010. The idea to build a local shopping engine originated when Jack, then a junior at the Wharton School, went to buy a camera at a store in Philadelphia, only to be told that it was out-of-stock. The experience got him thinking about the potential for a local shopping search engine, one that could tell you which nearby stores currently had a product in-stock. Hence, Milo.com was born.
Jack always knew he wanted to be an entrepreneur. At age 12, he built some of comScore¹s (SCOR) first data extraction and processing mechanisms to help the company grow from three to 40 employees. His continuing interest in data then propelled him to write software that capitalized on arbitrage opportunities programmatically in eBay's marketplace. He also has experience developing behavioral targeting campaigns for companies such as Microsoft and Drugstore.com. -
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Where 2.0 2011, Kellan Elliot, "Solving the Brooklyn (or Springfield or San Jose) Problem"
by OreillyMedia 1,126 views
"Solving the Brooklyn (or Springfield or San Jose) Problem"
Kellan Elliott-McCrea
Etsy
I run the engineering team at Etsy where we apply a surprising amount of sophisticated technology to the problem of selling hand made goods. Before that I was the architect at Flickr. That takes us back to pre-history. -
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Where 2.0 2011, Diann Eisnor, "Game Mechanics and LBS: Crossing the LBS Chasm"
by OreillyMedia 2,974 views
Location based services have unique scaling challenges -- on the web it is relatively easy to find a million people interested in anything. Now try finding several thousand users in a specific location with a specific phone with a specific app -- quite a different challenge. Getting initial critical mass is THE LBS challenge and companies such as Foursquare, GoWalla or Waze have been using innovative location based games and game mechanics to help drive usage in the early adopter community to get over the initial service hump. In this talk we will discuss the lessons learned in using game mechanics as a start point and explore the shift from a "fun" app to a "functional" everyday utility -- the crossing of the LBS chasm.
Diann Eisnor
waze
Chairman Platial, Community Geographer Waze. Currently raising chickens, studying transactional cartography and real time data geo displays. -
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Where 2.0 2011, Steve Martocci, "Location and the Rise of Group Communication"
by OreillyMedia 1,047 views
Group messaging services have grown in popularity with mobile phone users. These tools enable people to communicate with their real life network, making plans and other group decisions in real-time. GroupMe co-founder Steve Martocci will share how mobile apps can leverage location-sharing features to empower groups to more effectively communicate, as well as discuss how that opens the doors for businesses to impact those group decisions.
Steve Martocci
GroupMe
Steve is the Co-Founder of GroupMe. Previously, he was a Lead Software Engineer at Gilt Groupe. Before joining Gilt, Steve was the founder of Sympact Technologies, a startup focused on developing dynamic images for real-time email marketing. Steve also founded Bandwith.us, a friends and family ticketing platform for Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits and nationally touring acts. Steve graduated from Carnegie Melon University in 2004 with a B.S. in Information Systems. With a penchant for non-profits and community activism, Steve serves as a technical advisor to Headcount. -
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Where 2.0 2011, DJ Patil, "The Power of Proximity"
by OreillyMedia 1,222 views
It's not just where you are, but what's around you. A new wave of apps like Color are taking advantage of this to curate social information for you.
DJ Patil
Greylock Partners
DJ is the "Data Scientist in Residence" at Greylock Partners.
Previously he was the Chief Product Officer for Color and the Chief Scientist at the LinkedIn Corporation, leading the Analytics and Data Teams. Some of the products shipped include, People You May Know, Who's Viewed My Profile, Talent Match, Skills, and Career Explorer.
He has held roles at Skype, PayPal, and eBay. As was a member of the faculty at the University of Maryland, he helped start a major research initiative on numerical weather prediction. As an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow for the Department of Defense, Dr. Patil directed new efforts to leverage social network analysis and the melding of computational and social sciences to anticipate emerging threats to the US. He has also co-chaired a major review of US efforts to prevent bioweapons proliferation in Central Asia and co-founded the Iraqi Virtual Science Library (IVSL).
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Where 2.0 2011, Matt Galligan, "The Real-Time Location Revolution: What's next for LBS?"
by OreillyMedia 1,281 views
With the check-in getting quickly commoditized, what's the next step in location-aware services? What are some ways that companies can leverage a world of real-time information and capabilities to build new and more compelling offerings? There are many companies pushing the boundaries of what's possible with location through real-time information and this talk will get you started with what's coming down the pipe.
Matt Galligan
SimpleGeo
Matt Galligan, 25, is the CEO and Co-Founder of SimpleGeo, based out of Boulder, CO that provides a ready-to-use location infrastructure for app developers. He previously founded Socialthing, a company that was chosen to be part of the inaugural year of TechStars. Socialthing.com went into private beta in March, 2008 at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. The company was acquired five months later by AOL. Socialthing was later rebranded as AOL Lifestream.
Matt currently resides in Boulder, CO and is an active member of the startup community there.
Mikhail Panchenko
Urban Airship
Mike works on distributed storage at Urban Airship (by way of SimpleGeo). His job entails figuring out how to store and query large amounts of data in a horizontally scalable data store, while ensuring that the system runs smooth as butter and is easy to operate.
Before that, he spent 3 years at Yahoo! performing a variet of roles. Initially hired to the Ops Tools team to work on infrastructure projects such as DNS automation, he then went on to spread his time around on automating abuse/spam prevention, rebuilding the offline batch processing system, optimizing database queries, building out high-profile integrations, and rescuing kittens at Flickr.
When not writing code, Mike spends his time playing soccer, occasionally giving talks at conferences, and learning about how computers work. -
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Where 2.0 2011, Mihir Shah, Groupon
by OreillyMedia 1,143 views
Mihir Shah
Vice President, Mobile, Groupon
Mihir Shah is the Vice President and General Manager of Mobile at Groupon. Prior to its acquisition by Groupon, he was CEO and Co-founder of Mob.ly/Goodrec. Mihir also served in key product leadership roles at Yahoo!, most recently as Senior Director of Product Management for Yahoo! Search. Mihir was responsible for the US Web Search product and also helped launch Yahoo's first mobile search products.
Before joining Yahoo!, Mihir was Director of Product Marketing at Grand Central, where he helped launch one of the first Web Services networks for businesses. He also served as Director of Product Management at Respond.com, a lead generation service for local businesses.
Mihir started his career as a management consultant at R. B. Webber & Company. At Webber he worked with a number of startups and Fortune 500 technology companies to develop go-to-market strategies across a wide range of high-tech product segments. Mihir holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. -
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Where 2.0 2011, Krissy Clark, "Stories Everywhere"
by OreillyMedia 1,935 views
The best journalism is like a map. It shows where you are in relation to others; it provides a sense of topography, a glimpse in to a new world, or a better understanding of a familiar one. Ideally, journalism helps citizens and communities discover where they are, so they can better decide where they are going.
Where has always been one of the fundamental questions guiding journalists, along with who, what, when, why and how. Now the answers to all those questions have the ability to emanate from the landscape itself, thanks to location-aware technology. Every place has a thousand stories. Journalists tell them every day and news organizations have archives full of them. But there could be more efficient, effective, and creative ways to link these stories to the places where they are rooted. "If these walls could talk," the saying goes. They can. This session will explore how. Come join us at the intersection of journalism and geolocation, and discuss the power of place and story.
Krissy Clark
KQED Public Radio
Krissy Clark is an award-winning journalist and documentary-maker, with a passion for location-aware technologies and their power as storytelling tools. Clark is currently the Los Angeles Bureau Chief for KQED public radio, where she uncovers the people, places and events that make Southern California such a fascinating region or, in the words of Wernor Herzog, "a place of cultural substance."
Clark has spent more than a decade covering public affairs, politics, the economy and the environment for outlets including APM, NPR, and the BBC. She is a frequent contributor to the business show Marketplace, where she covered the gulf oil spill and its economic implications. She is a former staff reporter and editor for the weekly syndicated show Weekend America.
In 2009 Clark received a Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford to explore the geospatial web and its applications for innovating journalism, working with the Stanford Computer Science Department, the Bill Lane Center for the Study of the American West, and the Hasso Platner Institute of Design, or d.school.
"Foreclosure City," Clark's documentary on the epicenter of the nation's foreclosure crisis, Las Vegas, made her a finalist for the Livingston Award for Journalists under 35, one of journalism's highest honors. Earlier in her career she spent several years in a small town in Colorado where she reported on the rural American West for the environmental newspaper High Country News. There, her documentary on the legacy of nuclear weapons development in western states was awarded Best Documentary by the Public Radio News Directors Inc.
Clark graduated cum laude with honors from Yale University, where she earned a B.A. in The Humanities. She is a frequent speaker on journalism and the geospatial web at institutions including Google, Stanford's Human Computer Interaction Group, and the American Association of University Women.
As a fifth generation Californian, Clark is interested in history and the way people shape places, and places shape people. Her audio installation, Block of Time: O'Farrell Street, was featured alongside MIT's SENSEable Cities project and Stamen Design's TenderVoice/TenderNoise at the City Centered Festival in San Francisco, sponsored by the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. Block of Time and other experiments in narrative landscapes can be found at her website, storieseverywhere.org.
If you want to know more about Krissy's work, this short article she wrote might help. -
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Where 2.0 2011, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, "Read/Write World"
by OreillyMedia 3,912 views
"Read/Write World"
Blaise Agüera y Arcas
Microsoft
Blaise Agüera y Arcas is the Architect of Bing Maps and MSN at Microsoft. He works in a variety of roles, from designer and coder to strategist, and he leads an Advanced Engineering team of researchers and engineers with strengths in social media, computer vision, and graphics. He joined Microsoft when his startup company, Seadragon, was acquired by Live Labs in 2006. Shortly after the acquisition of Seadragon, Blaise directed his team in a collaboration with Microsoft Research and the University of Washington, leading to the first public previews of Photosynth several months later. His TED talk on Seadragon and Photosynth in 2007 is still rated "most jaw-dropping" on ted.com.
Blaise has a broad background in computer science and applied math, and has worked in a variety of fields, including computational neuroscience, computational drug design, data compression, and others. In 2001 he received press coverage for his discovery, using computational methods, of the printing technology used by Johann Gutenberg. Blaise's work on early printing was the subject of a BBC Open University documentary, entitled "What Did Gutenberg Invent?". He has published essays and research papers in theoretical biology, neuroscience, and history in The EMBO Journal, Neural Computation, and Nature. In 2008-9 he was a recipient of MIT Technology Review's TR35 award (35 top innovators under 35) and Fast Company's MCP100 (100 most creative people in business). -
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Where 2.0 2011, Michael Halbherr, "Holistic and Virtuous Map Community Platform"
by OreillyMedia 1,280 views
"Holistic and Virtuous Map Community Platform"
Michael Halbherr
Nokia
Vice President, Services Nokia
Michael Halbherr leads the Services Product Development at Nokia. In this role, he is responsible for defining the services product strategy and proposition to create and deliver superior experiences for consumers. Before joining Nokia in 2006, Michael worked for the Boston Consulting Group and at europatweb, the Internet investment vehicle of Groupe Arnault, overseeing all technology investments, including gate5. After that, Michael headed gate5 AG, the former leading supplier of mapping, routing and navigation software and services, for five years. Since the acquisition of gate5 by Nokia, Michael has been heading the location based experiences at Nokia, and, most recently, the Ovi Experience unit. Michael holds a PhD in Computer Science from MIT and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from ETH Zurich. -
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Where 2.0 2011, Jack Dangermond, "Living Maps -- Making Collective Geographic Information a Reality"
by OreillyMedia 5,239 views
With the pervasiveness of mobile technology and greater opportunities for crowd sourcing, it has become possible to integrate everything that moves on the planet into a geospatial framework. Using the web infrastructure, we can pull real-time observational information into our maps and distribute them with other data and services which can be openly discovered and made available to anyone for application development. These distributed maps become living maps that can be accessed anywhere, from any device. You can sketch on top of your living map, share it back to a server, and make it available to anyone so that they, in turn, can sketch on top of it. This allows us to move to the idea of collective geographic information.
Jack Dangermond
Esri
Jack Dangermond is the founder and president of Esri. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Redlands, California, Esri is widely recognized as the technical and market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, pioneering innovative solutions for working with spatial data on the desktop, across the enterprise, in the field, and on the Web. Esri has the largest GIS software install base in the world with more than one million users in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide.
Dangermond fostered the growth of Esri from a small research group to an organization of over 2,900 employees, known internationally for GIS software development, training, and services.
Dangermond holds ten honorary doctorates from California Polytechnic University-Pomona, State University of New York at Buffalo, Technical University for Civil Engineering of Bucharest -- Romania, University of West Hungary, City University in London, University of Redlands in California, Ferris State University in Michigan, Loma Linda University, University of Arizona, and University of Minnesota. -
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Where 2.0 2011, Marissa Mayer, Google
by OreillyMedia 8,202 views
Marissa Mayer
Vice President, Search Products and User Experience, Google
Marissa leads Google's efforts on search products -- web search, images, news, books, products, maps, -- and other consumer-facing initiatives such as iGoogle, Google Earth, Google Chrome, and more. Her contributions have included designing and developing Google's search interface, internationalizing the site to over 100 languages, and launching more than 100 features and products on Google.com. Several patents have been filed on her work in artificial intelligence and interface design. Google's first female engineer, Marissa joined in 1999 and led the user interface and web server teams at that time.
Concurrently with her full-time work at Google, Marissa has taught introductory computer programming classes at Stanford University, where she earned both her B.S. in Symbolic Systems and her M.S. in Computer Science. Stanford has recognized her with the Centennial Teaching Award and the Forsythe Award for her outstanding contribution to undergraduate education.
Marissa has been featured in various publications, including Fortune ("50 Most Powerful Women"), Newsweek ("10 Tech Leaders of the Future"), Red Herring ("15 Women to Watch"), Business 2.0 ("Silicon Valley Dream Team"), BusinessWeek ("Top 25 Innovation Leaders") and Fast Company. -
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Where 2.0 2011, Jim Schoonmaker "Everyscape"
by OreillyMedia 698 views
Where 2.0 2011, Jim Schoonmaker "Everyscape"
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Where 2.0 2011, Nick Pudar "The Future of Automotive Connectivity"
by OreillyMedia 570 views
"The Future of Automotive Connectivity"
Nick Pudar
OnStar
Nick Pudar, Vice President of OnStar Planning and Business Development, is responsible for managing OnStar's planning, business development, and service evolution. He has responsibility for future services development and for management of the overall service portfolio. He assumed the business development role in 2005.
Pudar started his General Motors career in 1981 in manufacturing, and held various positions in GM of Canada's Windsor Transmission Plant. In 1986, he joined the Stamping Plant Modernization team as part of the Chevrolet-Pontiac-Canada Group and worked on metal-fab automation systems. In 1990, he joined the Industrial Engineering department in the Chevrolet-Pontiac-Canada to coordinate cross-plant throughput improvement efforts for GM's newly modernized stamping plants. In 1993, Pudar joined the Corporate Strategy staff as a business analyst. Three years later, he was appointed Director of Corporate Strategy and Knowledge Development. In 2002, Pudar was named Director of GM Strategic Initiatives. In 2004 he became Director of Global Planning and Strategic Initiatives.
Pudar received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) in 1986, and his Masters of Science in Management degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management in 1990. -
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Where 2.0 2011, "Future Location: Scoble & Dens "
by OreillyMedia 3,124 views
Where 2.0 2011, "Future Location: Scoble & Dens "
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Where 2.0 2011, Espen Systad, "Ignite: The Man Who Took a Leak and Gave a Party"
by OreillyMedia 3,414 views
Where 2.0 2011, Espen Systad, "Ignite: The Man Who Took a Leak and Gave a Party"
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Where 2.0 2011, Patrick Meier "The Future of Crisis Mapping for Disaster Response"
by OreillyMedia 1,704 views
This presentation highlights how crowdsourced crisis mapping is being used for disaster response and outlines the new role that online volunteer communities like the Standby Task Force are playing in this context. The presentation also explains why both crowdsourcing and crowdfeeding are key to the future of disaster response. Examples from various Ushahidi projects will be shared.
Patrick Meier
Ushahidi
Patrick Meier is the Director of Crisis Mapping at Ushahidi and the co-founder of the International Network of Crisis Mappers. He previously co-founded and co-directed Harvard University's (HHI) Program on Crisis Mapping and Early Warning. He has consulted for many international organizations including the UN, OSCE and OECD on numerous crisis mapping and conflict early warning projects in Africa, Asia and Europe. Patrick is a recognized expert and thought leader on the intersection between new technologies, early warning, civil resistance, human rights and humanitarian response. He has written extensively on these topics and has presented his work at numerous high-profile conferences worldwide. Patrick is also completing his PhD at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and is currently a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University's Program on Liberation Technologies. He has an MA in International Affairs from Columbia University and is an alum of the Sante Fe Institute's (SFI) Complex Systems Program. Patrick blogs at iRevolution.net. -
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Where 2.0 2011, Sam Altman, "Connecting People"
by OreillyMedia 550 views
"Connecting People"
Sam Altman
Loopt
Sam Altman is co-founder and CEO of Loopt, a company that builds mobile applications to help people enjoy the friends, places, and events around you right now. Sam sees mobile location as completely transforming how people can and will communicate and consume content on their mobile devices. Since starting the company in 2005 while studying at Stanford University, Sam has consistently been recognized for his entrepreneurship. He was featured in Inc. Magazine's Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 and BusinessWeek's Tech's Best Entrepreneurs. As an early innovator in mobile location services, Sam joined Apple CEO Steve Jobs on stage at WWDC 2008, presenting Loopt as one of the first applications in the iPhone App Store. Sam has been a valuable source for many media outlets including Charlie Rose, CNN, The Economist, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and numerous others. Additionally, he mentors new companies at the venture company Y-Combinator, and is on the Advisory Boards for a number of Silicon Valley startups. -
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Where 2.0 2011, Justin Shaffer, Facebook
by OreillyMedia 902 views
Justin Shaffer
Facebook
Justin Shaffer is a Product Manager at Facebook, where he currently manages the Events and Places products. Previously, he worked on Groups. Prior to Facebook, Justin was the Founder and CEO of Hot Potato, an early stage startup that helped people socialize around live events and share what they're doing with friends. Hot Potato was acquired by Facebook in 2010. Prior to founding Hot Potato, Justin served as Senior Vice President, New Media at MLB Advanced Media, the online arm of Major League Baseball. Previously, Justin served at ScreamingMedia Inc., a content aggregator and syndicator in New York. He's an avid skier and racing sailor, and also enjoys engineering pursuits of all kinds. -
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Where 2.0 2011, Vince Rosales, "Why Where? OK, but How??"
by OreillyMedia 596 views
Where 2.0 2011, Vince Rosales, "Why Where? OK, but How??"
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Where 2.0 2011, Alex Kilpatrick, "Ignite: Software Development in a Warzone"
by OreillyMedia 441 views
Where 2.0 2011, Alex Kilpatrick, "Ignite: Software Development in a Warzone"
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Where 2.0 2011, John Barratt, "Who, What, Where, When: Creating New Maps from Geo-tweets"
by OreillyMedia 465 views
Where 2.0 2011, John Barratt, "Who, What, Where, When: Creating New Maps from Geo-tweets"
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Where 2.0 2011, Sylvain Carle, "Locking Yourself Out in London (and Tweeting About It)"
by OreillyMedia 586 views
Where 2.0 2011, Sylvain Carle, "Locking Yourself Out in London (and Tweeting About It)"
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Where 2.0 2011, Raj Singh, "Crowdsourced Databases for Fun and Profit"
by OreillyMedia 618 views
Where 2.0 2011, Raj Singh, "Crowdsourced Databases for Fun and Profit"
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Where 2.0 2011, Vanessa Fox, "Rebecca Black Memes"
by OreillyMedia 1,209 views
Where 2.0 2011, Vanessa Fox, "Rebecca Black Memes"
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Where 2.0 2011, Dale Dougherty, "Makers Around the World"
by OreillyMedia 523 views
Where 2.0 2011, Dale Dougherty, "Makers Around the World"
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Where 2.0 2011, LaurieAnne Lassek, "Pii Does not Equal Pi "
by OreillyMedia 852 views
Where 2.0 2011, LaurieAnne Lassek, "Pii Does not Equal Pi "
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iPhone Tracking Discussion
by OreillyMedia 417,917 views
Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan talking about how they discovered the existence of the tracking database on the iPhone, and what it might mean. Also how they went about exploring and visualising the data once they knew it was there, and show how it could be used to track individuals movements over time.
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Where 2.0 2011, Tadayasu Sasada, "GeoHex -- Change Your World by Hexagon!"
by OreillyMedia 1,374 views
Where 2.0 2011, Tadayasu Sasada, "GeoHex -- Change Your World by Hexagon!"
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Where 2.0 2011, Mary Haskett, "Risk Taking for the Meek: A Primer"
by OreillyMedia 621 views
Where 2.0 2011, Mary Haskett, "Risk Taking for the Meek: A Primer"
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Dennis Crowley interviewed at Where 2.0 2011
by OreillyMedia 697 views
Dennis Crowley is the co-founder of foursquare, a service that mixes social, locative and gaming elements to encourage people explore the cities in which they live. Previously, Dennis founded dodgeball.com, one of the first mobile social services in the US, which was acquired by Google in 2005.
He has been named one of the "Top 35 Innovators Under 35" by MIT's Technology Review magazine (2005) and has won the Fast Money bonus round on the TV game show Family Feud (2009). His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Time Magazine, Newsweek, MTV, Slashdot and NBC. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).
Dennis holds a Master's degree from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a Bachelor's degree from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. -
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Rob Bailey interviewed at Where 2.0 2011
by OreillyMedia 545 views
Rob is currently the VP of Business Development for SimpleGeo. SimpleGeo provide tools and services that make it easy for developers to build location features and applications. During his time with SimpleGeo he and his team have work with hundreds of companies that are integrating location into their apps and web services. Rob previously was a Business Development lead for international telco/cable partnerships that included America Movil, Rogers and BT.
Rob is also a frequent advisor to early stage start-ups and currently is a strategic advisor to CloudCrowd, Liquor.com and Akkadian Ventures. He previously advised Frengo/Admarvel (acquired by Opera). You can follow Rob on Twitter @robmbailey. He has an MBA from MIT Sloan. -
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Matthew Russell interviewed at Where 2.0 2011
by OreillyMedia 245 views
Matthew Russell is a computer scientist and author with deep expertise in open source, data mining, and web application technologies. As tangible evidence, he has authored the O'Reilly titles Mining the Social Web (link: http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920010203/) and Dojo: The Definitive Guide (link: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516482/.) Matthew has worked extensively with the government as well as the private sector in and out of uniform to ensure that complex software is delivered on time and under budget in the midst of even the most difficult of circumstances. Matthew can help you implement elegant end-to-end solutions to difficult problems involving spartan resources, nebulous requirements, high pressure, and messy data.
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Tyler Bell interviewed at Where 2.0 2011
by OreillyMedia 269 views
Tyler Bell is a geotechnologist with broad interests in open source and place-based information systems.
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Ben Fry interviewed at Where 2.0 2011
by OreillyMedia 2,807 views
Ben Fry runs a software and design consultancy in Cambridge, Massachusetts that focuses on understanding complex data. Fry received his doctorate from the Aesthetics + Computation Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, where his research focused on combining fields such as computer science, statistics, graphic design, and data visualization as a means for understanding information. With Casey Reas of UCLA, he develops Processing, an open source programming environment used by tens of thousands of students, artists, engineers, and scientists. At the end of 2007, he published "Visualizing Data" with O'Reilly. Fry's personal work has shown at the Whitney Biennial, the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His information graphics have also illustrated articles for the journal Nature, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Seed, and Communications of the ACM.
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Sam Altman interviewed at Where 2.0 2011
by OreillyMedia 713 views
Sam Altman is co-founder and CEO of Loopt, a company that builds mobile applications to help people enjoy the friends, places, and events around you right now. Sam sees mobile location as completely transforming how people can and will communicate and consume content on their mobile devices. Since starting the company in 2005 while studying at Stanford University, Sam has consistently been recognized for his entrepreneurship. He was featured in Inc. Magazine's Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 and BusinessWeek's Tech's Best Entrepreneurs. As an early innovator in mobile location services, Sam joined Apple CEO Steve Jobs on stage at WWDC 2008, presenting Loopt as one of the first applications in the iPhone App Store. Sam has been a valuable source for many media outlets including Charlie Rose, CNN, The Economist, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and numerous others. Additionally, he mentors new companies at the venture company Y-Combinator, and is on the Advisory Boards for a number of Silicon Valley startups.
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Daniel Jacobson interviewed at Where 2.0 2011
by OreillyMedia 540 views
Daniel Jacobson is the director of API engineering at Netflix. Prior to Netflix, Daniel was at NPR where he created the NPR API as well as the content management system that drives NPR.org, mobile platforms and all other digital presentations for NPR content. Daniel is also on the board of directors for OpenID.
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Julia Grace interviewed at Where 2.0 2011
by OreillyMedia 334 views
Building on a passion for both computer science, sociology and art, Julia received her Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill with Honors. She went on to compete her Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2007, focusing on communication and collaboration in online communities.
She joined IBM Research -- Almaden in 2006, specializing in creating visualizations for large datasets of unstructured information. She went on to design and built innovative user interfaces and applications for a wide range of domains including healthcare, finance and government. In 2008 Julia joined the USER (User Sciences and Experience Research) group at Almaden, focusing on social and collaborative software. Her current work is focused on how to visualize and make sense of the massive amounts of data from social networking sources. She is excited by the prospect of cleanly and concisely presenting social information as to help people all over the world more effectively.
She has been featured in two internationally aired IBM television commercials about her work, speaks regularly at universities about her passion for collaboration, and has come to love giving Ingite talks. In her spare time she runs, backpacks through the state parks of California, and practices yoga. She is a certified wine dilettante. -
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Alex Kilpatrick interviewed at Where 2.0 2011
by OreillyMedia 190 views
Alex is the CTO and sole programmer for Tactical Information Systems (TIS). TIS is building a cloud-based platform for biometric matching, to allow for the rapid development of a wide variety of consumer biometric applications. Our first product is WanderID, a web-based solution using face matching to identify people with cognitive disabilities who cannot identify themselves.
Alex was an Air Force officer for 12 years, primarily working in R&D. In the past 5 years, he developed numerous biometric applications deployed in the Middle East, and traveled extensively to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Jordan. -
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Ted Morgan interviewed at Where 2.0 2011
by OreillyMedia 354 views
Ted Morgan co-founded Skyhook in 2003 to capitalize on the increasing demand for location-based services. Prior to founding Skyhook, Mr. Morgan was the VP of Marketing for edocs Inc., a provider of customer self-service solutions that was sold to Siebel Systems in January 2005 and worked in Product Management for Open Market, one of the early leaders of the e-commerce revolution. Prior to the technology industry, he spent four years in financial services. Mr. Morgan holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Georgetown University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
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Genevieve Bell interviewed at Where 2.0 2011
by OreillyMedia 406 views
Recently named one of the top 50 most creative people in Business (Fast Company,) Genevieve Bell is an Intel Fellow and director of the Interaction and Experience Research Group within the Intel Labs.
Bell joined Intel in 1998 and has come to lead an R&D team of social scientists, interaction designers and human factors engineers to drive human-centric product innovation in Intel's consumer electronics business. In this role, she is responsible for setting research directions, conducting comparative qualitative and quantitative research globally, leading new product strategy and definition, and championing consumer-centric innovation and thinking across the company.
Prior to joining Intel, Bell was a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. She has written more than 30 journal articles and book chapters on a range of subjects focused on the intersection of technology and society. Her book, "Techno-Cultural Tales," co-authored with Prof. Paul Dourish, will be released by MIT Press in 2011. In 2009, she had a distinguished appointment as South Australia's 15th Thinker-in-Residence. In this role, she helped develop new policy and strategic directions for governmental responses to high-speed internet.
Raised in Australia, Bell received her bachelor's degree in anthropology from Bryn Mawr College in 1990. She received her master's and doctorate degrees in anthropology from Stanford University in 1993 and 1998, respectively. -
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Scott Kveton interviewed at Where 2.0 2011
by OreillyMedia 571 views
Scott brings 12 years of experience building technology, developing business strategy and leading engineering teams with companies like Amazon.com, Rulespace, JanRain and now Urban Airship. Urban Airship builds messaging and content delivery solutions for mobile publishers. Scott was the co-founder of the Open Source Lab helping open source projects like Mozilla, Linux, Apache, Drupal grow into mainstream usage. Scott was an active supporter of open web standards having co-founded the OpenID and Open Web Foundations. He currently lives in Portland, OR.
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Where 2.0 2011, Ben Fry, Fathom
by OreillyMedia 361 views
Ben Fry
Principal, Fathom
Ben Fry runs a software and design consultancy in Cambridge, Massachusetts that focuses on understanding complex data. Fry received his doctorate from the Aesthetics + Computation Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, where his research focused on combining fields such as computer science, statistics, graphic design, and data visualization as a means for understanding information. With Casey Reas of UCLA, he develops Processing, an open source programming environment used by tens of thousands of students, artists, engineers, and scientists. At the end of 2007, he published "Visualizing Data" with O'Reilly. Fry's personal work has shown at the Whitney Biennial, the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His information graphics have also illustrated articles for the journal Nature, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Seed, and Communications of the ACM. -
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Where 2.0 2011, Julia Grace, "Location is Dead! Long Live Location!"
by OreillyMedia 539 views
Online or offline, the location revolution has changed where we go, what we buy and how we buy it. But has it made our lives easier?
Julia Grace
IBM Research - Almaden
Building on a passion for both computer science, sociology and art, Julia received her Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill with Honors. She went on to compete her Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2007, focusing on communication and collaboration in online communities.
She joined IBM Research -- Almaden in 2006, specializing in creating visualizations for large datasets of unstructured information. She went on to design and built innovative user interfaces and applications for a wide range of domains including healthcare, finance and government. In 2008 Julia joined the USER (User Sciences and Experience Research) group at Almaden, focusing on social and collaborative software. Her current work is focused on how to visualize and make sense of the massive amounts of data from social networking sources. She is excited by the prospect of cleanly and concisely presenting social information as to help people all over the world more effectively.
She has been featured in two internationally aired IBM television commercials about her work, speaks regularly at universities about her passion for collaboration, and has come to love giving Ingite talks. In her spare time she runs, backpacks through the state parks of California, and practices yoga. She is a certified wine dilettante. -
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Where 2.0 2011, Charlie Kim, "Helping Retailers Understand Who Their Customers Are"
by OreillyMedia 532 views
"Big Data + Mobile: Helping Retailers Understand Who Their Customers Are"
Charlie Kim
Next Jump, Inc.
Charlie Kim serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Next Jump, Inc. Mr. Kim founded Next Jump in 1994. He worked in the Information Technology and Human Resources groups of Morgan Stanley in New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo from 1995 to 1997. He returned to Boston in April 1997 to grow the business full-time. To grow Next Jump from a one-person operation to a multi-layered corporation, he raised millions in independent investments from Wall Street's most influential players. He graduated with Honors from Tufts University in 1995, where he earned a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Quantitative Economics.
