I am going to be talking at BayCHI on unconference design next month on May 9. It will be fun to share what I have learned from my years of conference attendance and recent foray into helping produce and facilitated unconferences like the Internet Identity Workshop and Mashup Camp.
I went to BayCHI on Tuesday to get a sense of the crowd. T hey had great questions for the Social Search companies there. Pandora, Live365, Netflix, Digg and Del.icio.us.
The funniest part of the evening was when the Digg guy was like ‘way back in the Web 1.5 days’ and the live365 guy goes ‘you mean in November’ – everyone cracked up.
It reminded me of a comment that was made in a conversation with Doc and Mary Referring to an event… in ‘internet time’ that was three years ago (but really it was a year in solar time).
Pandora
Your musical Identity
I was reading this months issue of wired the one with the smilie Oil blobs on it. I came across this little article about Pandora. It is the GREAT Juke box program. You enter a song you like and it uses a mathematical algorithm to find other music by different artist that is similar. I have been listening this morning. I LOVE it. The user interface is very slick. It actually has articulate things to say about the music too – when you click on ‘why did you play this’. Perhaps I will actually define my musical identity after all.
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