Archive for July, 2008

Exciting news!

Monday, July 28th, 2008

I just wanted to make a brief announcement on what’s new in my world. Beginning today, I’m working full-time under the CoLab program at NASA! A bit about what CoLab is:
“NASA CoLab serves as an advisor and consultant to groups within NASA, building direct and open collaborations between the public, and NASA scientists and engineers. [...]

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Researching online behavior

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

 
My frequency of blogging has gone down lately. Is it because of the pervasiveness of microblogging? For the most part, no. The answer is that I’m consuming a LOT more information than outputting, which leaves little time to share all the great things I’m learning about at the end of the day.
A great book I’m [...]

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PSFK Conference San Francisco: A morning of trends + inspiration

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

photo by Sami Niemelä
In addition to SWAT Summit, I had the pleasure of attending one of PSFK’s conferences in San Francisco this past week. PSFK is known for trend insights and bringing together unique and intelligent people from a variety of disciplines.
After a brief introduction by PSFK founder Piers Fawkes, Ed Cotton (BSSP) talked about [...]

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SWAT Summit: Advertising in social networks

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

The first ever SWAT Summit kicked off this last week in San Francisco. The aim of the conference was to help advertisers effectively enter and work with social networks.
Due to unfortunate scheduling, I was only able to make it for the last half of the one-day event (earlier in the day I was attending PSFK’s [...]

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