Hold on to your hats, because South by Southwest Interactive has added two more days to the schedule with the introduction of the first-ever "Technology Summit". If five straight days of panels, business cards, booze and talking tech wasn't enough for you, then SXSW 2011 will be right up your alley.
We're always on the lookout for upcoming Web tech events from around world. Know of something taking place that should appear here? Want to get your event included in the calendar? Let us know in the comments below or email us.
Internetome, the U.K.'s first full day conference dedicated to the Internet of Things was held on Nov 10 in London. In front of a full attendance, with representatives from academia, government, and enterprise, a wide range of speakers illustrated the promise and the challenges of the complex systems based on smart sensor networks.
The Economist magazine featured in its current issue a special report on Smart Systems, underlining how rich, and important these ICT solutions have become, and how they will in the future sustain value added services for a wide set of vertical application areas.
The ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit got its nerd on in Mountain View, CA on Friday. Firing up the unconference engine in the Computer History Museum, the ReadWriteWeb staff entertained a full house of what Jason Harris called "the thinkers and do-ers inside the companies who are innovating in the mobile space."
What did the attendees and press think about the summit? One thing that struck me reading through the coverage was that each writer seemed to find a specific topic to be dominant, though none of them were the same. Perhaps the unconference is a good format to give participants a sense of focus on the things they value the most.
Here it is 2010, and I'm still sitting through godawful, text-heavy PowerPoint presentations with cheesy transitions, pointless clip-art and (pause, Rob, and try to stop hyperventilating)... Comic Sans.
Speakers often focus on what it's like to be giving a presentation, but it's easy to forget what it's like to sit through one - especially the fifth or sixth presentation of the third day of a conference.
Facebook is hosting its annual f8 developer conference in San Francisco today. We expect quite a few announcements around new features and products today, including more information about the availability of a firehose of user data, geotagging, payments and the rumored off-site "like" button that publishers will soon be able to embed in their pages.
Read on to find our live blog of Mark Zuckerberg's keynote. The keynote is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. PST (GMT -7:00).
Early bird registration for the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit 2010 ends today! This is your last chance to save $100. Register now!
The ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit will take place May 7, 2010, in Mountain View, California and will be an exploration of the latest mobile development trends, both the technology and the emerging business applications.
Early bird registration for the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit 2010 is almost over. You only have a few more days to get your tickets for just $295. Click here to get your ticket at this special price.
Our young friends at the Teens In Tech Conference this year have all the blessings and foibles of their tender years.
They haven't learned that the sky is not, in fact, the limit - and for god's sake, don't tell them. And, as we likely felt at their age, they feel that adults are the slowest, dumbest, IE-using, fax-sending nerds imaginable. Check out this video of these great kids and the adults who admire and are inspired by them - including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who stopped by the conference to mingle with the youth and sign a few MacBooks.
Recently I was the keynote speaker at the Unlimited Potential W2W (Wellington to the World) event in Wellington, New Zealand. The topic of my presentation was running a virtual company.
In the presentation, written by our Marketing Manager Elyssa Pallai, I spoke about the unique nature of ReadWriteWeb's virtual business model and culture. Watch the video of my entire presentation below, for details of how our company is run and the Internet tools we use.
