Tag: event

Announcing the 7th SXSW Baby Social Breakfast

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Okay, so a little bit last minute, but hey, isn’t that the Southby way? Now that I’ve made it to Austin and caught up with the rest of the  SXSW Baby! team, everyone has been asking if we’re organising our regular breakfast on the Saturday morning of Interactive at Magnolia Cafe (South Congress), I guess it’s time to make it official. This year’s ‘SXSW Social Breakfast‘ will be on Saturday March 8th, starting at 8am at Magnolia Cafe on South Congress. Everyone is welcome, and the SXSW Baby! team will be there so make sure to say hi! A big thank you as always to the staff

Media140, The Real-time News Conference

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I’m going to take a little bit more than 140 characters to let you all know about the upcoming Media140 conference in London, one of a handful of Twitter based conferences coming online in 2009. Media140 is a short half-day conference on London’s South Bank, and will be focussing on the use of Twitter for news and reporting through a mix of case study examples and panel discussions. Some of the topics for the event will include: Is microblogging and twitter really a news ‘game changer’? How will microblogging change traditional local news sourcing and distribution? Tools of the trade,

Skipping the Edinburgh Girl Geek Dinner Next Month

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Kate has asked if I’d mention the upcoming Girl Geek dinner to take place in Edinburgh. Following on from the first Scottish Dinner in Dundee, the Edinburgh Girl Geek Dinner will happen on May 14th, at Edinburgh University’s Informatics Forum in 10 Crichton Street. More details and tickets can be found here. I look forward to reading the reports as I can’t make it. Not because of a lack of a date, but because I know I’m otherwise engaged, and I don’t mean by John Barrowman in Concert through in Glasgow… Cue mysterious smoke and lighting effects!

I’ll Be At Mobile Monday Dublin Tomorrow

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A quick note for those of you in and around Dublin. I’ll be talking at the Mobile Monday event tomorrow on the subject of Location Based Services and Mobile Social Networks. Specifically I’ll be talking about the stealth start-up Wubud. Which is still in stealth. This should be… interesting. Those of you wanting to pop along, doors open at 1830 for the start of event at 1900, at The Odeon Bar, Harcourt Street. More details on MoMoDublin at their website .

Free Drinks and Crap Tech Pitches This Week In San Francisco

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Those of you in San Francisco this Tuesday (Sept 9th) might want to swing by the House of Shields (39 New Montgomery St) at 10pm, where Smack My Pitch Up is being held. Get enough VC’s, investors and entrepeneurs in town, you’ll get people pitching business ideas around like poor baseball pitches. ‘Smack’ is no different, but willbe looking for the most terrible ideas in tech possible. Prizes include a grand prize of $50 (in non-sequential, used single dollar bills). Bonus prizes will be available for best URL containing a pun (or a pub), most creative misuse of grammar and