Tag: CONFERENCE

Good news, everyone! Well, everyone who's attending PDC 2010 anyway. Microsoft has announced that all attendees will have a chance to shop at the Microsoft Company Store. That news might not have you dancing in your seat, but it's certainly a bit more exciting when you tack on the employee discount they're extending. The "sale" is part of the welcome reception which takes place on October ...

You've probably gathered by now that the Facebook f8 conference is under away. Juicy details of Facebook's underpinnings are coming thick and fast -- and we're going to try and cover all of them -- but first: EdgeRank, the algorithm that generates your News Feed. In much the same way as Google returns relevant results, EdgeRank uses what it knows about you to produce hopefully-relevant news. ...

Skype has always been a pretty popular video conferencing program and is looking to keep the streak alive with high-definition video. The service recently announced that they will begin supporting 720p high-definition video conference calls, provided users have an HD webcam and enough bandwidth to handle it. The new HD features come as part of the Skype for Windows 4.2 Beta. According to PC ...

It's obvious that the development community for third-party Twitter apps has become pretty huge, but I didn't realize just how huge until Twitter announced its own official developer conference, called Chirp. The creators of the 50,000+ (whoa!) Twitter applications out there will be able to get together in San Francisco next year to talk shop at the event, which doesn't have a set date yet. In ...

I'm a big fan of drop.io, the real-time sharing and collaborating tool. Today, drop.io is launching the public beta for present.io, which aims to make web-based presentations really easy. This is a great compliment to existing drop.io services, conference.io and phone.io. The service is really easy to use. You create a drop (or add a presentation to an existing drop), upload the files you want ...

Flashforward2008 is going to be in San Francisco this August. This annual conference is directed at Flash designers and developers and those who aspire to be called a designer or developer. Every year Flashforward features a Film Festival with open nominations of the best Flash content out there. In 2008 the categories have changed to the following: Application Cartoon/Story/Narrative ...

With the popularity and continued growth in the world of widgets, Niall Kennedy has launched a successor to last year's popular Widgets Live! conference, Widget Summit 2007. The Widget Summit will be held in San Francisco October 15-16th. This year, coined The Year of the Widget by Newsweek, will see this two day conference covering both the product and the development sides of the widget. Widget ...

Looking for a conference to polish your year off? If you are a regular user of Adobe products like Photoshop, Flash and Illustrator, the Adobe MAX event could be for you. But you have to empty your pockets first. Adobe MAX is an event targeted at Adobe users that aims to connect them with other users, discover what can be done with the applications, and inspire others to create. The conference ...

Google is schedule to present at the Citigroup Technology Conference in New York on September 6th 2007. The Director of Product Management, Sundar Pichai, and the Group Business Product Manager, Nicholas Fox, will participate in a question and answer session at the conference. The Annual Technology Conference sponsored by CitiBank will be held from September 4th to 6th, at the Hilton New York. No ...

Zoho, the online productivity software company, has announced the latest member of their suite of products, Zoho Meeting. Currently in a private Beta, with full version due out in April. Through Zoho Meetings, users can schedule meetings, share desktops, and chat between all invitees. As of the beta, only those that are on PC's can host meetings, but anyone can view them as long as they have ...

June 11-15th will see San Francisco packed with Developers heading to the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. The five-day event will see developers and IT professionals attending conference session after conference session about working with the latest Apple developer tools. There will be sessions on choosing and using the latest APIs to make the most of OS X, and how to create mind-blowing, ...

If you have an interest in podcasting, blogging, or any of that other "social media" hooey, then you'll want to be in Atlanta, Georgia on February 10th, 2007. That's the date of the as-yet-unnamed social media conference being organized by Sherry Heyl, the Atlanta Media Bloggers, and a bunch of local riff-raff. (If you have any bright ideas for a name, feel free to share.) ...

EventWax is a web-based service for organizing events. Through the web site, event organizers can publish an event site, accept payments, and manage the event attendees' registration. The initial system was built as a way for a company to organize and manage a conference. The EventWax system is simple to use and can be customized and hosted on your own web site or through EventWax. You can accept ...

Are you a widget lover? You know all those cool little tools that can be added to desktops and webpages to show the weather, sports scores, news, and horoscopes. The widget world is growing strong, major players and individuals are creating some very neat modules, widgets and gadgets. GigaOm founder Om Malik, and Niall Kennedy have teamed up to organize a conference called Widgets Live! The new ...

The Voice Over Net conference starts today in Boston. Featured speakers for the event include the Vice Chairman of AOL, Ted Leonsis, CEO and publisher of Washington Post and Newsweek Interactive, Caroline Little, as well as the CEO of BitTorrent, Jason Krikorian. This is the tenth year for the Voice Over Net Conference. The conference will go over the full spectrum of IP communication offerings ...