Advice from Veronica Belmont: Got to know what you are talking about!!
Join us in this interview with Veronica where she shares her journey from CNET to Tekzilla along with her secret to a great personal brand.
And there’s more. Watch Veronica’s keynote video from Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco, where Tekzilla filmed LIVE on our main stage with special guest Evan Williams, co-founder of Twitter.
For most of us, social media has changed our lives in some meaningful way. Collectively it is changing the world for good.
He showcases a list of 10 non-profits including SalaamGarage, an organization that leads trips that combine cultural immersion travel with citizen journalism collaborating with NGOs around the world.
The idea is that social media has enabled each of us to have an audience. Whether through Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, or a personal blog, each of us can have influence and reach. What’s more, it can be used for good. SalaamGarage coordinates trips for citizen journalists (that means you) to places like India and Vietnam in conjunction with non-government organizations like Seattle-based Peace Trees. The destination is the story, as these humanitarian journalists report on the people they meet and discoveries they make. Their words, images, and video are posted to the social web to gain exposure and because these stories just need to be told.
Gladwell notes that “this is not a top-10 list, nor are these listed in any particular order. It’s also incomplete.” Please contribute to the conversation by posting a comment to his article and use #10ways in your tweets.
I highlight SalaamGarage because founder Amanda Kostner presented a keynote in our most recent Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco, which you can view here.
In the interview, Will looks back at how his fascination with models and robots started him on the gaming path and forward to Sims 3 which is scheduled for release in June. Of his development process, Will notes:
…we’re basically exploring an emergent system. And because it’s emergent, by its very nature, you can’t sit there and engineer it top-down. What we have to do is we have to sit there and kind of play with a wide variety of algorithms and structures. Turn them on. Observe the behavior. Then when it doesn’t quite do what we want, we go back to the drawing board. We refine it a little bit more. But it feels much more like the process of exploration that is in engineering.
I’m looking forward to hearing more of Will’s thoughts about the relationship between game development, city planning, and behavior at the show next week. And now off to the full list of sessions for the show to see what else I’m going to add to my personal schedule!
I was debating on what personal laptop to get and since I was traveling so much my requirements were small, portable and light. The Netbooks were the perfect answer but I thought they all ran on Linux and I had not yet gone that geek (yet).
During Web 2.0 Expo Europe I was sitting in the greenroom with ex-Netvibes CEO Tariq Krim before his keynote. I complimented his perfectly small, lightweight, inexpensive laptop is laptop which had this great-looking desktop. It was a version of his new project, Jolicloud, a new linux-based OS that was clean, simple and made for Netbooks.
Fab-u-lous.
Here’s a sneak peak at what the interface looks like. More to come and larger images can be seen on the Jolicloud Flickr page.
For those of you who are interested in hearing Tariq speak about entrepreneurship, watch this 10-min video clip of his Web 2.0 Expo Europe keynote.
We are getting presentation slides up on the Web 2.0 Expo New York homepage as we receive them from our speakers. We aim to have presentations up by the end of the event, and will continue to work through the weekend to get them posted.
Keynotes videos have a 24-hour turn-around time so Wednesday’s keynote videos will be posted by this afternoon.
May 22nd, 2009 |
And there’s more. Watch Veronica’s keynote video from Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco, where Tekzilla filmed LIVE on our main stage with special guest Evan Williams, co-founder of Twitter.
