Talks
â€How to start your own WISP from scratch†by Martin List-Petersen
Martin was a smart guy filled with enthusiasm and had a lot of interesting things to say. It inspired me to start looking at mesh networking again though, as Martin says, with mesh you lose 30% of your bandwidth.
“Multi-platform video content†by Mairin Murray
Mairin showed considerable enthusiasm for her subject, highlighting her experience with delivery of video content and the change from corporate content to user-content and talked about the future – the development of platforms for content delivery.
“Distributed content – how it is changing the world of training, education and working with clients or trying to promote ideas that go viral.†– E. Alana James
I missed the point of this talk. There were some points, like how it’s easier to use a mobile in Africa than it is to get clean water and good food. I didn’t see much relevance.
“Energy?” – Phoebe Bright
This was interesting from the statistics on energy conversion (though I’d like to see their figures). It really made me think that I should be rigging up an exercise bike to a battery. We’re heading towards an energy crisis.
â€GlobalDMX – a Global Digital Media Exchange†by Michael Walsh
This one made me think the most as it covered the serious problems with digital content distribution networks and the fear that the ‘analog’ content owners have with them. Some things are broken.
“Zimbie demo/talk” – Sean Lyons
RSS feeds being fed into Instant Messenger. Not really inspired. I want it the other way round. A presence bot online which will feed all content I receive into an RSS feed for later consumption. Yes, I’m time-shifting my conversations. Nothing wrong with that.
The Raffle
I threw a tenner at the Raffle and we ended up winning two Raffle prizes – a copy of Microsoft Office for Mac (which is funny) and the hamper from Spicendipity (which there’s going to be a fight over). Bonus!
“Dragons Den†competition
There were a couple of presentations that were Dragon’s Den quality. There was an elevator pitch about a specialised bag for Hurling gear. There were two American women who were pitching something that I couldn’t quite grasp – something about education and the other was custom hand-made furniture. The fourth pitch was WeddingDates.ie which was a pretty good pitch though I think her optimism in the organisation of wedding venues (who tend to use paper ledgers) in relaying booking information was seriously misled. The last pitch was for a software-configurable radio system – pitched at totally the wrong level and containing only information relevant to tech-heads – none of whom were judges. The winner was the affable bloke with the Hurling Gear bag.
21:30
Due to the cold and the lack of red wine, the Belfast contingent decided to repair to the Derg Inn for beers and pudding.
00:00
We’re heading back to the cottage. It’s only 23:44 right now – but that’s the plan. I’m tired and we’ve an early start ahead of us.
Let me know how you get on with the gift basket. There’s tutorials and recipes on the site! Enjoy! 🙂
Well, it caused a bit of a fight as the various individuals in our posse debated who should get what.
Who could have guessed that BBQ tongs constituted a ‘deadly weapon’.