8:45am Thursday, 03/06/2008
The Case for Africa as a Mobile Development Hothouse
General Marina Ballroom F
Joel Selanikio (DataDyne.org)
Dependence on mobile Internet access gives developers in Africa a unique perspective, free of the baggage of the desktop browser. Learn how we can reap dividends, new perspectives, and the potential for as-yet-unimagined applications.
9:35am Thursday, 03/06/2008
OpenMoko and Ubiquitous Computing
General Marina Ballroom E
Michael Shiloh (OpenMoko)
The promise of Ubiquitous Computing has been with us for a few years, but have the goals really been achieved? In this talk we will explore the obstacles to Ubiquitous Computing, and why I believe the OpenMoko project can help further the development of true Ubiquitous Computing .
11:00am Thursday, 03/06/2008
Las Vegas: Behind the Scenes. What Sensors? What Privacy? What Anonymity? The Whole Story
General Marina Ballroom E
Jeff Jonas (IBM)
Jeff Jonas, who has architected and built numerous casino systems, takes you behind the scenes to describe the scams and "trip-wires" that make it possible to detect the unwanted—even before the opportunist arrives at the casino. .
11:50am Thursday, 03/06/2008
Why Won't Second Life Just Go Away, Already? Understanding Web 2.0's Most Misunderstood Phenomenon
Mission Hills
W. James Au (The Making of Second Life)
Overpraised in 2006 then dismissed in 2007 by the media and Internet gurus alike, Linden Lab's user-created virtual world keeps growing, attracting companies and organizations and millions of accounts. How is this possible, and what does it say about the Internet's future? The company's former "embedded journalist" and author of *The Making of Second Life* explains. .
2:00pm Thursday, 03/06/2008
Building a Bright Green Future
Keynote Marina Ballroom D
Alex Steffen (Worldchanging)
If everyone lived like a typical prosperous American, we'd need ten planets to sustain our way of life. What might a sustainable future look like? How do we use ingenuity to design a future that's both bright and green? .
2:30pm Thursday, 03/06/2008
Twine: The Social Graph Meets the Semantic Web
Keynote Marina Ballroom D
Lew Tucker (Radar Networks)
We'll discuss and demo an innovative new service: Twine.com, built on a semantic web platform and designed to grow and enrich communities of interest. Semantics are used throughout as the system automatically annotates information with meta data, tags, and relationships. .
2:50pm Thursday, 03/06/2008
Digital Democracy 2008 and Beyond
Keynote Marina Ballroom D
Micah Sifry (Personal Democracy Forum)
Four years ago, at ETech 2004, O'Reilly hosted a seminal one-day Digital Democracy Teach-In, focused on how internet technologies were "putting power back into the hands of the people." In 2008, the internet has become a central battlefield for the presidential campaigns, but how much are they actually using the net to empower their supporters? .
3:00pm Thursday, 03/06/2008
The 4-Hour Workweek
Keynote Marina Ballroom D
Timothy Ferriss (The 4-hour Workweek).