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@ foo: Seth Goldstein (founder of Majestic Research) talks about AttentionTrust.org, and about attention in general (aka attention.xml), and protecting/promoting your attention rights.
(def) Attention: a record of your interaction with media. (more attention definition here)
Interesting discussion about how people might manage their "attention droppings" and interaction with other media / commercial services. Related discussions around privacy, identity theft, advertising, FICO scores / credit reports, etc.
full disclosure: Seth is also a self-professed "raging capitalist" who is also involved in the creation of a company that will be an "attention bank", sort of a Moody's for the individual.
me getting ready to head up to sebastopol yesterday in my foo 2003 shirt:
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Making things is part of being human. Whether you make bikes, kites, food, clothing, protocols for biology research, or hack consumer electronics, good instructions are critical. Instructables is a step-by-step collaboration system that helps you record and share your projects with a mixture of images, text, ingredient lists, CAD files, and more. We hope to make documentation simple and fast. Show your colleagues how to operate a machine, show your friends how to build a kayak, show the world how to make cool stuff.
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pretty f'ing cool :)
just got back wednesday from family vacation, dove right back into conference circuit on thursday. (now up at foo camp tonight, doing a talk on vertical search; more on that later).
i attended Blog Business Summit yesterday, and had the chance to connect with a bunch of cool folks -- Dave Taylor, Robert Scoble, Steve Gillmor, Chris Pirillo, Eric Rice, Mary Hodder, numerous others. also got the chance to meet some new people, including Matt Mullenweg of WordPress fame. then later in the evening Damon & I took Dave Taylor, Gillmor and a few other folks out to a geek dinner along with Om, Tris Hussey, Sam Perry & Nick Hall.
Overall, the conference was pretty cool and gave people a sense of where corporate blogs are at, where they're headed, and how to use a blog to generate both new customers and revenue. Still, i think the audience target was more about how businesses withOUT blogs could jump in an get started. not quite the usual geeky fare, but pretty good networking nonethess. in fact, as DaveT says: if it were't for the physical conference, i might not have the chance to hookup with all these folks real-time.
and dinner at E&O Trading rocked -- highly recommend the calamari, with some dipping sauce that was out of this world :)
dang.
already signed up to go to foo. then heard about bar. now i'm just fubar.
(sidenote: etymology of foo)
i've noted my concerns about the anti-foo-fighters, altho i can understand their perspective.. but not their complaints. still, now i'm wishing i could be in 2 places at once. since i can't do that personally, i guess we'll just have folks from simplyhired in both camps (so to speak).
foo: i'll be attending foo up in sebastopol with our CTO Peter Weck to demo a new project we're working on with O'Reilly.
bar: SimplyHired will also be sponsoring a BarBeer bash in palo alto to show our solidarity there too.
i'm sure both camps will have a terrific geekend... er, weekend :)
Pretty sweet birthday today:
1) SimplyHired.com closed a $3M financing round from angels & entrepreneurs (including yours truly)
2) SimplyFired.com is getting tons of press, blogposts, traffic, & content. woo hoo! it worked :)
3) i was interviewed on how we came up with the voice behind our SimplyBlog, and SimplyHired won top honors in a product review bake-off
4) i played some Ultimate frisbee at the end of the day with some folks over at Google
5) came home and had dinner with Saya & Dante, got to play with him for a bit before he went to bed
all in all, i'd have to say it's been one of the best ever... especially due to #5.
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