Here in Miami this afternoon, Alex de Carvalho, director of community & marketing at Scrapblog, kicked off BarCamp Miami, with some 300 registrants and a sizeable turnout on a beautiful day to hear two score or more impromptu presentations about everything from “Taking Wikipedia offline with Google Gears” and “Tying phones to your apps,” to presos on the the really, truly geeky stuff (for me, anyway), like “Optimizing MySQL” and “Open ID FAQ+.”
Some still pix collaged here from BarCamp Miami 08 …
I’m looking forward to a couple of presos in particular, including David Parmet on “Why your PR agency sucks,” Nate Westheimer on “Beyond the Wiki and the Blog – social publishing/content platforms,” and a third, titled, “Viral Content with Widgets” – I’m all for viral content and my knowledge of widgets is somewhat anaemic, let us say.
Alex’s opening remarks are below, a bit fuzzy (the image and sound, not his remarks!) as captured on a Nokia E70 device, which had I been a bit more expert might have performed lots better. The image and sound don’t do the device justice, but let me say anyway that yes, it’s an S60 smartphone … shameless plug for a sponsor of BarCamp Miami, Nokia’s S60 group, with which my agency has done work from time to time as part of our remit for Forum Nokia (and that’s about as close as I’ll ever get to mentioning a client on this blog!)
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29 February, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Great post! I thoroughly enjoyed both David Parmet’s and Nate Westheimer’s presentations, along with the others I attended.
3 March, 2008 at 10:11 am
Thanks for posting these pictures and video! It was good to meet you, let’s have lunch soon.
1 May, 2008 at 9:38 am
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