Suw Charman participates in ETech virtually, thanks to KevinMarks
Category: Random Musing
ETech Day 1
Here are a few things I picked up on ETech Day 1 a) Daniel Hillis from Applied Minds demostrated some video clips with very cool user interface they developing. Looks like a huge LCD/Plasma on a table, it is able to display map, zooming in, out, pan and flip through ‘layers’ etc very intuitively. And […]
etech and Mac Mini Cooper
I am now in San Diego for O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. I bang into Marc Canter on my way to the registration. Marc is the co-founder of Macromedia but he is really more well-known as a “connector” – he is a social animal who literally knows everyone! We spoke a bit – need to get […]
Breakfast with Dave Farber
Dave Farber (and his wife) was in San Jose for another event and I snatch the opportunity to meet up with them for breakfast this morning. I am glad I did because I really enjoy our breakfast conversation.
Creative vs Apple
Went to University Ave @ Palo Alto (just outside Stanford U) for dinner and saw this Soundworks (aka Creative Shop) selling Creative.
Blink
Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (the author of The Tipping Point) Absolutely love the book. And I can relate to the many stories cited by Malcolm especially about intuition – sometimes people asked me how I know what technology to focus – I don’t know how but I just […]
Reflections on VON
Finally, today is the last day of VON. So many things happened here that I can hardly catch my breath. It is time to sit down and reflect what I learn about VON. 1. This is the largest VON ever – 6,000+ people! (congz to pulver.com). This huge turn out means VoIP is no longer […]
VON Exhibits (Part 1)
Walked a little bit around VON Exhibition in the late afternoon but only managed to half of it before they closed. Anyway, lots of gadgets on displays but a lot of it are just “me too”. But here are also some pretty cool toys. 1) Motorola They are finally here – GSM + WiFi phone! […]
VON Town Hall
This is my first townhall session at VON. Basically an open mike no-barrier Q&A session with FCC folks (Jeffrey Carlisle, Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau and Robertt Pepper, Chief of Policy Development). What is amazing is how open they are in answering the questions, about FCC views, position or thoughts on a whole slew of issues. […]
VON Pre-conference
I spent my morning at Wifi VoIP Summit as I was given a slot to give a presentation about the APEET Trial. When I told the audience that QoS is the last thing in our mind in our trial, one of the audience jumped and said something to the effect that 802.11b can only support […]