The next BayCHI meeting (August 9) looks pretty good. A panel on web 2.0 with the likes of david sifry from technorati, Paul Rademacher (creater of the google/craigslist mashup,), and Stewart Butterfield from Flickr. On the hallowed grounds of Xerox-PARC, where everything we take for granted was invented.
Event Announcements
Mad Scientist’s Club: Squid Labs Tech Nite
Squid Labs is hosting the MIT club of Northern California for a tech-night tonight. Wine, cheese, laser cutters, hydrodynamic tanks, and a wind tunnel! It’s in Emeryville at 7PM, and they say to come early if you want a seat near the table saw. Via the Oreilly blog network.
Paul Graham: Hiring is obsolete
Paul Graham
(lisp enthusiast, successful tech entrepreneur and author of the excellent book Hackers and Painters) is speaking at Berkeley tonight.
If you miss “Hiring is obsolete“, you can catch him 2 days later at PARC, for “How to Sell A Startup” (Note: the PARC talk costs 25$, the Berkeley talk is free). If you miss that, you can console yourself by reading some of his excellent essays.
A talk by Geoffrey Moore
Geoffrey Moore, the author of “Crossing the Chasm” (the “unofficial bible of silicon valley”) will be giving a talk entitled “What Kind of Software Company are You Trying to Build” in Santa Clara next Tuesday. The event is hosted by the software SIG of TIE Silicon Valley.
I’ve written about Moore’s model and it’s implications for usability before. As the owner of a tiny little software company myself, I expect to learn a lot from this event about how to position our software in the marketplace. Notes on a talk he gave a few weeks ago should give a sense of what to expect.
Recent Innovations in search / information finding
An upcoming BayCHI event promises to be just awesome.
This month, a star-studded panel will look at recent developments in search and information finding. Panelists include:
Jakob Nielsen: Usability rock star
Peter Norvig: Director of Search Quality, Google
Ken Norton: Director of Product Management, Yahoo! search
Udi Manber: CEO of A9
Rahul Lahiri: VP of Search Product Management at Ask Jeeves
Moderated by Uzanto‘s own Rashmi Sinha.
Anyone who’s interested in search in general, or the intersection of search and user experience in particular, should attend. April 12th, at PARC in Palo Alto.
Upcoming Events: Flash Seminar in New Delhi
The Delhi Flash User Group is putting on a seminar on RIA development this Thursday. Owas (from GE) is going to be giving an indepth treatment to skinning in Flash, and Arpit (also from GE) is going to be talking about how to use ActionScript as a proper programming language. Simon Horwith (from eTrilogy) will be introducing FLEX.
BayCHI Meeting: Is an RIA in your future?
On August 10th there is going to be a very cool BayCHI panel, down at ye old Xerox Parc research center. David Temkin (from Laszlo), Mike Sundermeyer (from Macromedia), Iain Lamb and Ethan Diamond from Oddpost, and Jim Hobart (from Classic Systems Solutions) are going to be talking about RIAs and how they impact usability.
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