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Did you know:
The number of years it took to reach a market audience of 50 Million?
Radio: 38
Television: 13
Internet: 4
If you want to know more, watch this video
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Did you know:
The number of years it took to reach a market audience of 50 Million?
Radio: 38
Television: 13
Internet: 4
If you want to know more, watch this video
Sphere: Related ContentThese are events planned for the Silicon Valley area for the week beginning November 3; please let me know if you’d like to include an event.
If you’re interested in New York tech/Web events, check out CenterNetworks list.
Monday November 3
DreamForce
Host: Salesforce
Dates: November 2 - 5
Place: San Francisco, Moscone Center
Cost: $1,299
Widget Summit 2008
Host: Hat Trick Media
Dates: November 3 - 4
Place: San Francisco, Hotel Nikko
Cost: $895
Tuesday November 4
WCA’s 14th Annual International Symposium & Business Expo
Host: Wireless Communications Association International
Dates: November 4 - 6
Place: San Jose
Cost: $50 Exhibit only - $995 non members
South Bay Bloggers Meetup
Host: South Bay Bloggers
Time: 7 – 11 p.m.
Place: Cupertino
Cost: Free
GridGain 2.0 – Grid Computing Made Simple
Host: SDForum
Time: 6.45 – 9 p.m.
Place: Palo Alto
Cost: Free Members/$15 Non Members
Wednesday November 5
Web 2.0 Summit
Host: O’Reilly Conferences
Date: 5 – 7 November
Place: San Francisco, The Palace Hotel
Cost: By invitation only
Thursday November 6
Viacom vs. YouTube: The epic struggle for creative expression
Host: The Commonwealth Club
Time: 5.30 – 7.30 p.m.
Place: Palo Alto, Four Seasons Hotel, Silicon Valley
Cost: $15 Members/$20 Non Members
Social Marketing Tips presented by SF WoW
Host: McCann Worldwide
Time: 6 – 9 p.m.
Place: San Francisco
Cost: $10
WEBCAST: The State of the U.S. Online Retail Economy
Host: comScore
Date: November 6,
Time: 2 – 3 p.m. EST
Cost: Free
Silicon Valley Business Expo V
Host: Every Circle and InfoBayArea
Time: 6 – 9 p.m.
Cost: $15 before 11/6, or $20 at door
Place: Santa Clara, Avalaon
Saturday November 8
Circuitry Class Engages Kids and Parents
Host: The Intel Museum
Time: 10.30 a.m. – 2.45 p.m.
Cost: Free
Place: Santa Clara
More Info: Email: museum@intel.com or Tel: 408-765-0889
Information from:
Gary’s Guide
Tech Venue
Info Bay Area
Allen Stern puts together a roundup of Web/tech events for New York every week, and his list inspired me to do the same for Silicon Valley events, given I keep a list of potential events to cover for ReadWriteWeb.
So, here are events planned for the Silicon Valley area; let me know if there are any that I’ve missed, and I’ll do my best to include them.
Monday 27th October
Design Thinking Morning Forum
Host: SVAMA
Time: 8.30 - 10 a.m.
Place: Palo Alto
Cost: $5 Members/$15 Non Members
Annual Future of Virtual Worlds
Host: SD Forum
Time: 6.30 - 9.30 p.m.
Place: Palo Alto
Cost: Free Members/$15 Non Members
International Congress of Nano-Bio Clean Tech 2008
Host: International Association of Nanotechnology
Time: Monday 27 - Thursday 30
Place: Burlingame
Cost: $795
Gallery of Serial Entrepreneurs
Host: Right-Hand Partners LLP
Time: 5.30 - 8 p.m.
Place: Mountain View
Cost: $50
Tuesday 28th October
Entrepreneurial Best Practices Series : IP and Legal Issues
Host: Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Time: 6.30 - 8.30 p.m.
Place: UC Berkeley
Cost: $50
Web Services SIG: Financial Cloud Services
Host: SD Forum
Time: 6.30 - 9 p.m.
Place: Palo Alto
Cost: Members Free/Non Members $15
BlogWell: How big companies use social media
Host: GasPedal and the Blog Council
Time: 1 - 5 p.m.
Place: San Jose
Cost: $200
SNAP Summit3: All about the Social Web
Host: Room Full of People
Time: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Place: San Francisco
Cost: Student $99/General Admission $249
* Live video stream once the event begins
Innovating and Adapting in the Emerging 3.0 World
Host: New Voice of Business
Time: 5.30 - 7.30 p.m.
Place: San Francisco
Cost: $10 Members/$20 Non Members
Wednesday 29th October
Social Media Strategies Conference [Day 1]
Host: Web Guild Silicon Valley
Time: Wed October 29, 7 a.m. - Thursday October 30, 5 p.m.
Place: San Francisco
Cost: $875 Members/$975 Non Members
The Chronicles of Web Standard: the HTML 5, the Comet and the WebSocket
Host: Silicon Valley Web Builder
Time: 6.30 - 9.30 p.m.
Place: Google Campus, Mountain View
Cost: Free if register online
Lawrence Lessig Remix Book Party
Host: Stanford Law School
Time: 6.30 - 9 p.m.
Place: San Francisco
Cost: Free
Best of San Francisco Show 2008
Host: International Advertising Association (IAA) - West
Time: 6 - 9 p.m.
Place: Adobe, San Francisco
Cost: $25 Members/$35 Non Members/$10 Students with ID
Thursday 30th October
Social Media Strategies Conference [Day 2]
Special Gala Dinner: Distinguished Service Award Celebration
Honoring: Susan Decker, President Yahoo! Inc
Host: Institute of International Education
Time: 6-9 pm
Place: St. Regis Hotel, San Francisco
Cost: $250+
Ubuntu 8.10 Release Party: San Francisco
Time: 7.30 p.m.
Place: The Thirsty Bear, San Francisco
Cost: Free
The Next Generation of Advanced Media
Host: National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Time: 7 - 9 p.m.
Place: San Francisco
Cost: $10 Members/$30 Non Members
Cross-Cultural User-Experience Design
Host: AIGA
Time: 6.30 - 8.30 p.m.
Place: San Francisco, CA
Cost: Free
Politics 2008: Sound Bites, Spin, and the Search for the Facts
Host: The Churchill Club
Time: 6 - 9 p.m.
Cost: $64 Members / $78 Non Members
Place: Menlo Park
Friday - Halloween
New York Tech Web Events - Week of October 26
Sphere: Related ContentThe Simple Image Link has been updated to allow the image to be displayed based on the user’s role.
This replaces the ‘Display image’ checkbox in earlier versions.
This is useful for WordPress, including MU, installations which allows users to login.
This functionality was inspired by Praveen’s comment and initial code.
Thanks for all the feedbackon the plugin to date.
Sphere: Related ContentWhile the recent Digg bans have caused much online controversy, little attention has been given to the larger issue affecting users of social sites, namely user rights.
Last year, Mike Arrington, Robert Scoble, Joseph Smarr and Marc Canter wrote a Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web. The document asserts that all users of the social Web are entitled to certain fundamental rights when it comes to ownership of their information.
Our question is: what rights do the banned diggers have?
While their submissions and Diggs remain on the site, their profile information is simply wiped out; they vanish, as if they never existed.
Digg argues that by not disclosing the reasons for individual bans - but for breaking the TOU - they are abiding by their privacy policy, and thus protecting the user. We argue that they’re hiding behind their privacy policy; the banning process should be transparent and open, particularly with users who want their voices heard.
Surely it’s a conflict of interest if the operating company, whose goal is to make money [now or in the future], can be the same body that determines which users can have access to the site and which can not?
Users should be offered a formal appeal process, be it public or private, and be given an opportunity for further recourse through a third party arbitrator if no resolution can be agreed on.
Additionally, while Digg certainly should remove any inappropriate content, any users that have had an account suspended or terminated should still be able to login, and their account should remain functional so that they can review or transfer their content.
Thoughts?
Update: Neal Rodriguez put together a five minute video with some excellent points; check out
Dear Kevin and Jay
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