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CloudCamp San Francisco
On the eve of Structure 08 in San Francisco, the folks behind many of today’s cloud computing initiatives will be gathering at CloudCamp. GigaOM is one of the evening’s sponsors:
CloudCamp was formed in order to provide a common ground for the introduction and advancement of cloud computing. Through a series of local CloudCamp events, attendees can exchange ideas, knowledge and information in a creative and supporting environment, advancing the current state of cloud computing and related technologies.
If you’re in the city, come check it out. The event, which will be held from 5-9 pm on June 24th, is community-backed and free to attend. And it will be a great primer on cloud computing.
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OATV Startup Camp Wants You
O’Reilly Media is looking for founders from early-stage startups to attend its OATV Startup Camp, a two-day event that will cover topics such as fundraising, PR and viral marketing, as well as working with investors and a board of directors. It will be held in Sebastopol, Calif. from July 11-13, just prior to the annual hacker gathering, Foo Camp. For more info., including how to apply, go here.
StartupCamp 5 in SF This Weekend
Sun Microsystems will bring its StartupCamp, a free, two-day “unconference” that gathers together founders, entrepreneurs and technologists, to San Francisco’s Moscone Center starting this Sunday, May 4th. The event will feature a keynote from Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz that will include an on-stage interview by our own Om Malik, plus panels on topics ranging from cloud computing to social networks to media launch how-to’s. To register, click here.
StumbleUpon Gets into Search
StumbleUpon, the social Web service, is doing something pretty cool. No, it’s not going to earn back the $75 million eBay (EBAY) paid for it. But it’s going to start overlaying the information its members have provided about a Web page — whether they like it or don’t, and what they’ve written about it — onto the rest of the web.
StumbleUpon’s product is a toolbar which learns about people’s preferences for Web pages to help them find new ones they’ll like, and the company has collected 100 million ‘thumbs up’ or ‘thumbs down’ for Web pages and 13 million reviewed Web pages over the years.
If StumbleUpon has data for a page it will overlay so-called “SearchReviews” right next to the regular search results page on Google (GOOG), Yahoo (YHOO), MSN, Ask, Flickr, Wikipedia, Yahoo News, YouTube, and Google News. You can see if your StumbleUpon friends like a page, and pivot on a category associated with that page to find more recommended stuff.
StumbleUpon founder Garrett Camp has two good justifications for his tool as compared to other social search engines (such as Wink and Eurekster), which have yet to give the front-runners much of a challenge (then again, places two, three, and four are having trouble giving Google much of a challenge!).
As Camp points out,
1) StumbleUpon has tons of data, so it will already be useful at launch — in internal testing StumbleUpon apparently had results for at least 60 percent of queries. 2) People are unlikely to switch to a new search engine, and the new StumbleUpon feature doesn’t require them to.
So will StumbleUpon SearchReviews be integrated into eBay — or is StumbleUpon bound to be another Skype?
“Not yet,” is Camp’s answer — he says the product will have to be significantly changed to incorporate data about auctions as opposed to Web sites. StumbleUpon apparently isn’t expected to do any integration with eBay for at least the next six months.
MySQL Camp 2007
Are You Ready To Bar Camp?
Bar Camp, an open multi-day event where people can share ideas and talk about just about anything they like, is a very important event for me. Two years ago I attended the first Bar Camp, which was held at Social Text’s offices in Palo alto. It was just a few weeks after starting TechCrunch, and nearly everyone I met there is now a friend. It was held just before all the craziness happened with the web, and the people who were starting companies weren’t expecting much of a return - they were doing it out of passion.
Pandora and TechMeme launched at the event, and we got our first glimpse of Flock. My notes on the event are here and here.
Since the original event there have been over 150 Bar Camps held around the world. 10,000 or so people have attended at least one of them.
This year, Bar Camp is back at the original location at Social Text’s offices in Palo Alto. But far more people are going to attend, so the organizers (Chris Messina, Ross Mayfield, Liz Henry, Tantek Çelik and Tara Hunt) have received city permission to take over the entire block (and so the event is called Bar Camp Block) At least 1,000 people are expected to flow through the three day event.
Event information is here. You can also sign up to attend at that link. See you there.
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Scripting Engine update
Working on it made me remember a little known rule that may have much to say about WengoPhone: Philip Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming. It basically states
any sufficiently complex system includes at least one scripting language interpreterAs WengoPhone may soon include several, this could mark its coming of age.
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