![]() Microsoft's Marc Smith tried this with bar code reading Pocket PC's back in the days of Aura (now closed) but it never "really" launched. The "only when necessary consumer" in me loved the idea of OpenTrace - / which is a way to see the environmental impact that a product has from its creation. I thought Yammer - which is twitter for corporations was as pointless as twitter for consumers (disclosure: I reluctantly tweet myself) and could kill productivity faster than corporate instant messaging and email already do. You can read about the Archived Search paper project here: /archivesearch/partner.html It was cool to see Marissa Mayer show Google's indexing (read scanning) of newspapers and the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and hot-linking on their scans of the printed page. Thankfully, a bit of off the cuff humor or a quick roll through a slide deck (as performed by Jeremy Toeman /author/jeremy-toeman/) can force people to be engaged.Īfter a slow (read boring) start from Ashton Kutcher and his site - which I thought was for kids, but it's PG-13, the content at TC50 became more and more interesting. While many are tweeting your moments of awesomeness (like /dacort/statuses/896814882 this) it's hard to have a connection with your audience when a laptop acts as a physical wall in front of your would-be engaged audience. Having been to events with full-speed unadulterated Internet access like Demo, a few Gnomedexes and the Web2.0 conferences, and actually presenting at many events, it is quite annoying to speak at people gazing into their laptops. On the first day of TC50, there was no wireless Internet access, which I actually liked. ![]() I saw a lot of stuff, and below is a sample of the good and bad that resonated with me. ![]() The dust has settled this week and I wanted to share my thoughts of the event. ![]() Last week had non-stop events in San Francisco, TechCrunch 50 (TC50), Apple's Lets Rock announcement and CTIA took my days, and the parties took over the nights. ![]()
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