WSTC 2008
I’ve made the now-annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas for the internal WebSphere Services Technical Conference. The direct Virgin flight from Gatwick actually seemed to pass relatively quickly despite the...
View ArticlePoster at WSTC 2008
I haven’t had a chance to write up many of my thoughts from the WebSphere conference I’m attending in Las Vegas yet – the agenda is, as usual, absolutely jam-packed with content so I’ve not had much...
View ArticleWeb 2.0 Expo Berlin
In a little over a week I will be heading to Berlin for the Web 2.0 Expo… along with a bunch of my colleagues from the social software scene inside IBM, many of whom I’ve not had the opportunity to …...
View ArticleWeb 2.0 Expo Berlin 2008 – kickoff
I made it to the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin, following some interesting travel situations and timezone jumps… I’ll almost certainly blog about last week’s diving trip once I’ve had time to get back from...
View ArticleWeb 2.0 Expo Berlin retrospective
It has been a month since the Expo, which has given me some time to reflect on the experience. Expectations vs experience I guess my own expectations of the event were skewed by excitement that it was...
View ArticleThe inaugural HomeCamp
As I previously mentioned, on Saturday I went along to HomeCamp 08 in London, organised by Chris Dalby and Dale Lane, and sponsored by Current Cost and Redmonk. I was pretty actively commenting from...
View ArticleNext speaking engagement – SOMESSO London
Thanks to Luis Suarez who made some key introductions, I’ve been asked to speak at the SOMESSO social media conference in London on May 15th. I’m in some lofty company with guys I hugely respect like...
View ArticleMaking an IMPACT
Apparently there’s some Rational software conference in Orlando at the end of May. Of course, Lotusphere was out there at the beginning of the year too. Pah! Forget those! 🙂 For me, the place to be is...
View ArticleHome Camp mark 2
The second Home Camp event takes place in London tomorrow. I won’t repeat all of the details here, as they are covered over on the Home Camp blog. We have some wonderful sponsors – CurrentCost,...
View ArticleSOMESSO trailer
I’m impressed with the trailer for the London SOMESSO conference that I’m speaking at next month: If you missed today’s discounted tickets, I have a discount code for you – XYSO09CANDYP – sign up...
View ArticleIBM IMPACT 2009 photos
Photos I’m taking at IMPACT 2009 are up on Flickr – this slideshow should auto-update as more are added, since it selects from the tagged images in my account. I’m taking snapshots using my compact...
View ArticleIMPACT – work, play, product announcements
I’m not going to run down all of the announcements that came out during the first day of IMPACT yesterday – you can take a look at Sandy Carter’s video summary for some of the key ones, like Smart...
View ArticleOpenness and Innovation in a Web 2.0 world
Today I have been speaking at the SOMESSO conference in London. I inherited the topic from my friend Luis Suarez… it was billed as “Knowledge management: Security, Intellectual Property and Privacy”...
View ArticleSOMESSO summary
The nice folks from AudioBoo caught me for a quick interview after my presentation yesterday and you can hear the short summary of what I talked about on their site, or by playing the embedded audio...
View ArticleSome audio from SOMESSO
Couple of things: I added a c. 20 min audio commentary to my deck on Slideshare – hopefully it will make the slides a bit more meaningful! Here’s a snippet from Susan Kish’s summary of the day, where...
View ArticleDouble vision – videos from SOMESSO
You wait three weeks for a video, and then two turn up at once. No wait… that was buses. The video of my talk from SOMESSO London 2009 has been made available. Unfortunately I’m not able to embed that...
View ArticlePoken are growing up?
It seems like just a few short months ago that I discovered Poken – neat little USB keychain devices which you can touch together when you meet someone else with one, in order to electronically...
View ArticleEnterprise Convergence: CRIM Crystal Ball 2010
Today I had the privilege of joining a number of distinguished speakers on the slate at the CRIM Crystal Ball Conference, 2010, in Montreal, Quebec. My topic was what I chose to term Enterprise...
View ArticleMy talk from CRIM Crystal Ball 2010 – video
Following my talk in Montreal a couple of weeks ago, my hosts from CRIM have been kind enough to provide me with the video and have also given me permission to share it online. They’ve also posted a...
View ArticleFirst impressions of LinuxConf Australia #lca2011
Well now. Here I am on my first visit to Australia, primarily in order to speak this week at LinuxConf Australia 2011 (a session on Lightweight Messaging for smarter devices on Friday, for those...
View ArticleLightweight Messaging and Linux #lca2011
I’ve just delivered my talk at LinuxConf Australia 2011 – Lightweight Messaging for a Connected Planet. Unlike any of the other “spins” of the MQTT overview talk I’ve delivered before, this one really...
View ArticlePhoto post: IBM IMPACT 2011
I didn’t have a “proper” camera with me at IMPACT this year, but I did snap a bunch of images using my iPhone – they were either tweeted via yfrog, or through Instagram. Don’t expect the most awesome...
View ArticleTransferSummit 2011
One of the benefits of having attended OggCamp a few weeks ago was that I became aware of another event. Steve Lee, one of the speakers at OggCamp, is also involved with TransferSummit, and he was good...
View ArticleMy first VMworld
I’m very excited to be here with my colleagues and our customers and partners at the annual VMworld conference, this year held in San Francisco (conveniently close to our HQ and also the location where...
View ArticleUpcoming speaking gigs
Fresh from a quick presentation and supporting Hackference this past weekend (more on that soon), I’ve turned my attention to the next couple of months of travel and events. There’s a lot of stuff...
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