Earlier in the year, Scott and I live blogged from the server side symposium. I’m going to try to do the same from here at web 2.0 expo. The big differences is I only paid for the keynotes. While I will go to some sponsored sessions i’ll only blog about those if there is non-commercial type content. The other big difference is that it is dark at the keynotes and I am typing on my lap. Will see how that goes.

As with last time, I am typing on my ipad and will edit for typos/add formattimg from my real computer later.

Anyway, tonight is Ignite. I’ve never tried live blogging at ignite. I have tweeted during it though so worst case is this blog post is a bunch of one liners. And if you’ve never attended an ignite you need to! 15 second slides for 5 minutes; what a pace.

I already learned something. I should have decided i was going to attempt live blogging at home and entered the speaker names and titles then.

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Alexis Ohanian – make the world suck less

• Co founder of reddit – cool!
• “not in the one percent” – current events anyone?
• Slide with reddit guy with two others hipmunk (travel) and breadpig (geeky products using proceeds for good)
• Forbes list will habe more geeks and builders in future
• If everyone does a little thing…

Amy Herman – how picasso helps to solve a murder case

• noticing detail in art helps train. As does changing perspective or talkingabout difficult things
• Cool. The stuff people point out or is hard to notice

Caroline Drucker – how to get more women in tech in under a minute

• If want to be respected, use word woman not girl. Huts making tech a better place.
• Girl implies authority on behalf of speaker or reinforces old way
• We are happy to be out of high school. Girl ends there
• Avoid verbiage “I may not be an expert” diminishes you. Makes sound unconfident
• Women engineer not geek girl
• Cute pictures of little girls on slides

Corvidea Raven – how to unstale your cheerios

• Microwaving doesnt help umless eat the second they come out
• Water them. So the soggy bothers you more than the staleness
• Dry clean them 🙂
• 2 qts liquid nitrogen 🙂

David Phillips – los angeles survival kit

• Culver city The ie 6 of la
• Rich people throw out clothes in a year. Go get them
• Save phone calls for when in car/traffic
• Not an actor – professional auditioner

Emma Persky – how to win at karaoke

• Traveling karaoke across country in ran
• Matching a tune is singing; don’t need to sing well for karaoke
• Feeling energy/ passion is how you win
• Choose a song people knowsosense energy
• Sing with friendat same time (not duet)
• stick mic at someone else so they help
• Dress up, props

Jack Aboutboul – let’s talk

• Future : higher bandwidth communication. Holograms?
• Showed past of communication evolving – smoke signal, carier pigeon.
• Pigeon to web is a big jump
• Community board is original “wall”
• Punchcard – few characters. Like twitter
• “are you living your life ir being distracted from it?”

Jonathan Levy – life of an infomercial before and after model

• Entertaining story. What the title sounds like. More than I ever wanted to know about weightloss

Lucianne Walkowicz – explosions in the sky: the new era of time-domain astronomy

• Cool chile is recording sky over 10 yrs. Like giant cosmic movie. Data will be public right away
• Sky alert tells you when interesting eventhappening socan see
• Sky inherently democratic – open to all to see
• Lsst.org

Mark Malkoff – stretching boundaries, challenging societym testing limits

• Will the apple store let me bring in a goat? (that video was hilarious)

• All starbucks stores look the same – visited all starbucks in manhattan in 24 hours
• Turbulence is like being in a boat getting over a wave – lived on a plane for a month
• NYers are nice! – had people cary him from southern tip of manhaattan. Went 9 miles
• Mta buses are slow – beat 42nd street bus on kids big wheel. Won by 2 minutes
• Crumbs cupcake kill abs in 5 days

Mark’s channel with videos – I really enjoyed the Big Wheel vs Bus one.

Matt Lemay – my new software company

•  LOL. Loved the rip on lack of business model – it was hilarious when he got to the point. The software is a band. Music is software. And musicians are entrepreneurs
• Problem to solve : “i don’t have enogh software”
• $10 live software demo

Michelle broderick – how mayor mccheese built mcdonaldland into a hyper local community

• Make odd mcdonalds characters look like a group
• Community starter sets tone for most of time
• Love the cat on a mac slide!
• Cats with booze. Opening strong with the cat slides.
• Want both ofline and offline connecttions for people in your community

Ron Goldin – workcation in the modern era

• Finding ways to inject energy into work
• Take a day – less work days per week to avoidlayoffs. But people liked it because got chores/distractions. Half of people dont even take their vacation days
• Break the day – take break outside work or even go work outside to get more energy/ new ideas
• Go away – work in different city/culture to get new ideas

Samhita Mukhopadhyay – outdated: 5 reasons dating is ruining your life

• Dating is sifting thru people like resumes looking for right one
• Sexist myths – This is a tech blog. Not posting this part. But it was good.

Sarah Feingold – the laws of ring pops

• Hmm law school has a metal class?
• Copyright – ip protection grounded in constitution. Like art on ring pop wrapper and the ring itself
• Trademark – word phrase symbol or design. Like ring pop phrase itself. R = registered trademark
• Patent for idea such ad”combined candy and ribg” and “ring having a metrics for candy”
• and they threw out hundreds of ring pops to the audience!

Suraj Patel – the social media echo chamber

• Politics and twitter. Hmm. I came here to getaway from politics
• Social media reinforces our beliefs because follow people with similar beliefs
• Cool tweet cloud graph
• “everyone is entitled to own opinion but not own facts”
• Leaving out which party he pointed out. But this is new your city so youcan guess. Where is the other party’s example? Ooh found one – far right and far left picked on at least in passing

Nick Crocker – floss the teeth you want to keep – how to change yourself

• Little changes take months. Can’t just decide to change
• First time people dying from too much food
• Tech makes worse because shorter timefrom impulse to action
• Tip make only one change for (21 days to habit)
• do repetitively
• Easier to ad behavior than remove one
• Create trigger for new behavior
• Change with a friend
• Measure the change so know if on right track
• Change environment – hard to change if old way all around
• 10 points in 5 minutes is a lot

Tereza Nemessanyi – i digitized my mom

• Putting off decisions makes stress which makes us make worse decisions
• Eustress – make decision making a game
• Better qus get better answers – must be a decision, close decision could go eithet way, it could happen to you, result matters
• Site is community polling. Honestlynow.com

Amitguptaneedsyou.com – bone marrow info