N2Y3 2008 Mashup Challenge Written By: Michelle Haimoff 2008-05-27 18:55:54 The N2Y3 2008 Mashup Challenge featured 21 teams competing for funding for initiatives ranging from saving endangered languages to ending genocide. On the first day of the conference each team was permitted two minutes to describe their projects, many of which focused on themes like government transparency and corporate accountability, and all of which rely very heavily on websites and social networking platforms. Mapping proved to be a very popular tool for organizing information.
NetSquared Year 3 Conference, Part I Written By: Michelle Haimoff 2008-05-28 00:44:53 Photo: ReefRaff, Creative Commons, Flickr<
I attended the NetSquared Year 3 Conference on May 27-28, 2008 in San Jose, CA, right after Memorial Day weekend. I had spent the weekend in Berkeley, CA at my friend Sammy's wedding so I was a little shaky for the meet and greet on Monday night, but Jean Russell from Nurture Girl stepped in as my unofficial political adviser and helped me network within minutes.
Day two was a little more mellow than day one. Many of the attendees had already met and connected, and the Cisco Systems' Vineyard Conference Center started to feel a little like a college campus.
