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October summary and placeholder
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October was one of the busiest or perhaps most overloaded months I have had in a while. Here is a
briefsummary:
Fundamentos Web
- brand new talk on Social Network Portability
- panel on "Collaborative spaces: interacting in the web" with Tim Berners-Lee via remote video
- microformats workshop
- cofounded the IFBT with Sean Bonner. more on that soon.
- Graphing Social Patterns
- moderated the OpenFaced panel: Opening Up the Social Graph, AFAIK, the first panel focused purely on Social Network Portability.
- bouldering accident. I went bouldering with Ryan King that night after the conference, and a combination of: not having caught up on sleep since returning from Spain, having slept maybe only four hours the night before, having been up since about 6am (the morning drive from SF to SJ is a painful commute), and worn myself out with a full day conference including moderating a panel was all too mentally draining. As a result my reflexes were far too slow when I slipped after finishing a V1 bouldering route that has been particularly challenging for me, fell, and could not quite get my feet properly oriented in time, so I:
- badly sprained and almost broke my right ankle
- knocked my jaw hard with my left knee, splitting open the skin under my chin down to the fat (not quite to the bone).
- sewed the skin of my chin back together with three stitches - the first time in as long as I can remember that I had gotten stitches.
- X-rayed my ankle at a few angles, determined nothing was broken, gave me an "air cast" ankle brace
- saw Bourne Ultimatum. Better than the 2nd movie, perhaps not quite as good as the first. Worth seeing in the theater.
- attended SHDH20 - the first Cupertino devhouse
- brunch with the family at Sultana Restaurant, 1149 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA. Excellent Turkish food and Highly recommended. On weekends, avoid the crowds, long waits and empty carbohydrates at the "Stacks" on the nearby corner of Santa Cruz and El Camino and just walk down a few doors to Sultana where you're sure to have a much tastier brunch.
- got stitches out five days after getting sewn up. Quick and painless.
- rode recovered and repaired motorcycle home. Made some notes about what to fix/improve next.
- stayed off my feet for the most part and missed the Web 2.0 Summit (and associated parties) for the first time, but apparently made an appearance by reference in Ev Williams presentation:
See original blog post: Three Hypotheses of Human Interface Design.
- dealt with a lot of condo conversion stuff (city, papers, permits, loans, insurance, lawyers, sign mylars etc.). Lots of interactions with mostly "pre-internet" companies and organizations via paper, telephone, IRL visits etc.
- dealt with Cobra medical insurance stuff that you have to deal with when you quit a fulltime job and go independent. More "pre-internet" interactions. Forms, forms, and you guessed it, more forms.
- hosted Jeremy Keith for a few days while he was in town for the Voices That Matter Web Design Conference, where I made a brief appearance, met a bunch of really nice people and handed out microformats pocket cheat sheets that I had printed on my printer that morning. Thanks to Adobe for hosting a dinner at Bacar, and to Jeremy for including me as his +1. Jeremy and I even managed to prepare a couple of home cooked dinners for friends. See Jeremy's related posts: Closed open data, Tiki connection, Voices that natter, Return from San Francisco.
- social network portability standards. Ryan King, Jeremy Keith and I believe we have solved the representative hCard problem. Jeremy and I also started work on portable block lists, a more and more important aspect of social network portability.
- Ryan Carson invited me to co-chair FOWA Miami in February 2008 with Brian Oberkirch and I accepted.
- Finally met the wonderful Coley in real life who I originally met virtually on iilwy.com (a site I stopped using after their mobile interface login stopped working for a few days, it seems to be working again today, but now their mobile site has no UI for changing my password and the mainsite requires install of Flash 9 which I don't really have time for, neither the install nor the cheesy slow transitions. also weird: URLs in their emails use the domain "link.sailthru.com" which to me looks like what phishers do). Both Coley and I remarked that we had stopped using the site for a few months now. Important lessons here:
- Don't make your primary website interface require Flash. Especially a new version that users have to download. IILWY is the second social network site to make this mistake. Wallop was the first AFAIK.
- Make your "normal" website as responsive as your "mobile" website. If you can't do this, you might was well consider junking your "normal" website, as I and many others will prefer to use your "mobile" website, even when browsing from a desktop/laptop. This is something I originally learned from Jason Calacanis over a year ago when he remarked that he preferred to use the Mobile version of Technorati on his laptop since it was so much faster.
- After a nice small and quiet house party, actually made a post-midnight trek over to the Tonal Clockwork Orange party - where I was able to dance, just a little, as long as my feet didn't leave the ground. Telene posted some good photos.
- Saw The Pipettes at their second official San Francisco concert. They played a few new songs, but overall the crowd and venue didn't match up as well as the previous show at the Rickshaw Stop.
- Spent Halloween carving a pumpkin, attending a small afternoon halloween party, and rushing home to hand out candy to trick-or-treaters. Lacking the energy to go out, fell asleep watching Nightmare before Christmas before waking up to write up this October summary blog post.
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November is going to be quite busy as well, I'm already having to go thru plans and cancel based on time, cost etc. It is also videoblogging month (NaVloPoMo). I certainly have enough material to post a video a day, the question is, will I be able to?
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