Monday, February 09, 2004I'm pleased to announce that we've found the perfect place to have a party tomorrow night. After all the sessions and BoFs - come on over. It's about 1.5 miels from the hotel.
It's called Sparky's - the oldest beer bar in San Diego. Special thanks go out to Jenn Ramsey for pointing us to this place.
Here's a map of how to get there. I'll print up some maps and publicize heavily tomorrow. Look for details on the bulletin boards.
Oh yah - for you folks NOT at Etech - this is a Laszlo Systems party - to get folks to know about all the coolio things Laszlo has to offer the world. Like the SoundBlox jukebox in my blog gutter.
:-)
It appears that Jenn is quite a partier herself.
Former Visio Execs to develop Social Networking for Longhorn
I read in Microsoft Watch that several former Visio/Microsoft execs
"have banded together to form a new company that is developing social-networking software and Web services that will build on top of .Net and Microsoft's forthcoming Longhorn Windows operating system.I did a short stint consulting to Visio back in 1998 or 1997, and spoke at two of their conferences. I will try to track them down and find out what is going on.The new venture, The Graw Group, officially launched in October 2003. The principals behind Graw include Jeremy Jaech and Ted Johnson, the co-founders of Visio."
[Get Real]
The folks at the AlwaysOn Networks use pmachine. I wonder if ther they're gonna switch to to this. I've heard about this new thing and it sounds pretty good.
PMachine is now Expression Engine.
Given that MoveableType has become the virtual gold standard in the world of blogging, the release of any new CMS hardly merits much attention. However, there is this new blogging software, Expression Engine, that has been released by the same team that brought to us PMachine. Infact, as Rick Ellis, the brains behind this effort explains it, this is the next generation PMachine. Now like I found that PMachine was a bit difficult to use, and moreover tough to customize from a design perspective. MT in comparison, once you got over the installation hassles was a breeze to do design mods.
I have been playing around with the beta software of Expression Engine for a while, and I have to say, this one is easy as it gets. While it is not for most of us who use TypePad, but it could be the low cost option to people with high end content management needs. Why? because it already does a lot of things MT 3.0 hopes to do. It has built in RSS feeds, email posting, moblogging features, Multiple categories (for multiple weblogs, where each weblog can have its own independent set) and it allows you to create editorial workflow. (Define statuses like “first draft”, “pending”, “revision”, “final edit”, etc, in order to enable multiple authors to contribute to content.) Many pro-users would love this CMS, I am pretty sure of. Here is a tiny interview with Rick Ellis, the man behind PMachine, which is now based in my second favorite American state, Oregon.
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[Om Malik on Broadband]Driving down to San Diego today for the Digital Democracy Teach-In tomorrow and eTech for the three days after that. See ya there.
Heading to eTech.... 
Looking forward to meeting some of you in realspace at eTech this week. Ping me here or jbat at battellemedia dot com to meet up. [John Battelle's Searchblog]
ETCon Photos are here. Nothing too exciting happening tonight, which is good as I'm self-imposed exile in my hotel room cramming for my tutorial tomorrow.
I did get blown off simultaneously by Howard Rheingold, Dan Gilmore and Esther Dyson a while ago in the lobby. You've got to admit, there's not a lot of conferences where that can happen. (I chose a pretty bad time to introduce myself I think... I'm not particularly good at those things. Russ Beattie: Expert Schmoozer.)
;-)
-Russ
P.S. Matt's got some photos on TextAmerica as well. By russ@russellbeattie.com. [Russell Beattie]
And the brothers Gillmor......
O'Reilly ETech: Social Software Showdown. The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference kicks off Monday, and the rising field of social software looks to take center stage. If you thought peer-to-peer and groupware are dead, think again. They're back in a big way. [eWeek.com Messaging and Collaboration - Featuring Steve Gillmor]
On the Road. Heading to the Emerging Technology conference, where I'm speaking on several panels. This is one of those gatherings where I'm thrilled to be the stupidest person in the room -- I get to learn a lot. [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]
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