No, its not me. But, it is someone I know quite well. My dad recently showed up on CBS in an interview about the outstanding TED conference. The piece really captures the essence of TED and the amazing community that has blossomed under its curator Chris Anderson. This post from the TED blog is a good next click.
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Charles/Lorin w/ the @Hire ladies at the DCI event.
If you don’t have a glass bowl for business cards, just go buy some fries at the cafe and when you’re done, make sure you save the container.
Here’s jambo friend Chris Pirillo, showing off his bling at SXSW. He took his panelist card and turned it into an easy-to-read name badge.
Here we with some friends-of-Jambo at booth f6 at SXSW. Come see us! A shout out to Lorin Rivers:
We’ll be at the DCI event tomorrow night. Its a great organization – I’ve been talking w/ Dean from salsa.net a bunch and he is very excited about revitalizing the tech community in Texas. We are too!
We knew Jambo would be useful at events like Macworld for finding sales leads, industry advice, and job opportunities during the event itself, but we completely underestimated just how cool it would be to use Jambo to discover fellow drinking companions.
At the end of each day of Macworld, Team Jambo would look for the WiFi beacons of attendees in their hotel rooms, perhaps checking email at the end of a long day at the conference. We’d fire up a Jambo proximity chat and convince them to head out on the town with us. As we prowled San Francisco’s finest drinking establishments, we’d pick up more signals from other hotel rooms nearby. Here’s a shot of Team Jambo and friends during a late night at Fluid — many thanks to Adam Jackson for organizing.
I had the pleasure of speaking with Chuck Joiner at MacVoices about what we’re up to. Here’s what he has to say about us:
“Jim Young of Jambo talks about his company’s product that let like-minded, like-interested users who are physically close to each other in tradeshow, conference and other situations find each other. Jambo was in use at Macworld Expo and receiving substantial interest from attendees.”
The podcast (MacVoices #603) is here. Also check out Guy Kawasaki’s podcast about FilmLoop, right before ours (MacVoices #602).
The line gets bigger every minute. Here are a few shots from the diehards at the front. Many camped overnight.
