A Sweet Wireless Schedule!
Several weeks ago, we were approached by Sweet Caesar about the possibility of them creating a wireless application that would make the schedules for mesh and meshU available on a Blackberry and an iPhone.
Intrigued, I met with Sweet Caesar’s Yaeko Tong, who showed me some of the Toronto-based company’s work. It was so impressive that it was a no-brainer for Sweet Caesar to do something for mesh.
Without gushing too much, the Sweet Caesar/mesh application is super sweet. Not only are there detailed schedules for mesh and meshU but the application includes:
- A tool that lets you rate every keynote, panel and workshop (one to five stars)
- Bios and photos for every meshU and mesh speaker
- A floor plan for MaRS so you can quickly find out where the keynotes, panels and workshops are located
- A map that lists the locations of the meshU party at The Drake, the mesh party at the Rockwood and the after-party at L’Espresso Bar Mercurio
Yaeko and her team have really gone above and beyond the call of duty. We’re extremely impressed!
If you want to download the Sweet Caesar/mesh application, it will be available here on May 19 (Monday).
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Breaking News: 15MOF Presenters
One of the things we try to do at mesh is put the spotlight on startups that are developing new and interesting services.
We do this through 15 Minutes of Fame, which sees each three companies on each day of mesh five minutes each on stage to talk about what their companies do and their strategy to become successful.
This year, we received a record number of 15MOF applicants, which made the selection process challenging. Without further ado, here are the 15MOF presenters:
May 21
Carbonetworks, which has developed software that helps companies create effective carbon emissions strategies to reduce costs and capitalize on emerging global markets.
GigPark, a place to receive recommendations about a wide variety of services from friends and their friends.
AidesRSS, which has created technology to make reading RSS feeds more effective and valuable.
May 22
Well.ca, an online health and beauty store that ships across Canada.
OverlayTV, an interactive media company that provides a video commerce platform that lets Internet users, content owners and e-commerce sites to monetize and customize their video assets.
Enomalism, an open source consulting firm that focuses on solving the cost and complexity for enterprises that run large technical server infrastructures.
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mesh video from Mark Mckay
Video whiz and all-around wild and crazy guy Mark Mckay, who won our mesh 2007 video contest and wound up doing a bunch of video for us last year, came out to a recent mesh meetup at the Irish Embassy and has put together a great little highlight reel for us (and if you haven’t got your ticket for mesh or meshU, you’d better get cracking — they’re going fast!).
Thanks a lot to Mark and to Rob Manne and the other folks at Edelman.
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mesh08 keynote: Garrett Camp of StumbleUpon
A quick update to let everyone know that Garrett Camp, one of the founders of StumbleUpon, is coming to mesh 2008 as our keynote speaker for the business stream (you can see the other keynotes here, as well as some of the other great speakers and panelists we have lined up). We’re pretty excited to be able to bring one of Canada’s leading Web entrepreneurs to Toronto for one of mesh’s “keynote conversations.”
Garrett co-founded StumbleUpon in 2001 with several university friends while he was finishing his degree in software engineering at the University of Calgary. He and a couple of the other members of the StumbleUpon team later moved to San Francisco after getting venture financing, and last year the company was acquired by eBay for $75-million. Garrett is still responsible for StumbleUpon’s product design and strategy, and the service has more than 3.5M members.
mesh on!
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Let’s mesh @ The Irish Embassy
After a lot of work behind the scenes, the preparations for mesh ‘08 and our new event, meshU, are nearly complete. We’ve got some great keynotes - Matt Mason, Club Penguin’s Lane Merrifield and Warner Brother’s Ethan Kaplan - and some terrific panels featuring people such as blip.TV’s Dina Kaplan, Digg’s Daniel Burka, RedFlagDeals’ Derek Szeto and and Techdirt’s Michael Masnick.
Needless to say, we’re excited! So, let’s get together for some pre-mesh conversation, food and a few adult beverages on April 21 at The Irish Embassy. (Update: why not drop by the Facebook page and let us know whether you’re coming)
Here are the details:
When: Monday, April 21
Where: The Irish Embassy Pub & Grill, 49 Yonge Street (Click here for the Google Map.)
Time: 7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Tickets are going fast for mesh and meshU. You can purchase your mesh tickets here, and your meshU tickets here.
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Cory Doctorow: Matt Mason “just nails it”
Here’s a nice comment by Cory on a presentation by Matt Mason, one of our mesh08 keynotes, at the Medici Summit:
Matt’s spiel is great, and for the first 30-or-so minutes, I found myself just nodding along as he expressed — eloquently and delightfully — things I’d heard others like Lessig, Barlow (and me!) say. But then he got to his kicker, and I sat up, electrified: “The best way to profit from pirates is to copy them.”This is one of those eloquent little aphorisms — like Tim O’Reilly’s “The problem for artists isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity” — that just nails it.
(The video link seems to be dead now, but there are loads of other references to Matt, including video, on the web.)
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Project Opus on Branham Top 25 Canadian IT Up and Comers List
This is fun - Project Opus Technologies, founded by friend of mesh David Gratton, is on Branham’s Top 25 Canadian IT Up and Comers list. David will be joining us at mesh08.
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A Few Minutes with Ethan Kaplan
This is cool - Mahalo Daily has an interview with Ethan on YouTube. If you joined us at mesh07 you might remember Ethan from a panel on media. This year he’s returning as a keynote. We’re big fans and the interview is great - get a preview of what we’ll be discussing with Ethan at mesh08!
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mesh Tickets Selling Like Hotcakes
Tickets for this year’s mesh conference have only been on sale for a week but more than 100 have been snapped up. Sure, mesh is still seven weeks away but the early bird catches the worm while the bird who waits until the last minute is often disappointed.
You can purchase your mesh tickets here, while tickets for meshU - our new workshop, hands-on event featuring speakers such as Pownce’s Leah Culver and Digg’s Daniel Burka, can be bought here.
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It’s time again for 15 minutes of fame
Now that mesh tickets are on sale, we’d like to get an early start on 15 Minutes of Fame, the mesh session that introduces you to web entrepreneurs and their startups. On each of the two conference days we do a 15 minute segment with three deserving entrepreneurs and/or their startups, who get five minutes each (hence the 15 minutes) to talk to the attendees about their idea and why they are the best thing to happen to the Web. Last year’s winners were Octopz, DemoFuse, FiveLimes, Conceptshare, SneakerPlay and Wild Apricot - there’s video, too.
Head over to the sign-up form and make your pitch — in 250 words or less — about you and your company or idea, and tell us why we should give you five minutes in front of the mesh crowd. If you get selected, you get a free one-day pass to the conference as well as those five minutes of glory. Of course, past winners aren’t eligible, and you must be this big to apply.
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