What questions do you have for Lane Merrifield?
As I mentioned recently on twitter, I am doing the keynote conversation with Lane Merrifield, CEO of Club Penguin on Thursday morning at mesh, and I’d like to know what you would like to hear from him. For me, the really interesting things here relate to virtual worlds, kids online, safety and sensitivities around all that (as a Father of two young girls, this certainly strikes close to home).
What would you like me to ask?
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mesh keynote update: Matt Mason
For anyone who was looking forward to the mesh keynote by Pirate’s Dilemma author Matt Mason (and that includes all of us on the mesh organizing team) we got some bad news over the weekend. Unfortunately, Matt has run into some visa problems in the United States, and he won’t be able to make it to mesh. While we are disappointed that we couldn’t work things out in time — as is Matt — we do have a top-notch replacement for him as the society keynote: Dr. Michael Geist, the University of Ottawa law professor and copyright expert.
Dr. Geist was originally scheduled to do a presentation Wednesday afternoon about how Facebook and other social media tools are being used for grassroots lobbying and advocacy purposes, building on his experience in setting up a Facebook group opposed to Ottawa’s anticipated copyright legislation. In Matt Mason’s absence, we have asked Dr. Geist to adapt his presentation as the keynote for the society stream, which will take place at 10:40 a.m. on Wednesday. Taking the place of his original presentation Wednesday afternoon will be a panel discussion on “Managing the Mozilla Way” with Mic Berman, John Resig and Mike Shaver, moderated by Michael McDerment.
For more information, please see the mesh schedule at www.meshconference.com/schedule2008.
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meshU is Sold out
It’s official - meshU is sold out!
There were not many tickets lef, but they went over the weekend. Thanks to everyone who is planning to attend and our sponsors for getting us to here - looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow.
Mobile RSS for mesh
For the second straight year, Viigo has created a mesh version of its wireless RSS reader for Blackberrys and Windows Mobile devices.
This includes a mesh channel that features a wide variety of content, including the mesh blog, blogs from the mesh gang and friends such as David Crow, Michael Geist, TechVibes and StartupNorth; weather, local news from blog.TO, as well as sports and business news.
The Viigo service, which is fast and user-friendly, can be customized and personalized with 5,000 channel within its RSS library.
You can download the Viigo/mesh application here.
A big thank you to Peter Ng and Alex de Bold for helping make Viigo/mesh happen.
A post mesh wrap party after-party
Just a note that Radian6 tells us that they’ll be hosting a get-together at The Pogue Mahone Irish Pub, Thursday, May 22, after the Edelman mesh wrap party - from 7:00pm on.
Rohit Bhargava, marketer, blogger, speaker and author of the much anticipated book Personality Not Included, will be at the Pogue Mahone Irish Pub, giving away signed copies of his book. Radian6 sez make sure you say hi to Tim Tozer from Radian6, on your way in. He’ll direct you to the reserved cocktail section for the event. They’ve booked room for 30 people to attend, so be there early to claim your spot.
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Don’t Forget to Bring Your Cameras!
Hey everyone with only a few sleeps left until Mesh I wanted quickly remind you to pack your video cameras so that you can contribute to MeshTV and the Mesh Channel on mDialog and iTunes. Here is a quick video I made to kick off the Mesh Channel. See you next week!
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meshU Tickets Nearly Gone
With meshU looming on the horizon (Tuesday!), there are only a few tickets left so if you want to go, act now.
We’re really excited about the enthusiastic reception that meshU has received. The line-up featuring people such as Leah Culver, Ryan Carson, Daniel Burka, Reuven Cohen and Avi Bryant is top-notch, and we’re looking forward to a great day of discussion about design, development and management.
To check out the schedule, click here.
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Please join us at the Edelman mesh wrap party!
When we announced the meshU and mesh08 social schedule a few days ago we mentioned that an after-after party was in the works for the 22nd, after the second day of mesh.
Please come and join us after mesh for the mesh wrap party, hosted by our good friends at Edelman. Continue the conversation at L’espresso bar Mercurio at Bloor and St. George, from 5 to 7 p.m. on the last day of mesh - Thursday, May 22. See you there!!
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MeshTV coming at you!
Hey everyone my name is Mark McKay. I won the video prize last year at Mesh and made a bunch of videos for the guys highlighting all the great things that happened at the conference.This year I’m back and I’ll be at Mesh and MeshU creating something we’re calling MeshTV. I’m working with mDialog, and really awesome high-rez video hosting service, and together we’ll be bring you the best moments from the keynotes, workshops and all the debates and insights that make Mesh such an awesome event.
You’ll be able to watch MeshTV on your computer, iPod, and right here on the Mesh blog. You can even subscribe to MeshTV on iTunes!We’re going to be shooting all day every day and posting stuff to mDialog right away. But we want you guys involved too. Since Mesh is all about social media we want you to upload your videos and share them with everyone else at the conference. Maybe there’s something we missed, or you have an opinion about something that you saw, or maybe you have something you want to share with everyone? If you do, upload it to mDialog.To kick off the MeshTV channel, here’s the highlight reel from the recent mesh meetup at the Irish Embassy. We’ll have more for you on Tuesday, see you at Mesh!
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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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