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It's easy, just ask conferences. Finding good speakers is hard for organisers and they're glad to have things made easier for themselves.

Previous experience helps a lot. There are a lot of small user groups and barcamps which are ideal for practice.

Apples own iPhone apps never rotate "upside down" in portrait mode, so you can use a landscape view on your side with no trouble. 3rd party apps should follow this convention.

Please link to the correct url http://travid.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/how-to-start-a-meetup...

I've found instapaper during my morning commute is an app that buys me time to catch up on reading. Works even better if you commute by tube and there is no phone signal to distract you (with email, twitter, etc).

Twitter is a human invention. Written communication (arguably) is a human invention.

Audio from the talk will be available on http://2009.dconstruct.org/podcast/ soon.

This reminds me of something Russell Davies spoke about at dConstruct. To paraphrase, TweetDeck is humans solving problems humans have created for themselves.

I've not participated in either program.

The difference to me stands out as committee vs opinionated.

With YC a small handful of people give you advice and nudge you in the correct direction. Seedcamp has dozens. One participant boasted to me that they had met 100 mentors in a week.

I much prefer opinionated software over committee software. I imaging the same is true for startups. Surely 100 mentors will give you 100 conflicting pieces of advice. No matter how smart those mentors are (and everyone I know who is involved in SC is smart) they can't help you out if you are confused, disoriented and overwhelmed.

See also: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes

Amazon provides the tracker, but you do have to keep a copy of the files you are providing on S3, increasing your liability if you are doing something illegal.

See also "Using BitTorrent with Amazon S3" : http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/index.html...

I think others may have done the design per article pre- http://www.jasonsantamaria.com/

See Douglas Crockford's suggestion for HTML5 at http://www.crockford.com/html/

Someone's holiday reached the top of the HN homepage? Well I hope you have a lovely trip.

"Chauhan was presenting the findings of Chandrayaan-1 mission in his paper 'Chandrayaan I: TMC and HYSI data analysis for Apollo landing sites and Mare Orientale', which would be unveiled in public domain two months later, after further analysis. "

They've also deleted blog posts mentioning DNA Lounge

Mobile Phones. Pre-mobile there was no way of letting someone know you are running late, or changing arrangements last minute.

Is this a new image of this weekend FooCamp or of the previously photographed one?

Awesome, adding it in the email is a lovely touch.

Would love a link to an event .ical file, like eventbrite etc do.

With the BBC metadata here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jhp50

What's in the pdf?

230V -6% +10%, which is just a fancy standards hack to make all of EU technically 230 without having to change voltage from 240

A year ago? I'm sure it was created by a product design student at the Royal College of Art a few months ago.

The site dates it as 20 April 2009.

I believe that in addition to the Olympics and paralympics there should be an 'enhanced' Olympics. Any artificial limbs, performance enhancing drugs, etc would be allowed. A celebration of human technological progress.

In the UK MyRailLite were paying for train live departure data. You could look up if a train was delayed and which platform to go to.

When the app became successful National Rail pulled their feed and released their own more expensive and clunkier app iPhone instead.

I'm hoping the micro-usb for charging can also be used for reprogramming. Esquire had an open invitation to hack their eink display, I hope this one has a similar open approach.

Esquire was animated eink, this is video on lcd.

"Magic as a Metaphor for Ubiquitous Computing" - http://www.orangecone.com/ambidextrous_i6p36_37.pdf [pdf]

and

"Wizard School" - http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/07/wizard-school.html

may be of interest to you.

Esquire already have run with an eink magazine cover that was animated.

This technology is going to get irritating. Imagine browsing a newsagent with all the magazines flickering images trying to compete for attention, like myspace spilt into the real world.

If you know where to find it, the BBC doc on the Open University is worth watching http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lz2p5