Archive for October, 2003

This is so cool:
http://www.mailinator.com/mailinator/Welcome.do
Basically, any time you need an email address, but don’t want to give out your real one (think signing up for a website that requires confirmation, or meeting someone at a party… ;-) ), you just give them a mailinator address (make it up as you go). Then it’s like […]

Future display driver? This is one small little PC. Antelope Technologie

A follow-up to Kyle’s previous post, the VentureBlog article contains a great link to UCSD’s “ActiveCampus” site:
http://activecampus.ucsd.edu/index.php
It’s all about UCSD students being able to carry WiFi PDAs around campus and do cool stuff–like see their friends in realtime on a campus map, and the PDA can suggest lunch dates…

1. Blender Push
- The launch of the Blender gives us a great opportunity to showcase that ISIS is more than just plasma screens.
- Take advantage of the publicity in the Daily and Report that will surround the launch.
- Print campaign with colorful depection of the new space. Definitely highlight ISIS connection.
- Screen Campaign- […]

VGA to Cat-5 extender that Wallenberg uses to drive on all of their screens (even the 1600×1200 in the theater). Very small form factor, power on only one end, more pricey ($425) than what we’ve been playing with, but the company is in SF and is a big supplier to Stanford (all of the […]

I think this is on the blog somewhere, but I can’t find it. Seeing the flash promoting the Sigma Nu party which tracked viewers IP addresses reminded me about this. Check it out. Social Network Fragments. Also see Danah Boyd.

A. Welcome
- New Folks, Intros
- Kudos
- Global Update
B. Focused Discussion On:
- Emerging Tech Dinner
- ISIS Marketing
- ASSU Absolute Fun
- ISIS labs
- Blender
- Groups?
C. Open Brainstorm

DVD Tablet Player
Could be fun for demos…

Their posters are beautiful works of art and they show up everywhere, but this was the real kicker: seeing the add for the Hazel Carby lecture show up on the Stanford Libraries Homepage. Now there’s some wheelin and dealin. Zach, how did they pull that off?
Maybe we can get the library website to […]

Check out VentureBlog: Enterprise Social Software Is Not An Oxymoron, explaining how blogs, linked-in, and friendster type systems have promise in the enterprise (read: university) setting.


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