Dopplr is now available on your iPhone!
Dopplr – The Social Atlas puts the combined wisdom of thousands of Dopplr travellers at your fingertips, for free. Wherever you are in the world, you can use it to find nearby recommended places to eat, stay and explore. If you make new discoveries of your own, you can add them to the social atlas with a few taps of your finger. Download now, it’s free!
It also keeps you in touch with your fellow travellers on Dopplr. You can keep up-to-date with where they are now and where they’re going next – and get in touch with them directly from inside the app.
We look forward to hearing your feedback. We’re interested in hearing from non-iPhone and iPhone owners: what other devices or platforms would you like to see Dopplr on soon? Let us know.
Happy travels,
The Dopplr Team
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This month we kick off the inaugural LA Ignite with Brady Forrest and Dan Gould. Read the announcement post: https://radar.oreilly.com/2009/07/ignite-los-angeles-on-721-subm.html
6:30pm Geek Dinner starts (with drink specials from 6:30-7)
8pm-9:30 Ignite talks
10pm Cinespace opens to the general public for Dim Mak (you’re welcome to stay for the band)
About Ignite
If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers.
Ignite site: https://ignite.oreilly.com/
About the LA Geek Dinner
The Geek Dinners are a monthly gathers of Internet and technology lovers in Los Angeles. Anyone who has an interest and passion for technology, the internet, internet technologies, software or you just know you’re a geek is welcome.
GEEK DINNER ON THE WEB (please share!)
Twitter ==> @lageekdinner
Blog ==> https://www.geekdinner.org/
Announce only mailing list ==> la-subscribe@geekdinner.org
Facebook Group ==> https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2396233804
Our Speakers are:
Thomas Edwards (@mpeg2tom) – Getting Physical over IP
The Internet has mainly been about moving text, images, audio, and video around the planet. What about physical interaction? Can we move touch, breath, heat, cold, and pain over the Internet? Yes!!
Ron Evans (@deadprogram) – Unmanned Aerial Vehicles You Can Make At Home
Unmanned aerial vehicles are not just for the military anymore. Thanks to open source hardware and software, you can build your own homebrew UAV’s starting for less than $100. From your living room, to the edge of outer space, the sky is the limit… or is it?
Allen Hurff (@allanhurff) – Uranium
Just Uranium.
Jeff Hester (@jeffhester) – A Secret World: Communities Behind the Firewall
For every geek working in the vibrant sunshine of the internet, there are a dozen working behind the veil of an enterprise firewall. What goes on behind that curtain? How are communities thriving in spite of IT bureaucracy? What does social media have to do with any of this? And does it make for good business?
Dan Tentler (@viss) – Hacking people – your brain is a usb stick
People are essentially robots. You can program them! You can make them get things for you, you can make them think whatever you want! You can make them hand you their wallet and keys – willingly!
Cliff Atkinson (@cliffatkinson) – The Rise of the Backchannel
The backchannel has been around in geek circles at least as long as IRC, but now mainstream audiences are drinking the Twitter Kool-Aid and speaking out against boring PowerPoint and lecturing presenters. Good or bad? The beginning or the end? Stay tuned to find out….
Anthony Citrano – Cultural analyst & Entrepreneur
Heather Knight – Turning AI gurus into Comets and Star Field Explosions
We’ll give you a quick run through of how we turned the attendees of this year’s IJCAI conference into flying comets and exploding asteroids. We’ll aslo reveal the ingredients! We used Processing 1.0 for the graphics, we’ll talk about machine vision techniques such as frame differencing, background subtraction, planar homography to capture your victims, and finally, we’ll reveal our object-based functions for collision detection and direction of movement. Very rapid videos and demos!
Kellee Santiago — Calm games
Al Seckel – Illusions
For your eyes and ears.
Jacki Morie (@skydeas1) – Are you real, or a bot?
A virtual world with no other people is BORING, and maybe even CONFUSING. Am I right? In our virtual worlds within Second Life we make intelligent agent characters that ensure your visit is interesting. What do these virtual people do? Serve as active villagers, tell cool interactive stories, show you how to do interesting things, guide you to areas that interest you and even yell at you. Can YOU tell the agents from avatars piloted by actual people?
Evonne Heyning (@amoration) – Sparking Intimacy & Lightning Up A Community
Do you fall in love at geek events? Push boundaries with your creative colleagues? Work with your partner? Master clear communication, defined roles, visual mapping for network culture flow. Connections that magnetize and grow new ventures require a great deal of passion and determination — how do you keep sight of yourself in the process? ORGANIC & REFLEXIVE ARCHITECTURES facilitate healthy balance. Lightning Temple creators share one example of passionate interactive art in process, created in collaboration….this is our five minute love story.
Howard Seth Cohen (@HSCactor) – The Bubble net Besiji: HUMPBACK WHALES and FILM CREWS
…are they both on to something? Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae,) are an incredible species of Baleen whale. Not only do they have the largest appendages of any marine mammal, they mobilize collectively to hunt for prey. Utilizing a technique called “Bubble Net” feeding, groups of whales as large as 25 individuals have been observed engaging in this repeated communal hunting.
While the event is free, you are responsible for paying for your own food/drinks from Cinespace if you want ’em. This will be the first Ignite in Los Angeles; it is co-hosted by LA Geek Dinner. Please RSVP to the Geek Dinner list on Upcoming.
LAFC Celsea Celebrity players
Soccer greats
frank leboueg
Stars vs soccer grets
Tonight at 8pm
World freestyle
LAFC Chelsea benefit
vs FWorld football challenge
Don
Educating young people in southern california
Coke has announced a new machine that is able to serve 100 drinks.
The new machine will be available in some markets
The high-tech soda machine, called the “Coca-Cola Freestyle, ” was created by the Bellevue software company (NASDAQ: BSQR) and the Atlanta soft-drink giant (NYSE: KO) over the past two years, Bsquare officials said.
Watch Bsquare’s tour of the Coca-Cola Freestyle™ beverage dispenser. See the innovative new fountain experience that Coca-Cola is rolling out in select markets. View the intuitive user-interface system which makes the machine easy to use and easy to manage. Learn how Bsquare worked side-by-side with The Coca-Cola Company to architect and implement the user interface- an architectural design which is flexible, reusable and offers user interfaces unlike any other fountain dispenser available.
Bsquare Tour of Coca-Cola Freestyle Beverage Dispenser
The team at CleanGreenGuy have launched their new site. Looks great.
There will be an announcement later today.
I have been experiencing slowness with when posting to my WordPress 2.8.x blog when running Windows XP and Firefox 3.5x. It is very slow posting and adding tags.
Although other sites appear to be ok, it is painstaking slow to use.
So I tried the same on a Mac running OS 10.5.7 and Firefox or Safari and the speed is great, much much better.
I’ll be trying another Windows XP system to see if it was something about Firefox 3.5 that caused this slowness. Because there seems to be some sort of coincidence.
More to follow
Looking for a free thermostat installation?
There was an ad in the Pasadena Star News in the last few weeks in what is in the front section. I haven’t seen it in the last few days.
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Always on Time or you don’t pay a dime
626.723.3959
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Free Digital Programable Thermostat with your next air condition maintenance
with scheduled maintenance. How much is the maintenance???
$99 is the fee for the maintenance.
cross posted:
from LA City Hall Mayor’s office:
The Next Great Challenge
7/20/2009 @3:13p by Antonio Villaraigosa
40 years ago today, scientists at NASA did what most thought was only a fleeting dream – they put a man on the moon. Thanks to their hard work and dedication, the dream became a reality. In the years that followed, NASA continued to dream big, achieve their goals and amaze the world.
It was only fitting, then, that today I signed a partnership agreement between NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) to explore ways to decrease water usage, cut greenhouse gas emissions, and stimulate green job growth in Los Angeles.
You see, the next great hurdle we face, the next dream we must make a reality, is combating climate change. We must work together to combat climate change head-on and reverse its course. If we do not, there might not be a planet left for our future generations.
Here in LA, we are taking the lead on this and working to become the center for climate change and clean technology research and innovation. We’ve already put LA on a path to permanently break our addiction to coal by 2020; to get 40 percent of our power from renewable sources by the end of next decade; and to make our City plug-in ready and transform Los Angeles into the production and market capital of the electric car.
But there is much to be done, and with JPL’s help, I am confident that Los Angeles will be leading the charge for innovative solutions to climate change. Working with the LADWP, the nation’s largest municipal water and electric utility, JPL will work to provide a pipeline for energy and water solutions. The two organizations will collaborate on developing a national model for forward-thinking water and energy solutions; they will use the LADWP as a test bed for cutting edge technologies, including demonstrations and technology assessment; and through information sharing, create best practices that can be used around the world.
We are setting the stage to be at the forefront of the clean tech revolution that will drive the new, green economy and relegate global warming to the prologue of the Great Book on America in the 21st Century.