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Matt Webb’s talk from ETech — Encouraging us to use physical hardware to extend the online experience. Interesting stuff.

These guys were presenting at ETech. It has to be said, I’m still thoroughly flummoxed as to what problem they think their technology is solving. Seems like a horrible bandwagon-jumping to me.

I missed their session at ETech (Thursday morning was sleepytime for Rod), but this app looks cool. It’s like a fuzzy evite — Contact your friends to say “Let’s do something next week”, then let the software manage when people are available and what they want to do.

Spotted at ETech. Made me chuckle.

The most fun you can have with PVC tubing and marshmallows. Esther “Deadeye” Dyson terrorised Makefest with this.

Best slide of ETech — From Clay Shirky’s talk on internet community behaviours.

Yoz’s talk has convinced me! Ning looks like it could be a really fun shared platform for swift hosted development.

“Query by Example” dataminingy plugin for PostgreSQL. The ETech demo wasn’t that compelling, but it looks like it could have potential for “agile” data-prodding.

Marc Hedlund’s “Proverbs” for engineers who want to be entrepeneurs. Great stuff.

Some ETech links. This was my favourite talk yesterday (and one I stumbled into by accident when another room was full). Using the fun things we see in games to make your (social) software more engaging.

The coolest demo so far at ETech. Whizzy touch-screen Minority Report style interactions.