Plans are coming along nicely. I checked out the IA Summit site to look for updates and realize that I have a lot of reading to do before March.
If you’re going to be there, be sure to check out my poster.
One of my best tips in Austria in Loipersdorf. I try to convince anybody I think would like it to go. It’s a great wellness experience and only a few hours from Vienna.
The problem is, when I do some research in order to pass along links to help “sell” the place, I rarely find well-designed websites to do so.
For all of my friends and acquaintances who aren’t familiar with the Austrian wellness scene, here’s some advice to Austrian businesses in general and tourist locations in specific:
It’s not just the native language English-speaking expat community who might be interested! This advice is applicable towards all potential consumer populations (read: neighboring countries) whose second language is English.
My wife came up with a project idea last year for a digital device that would help motivate people to exercise more which she presented in Quebec at CHI. I kept on saying that she should call it the “iPed” but that’s water under the bridge.
Not long thereafter, Nike and Apple came out with the Nike+iPod combination. If only my wife would have had VC backing…
Now, I’ve found what I’d like to call the Über iPed:
“The winners of Yahoo!’s first open Hack Day were Black Box Nation … [t]hey created a blogging purse by hacking fashion (handbag and fabric), hardware (Nokia 6682, pedometer, GPS device, custom stamp, breadboard, wires, soldering iron) and software (CSS, APIs) in less than 24 hours to produce a working prototype.
The custom-designed handbag is rigged with a pedometer and a Nokia 6682. Every 10 steps (this is programmable), the pedometers triggers the 6682 to take a photo.”
Am getting ready for a trip to San Francisco/Las Vegas in March. Should I just put all my data on an ultraslim external harddrive because I could just rent a laptop while there? That would save a lot of space in (best scenario) my carry-on or (worst scenario) my suitcase.
It’s only worth taking the laptop if I need specific software. Will have to look into just how flexible laptop rentals can be about that and exactly which software I’ll need.
“Free is the new paid”
- Kenneth Parks, COO of Brilliant Technologies
