At the PdF '09 Jeff Jarvis asks us about reinventing Government: What Would Google Do?

All we know about the future is that it has something to do with knowledge and abundance.

At PdF '09 Vivek Kundra demoed for the first time the vision of Data.gov with the IT Dashboard.
Access to Government Data: Discover, Participate, Engage.

Macon Phillips is the Director of New Media for the White House.

On January 21, 2009, President Obama signed the Memorandum for Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies on Transparency and Open Government—the first memorandum of his presidency. In it, he announced his administration’s commitment to achieving an "unprecedented level of openness in Government.".

At the Open Video conference at NYU Law school in NYC June 19, '09 there was a Press only panel to try to sum-up why the Web needs Open Video.

Shay David of Kaltura, Yochai Benkler of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Mark Surman Director of the Mozilla Foundation, Mike Hudack CEO of Blip.TV, Chris Blizzard, Director of Evangelism Mozilla and Michael Dale is the Lead Developer of Wikimedia Foundation

At the Open Video Conference at NYU Law school in NYC June 19, '09 Ian Edgar and Jonny Wilson demonstrate their Eclectic Method

“well basically we piss about with video and some people like it”

I don't see any inspiration here at all and will anyone be inspired to learn to play music when they can just remix another persons creative work? 

 

At the Open Video conference at NYU Law school in NYC June 19, '09 we learned that Wikipedia was about to implement video as a way to better tell stories.

Michael Dale is the Lead Developer of Wikimedia Foundation, Shay David is a Co-Founder of Kaltura and Erik Moeller is Deputy Directer of the Wikimedia Foundation

Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi aka brokep a founder of The Pirate Bay made a guest appearance via Skype from Malmo, Sweden at the Open Video Conference held at NYU Law School in NYC June 20,'09

A Native New Yorker programmer Bram Cohen designed the BitTorrent protocol eight years ago on the upper West side of Manhattan about eighty blocks from the NYU Law School.

By the enthusiastic applause you know this is an audience of content expropriators and not creators.

The Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos.  This kit is designed to help you learn how to build applications that shine on Windows 7 by utilizing it's key features 

• Taskbar
• Libraries
• Multi Touch
• Sensors and Location
• Ribbon
• Trigger Start Services,
• Instrumentation and ETW
• Application Compatability

The Ford Transit Connect Team came to NYC to show us the latest innovations in Ford Work Solutions, an in-Dash Computer powered by a VIA chip and Windows CE, Tool Link an RFID inventory assistant and Crew Chief for web based tracking.

Michael Coles gave this talk  SQL Server 2008 Encryption - Protecting Your Data @ Rest  at our NJ SQL User Group meeting.

Michael is a SQL developer and database architect with 15 years experience. He works for a BI consulting firm in NYC and is the author of Pro T-SQL 2008 Programmer’s Guide and Pro SQL Server 2008 XML

He and Hilary Cotter collaborated on Pro Full-Text Search in SQL Server 2008

Steve Forte on Broadway at the Microsoft Enterprise Developer and Solutions Conference talking about Real World Agile Estimating with Visual Studio Team System