SVWB: About Wiki of the Beauty & the Beast: Usability VS Functionality
Lunch 2.0 alumni Wetpaint and Yahoo will be joining Silicon Valley Web Builder on a “late lunch 2.0” Discussion Panel (actually a Silicon Valley Web Builder event cross-posted here) on wikis. SVWB’s moderator will give a 15 min presentation on wiki usability vs. functionality. Each wiki speaker will give ten minute presentation showing off their the Beauty & The Beast features, following with a lively discussion on Usability, Interface Design, and Product Design.
This year Wetpaint, Atlassian, Zoho, BrainKeeper & Mindtouch will be sharing the table for the discussion panel. We’ll certainly miss Lunch 2.0 alumnus, Jotspot:
Host: Silicon Valley Web Builder (SVWB) and Hurricane Electric
Location: Hurricane Electric Building Two “The Matrix” 48233 Warm Springs Blvd, Fremont CA
Time: Wednesday, September 26 6:30pm-9:30pm
RSVP on their site http://wikibeautybeast.eventbrite.com
Moderator:
Luke Wroblewski
Senior Principal of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc. & Author of “Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability”
Speakers: View speaker bio at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/206152/
Kevin Flaherty
Co-founder and VP of Marketing at Wetpaint (Seattle)
Ryan Lukehart
Director of Sales and Marketing at BrainKeeper (Virginia)
Aaron Fulkerson
Co-founder and V.P. Product Management at Mindtouch (San Diego)
Raju Vegesna
Zoho Evangelist at Zoho
Joshua Wold
Global Pre-Sales Team Manager at Atlassian Software Systems
Summer is almost over. Everyone is getting ready for Fall season including TV Series. I happened to walk into new TV Series “Chuck” filming production. When I asked to meet “the geeks” from the show, Zachary Levi & Adam Baldwin jumped out of their “Hollywood” chairs for photos. I told them I was a geek from Silicon Valley. I’ll tell other geeks about it after my vacation.
This NBC show (Premieres: September 24, 2007 Mon) is about Chuck Bartowski a computer geek accidentally downloads files upon files of government secrets into his brain. He has been scouted by the CIA to lead a double life of computer geek and CIA agent. This mess started when Chuck received an email from his Stanford University roommate. It could happen to any one of us, seriously! I have to name Monday as my TV night now.
Zachary Levi as Chuck Bartowski (Left) & Adam Baldwin as Major John Casey (Right)
Bess
Chief Food Technologist at Lunch 2.0 & Founder of Silicon Valley Web Builder