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Unconferenz 2010

madmarv — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:00:11 +0000

After a little delay due to the tsunami warning, Unconferenz 2010 was held at KCC on March 20th. This was the third annual Unconferenz and I was quite impressed with this year’s discussions. I think either the participants’ interests are maturing or they’ve all figured out that social media cannot be used to make a quick buck. Either way, there was no talk about monetizing audiences in the sessions I attended. But, there was interesting insights into how businesses are using social media (blogs, chat, and social networking) for internal communication within the company; and using the big social networks for recruiting and market research.

Thanks again to Burt Lum for organizing the Unconferenz.

Orbito Family Photo Shoot

madmarv — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:00:42 +0000

Here’s a fun little tweetup at Kakaako Waterfront Park to take some family portraits with Marc Orbito and his family.

Twestival 2010

madmarv — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:09:17 +0000

Twestival 2010 photo set

Mochi Tweetup at Therapy Grill

madmarv — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:09:10 +0000

Catching up on posting pics I took over a week ago. Mochi tweetups seem to be more popular than other tweetups. The first one was held at The Little Oven last year and filled up in 2 hours. Well, this one was a bit bigger and filled up in 24 hours. The mochi was super tasty and can be found at Happy Hearts Mochi.

Twoliday Tweetup at Oceans808

madmarv — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:27:09 +0000

More of the usual tweetup shenanigans at Oceans808.

Special thanks to Vernon Brown (@VBrown) and Matt Matsumoto (@matmatsu) for putting together the party.

Hawaii Photo Fusion Workshop

madmarv — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:35:44 +0000

Music: “Photograph” by Lee Coulter
All rights reserved. Used with permission.

Jodo Mission of Hawaii Bon Dance

madmarv — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:19:26 +0000

Makiki Bon Dance photo set

Worldwide Photo Walk 2009 – Honolulu, HI

madmarv — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:22:56 +0000

I went on a little Worldwide Photo Walk on Saturday through downtown Honolulu and Chinatown. There was a good turnout for our group, about 40 – 50 people walked with me. We ended up at Fort St. Mall and about a dozen of use went for pizza at JJ Dolans.

Link to my Flickr photo set

Manoa Geeks – July 2009

madmarv — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:29:07 +0000

Got there way late this time. Only caught one an a half presentations. Shawn‘s latest project aims to scrape a Myspace page and recompose it into a genuinely usable website. Myspace is more than due for a widespread cleanup, so anything that helps in a good thing in my book. Ironically, the biggest issue was about the ethics of scraping data from someone’s page and republishing it elsewhere. I don’t see why this would be a problem in his application. The page’s owner has a legitimate right to backup their data, even if it is done from outside their publishing system. Google cache is more of a gray area than this app.

Tweetup w/ @maxkiesler & @emilychang

madmarv — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:01:29 +0000