DemoCamp Toronto 14
DemoCamp14 Toronto was AMAZING. Held at the prestigious First Canadian Place (Canada's Second Tallest building) it was a technologically studded affair. First, a review of the Demos:
Zoomii - We didn't hear much about their presentation, we just caught the last 30 seconds and the faq. If we didn't get stuck on the Expressway, I would have more to blog about. Check out the BETA.
Cytoscape - Looking at their website, I'm more impressed now then ever before. I was still a bit awed about Democamp so I didn't grasp the problems they were trying to solve the first time around. Cytoscape is Analyzing and Visualizing Network Data (in a nifty interface!).
AideRSS - It's almost like social RSS. I got the idea and concept immediately and I have to say I liked it. They've already launched so you can pick up an account here.
ePresence - Something like 7 years in the making, WOW. I liked Peter Wolf as a presenter. He's looking for developers, investors, anything, so you if you are interested take a look at the site.
shiftMode - Bryden and Brian from Bandofcoders presented as entertainingly as humanly possible, a framework for persons developing Web applications.
Zerofootprint - Love the idea. They give you a calculator to calculate your environmental footprint. Expect to see this in Seattle and Toronto sometime soon we were told.
Greg Wilson's Beautiful Code - It's something that you don't see nearly as often as you would expect, and that is examples of beautiful code. A significant step up from 'Hello World' applications.
One Laptop Per Child - Surely you've heard of the OLPC project. We actually got to see the prototype. It's green, pretty cute actually. Apparently OLPC early adopters caught their students looking at pornography on the Internet. It's unknown whether these versions had filters or not. OLPC is a great project that apparently Google is targeting with their Google Phone. Hey, the faster we bridge the technological gap the better. Amazing project.
FacebookCamp Toronto - The first FacebookCamp in Canada. Toronto has the 2nd largest facebook network (behind London) and Canadian cities take up an abnormally large percentage of the top 10 facebook networks. It's probably due to our winters.
StartUpWeekend Toronto - They came close and this week LobbyThem should be finished. Sounds like a good idea too.
And the food was great!
Muchos gracias goes out to David Crow for organizing the first DemoCamp since TorCamp (it's been a short summer).
It was my first DemoCamp and for sure will I be there at the next one!
Zoomii - We didn't hear much about their presentation, we just caught the last 30 seconds and the faq. If we didn't get stuck on the Expressway, I would have more to blog about. Check out the BETA.
Cytoscape - Looking at their website, I'm more impressed now then ever before. I was still a bit awed about Democamp so I didn't grasp the problems they were trying to solve the first time around. Cytoscape is Analyzing and Visualizing Network Data (in a nifty interface!).
AideRSS - It's almost like social RSS. I got the idea and concept immediately and I have to say I liked it. They've already launched so you can pick up an account here.
ePresence - Something like 7 years in the making, WOW. I liked Peter Wolf as a presenter. He's looking for developers, investors, anything, so you if you are interested take a look at the site.
shiftMode - Bryden and Brian from Bandofcoders presented as entertainingly as humanly possible, a framework for persons developing Web applications.
- The next part of the DemoCamp, were the Ignite Presentations where you don't control the Presentation Slides.
Zerofootprint - Love the idea. They give you a calculator to calculate your environmental footprint. Expect to see this in Seattle and Toronto sometime soon we were told.
Greg Wilson's Beautiful Code - It's something that you don't see nearly as often as you would expect, and that is examples of beautiful code. A significant step up from 'Hello World' applications.
One Laptop Per Child - Surely you've heard of the OLPC project. We actually got to see the prototype. It's green, pretty cute actually. Apparently OLPC early adopters caught their students looking at pornography on the Internet. It's unknown whether these versions had filters or not. OLPC is a great project that apparently Google is targeting with their Google Phone. Hey, the faster we bridge the technological gap the better. Amazing project.
FacebookCamp Toronto - The first FacebookCamp in Canada. Toronto has the 2nd largest facebook network (behind London) and Canadian cities take up an abnormally large percentage of the top 10 facebook networks. It's probably due to our winters.
StartUpWeekend Toronto - They came close and this week LobbyThem should be finished. Sounds like a good idea too.
And the food was great!
Muchos gracias goes out to David Crow for organizing the first DemoCamp since TorCamp (it's been a short summer).
It was my first DemoCamp and for sure will I be there at the next one!
posted by MarkM at
7:38 PM
1 Comments:
Hi Mark,
Thanks for coming out. I have been very lucky to have been stewarding this community since the first TorCamp back in November 2005. I have met a lot of great people who are passionate about their projects, products and Toronto.
The goal has always been to highlight our local heros and to help build the connections between members of our community. This community is fantastic and they are doing world-class things.
I hope to see you at the next DemoCampToronto (more details coming later).
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