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Twilio Startup Waffles Event + Mirasense Killer Mobile Barcode Scanning

Twilio had a great Startup Waffles event in San Francisco this morning.  If you're not familiar with Twilio, check them out - they're taking what have traditionally been hardware-based telecom solutions and putting them into the cloud with deep API integration to foster innovation in the telco space.  Here is a slideshow of pics from the event.

On the way out, literally on the elevator as I was leaving, I met Dr. Christian Floerkemeir, the CTO & Co-Founder of Mirasense, which has a really killer barcode scanning engine.  It can scan through barcodes that have been partially marked out, or in hard to read packaging, in literally seconds.  It's one of the best barcode scanning tools I've seen (the other was RedLaser, which was recently acquired by eBay).  Cristian, who credits his PhD research as part of the reason the engine is so good, gave me a demo of the technology:

Group shot of the people who were there:

Twilio had a great Startup Waffles event in San Francisco this morning.  If you're not familiar with Twilio, check them out - they're taking what have traditionally been hardware-based telecom solutions and putting them into the cloud with deep API integration to foster innovation in the telco space.  Here is a slideshow of pics from the event. On the way out, literally on the elevator as I was leaving, I met Dr. Christian Floerkemeir, the CTO & Co-Founder of Mirasense, which has a really killer barcode scanning engine.  It can scan through barcodes that have been partially marked out, or in hard to read packaging, in literally seconds.  It's one of the best barcode scanning tools I've seen (the other was RedLaser, which was recently acquired by eBay).  Cristian, who credits his PhD research as part of the reason the engine is so good, gave me a demo of the technology: Group shot of the people who were there: And here's a great sticker on one of the Twilio computers:

Nicholas Negroponte at GigaOM Mobilize Conference

I recently attended GigaOM's Mobilize 2010 conference in San Francisco, where many speakers pontificated on the current and future impact of mobile.  The event was good and fast-paced, although I wished some of the panels could've gotten more in-depth.  Kudos to my friend Teck Chia who spoke on a panel at the event.

One interesting keynote was from Nicholas Negroponte, the creator of the One Laptop Per Child initiative.  He spoke about the history of the program, and what's worked, and what hasn't worked, as well as his move into tablets instead of laptops.  He gave some compelling reasons why tablets would help 3rd world countries leapfrog the US educational system, and how he's working to create tablets that allow users to create content, not just consume content (the key, he says, is content creation - without it, everyone is just a bunch of couch potatoes).

Here's the video of his talk:

I recently attended GigaOM's Mobilize 2010 conference in San Francisco, where many speakers pontificated on the current and future impact of mobile.  The event was good and fast-paced, although I wished some of the panels could've gotten more in-depth.  Kudos to my friend Teck Chia who spoke on a panel at the event. One interesting keynote was from Nicholas Negroponte, the creator of the One Laptop Per Child initiative.  He spoke about the history of the program, and what's worked, and what hasn't worked, as well as his move into tablets instead of laptops.  He gave some compelling reasons why tablets would help 3rd world countries leapfrog the US educational system, and how he's working to create tablets that allow users to create content, not just consume content (the key, he says, is content creation - without it, everyone is just a bunch of couch potatoes). Here's the video of his talk:

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