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Great video interview about lunch 2.0

The PodTech crew shot and edited a really nice video at our recent Lunch 2.0 at Netgear. It covers the event and features an interview with the lunch 2.0 founders, including your humble narrator, on the origins of Lunch 2.0. I conducted the entire interview while lying on a bed in Netgear’s “lifestyle room” showcase, […]

Lunch 2.0 has been chronicled

Yep, that’s right: the story of Lunch 2.0 is featured today on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle in a great article written by Jessica Guynn! Jessica spent a lot of time talking with us and visiting the recent Lunch 2.0 at LinkedIn, and she even read Terry’s and my recent tomes on the […]

The origins of Lunch 2.0

In honor of the first officially-sanctioned Lunch 2.0 at Yahoo today, I thought I would finally write something on how and why we started this valley phenomenon: Living in Silicon Valley is expensive, and the traffic on 101 sucks. So why not telecommute from, say, somewhere in the Midwest? What does living out here get […]

My Ajax talk is now on YUI theater

When I gave my talk on High-Performance JavaScript at OSCON in July, I found out that I was speaking right before “Chief Performance Yahoo!” Steve Souders. To be honest, I was a bit nervous–we read everything Steve writes at Plaxo, and he runs a whole group at Yahoo that does nothing but focus on web […]

BarCampBlock exemplifies Silicon Valley

I love living here in Silicon Valley. I’m surrounded by smart, passionate people who don’t feel they need permission to make a difference. Case in point was BarCampBlock this weekend–a spontaneous un-conference-style gathering of 900+ hackers and other valleyites sprawled across the streets of Palo Alto, as well as inside the offices of several host […]

A nifty NLP paper that never made it

Conditional Estimation of HMMs for Information Extraction Submitted to ACL 2003 Sapporo, Japan July 2003 Download PDF (8 pages) Download PPT (500KB; presentation to NLP group, including work discussed in this paper) This is another paper I wrote that didn’t get accepted for publication. Like my character-level paper, it was interesting and useful but not well […]

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