Monthly Archives: February 2009

Lift09 — Vint Cerf

Posted on 27.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

Story of the talking dog. Excitement, but nobody is paying attention to what the dog is saying. Vint feels like the talking dinosaur. (haha) The Internet works because there are standards, and people cooperate to work together around those standards. … Continue reading →

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Lift09 — Melanie Rieback — RFID and Security

Posted on 27.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

Whitehat hacker. RFID uses radio waves to identify things. Shows much of a promise for breaking (?) into things. Next low-end of computing. You have to bring virtual attacks into the physical domain, when it comes to RFID. Some security … Continue reading →

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Lift09 — Open Stage: Daniel Kaplan

Posted on 27.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

How do we expose ourselves online? How do we choose our online friends? Results from a new kind of online sociological survey. Survey: you can’t just go and ask people to put words on their practices. Designed it like a … Continue reading →

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Lift09 — Frank Beau — Métromantiques

Posted on 27.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

Notes prises à l’occasion de la conférence Lift09. Bla-bla habituel de prise de notes: je fais de mon mieux, mais ce ne sont que des notes, qui peuvent contenir des erreurs et inexactitudes. Coup de foudre dans le métro. Comment … Continue reading →

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Lift09 — Baba Wamé — L’appropriation de l’Internet par les femmes camerounaises

Posted on 27.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

Remerciements. Cameroun: petit pays d’Afrique Centrale (11 fois plus gros que la Suisse). 18mio d’habitants. Langues officielles: anglais et français. Villes: Yaoundé, Douala, Bafoussam, Garoua, Maroua, Bamenda. Internet dès 1997, 400000 utilisateurs internet, dont 50000 en connexion directe. 2500 cybercafés … Continue reading →

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Lift09 — James Gillies — How the Web awas Born: Stories from a scribe

Posted on 27.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

Was in the right place at the right time to write the story, says he. 1995: “we must write the story before everyone forgets…” James expected it to be a dull boring story. Big surprise! You can’t just tell the … Continue reading →

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Lift09 — Jörg Jelden — Fakesumption

Posted on 27.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

Unauthorized products. Office in Beijing, was shocked by the importance of fakes over there. Talked to his manager “let’s do something about it”. So started talking to fakesters, those who track them down, lawyers. Disclaimer: not making fun of a … Continue reading →

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Lift09 — Matt Webb — Scientific Fiction and Design

Posted on 27.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

Book: Cusp, Robert A. Metzger. SF (steph-note: sounds like a crazy story, need to read it!) This is not the SF we’re talking about here. No flying cars, silver skullcaps… Here: Scientific Fiction (World War Z — zombie story; the … Continue reading →

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Lift09 — Sarah Marquis

Posted on 26.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

Laurent: extraordinary stand-in speaker Sarah Marquis, an adventurer who goes off for months on end, walking across Australia for example. Est-il possible aujourd’hui d’imaginer se retrouver dans la nature sans aide technologique? On est des mammifères après tout. Pas d’électricité, … Continue reading →

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