Posts about SF
djangocon: San Francisco, September 2008
Wow! I'm so excited about the news of an upcoming djangocon. Not only is it confirmed that it will eventually happen, it will be taking place in San Francisco, in September 2008! The date is engineered to coincide with Django 1.0's scheduled release.
Did I forget to post about EveryBlock?
A week or two ago, Adrian Holovaty and his intrepid crew at EveryBlock released the product they've been working on for the past 6 months or so. His team of Paul Smith, Wilson Miner, and Daniel X. O'Neil have put together a site that aggregates civic information like business licenses and street closings and mashes them together with crime data, business reviews from Yelp, missed connections & lost and found reports from Craigslist, and more. All these stats can be broken down, viewed by neighborhood or zip code, and analyzed. Most common crime in Chicago? Theft! Other weird stuff I ...
Posted on: 2008 February 02
Filed under: Internet, Journalism, Technology
adrianholovaty, chicago, django, everyblock, hyperlocal, journalism, nyc, SF, wilsonminer
Macworld 08 thus far
We're almost through with the second day of the Macworld expo and I'm already getting burned out. But in a good way ;) Last night we threw our big party) and it was a huge success! Over 500 people showed up for a party we'd originally estimated to draw around 100. The place was packed and filled full of really cool people. We gave away a lot of software, Ars swag, and had tons of fun. Unfortunately I couldn't drink a drop because I needed to wake up so early this morning. We set the alarm for 5:55am and got ...
Posted on: 2008 January 15
Filed under: Apple, Ars Technica, Hardware, Partying
apple, ars, arstechnica, california, gizmodo, keynote, macworld, macworld2008, sanfrancisco, SF, stevejobs
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