A big welcome for everyone to BarCamp London 8!
by holgerd
FourSquare, Gowalla, Google Maps, Twitter, everything now seems to be 'location aware' by inviting you to add your location to your activity. But is doing so a good idea?
This session is an open discussion on whether it is most useful to you, your friends, or to burglars, to have live location information on your whereabouts easily available.
by Tech & Law
About planning an international crowdsourced conference all across Hamburg.
by aboynejames
Exploring how all life is connected.
Slides http://www.slideshare.net/aboyne...
tags collective intelligence semantic web, linked data, text analysis, datamining, php, themes
Thank you to all for participating at the session. James
by Meg Morigami and Andrea Jezovit
Ruby-style data access in .NET. No SQL statements.
by OliverOgg
We've been running for three years now (how time has flown).
We've learnt a lot on how not to do things!
Come for an informal presentation and good discussion with honest answers.
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Post talk - definitely missed a few things that I should have mentioned, send me a tweet if you want more info.
Being held in the District Room (1st Floor)
Two quick games and a quick fix. I have some suguru to share as it's almost past it's use by date. Also, I have two very fun games that you can play in less than half an hour. Come along if your cables or your brain is frayed.
by VincentBoon and giffgaff
How to build you're own 3D (stereoscopic) camera (stills/HD video) rig.
I originally gave this talk at Reading Geek Night a few weeks ago, this is a quick run through with some more focus on the Camera Hack side of things.
by Fauz Ghauri
A few notes on creating a Conga cluster on Centos 5 as well as work-arounds for some problems - see acknowledgements/references section for links to guides.
Why we switched from a dedicated host to a 'cloud' type host, and our detailed experiences with two providers (flexiscale, AWS). Things to consider when choosing a service, and how to architect your system to make the most of the benefits, and minimize the disadvantages (principally reliability/stability).
Walking through a few simple web applications to show what can be done in Nodejs that doesn't have to be a chat server, or use websockets.
Demo'd code:
https://github.com/theteam/nodeb...
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