Thomas Maloney Online

I attended BarCampNYC2 this weekend, an unconference intended to stimulate discussion about emerging technology. Topics concerned web apps, like Gmail and Salesforce.com, identity and OpenID, time management for system administrators, privacy in a world of GPS-enabled cell phones, and much much more. It was graciously hosted by Microsoft in there Midtown office, and you had to take your shoes off at the door. I think this was intentional on the part of the BarCamp organizers, not Microsoft. My favorite rule of these type of conferences is the Law of Two Feet: If during the course of the gathering, you find yourself in a situation where you are neither learning nor contributing, then you must use your two feet and go to some more productive place. Check out the BarCamp site for unconferences near you.

By far one of the better conferences I’ve attended, and free. Other conferences I’ve been to thus far this year: The Identity Mashup Conference at the Harvard’s Berkman Center, The Internet Dating Conference in San Francisco, CA, and Digital ID World in Santa Clara, CA. Fun!