ARDevCampSD 2011, CONFIRMED JULY 9TH, 2011 at Qualcomm!

The first ever Augmented Reality Developers Camp in San Diego will happen on July 9th at Qualcomm! This event is FREE to attend!

AR DevCamp San Diego (ARDevCampSD) will be a full day of information sessions, discussions, tutorials, and hacking opportunities in an open format, BarCamp style to which all interested people and organizations are invited.

ARDevCampSD is also looking for the following:

Presenters:

Individuals, Companies, and Organizations.

Volunteer Event Organizers:

Help make this event the best ever!

Sponsors:

Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks, T-Shirts, Beverages, and other necessities!

Websites:

ARDevCampSD: http://ardevcampsd.org

ARDevCampSD Twitter: http://twitter.com/ardevcampsd

ARDevCamp Main Website: http://ardevcamp.org

San Diego AR DevCamp 2011 [In Planning]

*UPDATE*: AR DevCamp SD Meetup Page: http://www.meetup.com/AR-DevCamp-San-Diego/

San Diego AR DevCamp will be a full day of information sessions, discussions, tutorials, and hacking opportunities in an open format, BarCamp style to which all interested people and organizations are invited. The goal of this event is to build on the momentum of the ardevcamp initiative, with a focus on technology sharing, collaboration, and the portability and integration of information across diverse platforms and AR environments.

AR brings together an great diversity of topics, skills and technologies. The primary goal of this event is to bring together interesting, collaboration-minded people who are working on pieces of the larger puzzle: cartographers, game designers, GIS professionals, artists, programmers, interface designers, entrepreneurs and activists (amongst others) all have much to contribute. The event will be structured to allow natural clusters and patterns to evolve. While the event has a very open scope, we should also emphasise the unifying narrative established by ardevcamp.org: the need to build AR systems that are open, compatible and interoperable, while allowing for creativity, diversity and rapid exploration of new ideas.

The event will follow the established ardev model as an informal, grassroots event in which the participants shape an active agenda 'as it happens'. In addition to an unconference style event, there will be workshops that offer tutorials on how to build AR applications.

At the moment we are in the planning stages for this event and searching for a venue.

Proposed Sessions:

Introduction to Qualcomm AR SDK

Proposed Tutorials:

Augmented Reality and Unity3D

For more information, please visit the ARDevCampSD website: http://www.ardevcamp.org/wiki/index.php?title=San_Diego_ARdevcamp_2011

Yammer Proclaims The Death Of Old Media Through Old Media

You know how obsessed we are with billboards here at TechCrunch Aol, so imagine my joy this morning when I drove into work this morning (at 8am as always) and saw this awesome piece of artillery right in front of my office.

Yeah, our officemate Yammer has decided to wedge a billboard-sized nail in the coffin of old media (i.e. “one-way communication”) which conspicuously includes print magazines, newspapers and eh hem, billboards. Says Yammer marketing designer Aria Shen, “Simply put, we wanted to make a statement about the new paradigm of how people and organizations communicate, and figured what better way to do that than to use the oldest mode of paid media.”

Yammer, a Twitter for enterprise, says it bought the 6K per month/3 month billboard run because it’s hiring and wants to attract engineers. Good call: The infamous area around our 410 Townsend office is like startup Mecca. Soon to be neighbor Zynga has also gone the billboard route, with a 101 brand presence we’ve heard is in the 30K a month range.

As to the pricey billboard’s ultimate recruiting effectiveness in the age of infinite two-way Internet distractions? Well it caught my eye didn’t it? Maybe old media has some staying power yet?

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Very bold statement.

1and1 Downtime on 1/3/2011; I expected better.

Yesterday, my webserver went down at 1and1. It's been awhile since the last downtime (like 4 years ago). Naturally I thought "no webhost is perfect". Webhosts can have the best uptime, features, and bandwidth altogether with pricing. But what also seperates webhosts is their customer service abilities especially during downtime, scheduled or not.

What got me angry was that 1and1 failed to notify their customers and myself, of the current situation. We were left in the dark not knowing anything for more than 10 hours. A simple tweet or blog post to keep us in the loop. Simple solution.

Just search twitter, not one mention from 1and1's twitter channels of downtime.

IE6 Users

While IE proofing my website, I decided not to support IE6 (this browser needs to go away). IE6 Users will get forwarded to Microsoft's Internet Exploder Explorer's upgrade page.