Pid’Jins at NetCamp

We’ve been to Netcamp, which is a conference about internet stuff.
Hugh Macleod, the famous cartoonist had a cool presentation.

I learned about social objects. And also that every successful websites contains some. Now that I think of it turns out that even music and a football game are social objects.

Anything that gives people something to talk about is a social object apparently, all it has to do is have some kind of meaning to the ones involved. Now we’ll only buy granules with social object extract for the pidjins to eat.

There were other interesting presentations, of all the people I liked Mihai Crasneanu from Grey Juice Lab. I got one big truth from him. The fact that the zillion connections you got in your address book should have some flavor, some nuance, to distinguish how close and in what particular way you are connected to a person. This is exactly what i hope for the net in a few years. I’d love to see this in a robust and powerful application in the future. Something like LinkedInFlavours.

We chatted with Hugh, Eugen followed him around a little to steal his wisdom, Hugh was happy, not feeling stalked at all but for some strange reason took the next plane home.

Tudor, Eugen and Hugh (pic via Zoso)

We hanged out with our friends from Adobe Romania. You should all buy Adobe stock now because they shall rule the world supreme, for a while. Shortly after that the Pidjins will destroy it.

We met Crocodilu form Trilulilu, and told him we’d kill Pinky and The Brain for nesting in his servers, and causing him grief. Also we had a fun chat with Eirik Solheim about TV & stuff.

All in all we met nice people, chatted, and Eugen got brainwashed by words like scalability and such. For some obscure reason he wants Pidjin.net to be scalable. And he doesn’t mean servers or traffic. But he feels very inspired, all those presentations touched him deep inside. He might even amaze all of us someday. He talks about scalable design and user experience. I hope it will go away with a few aspirins

Hi to all of the nice people, bigup to the organizers Evensis and Dragos, and most of all to the people i am sure to forget to mention.

Pictures here, via zoso. More detailed coverage on Metropotam and Myadobe.

Tudor