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LIFT08 Notes: Genevieve Bell, Intel, do our digital worlds require secrets and (white) lies?

Genevieve is an ethnographer looking at digital culture and the necessity of “lying” 45%5 of mobile users have lied about wherabouts in sms 100% of online daters lie about height or weight James Katz says entering arms race of digital deception she locked herself out of flickr because she lied about her age and forgot [...]

LIFT08 Notes: Younghee Jung Nokia Research

Younghee is a product and interaction designer from Nokia. This talk though left me on an arc from curious to wondering about some unanswered questions about Nokia’s actual role in the developing world. Nokia is engaged global product development. Mobile phone users are of course massively global. How do you design products for poor neighbourhoods [...]

Lift08 Venture Night: 5 Venture Pannelists and one MC

[ This update cross-posted from StartupNorth.ca] Welcome to my live-blogging coverage of Lift08 in Geneva. At venture night togight. 50 submissions, narrowed to 8 startups to present their demo and business case tonight. The format is a good one, familiar from Under the Radar for example, 5 minute demo and business model, 5 minute questions [...]

Last Call for Lift Early-Bird Pricing

Reminder, Friday is the last day for early-bird pricing to Lift08. Laurent writes: a quick email to remind you that the LIFT08 price will go up by 200CHF on Friday. If you want to participate in this year’s event for only 650CHF (390 EURO, 570$, 280£) and get your yearly dose of new trends, innovative [...]

Lift 08 Program Announced

The program looks fantastic. more pics: Lift06 Lift07 Lift is a tech conference about “Life, Ideas and Futures Together”. And a massive annual dose of inspiration. Geneva, Feb 6-8. UPDATE: Pricing has been announced for LIFT08. It’s gone up again (ouch). Fortunately the shining loonie is awesome against the CHF right now ( 1 CHF [...]

 

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