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I did a talk at Ignite Seattle last week and it was a total blast. I love the 5 minutes, 20 slides, 15 seconds each slide format. The scary thing about this is that I was able to get everything across that I wanted to in just 5 minutes. Why on earth have I ever needed an hour to give a talk?! :-)
You can view the video here.
What a great time I had at Ignite Seattle last week. Its a geek-heavy event that couples making cool things as well as speed rounds for talks. In all, 22 people spoke (each for 5 minutes; 20 slides, 15 seconds per slide) with about 400 people in attendance when all was said and done.
I was lucky enough to be one of the earlier speakers and I got to talk about OpenID (can you believe it?!). It was really cool when Brady introduced me and so many people applauded and ooh’d and aah’d when he mentioned I was going to talk about OpenID. Some folks have put up my slides and even talked about my talk. Very cool (and yet quite surreal).
My favorite picture that I found was this one that really shows the enormity of the event … very cool! Yep, that’s me up there talking about how OpenID is sweeping the nation! Thanks Brady and the rest of the Ignite Seattle crew for having me!
Videos are on the way and will be here when they get uploaded. I’ll post an update to this when its up.
I suppose if you’re reading this blog you probably aren’t interested in actually hear me talk about this stuff in person … haha …. :-) However, if you’re in Seattle next week on Tuesday evening I highly encourage you to come out to Ignite Seattle:
Ignite Seattle is a geek event that combines on-site geekery, sharing, and innovation (and drinking).
I’ll be speaking on OpenID and there will be many other speakers talking about art and law and technology. The talks are limited to 3 minutes … 20 slides, 15 seconds each slide … I love the format and if you get bored with a talk, you can just go get a drink and it will be over … :-)
Hope to see you there!
Where: CHAC
When: February 13th, 2007 - Starting at 6:30pm and going until late
Why: Because meeting in person and talking to other people is fun
