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SUMMARY:Mobile Portland: Warm\, Clothed\, and Fed—Developer run iPhone businesses
DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4769699/ ] Note: We've moved the November meeting from its normal date to accommodate Dan's travel schedule. 
 As developers\, we bring a certain set of skills\, biases and preferences to business.  These act as a double edged sword\; we make great business people when we play to our strengths\; we fail when we try to be something we're not.
 There are sweet-spots in the iPhone market that will sustain\, on a continual basis small\, developer run\, 1-3 person iPhone companies.
 This is a talk about identifying those market opportunities.   This talk is about capitalizing on them in a way that plays to our strengths and mitigates our weaknesses.  This talk is about the choices we make when we start our own developer run iPhone businesses.  Topics include:
 * Choosing the type of business: are your customers iPhone consumers\, companies that need iPhone apps\, or other iPhone developers?
 * Data-informed app price and product-category strategy.
 * Marketing from code.
 * Contract wages and the $10\,000 problem.
  About Dan Grigsby 
 Dan runs Mobile Orchard \, the #1 iPhone development podcast and community site.  As the rare programmer/business type guy\, he's as happy running marketing hacks as he is hacking iPhone code.  He's happiest giving talks that incorporate elements of both\, so speaking about developer-run iPhone businesses is pretty much the rapture.  Previously\, Dan founded/ran startups\, including one that was acquired by Microsoft and another that was the only-ever successful competitor to PayPal.
 Dan is visiting Portland to teach a two-day Beginning iPhone Development class .
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LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/94174/":AboutUs offices @ 107 SE Washington St.\, Suite 520\,\, Portland\, Oregon 97214
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SUMMARY:Diablo Valley Macintosh Users Group (DVMUG) Meeting
DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4769338/ ] Cameron Rogers\, Product Manager for Apple Inc. will be telling us about their latest products.
 http://www.apple.com
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LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/561314/":Bancroft Elementary School @ 2200 Parish Dr\, Walnut Creek\, California 94598
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SUMMARY:Open Source Show and Tell
DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4516026/ ] Once again\, The Team (Design Agency) and Osmosoft (Open Source Innovation arm of BT) have asked some of London's open source peeps to come and show what they're up to. Entry is free\, each slot is about 10-15 minutes\, and afterwards we go for beers at a pub near Borough Market.
 Here's the tentative line-up (subject to change):
 (Speaker TBC)\, Canonical - Ubuntu Update
 Julien Fourgeaud\, Symbian - Managing the Symbian community
 Jeremy Ruston\, Osmosoft - HTML5 and the slow death of Flash
 Leisa Reichelt\, Disambiguity.com - Drupal 7 Update
 Phil Hawksworth\, The Team - Playing with each others toys: Developing with open technologies
 Rain Ashford\, BBC - Open Source Gaming for Handhelds
 Robbie Clutton\, BT - iPhone development using web technologies
 Keep an eye on The Team's Twitter stream for updates.
 Also\, Andrew Back is bring along his art exhibition " No Numbers "\, fresh from an outing at the Horse Hospital:
 "No Numbers" is a playful response to Foxx's seminal 1980 electronic music work\, Mr No. The music is transformed into a sequence of numbers -- digital samples -- which the viewer is encouraged to copy down using the paper and pencils provided.
 At a rate of one number per second it would take 4 weeks to transcribe the original 3'18" work in CD quality. The futility of this task reflects the artist's interest in what we may be compelled to do but that which is ultimately\, humanly\, impossible.
 The reduction to a slow\, seemingly random series of numbers highlights the essentially approximate nature of digital sampling. This links to the artist's interest in exploring the aesthetic and cultural questions suggested by the analogue-digital distinction.
 The title of the piece suggests remix and reappropriation\, but also codes for a putative request from the copyright holder of the original work. Downloading music\, we're told\, is theft. Four weeks of laborious\, transcription seems more like pilgrimage."
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LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/454883/":The Team @ 30 Park Street\, London\, England SE1 9EQ
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SUMMARY:Macworld Expo San Francisco 2010
DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1449784/ ] The 25th annual gathering of Mac Users.
 Yay\, it now includes a Saturday!
 And no special codes required for free registration. Warning: prepare to be spammed.
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LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/1398/":Moscone Center @ 747 Howard Street\, San Francisco\, California 94103
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SUMMARY:Emerging Communications (eComm) America 2010
DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2408013/ ] Why eCommThe Emerging Communications Conference & Awards:
     * Attracts executives and top influencer's from across the telecom\, mobile and Internet space
     * Launches real-world startups
     * Explores business models and new partnership structures
     * Gives stage time to cutting-edge academic projects
     * Presents views from the incumbent telecom players
     * Stirs required policy debates
     * Promotes garage based hacks
     * Brings out visionaries
     * Provides a venue to meet and do business\, as well as be inspired
     * Showcases bleeding-edge technologies
     * Provides a critical forum for all players across the full spectrum
 Why Attend Fall 2009?
 The mammoth sized telecom industry - including cellular - is in the process of being re-written. You either stand on the side to be written into the past or instead join with the growing community to write the future.
 Opportunities to profit from the radical restructuring and in accelerating the development of how humanity connects\, communicates and collaborates have never been so great.
 Opportunity Doesn't Always Knock. Sometimes It Calls. 
 The Emerging Communications (eComm) Conference & Awards was created to promote and accelerate communications innovation.
 Telecom\, mobile and to a lesser extent\, Internet based communications\, had been innovation stagnant for far too long. Yet the opportunities for innovation had never been greater. Those opportunities are only going to grow as drastic changes further impact the multi-trillion dollar a year telecom industry. Changes include:
     * Telecom is becoming software
     * Today's model of the telephony and SMS cash-cows will significantly dry up long-term
     * "Phones" are becoming general purpose always-on computers
     * A march is underway to change how spectrum is allocated and utilised
     * Applications innovation is being democratised
     * The media industry is converging with personal communications
     * Internet-style ecosystems are starting to pressurise the traditional value chain
     * Search engines and computer manufactures are encroaching into the space
     * App downloads\; media content and even communication streams are increasingly routing-around operator's billing systems
     * The telecom kingdom is fragmenting daily.
 There is not a migratory way from where we are to the future\; this means unprecedented opportunity for those ahead-of-the-curve.
 The debut San Francisco Spring 2008 conference broke a lot of new ground and created a forum attracting 300 top influencer's and 80 speakers from 15 countries. San Francisco Spring 2009 built upon that foundation with world-class speakers and a 25% increase in attendees. Amsterdam Fall 2009 is the debut European event and promises to further cement the community.
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LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/367107/":San Francisco Airport Marriott @ 1800 Old Bayshore Hwy\, Burlingame\, California 94010
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