Technology As Innovator

The two events that are going to heat up tech communities in Saigon this November with innovation, collaboration and new outspreading concepts.

BarCamp Saigon

What is a BarCamp

BarCamp is an international network of user-generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on but not limited to technology. Topics typically include programming, web design, technology usage, education, entrepreneurship, etc.

There is no audience, only participants. Attendees must give a demo, a session, or help with one, or otherwise volunteer / contribute in some way to support the event. All presentations are scheduled the day they happen. The people present at the event will select the demos or presentations they want to see.

When

November 15, 2008

All-day event

Where

RMIT International University Vietnam

702 Nguyen Van Linh Boulevard, Tan Phong Ward, District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

More info

The official website: barcampsaigon.org

If you’re on Facebook, join this event BarCamp Saigon 1

If you’re on Twitter, follow @barcampSaigon

You may also want to read why you want to join BarCamp

Read updates from some BarCamp Saigon organizers

Kevin Miller

Thomas Wanhoffs

Hung Nguyen

Step2 Radar

Chip 2.0

Google DevFest

Following their announcement of launching in Vietnam, Google organizes its first Hackrathon in Vietnam.

When

November 4, 2008

Where

University of Technology

1. 360plus started off in April 26, 2008.
2. Reaction was very weak. None, yes, none, of my 360 friends moved to 360plus. Even the non-tech users lost their confidence in Yahoo! products. When they saw the buggy 360plus, they even backed off farther.
3. Later on we learned that 360plus Vietnam was the product for Vietnam. What was meant to replace 360 is Yahoo! Universal Profile.
4. With no old friend on 360plus, I made friends with some a few new people though. However, it was neither an information goldmine nor a communication platform I was looking for. The community there was filled with spams, unthoughtful and inconsiderate bloats from younger users, despite some very nice efforts to guide the new users. I lost my patience after around 500 entries.
5. I tried to come up with around 20 suggestions for features for the 360plus team before quitting nevertheless.
6. Not until early September did they introduce a data migration tool from 360 to 360plus. What flabbergasted me was that the tool looks like it bases on public RSS feed from 360 to import to 360plus, which means the 360plus team has limited access to the 360 global database. Where is inter-department collaboration inside Yahoo!?
7. But I’m sorry it was too late I was not even trying the tool out. I have backed up entries I want to keep to my Window Live Spaces blog, manually.
8. Many of my friends on 360 have moved to Facebook.
9. Will 360plus Vietnam hit the 2 million cap that 360 did in Vietnam?

Addendum

Yahoo! shut down their “social network experiment” Mash just a few days before. Generally people agreed with this decision, Mash was too weak even for a marginal project to last.

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