Marc Davis
Inventing the future of social media and mobile media over the past two decades at Invention Arts, Yahoo!, UC Berkeley, Interval Research, and the MIT Media Lab

You are being watched, tracked, and analyzed right now. But what are they collecting and analyzing? Who’s selling it, who's buying it, and why? And who are “they” anyway? The subject of personal data collection, analysis, and control has become increasingly covered in various media channels recently such as the Wall Street Journal...

Marketing and customer service are on a collision course. Social media now shine a bright light on customer service interactions, which increasingly have brand implications. Customer care can also offer valuable insights for marketing and product development. How many companies are adapting and turning this to their advantage? Still too few as old...

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Patrick Kalaher - VP, Aricent will participate in the panel discussion “Sweating the Assets: Platform Services, Cloud/Infrastructure Services, M2M - strategy, case studies and use cases” on 27th October at 1345

*** FOR MEDIA LAB ALUMNI AND INVITED GUESTS; NOT OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC ***

Register @ http://www.media.mit.edu/events/alumni/10fall

Join us in celebrating the Media Lab's 25th anniversary. We start early on October 15--at 8:30am--with a symposium that includes alumni remembrances, an introduction to our newest faculty members,...

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Taking place August 17-19 in Seattle, pii2010 will explore how privacy, identity and innovation are evolving in the digital age, and how to strike a balance between protecting sensitive information and enabling new technologies and business models.

The Interval Research Reunion date has been set for Sunday, July 18th.

Please see the official eVite. Contact Laura if you have any questions or comments about the reunion.

Can't wait to see everyone there.

Wear your Interval shirts, bring old photographs, share stories, etc...

Laura

TAFT 30th HIGH SCHOOL REUNION

The 2010 Semantic Technology Conference (#SemTech) will be held at the Hilton Union Square in downtown San Francisco on June 21-25, 2010. Now in its sixth year, SemTech 2010 is the world’s largest educational conference for the community of executives, technologists, researchers, investors and customers who are involved with semantic...

The Internet Identity Workshop focuses on “user-centric identity” and trying to solve the technical challenge of how people can manage their own identity across the range of websites, services, companies and organizations that they belong to, purchase from and participate with.

This is where everyone from a diverse range of projects doing the...

Most of us have incidents in our past that wed rather leave there - but thats getting harder in a world teeming with tools and devices that capture our actions and record them forever. Do we have a right to delete records and data about ourselves? Can we? Should we?

The SXSW MUSIC AND MEDIA CONFERENCE showcases hundreds of musical acts from around the globe on over eighty stages in downtown Austin. By day, conference registrants do business in the SXSW Trade Show in the Austin Convention Center and partake of a full agenda of informative, provocative panel discussions featuring hundreds of speakers of...