AtThe Next Web Conferencewe want you to leave with at least 10 times the value you invested in the conference. That is why we put a lot of effort into creating an inspiring and fun atmosphere where it is really easy to bump into people and get connected. We’ve also invested time and effort into developing a tool that help you see who else is coming, search for potential new business contacts and make appointments during the conference....
Google Labs has just launchedTalk Guru, a service that lets you obtain basic information such as the weather and sport scores by sending an instant message. The experimental service has you add a contact called ‘guru’ to your Google Talk list, and you can then initiate a conversation to get certain kinds of information more quickly than you would if you’d looked through a bunch of search results. But you have to know the syntax, as the service has no natural language processing....
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Tammy Campis a venture investor, company advisor and adventure traveler living in San Francisco, CA. She will be speaking atThe Next Web Conference 2011in Amsterdam. I interviewed Tammy about her ideas on innovation, exponential thinking, and her keynote which will be titled “Shoot for the Moon: A Path to Innovation and Inspiration”. Oh, and I found out that although Ben is not really her new boyfriend he really should be yours....
Yesterday, atThe Next Web Conferencein Amsterdam, entrepreneur and world record holding kiteboarder MissTammy Camptook the stage for her keynote speech, “Shoot for the Moon: A Path to Innovation and Inspiration.” Camp was born in Atlanta to a Taiwanese mother and a father who served as a U.S. army intelligence officer. When she was a little girl Camp remembers biking down her stairs in hopes of flying like Wonder Woman, only to crash with a scar on her upper lip and chin to show for it today....
