The German Society for Computer Science will held a workshop in September in Munich. The call is out. They are aiming at “a good mixture of theoretical and practical research”. That’s probably one of the reasons I’m on the program committee.

Informatik 2008: : ” The workshop on digital social networks will analyze these issues from theoretical and practical points of view. Contributions are solicited on these topics:

• Methods for analyzing digital social networks and social interaction
• Social networking services and social software
• Trust, reputation, authentic contents and social control in digital networks
• Applications, services and APIs on social portals
• Search engines for people, trend analysis and prognosis on social portals
• Special graph properties in social networks
• Technical modeling of social structures
• Business cases and economic evaluation of digital social networks
• Legal and social aspects of online communities
• Social networks and games
• Technical questions in digital social networks
• Security, privacy, identity protection and media usage in social portals
• Interoperability, data exchange and data synchronization in social portals
• Personalization and adaptation to user preference
• Case studies, if they exhibit unique feature”

Off to Cork, Ireland. BlogTalk is about to start. See you there.

Playyoo – in a nutshell.

Last week I attended LeWeb3 in Paris. And it surely was a delicious event. I also had the chance to speak with Ewan Spence from All About Symbian.

Here is the reference post and the podcast directly embedded here. Hear me talking about our public beta release and the game creator.

Multimedia from All About Symbian

blogtalk.net: “We’ve had submissions from authors in 19 countries for BlogTalk 2008“

Submitters will be notified in January. It’s going to be a great conference again. John is doing fantastic work.