This week’s schedule
Today: off to see Cardiff for family day.
Tuesday: traveling to London in the afternoon, speaker dinner in evening.
Wednesday: speaking at Online Information 2006 in London. Girl Geek dinner in evening.
Thursday: hanging out at Online Information 2006. Meeting with Microsoft’s accessibility team, then getting a tour of BBC around 5 p.m. Evening open so far.
Friday: breakfast with Sam Sethi of UK TechCrunch, then meet the geeks in Hyde Park. Hugh Macleod suggested meeting by the Eros statue because it’s near the Piccadilly Circus tube station. We’ll walk around, visiting tourist spots and pubs. Hugh says we’ll be “pissed as newts.” Oh, boy, that should be good for a Flickr scandal. In the evening Sam is taking us to two parties (the Firefox one, and Internet People’s Party).
Saturday: we fly to Amsterdam where we’ll stay until December 5th, when we fly home.
Anyone want to meet up? The schedule is getting tight, leave a message here and we’ll fit you in.
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November 27th, 2006 at 5:06 am
Are you meeting at Hyde Park or Piccadilly Circus (the statue of Eros)?
There’s some distance between the two…
If Hyde Park then you need to pick a location on the boundaries - its a big space (-:
November 27th, 2006 at 5:13 am
Murph: hmmm, the way Hugh was talking Eros is near Hyde. Let me verify it with Hugh, and we’ll post the exact location we should meet later in the week.
November 27th, 2006 at 5:24 am
Saturday morning for breakfast: chat about Biotech Geek Blogging? :)
Cheers, Attila.
November 27th, 2006 at 6:01 am
I’m free Thursday evening, name a pub in London?
Cheers
Simon
November 27th, 2006 at 6:26 am
Could show you around Amsterdam :-)
November 27th, 2006 at 7:03 am
Let us know a meeting place. I am going to be there.
November 27th, 2006 at 7:18 am
Watch out for the ‘Zwarte Pieten’ in the Netherlands ;)
November 27th, 2006 at 7:55 am
hey Robert
being a Scot I’m terribly disappointed you are not going to visit Scotland. The one of the finest countries in the world. Anyway, have a nice time in Europe. I’ll forgive you this time ;-)
November 27th, 2006 at 8:02 am
Wonder what I’ll wear on Friday, maybe I should bring my Windows Live Jacket! :)
November 27th, 2006 at 8:12 am
Hi Robert.
Will you be busy in Amsterdam? A geeky pub crawl there sounds like a good option. I was thinking of getting some UMPC geeks together. No cameras allowed ;-)
Regards
Steve.
November 27th, 2006 at 8:54 am
Hopefully be able to catch up with you at the conference on Weds. Friday also sounds tempting, especially the ‘pissed as newts’ part.
November 27th, 2006 at 10:10 am
Looking forward to Friday :)
Nige
November 27th, 2006 at 12:31 pm
Steve: I’m all for a geek tour of Amsterdam. Yeah, no Flickr photos should be the rule!
November 27th, 2006 at 12:49 pm
I’d like to show you a cluster web page publish software. It is very easy for normal person to set up hierarchical knowledge base,just like MSDN or IBM’s online reference(tree structured navigation).
It is the second phase development of Tablane TClipper(www.tablane.com).
The beauty of the data structure in TClipper is that it roots from OPML file, to collection in RSS format and ends each page in HTML format. Alos, Tags as thread sews the pages together which belong to different branches.
We may think this is next level of Office tool. Not just create single Word document or PDF file, you can create grouped web pages etc.
Don’t know if you are interested.
November 27th, 2006 at 1:44 pm
Somw views of Hyde Park courtesy of the Geograph site:
http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/TQ2780
November 27th, 2006 at 2:05 pm
Thanks. Keen to meet late wednesday afternoon or Thursday morning. e-mail or phone Philip on 07977-471458. Geoff Jones is coming to the dinner.
From: Robert Scoble
Thanks! That was really awesome. We’re coming back to London next Tuesday-Saturday. Can you come and meet us and give us a demo? I’ll have my camera.
Robert Scoble
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From: Philip Baddeley [mailto:philip@baddeley.com]
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 2:13 PM
To: robertscoble@hotmail.com
Cc: Thomas, Paul; Romani, Mhd. (romani); Monnappa, Kanti; Xu, Xuefeng (xux1)
Subject: Equity Fingerprint Survey, Cambridge UK + Geoff Jones
Hi Robert
We met in London with Geoff Jones of Cambridge and a hundred other people so I am sure you remember me!!
You are always writing about companies and high tech companies.
We are running a survey to find out more about the changes in equity ownership as companies develop from the founding team and equity split to bringing in cash, managers and people; see below.
Responses so far say we are unique.
Take a look at http://www.equityfingerprint.com/ We are working on a study to see if the difference in the equity structures shows different growth patterns.
There is not much data around but people need to know that site such as YouTube.com has sophisticated investors from the early days; but how much did the founders keep? What is the norm? In the UK we can get data from public sources but it is harder in the UK.
You can see a great guide at http://www.redy.biz
Keep well and I hope you liked that Cambridge scarf I sent to you.
The names at the top are the MBA students running the EF Survey.
Philip Baddeley
Founder
Equity Fingerprint
November 27th, 2006 at 2:11 pm
Robert - love to meet up post your BBC meeting on Thursday for a coffee/chat if you have time? Assume you’ll be in Shepherds Bush area?
November 27th, 2006 at 3:18 pm
Hi Robert - I know you’re running out of slots, but if you’d like to see what we’re doing over at Zopa.com drop me a line - we’re the worlds first lending and borrowing exchange. Maybe Friday morning?
With impeccable timing we’re having some network problems right now - but we had a piece on the BBC prime time news last week that explains what we do - you can see it on YouTube here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4vA6yDkr0A
I’ll try to make the Friday pub crawl regardless!
Cheers
Dave
November 27th, 2006 at 3:22 pm
Doh - forgot to say that we’re just off Oxford Circus.
November 27th, 2006 at 4:05 pm
We’re meeting at Eros at Piccadilly Circus at 1pm. Hyde Park was an earlier idea, which we bagged eventually.
They’re not really near each other. Eros is nice and central. It’s a traditional London meet-up spot.
Congrats on the Amazon/Naked Conversations ping, Robert & shel.
November 27th, 2006 at 5:14 pm
Cool hope everyone can make it! :)
November 28th, 2006 at 4:46 am
So venue for meet-up has changed ? Now Eros ?
November 28th, 2006 at 6:27 am
Murph: yeah, we’re meeting at the Eros statue.
Attilachordash: I can’t meet on Saturday, turns out. We gotta be at Heathrow too early.
Simon: regarding Thursday evening, we’ll be at Online conference (Olympia). Do you have a pub near there?
Remco and Steve: hmmm, we’ll plan out Amsterdam shortly.
Yakov: what day? What time?
Wouter: what should we watch out for?
Johnny: I’d love to come to Scotland.
Darren: oh, please do! I should have brought mine.
Ian: definitely drop by and see us at the conference. Hopefully we’ll be online there, since it’s an Online conference.
Mike: I’m definitely interested. Can you come and see us sometime this week?
Philip: I’ll email you.
Steve: looks like BBC tour is off, so we can definitely meet up on Thursday evening. We’ll be in Olympia, can you come and meet us there?
Dave: I’d love to see Zopa. Friday morning is already busy. How about Thursday sometime? Can you come over to the conference and meet in the lobby or something like that?
Monkeyleader: yes, it’s now Eros.
November 28th, 2006 at 6:53 am
We will come to the conference on Thursday to meet you. If you can allocate a slot, just drop me an email: yji [at] tablane.com
November 28th, 2006 at 7:40 am
Hey Robert, definitely up to a meet with you and other people in Amsterdam. Is there anything planned yet?
November 28th, 2006 at 11:21 am
Robert - sounds good. Looks like you’re free early / mid afternoon - when would be good? If you’d like some lunch let me know - there’s a great pub 15 minutes walk away (The Havelock Tavern).
Cheers
Dave
November 28th, 2006 at 11:41 pm
[...] If anyone wants to send me to Europe to check it out, let me know. Hey isn’t Scoble in Europe about now? Maybe he’ll fly Ryan Air and let us know what it’s like. [...]
November 29th, 2006 at 2:50 am
‘Beer in the evening’ suggests the Cumberland Arms in Kensington.
(http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/95/953/Cumberland_Arms/West_Kensington).
Suggest at time?
November 29th, 2006 at 3:05 am
Hello,
I will make the Friday pub crawl. Should be good even for a teetotaler such as myself. Actually, my sobriety will give me an excellent opportunity to document your drunken antics! You have been warned….
November 29th, 2006 at 5:36 am
Hi Rob, would love to try and get the opportunity to meet you all on friday afternoon, somewhere… As I work in the area I thought I’d make a few suggestions for decent pubs in soho, just north of eros, heading behind the big visual ads in piccadilly circus. There’s the coffee house pub on the corner of Beak Street and marshall street? There’s endurance pub on berwick street which has great food at lunchtime? Across the road from endurance, is the blue posts on the corner of berwick and broadwick street… Finally there’s always the sun and thirteen cantons pub opposite microsoft offices on great pulteney street?
December 1st, 2006 at 4:13 am
..might make eros but I’m scheduled to go to the firefox party.. pissed as newts har har..
December 1st, 2006 at 7:19 am
Robert.
I guess you’re deep in the heart of Friday afternoon drinking. Good luck!
I have to apologise, Amsterdam isn’t going to work for me. Blame Vodafone because gcal sync doesn’t work on this network and I didn’t know my daughter has TWO events this weekend.
I have a suggestion though. Hire bikes (when in Amsterdam…) and do a photo-blog bike tour. There’s loads to photograph and plenty of Wifi around.
This is something I’m planning to do for a week next year. The Carrypad blogging bike tour. Just me, a bike, a 3G-capable UMPC and a solar panel!
So apologies again. Stay out of the wrong type of coffee shops!
Steve.