Last week I went to Shift.pt, a conference about new technologies, society and the web, organized and sponsored by Sapo.pt. There I've acquainted a bit more with Pedro Custódio and his team/friends, as well as a whole new bunch of very interesting people.

In particular I enjoyed the workshop über wireless technologies (organized by Tijmen Schep), where I had the opportunity to meet and work with ad-hoc shifters.

Our workshop project was to arrange a mobile phone number that shifters could SMS to, and shout their names and interests. The SMSes would be displayed live on a screen in the conferencem so other shifters could see and discover their peers. We called our project ShiftNetwork.

Here's an excerpt of a mail (addressee anonymacy kept) I wrote today that tells a long way about what are my expectations on shift, the web2.0 and society conference happening in Lisbon the 15th, 16th and 17th October 2008.

Dear Mr. Smith,

In short, I'm afraid I'm not available at all for this week. Can we schedule for next week?

I'd be delighted to apply to your interview and your programming tests.

Wordle is an instant, genuine, original, art creating engine that leverages on the single most creative content originator on the whole galaxy: YOU.

Wordle is BEAUTIFUL because YOU are BEAUTIFUL.

Wordle picks up your blog feed or your del.icio.us tags and creates a beautiful painting of tags that define your semantic cloud.

Wordle helps you pass the word of your web-assumed interests.

Wordle is your digital fingerprint... in beauty print.

One of the interesting things about web-wired mobile devices, is the ability to quickly geolocate the user, either by GPS, either by cell-tower antenna id, either by networked wifi ip.

This single ability should provide tremendous possibilities in terms of social networks, and in terms of added value by leveraging massive amounts of user's geo-tracks (while preserving privacy and anonimacy). Another cool ability is snapshot-updating social networks.
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