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. The other projects from the other teams were also very interesting and some actually were implemented!
Though we didn't carried our project all to the end, we did had a nice looking iphone mobile page, that we changed a posteriori to rebroadcast the twitter updates stream on Shift08. Basically, we never managed to setup a working phone. But we did found interesting software to extract smses from phones at gammu.org. Might have a deeper look on that...
All talks were very interesting, but definitively, the one I enjoyed the most, was the one from Felix Petersen, the Plazes creator, now head of social activities at Nokia. He really has a clear vision about the location aware mobile social experience and it was a real treat for him to share his vision with us all.
On friday I missed most of the talks, due to other commitments, but I still got in the end to mingle a bit with other shifters and taste some web2.0 wine (bottles attached with QRcodes! Cute! Courtesy of Adegga).
So, it was a great conference! Thank you Shift!
