A Bit More “Orange” Please
Posted by ahmadster at May 9th, 2007
Yes, we practice what we preach. I’m kicked out of my office these days awaiting some minor renovations to be done.
Web 2.0 Expo at Moscone in SF
Posted by ahmadster at April 25th, 2007
As promised, our trip to SF and the Web 2.0 Expo was AMAZING!
We had fun, Etelos was the star of the show, it was unbelievable.
Here are some pics to take you on the voyage
On the way to San Francisco
Over the Bay Bridge
Downtown SF, yes that is furniture on the walls of that building.
Etelos is the diamond sponsor, way cool!
A few of people showed up 
about 10,000 to be exact
On their way to the 2nd floor
Did I mention Etelos was the diamond sponsor
The first thing you see when you get in, assuming you can find a ticket
On our way back to Washington State
I will have more to post later, still trying to take it easy, my back is broken 
في Apple في مبنى iTunes & iPhone في Cupertino في California
Posted by ahmadster at March 27th, 2007
السؤال الذي ينطرح من نفسه لنفسه،،، إش بأهبب هناك؟؟؟؟ ها ها ها
Web 2.0 Summit in SF
Posted by ahmadster at November 12th, 2006
That was way cool!
I met a ton of neat people, everyone was showing off their cool stuff. But generally I loved meeting some key industry folks. On with the show…
As usual we start off with a close up of Greg Ruff of White Space Strategy. He’s basically the real highlight of every SF trip.
Our panel had the best speaker makeup of all time, from the left, that would be Tony Perkins (AlwaysOn), next is Danny Kolke (La CEO + Jazz Man), Richard McAniff (Corporate Vice President for Microsoft® Office), Dave Ferguson (Engineering Director at Google), Raju Vegesna (Evangelist at Zoho).
It did get very crowded, the Adobe folks were awesome!
That is John Battelle (Federated Media) at the first night dinner. We barely had anytime to talk as he was being hounded by everyone, but I did get a chance to introduce him to Lara Hanson (I’ll explain in a later post). The lady next to him was introducing Hakia.
The first night, we hosted a Jazz Lounge (Yahoo had an Oxygen Bar, show offs!). We hired a couple of backups for Danny and he was off hammering the piano all night.
This dude I’m going to name “Rumpelstiltskin”. He is a VC scout as far as I can tell, very nice dude but would not give me any info about him. All I know is that he is out looking for cool tech, he spent the whole night at our lounge, so I guess we made the cut.
Did I mention that Danny really hammered the piano? He didn’t use a hammer, that is his blood on the piano. He was playing so hard his finger tips started to bleed, and no he didn’t stop. Insane dude…
When I first met Cal Evans (of Zend, the folks who bring you PHP) I looked at him and said Thank You. We had dinner the next day and it was nice having him around as real developers knew what he was really about.
The last day we went out for a trip around SF, it was wonderful weather that day, I enjoyed it. The next Web 2.0 Expo will be in New York on January. I doubt it will be as good as this, but we shall see.
Office 2.0 Conference in SF
Posted by ahmadster at October 14th, 2006
Just got back from the Office 2.0 Conference in San Fransisco.
http://www.office20con.com
It was very cool. I must say this is the first time I get an iPod Nano instead of a bunch of papers to cary around. That was VERY neat.
They dropped the schedule into iCal and synced the iPod, so no papers to mess with (and you won’t forget your iPod). If you wanted to find out what’s coming up next, you just took out your iPod. This is how EVERY conference should be. Ofcourse, they had Apple’s blessing so I must congratulate Ismael Ghalimi and his crew on a fantastic job well done.
And here are the compulsory pictures
First Class sure felt good
Almost EVERYONE had a Mac. It was funny. And Yes, that is Jeff McManus sitting next to Danny.
That’s Greg Ruff sitting in the middle. He is one cool-smart dude. Everyone shold have a Greg Ruff
That’s Ameen in Seattle iChatting with me at the Palace Hotel in SF. Nice hotel, but too old styled for my liking.
Thats me at the end of the conference, if you can’t tell, I’m totally beat up. And it was still 2 hours to go till I can break my fast (it is Ramadan).
That night after the conferenec we all went out for some Thai, next to Greg’s place. That would be Eric Berto, my personal walking dictionary, he is amazing!
On the plane I tried out the MacBook’s built-in iSight. It’s not bad at all.
