Report from Digital Downtown

Held in NYC this week, CEALineShows/Digital Downtown a June preview event focused on innovation and a sneak peak at the holiday season drew its share of news. Here’s what some attendees had to say.
The Geek in Chief Addresses the Crowd
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Now that you can track what people say about you (your family, your employees, your product, your town…whatever it is that you hold dear), what can you do about it? Managing your reputation is a much thornier issue than tracking it.

It’s the age old debate. Products help you become more productive, until they don’t.
Healthy skepticism is required when you’re looking at products that claim to make it “quicker, better, faster.” Often, many hours into your investment in a new solution, you come to the one thing the product can’t do that you definitely need [...]

If you want to see which way the high tech winds are blowing, you need to be at DEMO, a conference that identifies new entrepreneurial ventures. It’s held every year in March.
But, this year, it’s not just the products that are bellwethers–it’s the entire scene. This year, there are half as many products being DEMO’ed [...]

Those of a certain generation, for whom color TV and hi-fi stereo were mindblowing inventions, may find using a computer a bit overwhelming. But, older folks are online in increasing numbers and they need (and deserve) a kinder, gentler PC awakening. Some support person telling them to RTFM (Read the F**l$# Manual) or blaming [...]

Today, there are about 1 million engineers worldwide. Researchers predict that we’re going to need at least 2 million engineers over the next 10 years if we’re going to continue to continue along the path to a networked world.
Rather than look upwards and pray, Cisco has been taking matters into its own hands. [...]

Ever wonder how hackers manage to outsmart the good guys that develop websites? They are schemers. Many of them are very smart. Many of them see the Internet as a great big challenge—the equivalent of Sir Edmund Hillary’s ascent “because it was there.” What if you could get into their minds and learn something about [...]

The next time you’re around a 12-year-old or a 14-year-old ask them what the underlying technology is behind Facebook or MySpace (relational database for starters). Ask them how a spammer gets hold of your email address (spiders and crawlers for one, contests and signups for another). Ask them to detect a phishing site [...]

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But Google has [...]

There’s been quite a fuss made over the XO, developed by Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child (OLPC). The OLPC vision was to design a low-cost, but powerful, connected PC in order to provide kids all over the world with Internet-power. OLCP wants to sell the XO in bulk to third world countries. After two [...]