James Siminoff, Scholar and Gentleman
I wanted to thank everyone who came out last night to the Orange Partner Event in San Francisco last night. I, for one, really enjoyed hearing all of the presenters, especially my friends from Voxeo, RebelVox, LiveOps and PhoneTag. In fact, the only part of the night that was better than the presenters was the audience, as any one of them could have taken our place on stage. For those of you who asked, I will put my presentation up here on the blog as soon as I can for your enjoyment and/or derision.
For those of you who missed this august meeting, Mark Plakias from Orange Labs SF and Dan Miller from Opus Research hatched the plan to get all the people “in the game” in the room at the same time to discuss what’s happening, what’s real and what we need to fix. Dan York took videos, but I’m not sure if and when he’s going to post them. I’ll poke him to see if he’s got plans for that. I’m happy to announce that I’m deep in development doing a demo for Orange Labs (ssshhhhh) and Dan and I are about to release an opinion piece on the ecosystem of CEBP. Keep an eye out for both.
The picture? Ask Jamie. We had taken bets on the side on how many f-bombs Jamie would let loose. And, in the end, he didn’t say f*ck once. We had a bullsh*t, but no f*cks.
All I can say is
Thomas, It was great to see you out at the Orange Spotlight event – thanks for being one of the speakers! FYI, Voxeo was the other sponsor with Orange Labs of the event. We started working with Mark a while back and then later Dan Miller as well to pull together the list of speakers and attendees to make the event the fun session that it was. I, too, enjoyed the networking as well as the presentations. As you mentioned, I do have video – I just need to see how it all came out and then figure out what to publish.
And yes, I, too, was wondering about what Jamie would or wouldn’t say….
Yes, thank you so much for sponsoring the event. It was a very cool group of people hanging out there. Jamie did a pretty good job at behaving; but he better watch out, he’s got a reputation to uphold.