We’re big fans of stickers, particularly laptop stickers. So we’re really excited about an in-kind sponsorship that we’re doing with StickerYou.com, a Toronto-based online service that lets you create customized die-cut stickers using art from their extensive library or your own art. StickerYou, founded by Andrew Witkin in 2008, will be providing mesh attendees with mesh laptops stickers. So if you’re looking to show your support for mesh, now there’s easy way to do it. By the way, StickerYou’s stickers are made from vinyl so they’re high-quality and durable.
For the last couple of years, meshU has been a well-kept secret – a one-day event featuring hands-on workshop about Web design, development and team management.
We hope to change meshU’s low profile by introducing meshU’s inaugural keynote speaker, Bill Buxton.
One of the world’s most influential designers, Bill is currently a Principal researcher at Microsoft Research and the author of “Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design”.
His experience also includes time as a researcher at Xerox PARC, a professor at the University of Toronto, and Chief Scientist of Alias Research and SGI Inc.
We’re really excited that Bill will be meshU’s first keynote, and that he will set the stage for an amazing day.
If you’re looking buy meshU tickets, you can register here.
For many people, the first real wake-up call over issues of online security came in the aftermath of 9-11, when Richard Clarke, White House cyber security adviser from October 2001 to March 2003, spoke out about the dangers to US security from online attack. And if not then, certainly as concerns about online identity theft have grown from a murmur to a roar over the past few years.
I’ve been interested in this issue for quite a while, and for quite some time have thought that we were approaching or were already at a critical point – the point where the bad guys were finally better at it than the good guys, and where online attacks, including by independent operators, finally became an governmentally-sponsored means of state and industrial espionage.
It would be hard to argue now that we are not at that point. Recent events particularly have brought to public light the astonishing breadth and depth of espionage and criminal activity now carried out online.
Where are we, how did we get here and what happens next? We’re fascinated by these questions, and delighted that this year we have an opportunity to dig in with FT reporter Joseph Menn, author of Fatal System Error, a fascinating investigative exploration of crime online. Please join us at mesh for Joe’s insights into this subterranean world.