Boston is hosting a Music Hack Day from October 16th-17th, next month.

Found this site: 997 ways to be a great speaker site. Some good tips … and (mostly) free too, unless you buy the book.

Geeky by Nature conference (New York)
March 31st – April 1st 2011
www.geekybynature.com

Via cnn, “Use is growing, but some adults still apps-backward“.

Some interesting pulls from the article based on a pew research center study:

The Pew report is based on a telephone survey of 2,252 U.S. adults 18 and older, conducted between April 29 and May 30.

The sample included 1,917 cell phone users, 744 of whom were contacted on their cell phones.

• About 35% of U.S. adults have mobile phones that run software applications, or apps, according to a new survey. But fewer than one in four adults actually uses those apps.
• Growing number of U.S. adults have phones with apps, but less 25% use them
• Pew survey says more than one in 10 adults don’t know whether their phone has apps
• Study’s authors say that app culture, only 2 years old, is growing
• About eight out of 10 adults are cell phone users, according to the report.
• Only 29% of them had used an app. The average adult has 18 apps on a phone, according to the survey.
• Games are the most popular downloaded apps, based on a separate Nielsen survey included in the Pew report.
• About 60% of apps users said they’d used a game app in the past month
• 52% said they’d used one to get news or weather
• 51% said they’d used a map app.
• 76% said they’d used their phone to take a picture
• 72% had used it to send or receive a text message
• 38% had accessed the internet with their phone

“Design in the Age of Mobility” by Co-founder Adrian Mendoza. Lecture on Oct 28th at Mass Arts Thursday night