It’s 10/10/10, and ubuntu launched it’s 10.10 release. How awesome is that?

I’m already upgrading on my multi-booted asus netbook.

There’s a great article on CNN talking about the next evolution of haptic touchscreen, which involves sending electrical charges to your finger tips.

Essentially this would allow for users to get visual cues based on touch when interacting with screens (e.g. large videos behind an icon would seem “heavy”, etc).

It’s still in development, but it seems like from the article it may be cheap enough to start integrating into mobile devices, such as phones and tablets in the near future.

There’s a demo video on the TeslaTouch Website.

There’s a business unconference coming up in Boston called MassTLC2010.

You can register here.

MassTLC2010 is a conference designed for entrepreneurs and the folks who want to lend a hand.

It’s an unConference, so all the sessions are created by the attendees on the day of the event. No podiums. No panels.

Everyone is on the same level. Unlike other unconferences, over 100 volunteer experts have committed in advance to lend their expertise in sessions and over 300 1-on-1 meetings with entrepreneurs.

Register

There’s an upcoming mobile event in NH at NH-ICC.

Here are the logistics:

“The Smart Phone Changes Everything!”
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 5:30 PM to Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 8:30 PM (ET)
Portsmouth, NH (Map)

“CHUCK MARTIN – “The Smart Phone Changes Everything”

• New York Times Business Bestselling Author
• Director of Research, MediaPost
• CEO, NFI Research
• Adjunct Professor, Marketing Research at the Whittemore School of Business & Economics at the University of New Hampshire

The TV screen allowed companies to send ads directly to consumers’ living rooms, and the PC screen allowed them to start interacting with their customers. The smartphone screen is changing everything.  NY Times best-selling author, Chuck Martin, Director, Center for Media Research, MediaPost and Adjunct Professor of Marketing, UNH, explains how mobile apps are creating a new system of participatory advertising in which untethered customers and forward-thinking companies will interact within the cloud.

Coming off a year of research of early successes, promising developments and existing opportunities in the Mobile Web marketplace and having put the finishing touches on his ninth book entitles “The Third Screen”, Chuck will share his technology and marketplace insights followed by an interactive discussion with participants.  This event should not be missed!

Previously sharing the stage with President Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, Dr. Phil, and Lance Armstrong, Chuck Martin was was named Director of the Center for Media Research last year. This added role positioned him at the heart of online, Internet, digital interactive and further highlights his credentials as a leading speaker in the area of Online, Social Networking, Mobile and Digital Interactive.

Martin is a former vice president of IBM and CEO of NFI Research, a global business research institute where he overseas a global idea exchange and research engine with a network base of more than 2,000 senior executives from more than 1,000 companies in over 50 countries, including: AT&T, GE, American Express, Deloitte & Touche, Microsoft, and IBM. Martin also teaches Marketing Research at the Whittemore School of Business & Economics at the University of New Hampshire, where he has led numerous research projects.

This is the first event in a new seacoast New Hampshire technology speaker series scheduled for the second Wednesday each month.

• 5:30 to 6:30 PM – Registration/Networking
• 6:30 to 7:30 PM – StartUp Pitch And Main Speaker/Panel
• 7:30 to 8:30 PM – Networking”

If you hadn’t already guessed, I’m a big lifehacker fan these days.

I just a caught a short article on encoding settings for video and devices.

I’m not sure if these are “magic settings” for encoding or not, having not tried them, but they do appear to be convincing.

The post also points to Zencoder, which appears to be one of those “online encoder” services that have sprung up in the past few years. I’ve seen a couple hobbyist sites over the past couple years, but this one may have some backing (aka funding).

ZenCoder, describes itself as : “Web-based encoding software as a service, designed to quickly convert any video into web and mobile compatible formats.”.

Looks like they have an API, which might come in handy on a future project, perhaps.