Bytemarks

Hawaii students were well represented in top honors at this year’s Intel International Science & Engineering Fair held last week in San Jose, CA.
Nolan Kamitaki from Waiakea High School and his project, Gene Dosage and Expression in Human Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines took the Best of Category and First Place in the category of Cellular and [...]

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Hats off to Jay Fidell, Bill Spencer and Mary Fastenau for pulling off a very engaging and thought provoking half-day panel discussion about the future of news. Not only was it timely, coming at the heels of a major television news consolidation in Hawaii and the recently announced sale of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin for the [...]

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TechHui, the social network of Hawaii’s tech community is hosting a conference this Saturday, July 25, 2009 at the Univ. of Hawaii, Art Auditorium. I spoke to Dan Leuck, organizer of the event, earlier today and asked him what makes this conference different from other tech conferences in Honolulu. For starters, it features speakers from [...]

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This week is chock full of events. In my previous post I mention the Wayfinder Lectures coming up on Thursday, July 23th at Hawaii Public Radio. On Friday, July 24th at the Academy of Arts, Linekona the fifth installment of Pecha Kucha Night will take place. The Pecha Kucha presentation format started in Japan with [...]

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The vibrance and excitement of SXSW was intoxicating. When I got back last week Wed (3/18). I hit the road running going into the office, sharing cool finds from SXSW, doing the Bytemarks Cafe radio show that evening. Then on Thursday it was the Andy Bumatai show and on Friday it was working on getting [...]

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The first day of SXSW Interactive was like jumping into the water at Ala Moana Beach and swimming to the reef. Subsequent days were like going to Waimea Bay during a North Shore winter swell. Just to give you an idea of what I am trying to absorb here is a lineup of the session [...]

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The first day of SXSW included finding my way to the Austin Convention Center in the rain at 9am in the morning. I was about to walk over the bridge but realized the rain was a bit much in the 40 degree weather. Got wise and took a taxi. While at the Convention Center I [...]

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It’s 3:30am on Thursday morning and I am squeezing in this blog post before heading off to the airport SXSW bound. This will be my first SXSW and I am looking forward to it on a number of levels. I’m excited to geek out with the Interactive crowd and to catch the buzz on what’s [...]

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