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  Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt offerings in the expectation that a company with  a great t-shirt is a prime candidate to have a great product also. Click here to see the series.

Now this one is a little bizarre… A little while ago I got an email written in the finest Russian (actually I have no idea if it was fine, (Russian not being my strong point and all). From someone at KeywordRush.com which is a site that does… I have no idea – take a look and let me know if you can work it out…

Anyway, they offered to send me a shirt from another site, MyFriendsMosaic.com, a slightly more legitimate looking site that sells all manner of Twitter themed paraphernalia – you can have a mosaic of your friends on a mug, a mousepad, a bag or, yes indeed, a t shirt.

I offered to take a shirt for a spin and a couple of weeks later my garment arrived.

Hot

• It is indeed white, a great color for a shirt
• I can wear my friends close to my heart (awwww)
• The “wear your twitter name” is a good meme – but Tweet4YourTee does it better

Not

• The print was pretty poor quality
• Does being involved with this give me automatic membership of the Russian mafia?
• The t shirt had that “designed for a gulag in Siberia” feel – kind of sackcloth like….

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Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt offerings in the expectation that a company with  a great t-shirt is a prime candidate to have a great product also. Click here to see the series.

Recently Nik Wakelin, mild mannered honcho at MinuteDock (review here) flicked me an email to suggest I review their latest product offering in their “free schwag to gain immense worldwide attention” product line. Not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth I agreed to take a MinuteDock T Shirt for a spin.

No I need to tall you I was a little distraught with this transaction – Nik is a typical young developer, at home with 80 hour weeks and caffeine fuelled, I on the other hand am practically a dinosaur (hell, I remember the launch of the original Mac and I’ll be 40 next year) – Nik obviously equated age with portliness and decrepitude and suggested I could get a large shirt if needs be. I sit here proudly typing while wearing my medium MinuteDock shirt that highlights my “not bad for an old times” physique. 😉

Hot

• I get to look at least a generation earlier while wearing it
• Have I mentioned previously that I like white t shirts?
• The branding is attractive, the byline sufficiently je ne sais quos

Not.

• I mean a hand crafted, organic merino shirt made by artisans down the road from me would be nice but still….

Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt offerings in the expectation that a company with  a great t-shirt is a prime candidate to have a great product also. Click here to see the series.

If you’d like your t-shirt reviewed, flick me an email to arrange things. The judges decision is, of course, final and very little correspondence will be entered into (perhaps).

At the recent NetSuite SuiteCloud event I was a little distressed at the dearth of shirts on offer. Unperturbed (well almost) I continued on my quest and came up with a couple of candidates – one of which is the fine Boomi shirt displayed here.

Boomi does a nice shirt, they’re let down (in my mind at least) by their base color of choice but other than that they’re showing some nice design traits.

Hot

• The logo on the front is sufficiently enigmatic to be cool
• The text on the back is similarly cool – not overstated but just right

Not

• I don’t wear dark shirts – of course that’s just me but still….

From time to time, we showcase videos showing different vendor’s perspectives on cloud computing. As a part of this tradition, today we offer the perspective of i365 , a Seagate Company. If the embedded video is not available for you, use this link.

Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt offerings in the expectation that a company with  a great t-shirt is a prime candidate to have a great product also. Click here to see the series.

If you’d like your t-shirt reviewed, flick me an email to arrange things. The judges decision is, of course, final and very little correspondence will be entered into (perhaps).

For the one or two readers of this blog who don’t already know, CloudCamp is a series of events where:

early adapters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas.

I’m the Australasian organizer for the events and am also helping run events in Denver and the Middle East this year. Given my involvement, and the fact that I actually printed these T Shirts myself, one could surmise that I’m a little biased in my assessment of these shirts – I’ll do my very best to remain suitably neutral though!

Hot

• White T Shirts are good!
• CloudCamp is (OK so I’m biased!) a beautiful thing. Antipodean CloudCamps are even better
• The CloudCamp logo is a subtle and attractive one

Not

• The shirts are made in China (yes OK – feel free to call my a blatant hypocrite!) – at least they’re printed here in EnZed!