• T Shirt Friday #53 – MSPOT

     

    I duly listened and can’t really tell you what MSpot does – something about streaming iTunes to Android from the cloud – a model that seems destined to be disintermediated by native Android functionality long before it gets any traction.

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  • T Shirt Friday #52 – Google Guide

     

    This T shirt is one that got through the gaps – I can’t actually remember where I got given it, if it’s one of yours feel free to drop me a line to claim the credit for it!

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  • T Shirt Friday #51 – Code Futures

     

    Recently I spent an intense two weeks of highly concentrated t-shirt gathering event attendance in the Bay area and Denver. At the Glue conference in Denver,one of the exhibitors was CodeFutures with their DB Sharding product

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  • T Shirt Friday #50 – twilio

     

    One of the cloud telephony vendors at the show was twilio and they had loud and proud t shirts to garner some attention. Personally I like ‘em, not sure if it’d make me chose twilio’s product but, ah well…

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  • T Shirt Friday #49 – Google IO

     

    Despite a couple of thousand post blogging history, 13000 or so tweets and more trips between Silicon Valley and New Zealand than I’d care to admit – this was the first Google t shirt I received. So excited was I in fact that, despite not generally wearing black tees, I’ve kept this one in my very special favorite t shirt drawer.

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  • T Shirt Friday #48 – Altitude 2010

     

    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  […]

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  • T Shirt Friday #47 – CloudSherpas

     

    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  […]

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  • T Shirt Friday #46 – Glue conference

     

    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  […]

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  • T Shirt Friday #45 – Microsoft Azure

     

    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  […]

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  • T-Shirt Friday – A Brief Hiatus and a Reflection on Conference Schwag

     

    As most of you know, Friday is the day when I write about important stuff, namely an in-depth critique of tech company tshirts in all their glory.

    Well this week there will be a hiatus, shock horror I’ve run out of shirts to review – yes, much like a world racing headfirst towards peak oil, my supply has run out. Have no fear though, this past couple of weeks I’ve been at some big events (Box.net’s event in Palo Alto, Google IO in San Francisco and Gluecon in Denver) and am in the process of being restocked.

    I thought I’d take this hiatus then to reflect on schwag bags and use them as a state-of-the-economy measure. Now this might sound like  pretty rough and ready measure, but much like the Big Mac Index that economists use to measure relative foreign exchange rates, so to is the tech conference schwag bag a pretty good measure of market sentiment.

    And I’d have to say that things are on the up. The Glue con bag not only had a couple of t shirts in there but it was full to overflowing with everything one could ever want – from the (somewhat ugly it has to be said) baseball cap, to the combined laser point/flash light. From the ceramic mug to the mini Rubik’s cube – the grab bag was an awesome too for those who, like me, have kids at home expecting gifts.

    I would say that the amount of “stuff” in the bag is twice what we got last year, now in part this is due to the conference itself growing, but given the number of people running around both here and at the Moscone last week trying to hire engineers, it would seem we pulling out of the death spiral of last year.

    Good things to, or I’d have to find something else to review on a Friday – conference pens perhaps?

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