The second day of Barcamp in Hamburg had all the action of the previous day, including some fun hands-on with a pre-release Google phone (to be made available to the German public by T-Mobile in Q1 next year).
The very tech savvy audience had a jovial time grilling the two T-Mobile sales reps with probing questions on such topics as data privacy, lack of Internet Sharing functionality (such as commonly available on WM6) and the re-configurability of the Android platform. With one of the most sales oriented presentations of the Barcamp, the audience have now learnt how great T-Mobile is, in case they didn't know already.
Other highlights:
Volker Gersabeck of RapidRabb.it gave an introduction of their rapid prototyping application, Prototype Creator. With some interactivity from the audience, Volker converted some handwritten web navigation sketches into a basic click dummy in a few minutes. As gathered from the discussion with the participants, this product from RapidRabb.it produces more "scratchpad" or basic looking prototypes than Adobe Fireworks, but intentionally does so in order to have a quick tool which is rapidly deployable without much training or pre-configuration required. Some argued that the lack of fancy design elements even helps the end customer focus on the essential functionality and reduces false expections on the end design. Preview of the Prototype Creator, which officially goes public on December 1, is available here.
Stefan Betzold of pier314 gave an well structured talk on Next Level eCommerce, where he illustrated some of the more innovative sales channels over and above standard banner ads and static online shopping cart solutions. Via a few real examples, Stefan explored use cases for dynamic entry points into e-commerce (for example widgets and video overlays) and shop atomization (such as complete mini-shops which are distributable as banner ads). In the ensuing discussion - which Stefan did a notable job moderating - lack of customer trust came up several times as a key barrier against the adoption of such e-commerce innovations into the mainstream. His complete presentation is a good read (indeed, the only detailed English slideware at the Barcamp which I stumbled across - don't let the title slide fool you):
Many thanks to the Barcamp organizers for putting up such a great event!
Hey Jason,
i finally found the vid, i wanted to show you guys...unfortunately Gary and Co must be hiding this great, great stuff...check it out:
http://pleasedress.me/pages/pleasedressme-tv-episode-1
THAT is rad. Grooce, Philipp
Posted by: Philipp | 11/24/2008 at 11:22 AM