The Hak5 Crew Attending ROFLThing-NYC

Posted on December 24, 2008 by Tim Hwang
Categories: Getting People, New York, Tim, Totally Sweet Tech, Triumph

Bah, humbug! Holidays have nothing on the ROFLTeam. Onwards!

The team just got off the phone and I’m happy to announce this morning that we’ve officially confirmed that the geek h4×0r superteam behind cool projects/tech humor video podcast Hak5 will be in attendance at ROFLThing-NYC in a few weeks! Expect to see Darren, Matt, Paul, and Shannon wandering around at the talks throughout the day, shooting some video of the event, and otherwise doing their thing.

Plus: perhaps even more excellently, we’ve been talking to them and it looks like they’re busily cooking up some epically sweet interactive DIY stuff for the party that’ll make its debut at the evening ROFLParty after the talks. More details to follow as we work out the specs…

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Sex Panther Cologne To Sponsor ROFLThing-NYC

Posted on December 23, 2008 by Tim Hwang
Categories: New York, Partners and Friends, Tim, Triumph

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We’re lucky — the ROFLteam’s been blessed in the past with a number of awesomely random sponsors, but perhaps none so unexpected as the one we’re proud to announce today.

Yes, that’s right. Sex Panther Cologne (a product of Omni Consumer Products, who brought you the joy of Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator at the original ROFLCon) has officially signed on board as an event partner for ROFLThing-NYC! There’s no doubt in our minds that Sex Panther is the discerning fragrance choice for the sophisticated man or lady, and we’re thrilled to have them bring a little bit of class and excellence to the proceedings.

Incidentally, we’re hearing from their PR people that it turns out that Sex Panther cologne is also the official fragrance of the USA National Beard Team (an officially registered team of the World Beard and Mustache Championships). But really, could it be any other way?

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The Berkman Center Sponsors ROFLThing-NYC!

Posted on December 22, 2008 by Tim Hwang
Categories: Partners and Friends, Tim, Triumph

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Wow, happy holidays, how was your weekend? Sorry about the delay in posting today, Rachel and I have been working round the clock trying to finagle all the schwag together and get ticketing up and running (announcements about that coming pretty soon). But in the very least, stay tuned — in spite of the holidays, we’ll be announcing several new sponsors and guests all this week.

In any case, the ROFLTeam’s happy to kick that off by announcing today that our old friends over at the mighty enclave of internet studies badasses at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society @ Harvard University (now including Free Culture messiah Larry Lessig) have officially signed on board as sponsors for our ROFLThing-NYC!

If you don’t know too much about them, the Berkman Center supports some pretty awesome research into the evolving landscape of the web and its role in shaping culture, business, and everything else. And, basically, we couldn’t be happier to have them rocking and rolling with us for another round.

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Watch Out: Backchan.nl Deploying At ROFLThing-NYC

Posted on December 19, 2008 by Tim Hwang
Categories: Logistics, New York, Tim, Totally Sweet Tech

I’m geeking out about this, but just spoke to MIT Media Lab member and all around badass Drew Harry earlier this week, and glad to report that ROFLThing-NYC is going bringing all that hot Backchan.nl action back to our event.

If you missed out when we used it in April, Backchan.nl is a nifty little tool that lets everyone in the audience dynamically drop questions and vote up or down stuff while the presentation is going on. It was used varyingly to cause fun trouble at the original conference (see above: dammit, Randall), and we’re pumped to have it back. If you’re really into reading about it in more depth, there’s also a really sweet paper (pdf warning) written by the good folks at the Media Lab about it.

Drew’s also looking into potentially putting together some similarly cool stuff for the afterparty, we’ll announce them as we get the deets work out.

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