About Us
Traveling Geeks is a consortium of entrepreneurs, thought leaders, authors, journalists, bloggers, technology innovators and influencers who travel to countries to share and learn from peers, governments, corporations, and the general public to educate, share, evaluate, and promote new, innovative technologies. The initiative was founded by Renee Blodgett and Jeff Saperstein in 2008.
Trips are funded by sponsorships from corporations, organizations and governments. The first tour was sponsored by the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a trip that successfully marked the proof of concept that could expand to other countries around the world.
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Geo-Loco Event: Social Media Week San Francisco
Magic Sauce Media, my newly branded gig, and Traveling Geeks are proud sponsors of the event, which will be held at 930 Montgomery Street, #301 in San Francisco. The event is part of a global Social Media Week conference, held simultaneously in six cities around the country.
The panel includes:
MG Siegler, Techcrunch
Robert Scoble, Rackspace
Jeremy Toeman, Stage Two Consulting
Matt Galigan, SimpleGeo
Tom Coates, Yahoo Fire Eage
Phonebooth 2.0
I was minding my own business, getting ready to interview someone, at LeWeb in the “Geek Pad” where Microsoft had given us an area to hang out and connect online, when I noticed Eliane had her Macbook Pro over her head. I didn’t see any rain, so I knew she wasn’t using it as an umbrella, and then I heard her speaking intimately to the Mac.
Since there are hardly any phone booths anymore, she had turned her Mac into a phone booth!
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Backstage Pass- David Spark
This is a Backstage Pass interview of David Spark, conducted at LeWeb, in December, 2009.
David Spark is a new media producer and consultant whose output includes Spark Minute, and he blogs at SparkMinute.com.
[The photo at left was taken at LeWeb in Paris, 2009, by Rodrigo Sepúlveda-Schulz (CC)by-nc-sa.]
You can check David’s Cool and Not-so-Cool post, but in the video, to save time, I edited to focus on the cool!
Backstage Pass- Ewan Spence
This is a Backstage Pass interview of Ewan Spence, conducted at LeWeb, in December, 2009.
Ewan blogs at EwanSpence.com. He’s a blogger, author and writer based in Edinborough, Scotland.
[The photo at left was taken at LeWeb in Paris, 2009, by Rodrigo Sepúlveda-Schulz (CC)by-nc-sa.]
Backstage Pass- Eliane Fiolet
This is a Backstage Pass interview of Eliane Fiolet, conducted at LeWeb, in December, 2009.
Eliane is cofounder of Ubergizmo. She was a co-organizer of the Traveling Geeks tour to Paris and LeWeb, 2009.
[The photo at left is by Rodrigo Sepúlveda-Schulz (CC)by-nc-sa.]
Backstage Pass- Frederic Lardinois
This is a Backstage Pass interview of Frederic Lardinois, conducted at LeWeb, in December, 2009.
Frederic blogs at ReadWriteWeb.
[The photo at left was provided by Frederic Lardinois.]
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Backstage Pass- Beth Blecherman
This is a Backstage Pass interview of Beth Blecherman, conducted at LeWeb, in December, 2009.
Beth comes from the application-development world, founded TechMamas.com and tweets as @techmama.
[The photo at left is by Olivier Ezratty.]
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Backstage Pass- Robin Wauters
This is a Backstage Pass interview of Robin Wauters, conducted at LeWeb, in December, 2009.
Robin writes at TechCrunch and is the managing editor of virtualization.com. He lives in Brussels.
[The photo at left is by Rodrigo Sepulveda-Schulz (CC)by-nc-sa.]
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Lancement du Parrot AR.Drone
Mardi 5 janvier à Las Vegas, la société française Parrot annonçait un jouet étonnant résultat de plusieurs années d’ingeniering et parfaitement dans l’air du temps : l’AR Drone.
Au moment où j’écris ces lignes, la presse mondiale en ligne a du déjà décrire le biniou. J’avais eu le privilège de profiter d’une démonstration de l’hélicoptère début décembre 2009 pendant la visite de Parrot à Paris avec les Travelling Geeks. Mais nous étions sous embargo jusqu’à hier.
