An ofrenda to tech ghosts

Mozilla Festival Sessions
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Session Input & Outcomes:

Reasons folks attended the session:

  • I’m interested in the idea of haunted technology both by the dead and by software/services
  • Too many projects can wither and die; none of us live for ever
  • The thought of what happens to projects after you die seemed quite interesting to me, since I have a personal project that I hope will have some longevity!
  • I regularly encounter tech ghosts. I’m here to find out who i’m going to call :wink:
  • My cat died two years ago but haunts my “3 months ago/3 years ago” feed… forever?
  • I have a weird fascination with Death/Dying
  • because people need help learning how to let go

Tech Ghosts folks shared:

  • Libra

  • BlogSpot

  • “Web 2.0”

  • Yahoo Groups

  • Rdio

  • Ida B Wells

  • Mr Grizzly

  • Radio CPR

  • Sunlight Foundation

  • Mozilla Personas

  • Firebeat

  • Why?

  • Blanca

  • Gugulson

  • Newscoop

  • iCanHazCheezburger

  • Livejournal

  • Friendster

  • Party.lu

  • RSS (“not dead…yet but almost”)

  • ThingBox

  • Geocities

  • Firefox OS Phone

  • Citizen Desk

  • Cyanogen Nod

  • < Keygen/ >

  • Popcorn.js

  • Pieter Hintjens

  • Vine

  • Anonimity on the web

  • Dev Bootcamp

  • Faceparty.com

  • del.icio.us

  • Smartphones with hardware keyboards

  • google reader

  • google images API v1.0

  • Dennis Ritchie

  • DabbleDB

  • Edith Windsor

  • Brother Mike

  • BackPage

  • Xanadu & Memex

  • Pledgebook

  • Aaron Schwartz

  • Chris Lightfoot

  • AltaVista

  • TikTok (“I’m not dead yet”)

  • Best Intentions, 2009

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