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I can’t promise but I’ll try and rig up a locker for @silona at Texas Coworking @patramsey #crisiscamp needs wordpress help if you have…

Austin Texas Coworking featured in SF Examiner article by @johnjegan http://bit.ly/bzEyPs and #crisiscamp lands at…

suggest @silona use @texascoworking http://texascoworking.com for sxsw crisis camp. Let’s talk Silona!

I’d truly appreciate you voting for my panel at SXSW 2010 http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/2266 re: devices for real world social net

RT @gadgetboy: ‘Incoming’ iPhone App Allows You To Use Skype Over 3G and Edge [Apps] http://ff.im/-43eU7

During the week of May 24 through May 31st AustinLifestyles.com, The Spring, BHI, and RegistrationAssistant are hosting a visitor from the Netherlands, Paul Geurts of MyNameisE.com. He is bringing the first prototypes of a social networking and business card connector to Austin, Texas.  If you’re around Austin next week and want a demo, call Paul at 512–699–4000 or email terry at spring dot net.

My Name is E

The E device can be used at conventions, trade shows, and meetings, in metropolitian areas like Austin and on college campuses like the University of Texas.  There are over 1.2 million conventions, trade shows and events in the US every year.

What is the E device? In its current incarnation, E is small white, sleek looking device much like an ipod nano or USB storage device. With E, you can share your contact information and social networks in one simple gesture.

Connector allows you to safely transfer an online business card and your set of social networks in a simple gesture like a fist pump or a high five. Tap two Connectors together and you’re connected. Synchonize Connector by using the built-in USB plug with your PC or Mac. It is ideal for networking at large events and conferences.

During the week that Paul Geurts is visiting Austin, we will be meeting with venture investors, potential partners, customers and forming a team to distribute and promote E throught the US and North America.

There is no setup with connector, it can be used immediately out of the box. It’s equipped with a lithium polymer battery which allows you to use it for 72 hours on a 2 hour charge. It holds two of your E Business Cards (one for personal and one for professional) and connects to RFID tags as well as other Connectors and iphones. It gives you intuitive feedback through LED lighting.  The RFID tag feature opens it up the world of “choice based advertising” and integrates these connections in to your social network activity stream.  It connects you to objects and to the environment as well as to people.

congrats to Leffingwell, Austin’s new mayor.

rt @austinsmayor The whole @openaustin concept of crowdsourcing the cities website and saving $700 grand in consulting fees is sensible.

rt @MeanRachel: Favorite line of the nite: Austin’s growth Mayor’s race, via Yelp: “In my line of work, unbridled growth is called cancer.”

It’s a Leffingwell vs. McCracken runoff. Leffingwell has 47 percent of the vote and Brewster McCracken is next with 27 percent. Carole Keeton Strayhorn is third with 21 percent. The race for mayor will be decided in a June 13 runoff election. The top two candidates, Leffingwell and McCracken advance to that runoff.

Even if McCracken could pick up all of Carole Strayhorn’s 21% vote it would be a dead heat with Leffingwell.  The only way McCracken can salvage this election is to do a total reboot and pick up the environmental faction lead by Max Nofziger on austinmayor.com and the changeaustin.org (reincarnation of stopdomainsubsidies.org) forces of Brian Rodgers and Linda Curtis.  McCracken currently is riding along a green message buoyed up by Michelle Greeer and the Austin social networking community.  He’ll need to dig way deeper in to this immense pool of twitter and facebook followers and enlist a core of heavy hitters like springnet, perrybelcher and others with mega follower bases in order to pull this out.

This will require a complete retooling by McCracken, who will need to have a second coming and become relevant to the Stop Domainers and environmental community, and expand his appeal to the green and tech communities.  It’s do-able but it’s going to require a super human effort between now and June 13.