Thanks to everyone who came to Ignite Boston 2 at Hurricane O'Reillys. I thought there were a bunch of excellent talks and good ideas floating all around the place. We tried to mix it up a bit last night, and learned a quite a few things in the process, which should will enable us make Ignite Boston 3 even better [think cold January]. Again, thanks for supporting the local tech scene with your attendance and participation in Ignite Boston 2. Here are the slides and content from the talks last night. Check back or subscribe to the RSS here as I will be posting whatever useful video highlights there are.

Keynote: Ben Fry - Visualizing Data
Visualizing large data in a compelling style with tools that scale.
1. Alessandro Pace - Flash Lite mobile technology
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2. Yael Maguire - New Uses of Long Range RFID
   
3. Jon Orwant - Google Book Search
   
4. Ned Gulley - A wiki-like programming contest
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5. Andy Gregorowicz - Mining Wikipedia
   An overview of how we mine the Wikipedia to create massive networks of concepts and terms with interesting visuals.
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6. Hari Jayaram - Waiting for the MySpace scientist
   Science is getting so complex that we need to open things up, collaborate and use technology more than ever before
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7. Jessie Liberty - Sliverlight
   Learn what is cool with Sliverlight.
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8. Ivan Schneider - A proposal for rules-based payment processing
   Why should affiliates and suppliers wait for a check when the payments network can divvy the spoils for every purchase?
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9. Shava Nerad - Convergence: games, virtual worlds, social networking
   They grew up on their own -- now corporations enter. How will they deal with convergence and big money colonialism?
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10. Michael Burns - Securing the OLPC
    Millions of XOs are being distributed this year. Bitfrost is the system to protect these child users. How does it work?
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11. Matt Gross - GPS, Location, and Phones
    What types of location services are available on GPS-enabled mobile phones. How to build your own.
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12. Brian Olson - Ending Gerrymandering Through Automatic Redistricting
    Lots of states have crazy congressional districts drawn to the benefit of one party. Let a computer do it fairly!
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13. Daniel Olguin Olguin - Sensible Organizations
    Social sensor network technologies that will help individuals and organizations work better.
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14. Ted Gilchrist - Extending Robocal to do "talking driving direcctions"
    Robocal is a talking Google Calendar, that you can call up. Now you'll get driving directions to your meetings.
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15. Renat Khasanshyn - Enterprise 2.0 and Data Mashups: Bridging the Web 2.0 Information Gap
    In today's enterprises, most data integration projects never get built. The ROI on these projects is simply too low. Co
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16. Dan Stolts - Free Local Technology Resources
    The local user group community is thriving. Get a taste of what the community is doing for the community.
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17. James Turner - 5 Ways to Keep an Editor Happy
    So, you'd like to write something for the ONLamp Family of Websites? Here's 5 basic boo-boos to avoid.
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18. Adam Goldstein - Launch: BookTour
    Where Authors and Audiences Meet
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19. Keith Erskine - Launch: Padpaw
    Padpaw is out of the Garage! Padpaw helps your group with important updates and information using your cell phone
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20. Greg Raiz - Launch PicMe Photo Sharing
    PicMe is a desktop based photo sharing application. It allows users to view and share large collections of photos.