Courtney Walker

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• Posted LA is Smarter Than SF, Ha! to LAist
  A while back, Iast summer, I was in San Francisco and covered the Facebook Developers Conference where I discovered the ginormous amount of attractive nerds there. Sitting on Building Great Apps panel I attended was the crazy hot Sebastien de Halleux, COO and Co-Founder of Playfish. Playfish has a knack, or shall I say, annoying habit, of making some of those uber-addictive applications on Facebook, like GeoChallenge. One such game, the Who Has the...
• Posted Stories of Abduction & Displacement at Central Library to LAist
  Tonight at 7pm, McSweeney's Voice of Witness will be hosting a reading at ALOUD in the Central Library in support of their new release, Out of Exile: The Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan. Praised by humanitarian badass John Prendergast, the book is a collection of oral histories from the abducted and displaced citizens of Sudan. The event will be hosted by Craig Walzer, editor of Out of Exile, who compiled these stories during his...
• Posted BOXeight Opens New Gallery Tonight - Chester French Performs to LAist
  Tonight, the artist collective BOXeight, known for bringing Fashion Week back to downtown LA by establishing themselves as an alternative to the traditional Fashion Week, is opening their 6,000 sq ft gallery and exhibition "I Think It's Art, I Think It's Fashion". Long deemed the largest independent arts organization in Los Angeles, and they are now able to boast the largest independent art gallery as well. Exhibiting artists include Peter Eaton Gurnz, Ben Cope, Mike...
• Posted These Nerds are Hot - Facebook Developers' Conference 08 to LAist
  Going into F8 (the Facebook Developers Conference) yesterday, there was an expectation of learning something new and exciting about the uses of Facebook as a means of building a business, evangelizing a movement or business or brand (in LA all of that means preaching to others about yourself) and how Facebook now is going to help application developers make money on its platform....
• Posted Ford Flex Scavenger Hunt and Band from TV Afterparty to LAist
  Last Saturday Ford and "Band from TV" partnered together in Downtown LA to launch the Ford Flex with a charity scavenger hunt through that roamed throughout Los Angeles, raising money for various charities. Basically the event challenged each team to use the interactive technologies of the new vehicle - Ford brands the Flex as a vehicle for "urban adventures" so it seems the scavenger hunt was created to showcase exactly that. Too bad one of...