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Past Meetings: September 14, 2000

Date: Thursday, September 14, 2000
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Kensington Community Church
Attendees: 49

We had our largest turnout ever, due I'm sure to our guest speaker, Ted Ladd, Lead Evangelist from Palm, Inc., as well as the our give away of a Palm IIIc.

Palm has coined the term "Palm Evangelism Network" to describe members of the Palm community who are active in Palm user groups. In order to help support the network of user groups and formation of new user groups, Palm is developing the PEN portal (at the Palm web site). Features of the PEN portal will include:

  • list of Palm PUGs
  • calendar of PUG events
  • possibly web casts of Palm related events
  • e-mail list support
  • general message board.

Palm also claims the PEN will offer the following benefits to Palm enthusiasts:

  • generate public recognition
  • understand and contribute to this emerging industry
  • benefits from a larger installed base
  • offer Palm enthusiasts new business opportunities in the Palm economy (hardware, software, and branding)
Palm will introduce a new label "Palm powered" to be put on computers running the Palm O/S and Palm related items. This is very similar to the "Intel inside" marketing plan. Palm sees the handheld market as three main areas:
  1. voice
  2. data
  3. entertainment
Although there will be some convergence between the areas, Palm thinks that there will still be a market for "data-centric" devices which are separate from the others. Recently, Palm has expressed their intention of adding expansion support to all future Palm brand devices. The expansion format that Palm has chosen is the SD Card. When this is offered consumers will have four different technologies available for memory/hardware expansion in a Palm O/S device. The four technologies are:
  • SD card (Palm)
  • springboard (Handspring)
  • compact flash (TRG)
  • memory stick (Sony)
Palm believes there is shift in usage pattern of how users use their handheld. In the past, users used their devices mainly to display information. They displayed information a high number of times for a short duration each data. In the future, handheld use will shift to more data entry (similar to a desktop).


  • We enjoyed some giveaways:
    • A Palm Iiic, compliments of Palm, went to Dan Hibbits
    • 20 cleverly packaged Palm T-shirts, compliments of Palm, went to the first 20 arrivals
    • Lonely Planet's CitySync product, compliments of Lonely Planet went to Subodhsingh Chauhan
    • TrueTip finger stylus, compliments of TrueTip, went to Brad Meyers
    • 3 of Markspaces's products, compliments of Markspace went to Darcy Erickson. Darcy won Markspaces's Fax Send/Receive, Online VT100, and PageNOW! paging/SMS text messaging software.
    • Convert-It and Lease Calc, compliments of dpw Designs, went to John W. Lewis Jr
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