Kara Swisher interviews Twitter’s Adam Bain at the third TWTRCON event, the second in San Francisco, which was held at the Nikko Hotel on November 18, 2010.

Kevin Kelly argues “what evolution wants is the same thing that technology wants” at TEDxSF at the California Academy of Sciences on November 16, 2010.

Jaron Lanier starts his TEDxSF talk in San Francisco this past week by playing an instrument from Laos which originated 8,000 years ago and still has close to its original design. It’s the first human made thing that has rows of keys with an on and off. The instrument has a remarkable history across cultures and the Romans apparently stole the design as have others who have adapted its design to create other instruments around the world. He talks about how the connection between “it” and technology.”

Hear the latest from Yahoo’s Carol Bartz at this year’s Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.

Journalist Adam Lashinsky interviews Zappos’ Tony Hsieh and Susan Lyne with Gilt Groupe on eCommerce and managing hypergrowth.

Toni Schneider from WordPress at the Web 2.0 Summit this past week.

O’Reilly Media’s Brady Forrest leads a panel on location-based services at this year’s Web 2.0 Summit. On the panel includes: SimpleGeo’s Matt Galligan, Shopkick’s Cyriac Roeding and Yelp’s Jeremy Stoppelman.

John Battelle interviews LinkedIn’s CEO Jeff Weiner, fireside chat style at Web 2.0 Summit this past week in San Francsico – from business models and strategy to LinkedIn’s place in the world of social networking sites and whether it plans to adopt any of Facebook’s features.

Below is a half an hour fireside chat with Ev Williams at yesterday’s Web 2.0 Summit. Have a listen to Ev’s thoughts about Twitter’s future strategic direction and where they’re going and why in an interview with John Battelle on-stage in a boardroom at San Francisco’s Palace Hotel.

Camara's John Fitzsimons tells me about their latest work in Africa during a recent trip to Dublin.

We have both spent time in Africa volunteering and teaching so had some common ground; the difference is John is still committed to making a difference there through his day-to-day working as General Manager of Camara.

It has nothing to do with photography despite the a/e slip in the word that could fool you if you read too quickly.

All about giving back, Carama is a volunteer organization dedicated to using technology to deliver education more effectively to disadvantaged communities in Africa and Ireland.

They operate as a social enterprise in two distinct business lines: ‘Education Delivery’ and ‘Computer Reuse’. The connection between these two, seemingly disparate activities is technology.

Essentially they bring in in used computers from Irish companies and individuals, wipe their hard drives of data (in line with US Department of Defense standards), refurbish and load them with educational software before setting them up as Learning Centres in schools in Africa and Ireland. How cool is that?

What's with the name I ask him? It's the Bantu name for one who teachers with experience John says. They currently do most of their work in Lesotho, Zambia, Tanzanaire, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and Ethiopia.

"Camara is not the typical NGO," John says. "I'm not an international specialist. The return on investment for us is a social return, not a financial return. We want to be a 'social enterprise.'" They train teachers to use these computers as tools to improve the delivery of education to their students. And, they produce computer training and educational multimedia materials for use by teachers and children.

When Camara was established in 2005, they had two core beliefs: 1) Education is the key for people to break the cycle of poverty they find themselves in; and 2) properly used, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can be harnessed to revolutionize the way world class education is delivered to disadvantaged communities.

"The Internet is such a great leveler, creating so many equal opportunities with education and distant learning," says John. More on their program and how they operate below.