Today was the project fair for CS160. Tim and I got to present our project, peer.com (not the actual URL), to assembled masses of about 60 usability folk, industry specialists, and venture capitalists, as well as other students and teachers in the department.

All in all it was a great time! Our presentation went very well, with only a small hiccup with the CueCat demo, and we all got to meet some interesting people at the project fair which immediately followed the presentations.

I'm starting to notice a dissassociation between hard work and attention. Several people who came up to me were intrigued by the Tellme integration demo I tacked on to the end of the project, though it only represented a few hours work compared to a few hundred hours for the rest of the project.

Similarly, the biggest draw to my site for the past few months has been AOLiza, though it too was a bout of inspiration and an afternoon's work (to start out, anyhow).

I suppose it goes back to Edison's comment that invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. The keys to using this effectively are recognizing which 1% is truly the inspiration, and doing whatever you can to make sure it's the first 1% and not the last.