Archive for April, 2007

Inspired by the JPG talk at Web2.0Expo

I decided to join and add to the community…


Tidal Turbines Help Light Up Manhattan

Turbines are being submerged in the East River to generate electricity from rapid tidal currents.

This is very cool, I’ve been looking into installing a wind turbine on the roof of my office building, but this seems like a better idea. As an owner of a small company that uses more power per person than most [...]


How to Fund your Web 2.0

I sat in on a session “How to fund your Web 2.0 startup” with two startup money guys from the bay area. They have done some interesting deals in the past and judging from their presentation, this was just a marketing pitch for them to attract some new startups. After spending a hour and a [...]


Lunch

Thai Chicken wrap, mediocre with way too many red onions, tasteless pasta thing and the typical screw up of combining melon, strawberries and pineapple… and only soda to drink!


First Session: The Iterative App: From Discord to Design

This is a session by Kelly Goto from gotomedia.com.

session URL: http://gotomedia.com/goto/web2expo/workshop/index.html

This session was about design, develop, prototype, test, deploy, and then do it all over again. The focus was on how to shift your development process from a web 1, to a web 1.5 to a web 2.0 methodology.

Web 1 is the process that we [...]


Sunday @ the Web2.0Expo

First thoughts…. on arriving, I found that the registration process is certainly not a web 2.0 experience, a total mess, no workflow which resulted in many frustrated and angry people.

Second Thought… same old lousy conference continental breakfast, I should of stopped somewhere on my way here.

Third Thought… hmmm, what are all these people doing here? [...]