Web2.0Expo

New Ride

05/08/2008, originally uploaded by Bryan Thatcher.
Yes it has that “new car smell”
The sales guy spent an hour explaining the onboard computer features, I just kept telling him yeah yeah yeah I got it, you don’t need to explain this to me, shocked, replied “nobody gets this the first time” informed him that I’m, not nobody… [...]


Web 2.0 NY conference

I would love to see a conference that actually uses both the ideas and the technology that web 2.0 or the next web is comprised of. While it’s interesting and very misogynistic for the few speakers, I’m finding that the sit down sessions are less informative than the interaction during the breaks.
In general the [...]


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? [...]