I’ve been reading all the assembled Tech Press and personal blog accounts of last weeks exciting Web 2.0 conference. I have come to the conclusion that there are no Tech Journalists with any integrity at all, there is not one accrete account of what transpired in the Nikko Hotel last week in any of the so called “legitimate press”. Many of the “reporters” relied on second and third hand information and used that to write there own stories. All of these “journalists” have agendas and have sold out to advertisers. Go to Feedster, read the blogs of the people who were there and you will get a much better assessment, but avoid the blogs about blogs and their third hand mist-information.
Just over six hundred people were registered for Web 2.0, but I have already read that over one thousand were there and by next year seven thousand people will be claming they too were there.
The Themes of Web 2.0 were:
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The Web as platform
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Data is the Intel Inside
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Architecture of participation
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Lightweight Business models
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End of the software adoption cycle
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Innovation in Assembly
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The power of the tail
The “Lightweight Biz model” was largely Marc Canter’s talking point and he enjoyed bouncing his largeness off everyone. He is blogging now as he has never bloged before keeping the “conversation” from Web 2.0 growing on.
The “Innovation in Assembly” was precursor for SpikeSource, a company that was not announced till the third day but mentioned by name on the 13th slide of the Themes of Web 2.0 intro. Now I wasn’t born yesterday and when I was born my Father worked in an Advertising Agency. I now have aversion to advertising and can smell a sell 5,280 feet away. I understand ad placement, it was so easy to see that SpikeSource got the best spot at Web 2.0. Kim (remember Marimba) Polese got an audience with warm hearts after inspiring presentations by Craig Newmark and Larry Lessig. I haven’t felt so used since Simon and Garfunkle invited me to a “free” concert in Central Park and then featured me as an unpaid extra in their movie.
Ms. Polese kept referring to “the IT Guy”, yet there was not one IT guy in attendance, they were working in the data centers keeping our networks running. I had a very good conversation with Glen Martin, SpikeSource’s Director of Product Marketing; he was very well versed on Microsoft’s software vulnerabilities. I was very impressed with Glen’s depth of knowledge, SpikeSource has Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers behind them and that spells $$$$$. An open Source IT Services company is not a new idea, just another “Greatest Hits” compilation, without a trackback to Murray Hills NJ. The Chinese must have twenty SpikeSource companies by now as do the Koreans, Germans, and Russians. Will you save money by hiring SpikeSourse to build out your IT infrastructure or can you do better with Microsoft and your IT Guy?