Comments on: This is Web2.0…? http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2006/11/this-is-web20/ The Virtual Investor Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:25:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Austin Hill http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2006/11/this-is-web20/comment-page-1/#comment-63051 Austin Hill Tue, 14 Nov 2006 03:08:10 +0000 http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2006/11/10/this-is-web20/#comment-63051 Ben - it was great to meet you in the hallways of Web 2.0 & at your new office. I agree that a lot of the most innovative things of the web were not well represented. Ben – it was great to meet you in the hallways of Web 2.0 & at your new office.

I agree that a lot of the most innovative things of the web were not well represented.

]]> By: Tom Raftery http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2006/11/this-is-web20/comment-page-1/#comment-62147 Tom Raftery Sun, 12 Nov 2006 02:22:59 +0000 http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2006/11/10/this-is-web20/#comment-62147 Yawn! It all happened at the <em>real</em> Web 2.0 conference in Cork last June! Yawn!

It all happened at the real Web 2.0 conference in Cork last June!

]]> By: Kevin Werbach http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2006/11/this-is-web20/comment-page-1/#comment-62098 Kevin Werbach Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:23:48 +0000 http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2006/11/10/this-is-web20/#comment-62098 OK, so what <b>would</b> people have liked to see more of at Web 2.0? Specifically. As someone who organizes a <a href="http://www.supernova2007.com" rel="nofollow">conference</a> that aims to be more cutting-edge, I'd be very interested. I have my own ideas, of course, but input from others is useful. Feel free to comment here or email me at <a href="mailto:kevin@werbach.com" rel="nofollow">kevin@werbach.com</a>. OK, so what would people have liked to see more of at Web 2.0? Specifically.

As someone who organizes a conference that aims to be more cutting-edge, I’d be very interested. I have my own ideas, of course, but input from others is useful. Feel free to comment here or email me at kevin@werbach.com.

]]> By: Greg Linden http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2006/11/this-is-web20/comment-page-1/#comment-61974 Greg Linden Sat, 11 Nov 2006 17:36:31 +0000 http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2006/11/10/this-is-web20/#comment-61974 Richard MacManus pretty much nailed my feelings on the conference. He wrote, "This year the crowd was overwhelmingly from the media and business worlds ... This year's conference lacked in cutting edge new products and ... new insights about Web technology .... A lot of the development and design innovators in the Web world were not present." http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_20_summit_wrap-up.php Richard MacManus pretty much nailed my feelings on the conference. He wrote, “This year the crowd was overwhelmingly from the media and business worlds … This year’s conference lacked in cutting edge new products and … new insights about Web technology …. A lot of the development and design innovators in the Web world were not present.”

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_20_summit_wrap-up.php

]]> By: John Dowdell http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2006/11/this-is-web20/comment-page-1/#comment-61946 John Dowdell Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:45:26 +0000 http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2006/11/10/this-is-web20/#comment-61946 It sounds like the organizers succeeded in attracting their highly-funded target audience, while also producing a useful event for significant contributors in the hoping-to-be-wellfunded community (even if only inadvertently). What leads you to believe that they can't serve multiple audiences, whether simultaneously or in series -- that it must be all-one-or-the-other? If you'd like a different event, then should that prohibit <em>this</em> event...? It sounds like the organizers succeeded in attracting their highly-funded target audience, while also producing a useful event for significant contributors in the hoping-to-be-wellfunded community (even if only inadvertently).

What leads you to believe that they can’t serve multiple audiences, whether simultaneously or in series — that it must be all-one-or-the-other?

If you’d like a different event, then should that prohibit this event…?

]]> By: milo http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2006/11/this-is-web20/comment-page-1/#comment-61613 milo Sat, 11 Nov 2006 07:47:20 +0000 http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2006/11/10/this-is-web20/#comment-61613 Same thing happened to me, my last post was written in jan 2007.... ok, corrected. Same thing happened to me, my last post was written in jan 2007….
ok, corrected.

]]> By: Cameron Reilly http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2006/11/this-is-web20/comment-page-1/#comment-61559 Cameron Reilly Sat, 11 Nov 2006 06:29:34 +0000 http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2006/11/10/this-is-web20/#comment-61559 jaysus ben, lou is a G.O.D. You should have gotten down on your knees. Without Lou there would be no rock and roll. He is the walking definition of "edgy". His picture is in the dictionary under the term. Look it up. :-) jaysus ben, lou is a G.O.D. You should have gotten down on your knees. Without Lou there would be no rock and roll. He is the walking definition of “edgy”. His picture is in the dictionary under the term. Look it up. :-)

]]> By: Jem http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2006/11/this-is-web20/comment-page-1/#comment-61358 Jem Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:51:47 +0000 http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2006/11/10/this-is-web20/#comment-61358 hey ben how ya doing... so yes. well O reilly do conferences for emerging tech, emerging telephony, rubyonrails, mysql, open source, location/mapping, and now the web2 expo thing. there are barcamps, foocamps, xtechs, geek dinners, meetups, and all manner of events for the web community in all its flavours. even you've had a go at getting a few people in a room and talking about what you are doing. so why are you getting your knickers in a twist over web2.0 or one event being overtly "corporate". (whatever that means) . isn't that the point ? and anyway its only a conference. who cares if they invited the wrong people or charged too much. someone else will set something else up if they are so out of touch and you can go to that instead. i think all young people should be forced to listen to metal machine music before getting sniffy about lou reed. hey ben how ya doing…

so yes. well O reilly do conferences for
emerging tech, emerging telephony, rubyonrails, mysql, open source, location/mapping, and now the web2 expo thing.
there are barcamps, foocamps, xtechs, geek dinners, meetups, and all manner of events for the web community in all its flavours. even you’ve had a go at getting a few people in a room and talking about what you are doing.

so why are you getting your knickers in a twist over web2.0 or one event being overtly “corporate”.
(whatever that means) . isn’t that the point ? and anyway its only a conference.
who cares if they invited the wrong people or charged too much.
someone else will set something else up if they are so out of touch and you can go to that instead.

i think all young people should be forced to listen to metal machine music before getting sniffy about lou reed.

]]> By: Ben http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2006/11/this-is-web20/comment-page-1/#comment-61316 Ben Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:40:52 +0000 http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2006/11/10/this-is-web20/#comment-61316 Lol, I meant Oct 10th. Have updated the post, thanks! Lol, I meant Oct 10th. Have updated the post, thanks!

]]> By: just-a-speck http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2006/11/this-is-web20/comment-page-1/#comment-61315 just-a-speck Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:38:51 +0000 http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2006/11/10/this-is-web20/#comment-61315 You posted this article on 10th Nov 2006. But the first sentence says you wrote part of the post back on Nov 11th. Nov 11th of 2005 perhaps ;-) You posted this article on 10th Nov 2006. But the first sentence says you wrote part of the post back on Nov 11th. Nov 11th of 2005 perhaps ;-)

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