Web 2.0 Update
I have to say that the conference is very well attended, from Entrepreneurs to Investors to Services Providers, right down to a ton of Enterprises all looking to leverage the “user revolution”. I would estimate almost three thousand attendees have come here from around the world, and even though some of the sessions were a little disappointing from a content depth perspective, we’ve acquired some valuable learning and the networking has been amazing so far.
To our surprise we’ve run into quite a few domain professionals here at the conference. It’s refreshing to be able to connect with these contacts in a non domain centric environment and talk about some of the stuff they’re working on in terms of integrating a little “web 2.0 sprinkle”, as Richard Rosenblatt likes to call it.
The keynote yesterday was a little disappointing since it appeared to be more of a pitch on Amazon’s new development services, but it was pretty cool to watch Tim O’Reilly poke Jeff Bezos over the Alexaholic incident in front of such a huge crowd.
Today’s keynotes were much better. There was some fantastic data analysis from Dave Sifry of Technorati and Bill Tancer of Hitwise on traffic trends, new site growth, and the health of the blogosphere. Also, there was a great interview with Eric Schmidt where they delved into everything from Google’s new presentation addition to their docs and spreadsheets family straight to comments on the recent Double Click acquisition.
That’s about all the time I have to blog for now, but hopefully I’ll be able to do a more in-depth write up once I get back from the conference. In the meantime I’m going to lose myself in some more 2.0 goodness.
