Monday October 10, 2005
Monday October 10, 2005 The Web2.0 conference was high-energy. A mix of talented and passionate people participating in the conversation about the internet and driving change. And - Om Malik was right - I confirmed it directly, John Battelle was pleased as punch. As he should be. The format of the conference worked - a mix of 1:1 conversations, panel discussions, quick ShowMe and High-Order Bit presos and also some UI Minutes (literally, just minutes!) Lunch and dinner brought in so that attendees could eat together rather than splintering off in a million directions. A launch-pad for 13 startups (that I missed, alas - although thanks to Michele, I just secured my Wink beta login of 'claireg' and I'm already clamoring for a version of Zimbra that runs on Solaris!) Launch of Google Reader in real-time on [correction: Friday] and in just 5 minutes, Macromedia's Kevin Lynch built a flickr photo search app onstage, demonstrating with ease that flash loves html. Cool. Sure, some smart folks (including Brad Feld) have urged caution around the Web2.0 hype (hype around the internet meme, not the conference) and I can see why, but the conference itself was valuable. Having all those bright minds in one place, kibbitzing, is bound to lead to some new and interesting possibilities.
In homage to the Top10 meme I like so much, here are some memorable quotes from the sessions I attended:
"All healthy ecosystems have parasites." - Cory Doctorow (quoted by Dave Sifry of Technorati)
"A well-distributed lousy product is not enough." - Mitchell Baker of Mozilla
"Games have been described as the crack cocaine of web content." - Mark Stevens of Fenwick & West
"Blogging takes a lot less time than one-on-one interviews." - Jonathan Schwartz of Sun Microsystems
"The #1 job of a GM [or head of a movie studio] is ... to keep their job." - Mark Cuban of HDNet
"...this thing we used to call a phone." - Motorola exec (quoted by Vinod Khosla of Kleiner Perkins)
"When I tell my son that he should pay $1 for songs on iTunes, he responds...
'Dad, that sucks. Music should be free.'" - Michael K. Powell formerly of FCC
" Ebay/Skype - best example of leading US-based technology company purchasing a leading non-US technology that had leadership in foreign markets, with intent, in part, to bring the technology into the US market" - Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley
"I did not tow your car." - Jonathan Miller of AOL
"Kids think everything is clickable - even their parents. They are always on IM, always on friendships." - Vinod Khosla of Kleiner Perkins
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