Enterprisey thoughts – John Gøtze
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John goes west
Jul 3rd
I’m planning a US-trip, which will take me (via Chicago) to Utah, Washington and Oregon. Part work, part holiday.
I’ll first go to Salt Lake City, Utah, to work for a few days with Phil Windley and to meet David Fletcher.
From Utah it’s on to see some friends. First in Seattle, Washington to see Nancy White. From there on to Portland, Oregon to see John D. Smith.
I found some pictures from someone who went to these (and more) places. I’m not sure I’m going to pick this route:
I’ve never heard the word desolate before John told me about the landscape between/in Utah-Oregon … now I know what it means. Maybe I should fly, not drive: I read BurningBird’s story (a roadblog?).
Meg Hourihan
Jun 20th
Meg Hourihan (megnut.com) is talking now. ABout weblogs and later about the Lafayette project, which is looking for a new name.
The anatomy of a weblog, with timestamps, links, etc., is what uniquely defines a weblog. But blogging is also about distributed discussions, where weblog posts float around the web, people connect to each other, share ideas, and so on. Basically, weblogs are what the web should have been from the beginning. It just took us longer to get there than we expected.
What are we doing with blogs? Two sides of the weblog equation: Reading blogs and writing blogs. A lot of development is going on on the publishing side (Meg is a co-founder of Blogger.com). Plug for Typepad (I’m waiting for that too!)
The reading side is the new challenge. Social software. RSS readers. Good enough for smaller scale social networks, but what happens when things grow? Trackback (Reboot bloggers, see here)
The Lafayette project is about helping people reading weblogs. A social networking tool. RSS reading, blog recommendations, several languages. Opens this summer. Cool.
No weblog backlash ahead, Meg thinks. On thhe contrary, actually. Lot’s of interesting stuff to come. A whole new way for people to read and write content.
Scott Heiferman
Jun 20th
Scott Heiferman is talking now. He created Meetup, a tool for organizing local interest groups.
Powerful? You bet. Meetup has more than 350.000 users. Never did any advertising, only word of mouth. Example: Creating a presidential candidate: Howard Dean as president. Meetup on CNN. 270 cities held meetups. 36.000 people registred.
Scott’s message: The big trend. 1950: people meet in groups. 1960s: People watch TV in groups. 1980s: People watch TV alone, bowling alone. 1990: People usd non-internet-PCs. 2000s: Internet, and Meetup.com.
The Internet is a network of people. Space and time is connected in new ways. Using the global network to make local connections.
Ben Hammersley
Jun 20th
Ben Hammersley is talking about his dog, Pico. As an introduction to the semantic web. Triples all around; Pico is a boy. Subject, verb, and object. And the URI, the unique identifier. And namespaces, that makes up a defined language for defining what we talk about. DC.creator and such.
Ooh, getting techie now, having shown real code on the screen. On to RDF and RDQL. Semantic queries, much more advanced than Google. Find me everyone in this room who likes Abba. Google can’t do that. Semantic web can. And Ben’s grandmom can (huh?).
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