Web 2.0 Conference So Far
I have been in sort of a daze this week, due to some strange factors. Unlike recent trips to San Francisco, I am not staying in a hotel. Instead, I am staying on a friends boat. I am getting used to the experience, but that, combined with the crazy pace of Web 2.0 events, had led to basically zero writing at /Message.
I have been really enjoying Web 2.0. The presentations have been great, and even the ones that seem like advertisements are relatively interesting, like Mark Benioff hawking his application suite. High points so far:
- Tony Conrad's Sphere blog plugin looks great, and I hope to have it up and running here soon. I will jigger it so that every blog post has a "sphere it" button, like the "+ digg" link down there now. Then clicking that will bring up a window like this [from GigaOM]:
- Rael Dornfest demoed Stikkit and it looks great -- a new simple way to keep track of dates, notes, to-dos, and it has sharing capability. It's a beta, and I will write a longer piece when I have had some experience with it. I love the way that Stikkit "thinks" -- it knows when something is a date, for example. And all the stikkits are taggable. Cool.
- Timebridge is a new coordination tool, designed to do one thing: help schedule meetings. Looks like a smart tool, helping meeting attendees recommend possible times, and then scheduling the meeting when a time has been established as possible. Neat.
As usual, the conference is not a good place to actually investigate the cool apps demoed there.
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