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Carson Workshops Summit – The Future of Web Apps September 13, 2006

Posted by Simeon Simeonov in FutureOfWebApps-SF06.
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The lineup for today…

Day 1
  1. 08:00 – 10:00
    Breakfast Sponsored by Yahoo! More info.
  2. 09:00 – 09:45
    Registration
  3. 10:00 – 10:15
    Dick Hardt
    The emerging age of Who
  4. 10:15 – 11:00
    Kevin Rose
    The digg story: from one idea to nine million page views
  5. 11:00 – 11:45
    Tom Coates
    Tom discusses directions in social change on the web
  6. 12:00 – 12:45
    Five minutes of fame
    Purchase a spot to showcase your web app. Interested?
  7. 1:00 – 2:00
    Book signing by John Battelle Author of The Search. More info.
  8. 1:00 – 2:00
    Lunch
  9. 2:00 – 2:45
    Tantek Çelik
    Shows you best practice with Microformats
  10. 3:00 – 3:45
    Steve Olechowski
    10 things you didn’t know about RSS, from FeedBurner’s co-founder
  11. 3:45 – 4:00
    Gold sponsor slot
    Yahoo! ZoneTag demo
  12. 4:00- 4:45
    Carl Sjogreen
    How we built Google Calendar
  13. 5:00 – 5:45
    Mike Davidson
    User-driven content – is it working?

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1. Ouch, that hurts « HighContrast - October 6, 2006

[...] I was at Web 1.0 companies (Allaire and later Macromedia) and helped put the groundwork for a number of the Web 2.0 technologies from XML to Web services to AJAX & RIAs. At a recent conference in SF, I was struck by (a) how old I felt compared to the Web 2.0 entrepreneurs (I’m 33) and (b) to what extent they saw themselves doing “completely new stuff” as one guy put it. True, there is lots of innovation but I also see tons of re-spins of old ideas with better UI and the benefits of some new standards. (Mike Arrington at TechCrunch had a slide on this in a presentation he gave recently in DC.) I also see some examples of brilliant branding with little net new innovation. (No, AJAX is not new. Lots of people were building AJAX-style apps back in 1998 but they never took off because cross-browser DHTML support sucked back then.) My point is not to gripe about the “young generation” but simply to point out that Web 2.0 (and SOA for that matter but that’s the topic of a much longer discussion) is a mixture of reality and spin. I’ve seen startups with ratios from 9 : 1 to 1 : 9. I like the former and I’ve noticed that many of them care more about building great products/services which delight their customers than the label du jour that’s attached to them. [...]

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