me and my 900 logins...
Web2.0 Conference is in progress or wrapping up and already there’s a bunch of new sites to explore, investigate and particpate in.. and of course yet again, another few dozen login accounts to make. Yesterday I signed up on four different new and exciting groovy new web2 apps… so what about 4–6 or so a week now eh? Gah managing my web2.0 exposure existance is like difficult. But gotta do it!
Events Oh My!
And the compeition! Theres four or more event type engines out there now. Upcoming, which to me seemed pretty lame, but apparently Yahoo decided to buy it. Tack on eventful, and zevents and theres probably a few others out there. Eventful looks the best, least the most polished in the 3 second glance I gave it. Course the big problem I have with most of these engines is that they cluttered with ticketmaster crap, which ok, sure its an event, but its an event that we already get bombarded with from local media in general. Also much of the content is merely a listing, so no real data, no life, no reason, no why, no rating, no sammy said go to x cause its neat, nothing, nada, its not real content to me, I dont care about it, you dont ask me to care about it, its here – do this book group thing, ya.
The other really big issue i have with these event listing services is that they remind me that I live so far away from anything really interesting and happening towns. Basically technology events are happening in california and boston. Hitting these engines from ohio is like being reminded that nothing is happening in yer back yard, ever. You see the same six listings of Sleeply Le’beef band over and over. Web2.0? nope, Innovation? nope, cool kids doin creative stuff? nope.
So I get the picture but that picture I can’t easily access. I’d rather have an engine that supports a community of people that are driving a movement of web2.0 and here are the people locally that are interested.
Formulating Web 2.0
In the coming weeks at work I plan to give a little talk to team here about why we need to seriously put web2.0 on the radar in our heads, the heads of our clients. O’Reilly says it nicely here. All too often alof this new innovation in one area, specificly web2.0 is sorta ignored by the supposed mainstream more core to the big biz audience. Its a kind of underdog relationship but web2.0 has soo much to offer in just the staggering amount of players now involved in the game. The core is taking notice, unwillingly it seems in some areas really. What can I do to get people jazzed up about web2.0? Well bring it to light, show the histroy of what came before and where I think its going and the evidence is out there, theres a ton of proof right now on the web. What’s mean for research? Well alot really, the traditional web application and its barriers of what could previous be done are out the window, sooooo much more is possible, and that will lead to more research needed to figure out that best UI for whatever yer attempting to do. The potential for mass confusion is there I think, and players are asserting themselves to prevent that but its almost as if we’ve all seen this great movie.. and oh shit.. now the masses know.. or they will know soon. The snickering ones, the ones that have been on the 2.0 bandwagon for the past 1.5 years or more are moving on the next evolution. Research needs to be there, along with innovation all the way. I want my company into now, embracing it now, I dont want people to go “hey this web2.0 thing?” in 2008.