Twitter and the Ricochet Effect
Defrag came to Denver. I couldn’t go, which was particularly difficult for those of us going through conference withdrawal after three great days at Enterprise 2.0 in San Francisco. I’m a conference junkie. I like the excitement of live events. To me, industry conferences are Shakespearian theatre wrapped in a religious revival tent. Live events [...]
‘Why Linked Data?’ presentation at Defrag Conference
The presentation I just delivered here at Defrag is now on slideshare, in case you want a look. Why Linked Data? View more documents from Paul Miller. (Cross-posted @ Cloud of Data)
Andy Kessler and the Rise of Feudalism 2.0
I wasn’t going to liveblog the defrag conference – I figured I’d partake more. The opening session this morning kind of changed my view of that. Andy Kessler gave the opening keynote that he entitled “Be Solyent, Eat People” Eric Norlin, the organizer of defrag made a smart choice with Kessler – he’s brash, opinionated [...]
T-Shirt Friday #16 – Glue
Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt offerings in the expectation that a company with [...]
Exclusive Offer For Cloud Ave Readers: Free Ticket To Defrag Conference, A $1500 Value
Defrag is one of the well attended conferences, organized by Eric Norlin. Just check out the conference agenda to see the value one can get from Defrag. The closing keynote by some of the Cluetrain Manifesto people itself makes the conference worth attending. Among myself, Ben and Zoli, we have attended many of Eric’s conferences [...]
3 Free Tix to the Glue Conference
How timely of Rick Burnes to post his Trade Show Trouble cartoon. It expresses my feelings about large trade shows and conferences – am I suffering from acute conferencitis? Yes, large shows are half-dead nowadays – but some conferences are worth attending even in bad times. The Glue Conference on May 12-13th in Denver may [...]
Glue – Get Sticky Now
What is Glue? Definition from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary: 1 a: any of various strong adhesive substances ; especially : a hard protein chiefly gelatinous substance that absorbs water to form a viscous solution with strong adhesive properties and that is obtained by cooking down collagenous materials (as hides or bones) b: a solution of [...]
Some Conferences Are Worth Attending Even in Bad Times
Layoff news day by day, major conferences are getting canned left and right. In lean times, the Conference-in-the-Cloud concept starts looking more and more attractive. Still, there’s no true substitute for real, live, face-to-face discussions and networking. Except it does not really happen at a lot of major conferences: session rooms are often deserted, there’s [...]
What’s a Web Conference Without the Web?
Le Web is Europe’s largest Web 2.0 conference, with 1,800 participants from all around the world coughing up $2K each to listen to sessions, mingle, and to demo their startups to their peers, media and VC’s. It’s considered a gathering of influencers, so much so, that 2 years ago then Presidential Candidate Nicolas Sarkozy found [...]
Come to Defrag: Denver, November 3-4.
Next week I’ll be in Denver, attending Defrag, a boutique, intellectual, intense, very participatory conference. I’m attending despite the fact that I’ve cut down on conference attendance, not because of the current economic turmoil, but largely due to burnout. After a while they just all feel the same: empty session rooms, bored exhibitors, people just [...]
Cloudy News from Startup-Land
Just because I wrote How Software Can Be Resilient to Recession doesn’t mean I’m naive enough to declare that all SaaS businesses are recession-proof – they just have a better model to weather the storm, which is now inevitable. VC Preps Portfolio Companies for Survival Mode OM Malik, who is now a VC Partner himself [...]
