What, exactly, is a “post-cloud” world?
If you’ve bothered to read the Gluecon site, you’ve probably picked up on my techno-marketing-babble-jargon. Namely, the word “post-cloud.” When I first wrote that, I wasn’t sure what I meant, but I knew I was trying to convey what things are like on the other side of this “cloud debate.” For the next 12-18 months, [...]
T Shirt Friday #32 – defrag
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 [...]
A Note To My Colorado Friends
As a guy who organizes two tech conferences that take place in Colorado, I’m in a bit of a weird place. I’m part of that “Colorado tech community” via my friends/cohorts/biz partners — people like Brad Feld, Seth Levine, Andre Durand, Rob Johnson, Josh Fraser, John Minnihan, David Cohen, etc — but I’m also not [...]
Rhyming History
I must be getting old (er). In my pursuit to have even a beginner’s grasp of what’s going on around this cloud stuff this year, I’ve joined about 300 “groups” (what us old guys used to call “mailing lists”). One of those groups is the A6 working group — spearheaded by Gluecon keynoter Chris Hoff. [...]
APIs, TOS, and building a hooked web
Let me throw some things against the wall and see if anything sticks. This week I confirmed Chris Messina (of OAuth, and now Activity Streams fame) and Jeff Lindsay (who gave an awesome talk on Webhooks last year) to speak at Gluecon. Simultaneously, I’ve been reading blog posts like this — where the punch-line is: [...]
CloudCamp at Gluecon – Australasia Moves East!
As regular readers will know, I’ve taken up the role of Australia/New Zealand organizer of CloudCamps. The interest in these camps from both sponsors and attendees has been overwhelming – 2010 really is shaping up to be “The Year of the Cloud”. One month in to 2010 and we’ve already lined up events on both [...]
Exploring the in-between
Yesterday provided an interesting cross-section of the spectrum of technology. On one side, you had Apple’s launch of the iPad. On the other side, you had Oracle’s press conference detailing the setting of Sun. It occurred to me this morning, as I poured over endlessly similar pieces about both events, that the two ends really [...]
Conference Diversity
Context: There was a bit of a kerfluffle last year when some folks started pointing out the lack of diversity at some tech events. I’ve addressed this in the past on the Defrag blog, but it’s worth saying again — this is a problem I’m aware of and actively working on (year in and year [...]
T-Shirt Friday #23 – Defrag
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 [...]
Gluecon 2010 – even stickier
Is it December 2009 already? Where did *that* year go? If it’s the holidays, then it means one thing for sure: once, we ring in the New Year, my attention turns to Gluecon 2010. In case you missed it, last year was the inaugural Glue conference (a.k.a., “gluecon”). We set out to explore the set [...]
Defrag… And That’s a Wrap
After the recent defrag conference, I traded emails with event organizer Eric Norlin. Defrag was the second Norlin Inc event I’d been to after attending Glue conference in May this year. After defrag I tweeted saying that Defrag and Glue, along with Antipodean event Webstock, are the three best conferences I’ve attended (and I’ve done [...]
Cowboy hats and Cuban Cigars
I’m not sure what *exactly* this has to do with Defrag, but I’m filing this under “things I’ve experienced as of late that may hold something to explore.” In roughly the last month, I’ve experienced two cultural niches that are fairly distinct from each other: Ybor city and the Flea Market at the Belle-Clair Fairgrounds. [...]
Looking back at Gluecon 2009 Day 2
In my previous post, I talked about the takeaway from the Day 1 of Gluecon. In this post, I will discuss about the takeaway from Day 2 and, also, about some of the companies I found exciting. The day started with a fabulous keynote by Mitch Kapor. He walked us through the evolution of computing [...]
Looking back at Gluecon 2009 Day 1
I just returned from Gluecon 2009. Since Ben has covered this conference thoroughly, I thought I will just offer my brief take on the conference along with a few takeaways. I was a bit skeptical about the conference when I went in but I came out with the satisfaction of listening to some great talks [...]
A 360 Degree View of Integration: Overcoming Glue Integration Challenges for ISVs and End Users
Rick Nucci is from Boomi a SaaS integration provider that sits in the middle of SaaS and cloud computing infrastructure players and “glues” them together. Generally integrations are hard, only accessible to specialized players and have a tendency to re-create the wheel over and over. It’s complex because of closed systems and vendor priorities making [...]
