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Web 2.0 Expo: The Dark Side of Ajax

24 Apr 2008

Room is huge and darn near packed. I get the feeling this is gonna be a good one. I think I’m going to have to type quickly for this one.

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Web 2.0 Expo: Adding “Where” to Mobile and Web Applications

24 Apr 2008

Last session before lunch. Freaking hungry (no boiled eggs at breakie this morning). Might take off a bit early to get a jump on lunch and battery charging.

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Web 2.0 Expo: Creating a Coherent Social Strategy for Buiness

24 Apr 2008

Oy. I can’t seem to get a decent connection to anything anymore. Too many people with wireless connections. They’ve got big-ass routers, but it ain’t helping. Gonna stay offline for reliability.
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Web 2.0 Expo: Community Building: Good, Bad, and Ugly

23 Apr 2008

And the fun continues. Another morning at the conference, and another day of hard-core typing. I’m also up on Twitter now (le sigh), so you can get some notes as I go along.

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South Park pub crawl

23 Apr 2008

Well, wasn’t much of a “crawl”, at least for me. Met up with Jim at the Expo hall, about 20 minutes before they closed the floor. (What’s with closing the Expo hall at 4, anyway?) Skipped the keynote.

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Blogging woes will delay postings

23 Apr 2008

Just in case you’re following the threads from Web 2.0 Expo, they’re gonna be a little delayed today, folks.

First of all, I had my Firefox suddenly kak out and took all my notes from the first session with it. Furious typing in TextPad has restored many of them, but the fine details are largely gone. Sorry about that.

Also, the net connections here are way underpowered given the number of people connected at any minute. At least 80% of attendees have a laptop, iPhone, or other wireless device and are bringing the connections to mere blubbering masses of hardware. (And they’ve got the big ones here, too.) I also think the main pipe is about three times too small. Hence why the Flickr feed ain’t got much in it right now.

Also, my camera battery is about dead. Not sure how that happened — it was fine when I got up this morning. Probably all that wireless connectivity time (most it failing to connect) killed it. I’ll post pix when I get back to the hotel at lunch.

Web 2.0 Expo: Building Next Generation Web 2.0 Applications

22 Apr 2008

In the afternoon session today, I’m going to learn what it’ll take to build the next generation of apps. I’m curious to see what they’ve got to say.

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Some observations on the Web 2.0 Expo

22 Apr 2008

Being here solo, you can’t help but notice things that go on around you. (Hey, you gotta keep yourself interested/occupied somehow, right?)

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Web 2.0 Expo: Cross-Cultural User-Experience Design

22 Apr 2008

Notes from the Web 2.0 Expo. This is on the Cross-Cultural presentation.

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At the Web 2.0 Expo

22 Apr 2008

Despite the sobering realisation that I’d forgot to actually register for this conference before coming (this is what happens when you try to do do much before going on a 2.5 week vacation, only to return for one day before leaving again), I’m now settled on the 2nd floor of the Moscone West Conference Center, waiting for the starting bell on the workshop sessions.

Thanks to the team back at Critical Mass, I don’t really have to agonise over the schedule to determine what I’m going to see. Although I have to make a couple executive decisions, my direction is mostly due to democratic selection. Namely, I asked them what I should go to and report back.

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