Monday, April 23, 2007

Web 2.0 Expo and the new LEGO

Seeing the services, APIs and the rest of the web (2.0) nowadays feels like unleashing me many years ago in a LEGO room... Of course, when I was 6 I didn't have an original LEGO...

Just came from Web 2.0 Expo.
The conference was rich in content and San Francisco is just great.

I often had a hard time choosing between different tracks. The food was good as well and the overall event logistic was ok (more outlets would have been great). I also believe I should improve my notes taking skills :).

I arrived on Friday the 13th, so I had time to do a little site seeing in SF Friday and Saturday and I started attending the workshops on Sunday

I attended
High Performance Webpages Steve Souders, Tenni Theurer
workshops and
The New Hybrid Designer Chris Messina, Emily Chang, Kelly Goto, Richard MacManus
The Lost Remote: The Internet Video Revolution Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Jay Adelson, Erik Hachenburg, Liz Gannes, Howard Lindzon, Marc Siry
Placelessness and the Advance of Micropublishing Alex Faaborg
The Story Behind Facebook's APIs: From REST to FQL Dave Morin, Ari Steinberg
It was a great density of IT stars and it seems everyone knows each other in "the valley".I expected to find a lot of buzz around AJAX, RIA and micro buzzwords like these, but in fact I got my "macro view" on web 2.0 consolidated.

Web 2.0 bubble is a lot about social trends and RSS. Exposing the API of your web applications, exposing services and letting the user build upon your online web framework is one of the current directions. Ebay wants to expose it's entire API in a fashion that would replicate the original experience, more: it would host your applications based on their API in their own grid.
Bringing the web applications on the desktop and enabling users to work offline is one of the next steps and Adobe's Apollo got quite a buzz.

I found the Amazon Web Services S3 and EC2 to be really neat and Jeffrey P. Bezos's keynote was great.

The new Web 2.0 LEGO looks pretty original and real.
Also, many of the web 2.0 applications, in real life, are as useful as a LEGO toy: they cultivate your imagination, they are fun but useless for anything else.

Web20Expo in pictures





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