« The future ain't what it used to be. (Yogi Berra) | Main | User's Guide for the 21st Century » TiredI just finished attending the two-day Freedom to Connect conference, which was a very good and very important conference, but I'm feeling tired and thinking about all the stuff I need to be doing back home, coincidentally running across a post by Caterina Fake that reflects some of what I've been thinking the last couple of days... There's too much going on. Every night there's a Mashup get together, or a TechCrunch party, or it's Tag Tuesday, or SuperHappyDevHouse or SXSW or this conference or that conference. And this stuff is fun. It's a real community. But all of these things are great by themselves, but terrible in combination. I see some entrepreneurs in photos from *every single event*. Who's talking to the users, writing the code, tweaking and retweaking the UI? It ain't the Chief Party Officer. Meanwhile though I'm pretty exhausted after a hyperactive SXSW experience and this conference following close afterward, I'm talking about putting together some workshops and conferences over the next year, but that's probably crazy since there are only so many hours in the week. And we're pretty busy at Polycot (Austin isn't exactly blazing with Web 2.0 hype-driven activity at the moment, though that seems to be happening in other places based on Caterina's notes... It's crazy. Every single person who leaves a tech company isn't going to Microsoft or Google or Apple or whatever, they're going to a startup. Trying to operate in this environment is crazy. I'm getting late-onset ADD from trying to keep track of them all, and it's impossible to get attention for your product amidst all the buzz (er, noise). In Austin there's only a few companies that are attentive to the "web 2.0" stuff, and they're developers, not people starting new companies. New web companies aren't that common there, though that might happen. I might even be an instigator because I keep wanting to push economic development, which could be development of authentic businesses but could also produce a lot of bubbly stuff. We just have to avoid fallilng into some kind of manic phase, and build solid business and compelling technology. I'm actually optimistic, just tired at the moment... jon posted this at 9:49 PM |
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i haven't much bought into the 2.0 buzz, but already this week (and it's only tuesday) i found that i couldn't live without the http request object twice. thing is, both times, it was to improve on a process, once to smooth out a buy process, the other to provide qa. i guess i'm thinking that despite the hype, there are some good 2.0 tools to be had, in as far as we're improving on process.
Posted by: martin casey | April 4, 2006 10:31 PM