After an awesome conference like the future of web apps in London, often it’s hard to give a wrap-up of the event because so much happened. However let me try to give a few highlights.
First of all the overwhelming response to our Spotlight talk. After working like crazy cave dwellers for four months it was great to finally be able to present Soocial. The presentation went really well, even though it was a bit long, and we really needed wifi to show of the webapp. I hope to make a blog post from the presentation, that will give a different perspective on the overview of what Soocial is and where we are headed. Straight after our presentation and Kevin’s big announcement, me and the rest of the guys from Eight spent the next three hours talking to people as a result of the presentation. It was fun and I think the Adobe sponsored free wine and beer helped.
After an awesome conference like the future of web apps in London, often it’s hard to give a wrap-up of the event because so much happened. However let me try to give a few highlights.
First of all the overwhelming response to our Spotlight talk. After working like crazy cave dwellers for four months it was great to finally be able to present Soocial. The presentation went really well, even though it was a bit long, and we really needed wifi to show off the webapp. I hope to make a blog post from the presentation, that will give a different perspective on the overview of what Soocial is and where we are headed. Straight after our presenation and Kevin’s big announcement, me and the rest of the guys from Eight spent the next three hours talking to people as a result of the presentation. It was fun and I think the Adobe sponsored free wine and beer helped.
Secondly it was great to meet the guys from Zyb.com. Nice guys and helpful too. Ole Kristensen was one of the founders and was good to hear him applaud our decision to stick to contacts (we’re not doing calendar or anything else, contacts are hard enough). Apparently just getting timezone’s right has taken them a long time.
The other presentations were mostly boring, except Simon Wardley from Fotango who gave a brilliant talk about the commoditisation of IT. The brilliance was the ability to explain abstract ideas, like commoditisation, with concrete examples such as electricity, ducks and Tony Blair.
Other interesting aspects were the interesting corridor talks, the disgusting coffee and the wifi jokes. Oh yeah, and of course the Tuesday night escapades at the Continental nightclub, with about 400 17 year old law student girls being oogled by about 300 geeks.
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