Comments on: Back from Berlin Web 2.0 Expo

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:49:03 +0000

James, thanks for the kind words about my keynote.

If you awnt to get Tim to come to Cork, there is a very real chance. He is from Cork originally and he visits here at least once a year.

Through it@cork I have approached him on more than one occasion to speak.

Now that the Web 2.0 copyright thing is well and truly behind us (I had very friendly breakfast with him on the Wed morning), I think it is a distinct possibility.

By: Stephan

Stephan — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:20:05 +0000

@James
Sure – no problem.

By: James

James — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:09:11 +0000

Stephan – I hope you know it was meant in the nicest possible way

Brian, was great to meet you, will hopefully see you soon at the next big event, I’ll leave it to EI to convince O’Reilly to come to Cork with keynote by Steve Jobs I agree about the case studies – had a bunch of young entrepreneurs at Future of Web Apps (e.g., Matt Mullenwag from WordPress, Kevin Rose from Digg, the guy from Metafilter, and loads of others) who told about their experiences. It was great to hear the story straight from the horse’s mouth, and be able to ask questions. It would also be good to hear from more technology-focused companies rather than community-oriented bubble-surfers, but I think it is always important in the business sessions to get the “main man” on the stage, the person who was central to the success, as opposed to the senior strategic deputy product marketing manager.

Brendan – no problem, sorry to hear I missed you in Cork!

By: Brendan Lally

Brendan Lally — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:42:32 +0000

James,
Thanks 4 the ‘report’. Feels like I’m nearly there!

Lal

By: Brian O'Malley

Brian O'Malley — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:48:37 +0000

Great to meet you at the event, James and congrats on a great post. Berlin as a city is pretty amazing – definitely a place which has had the hand of hisory placed on it many times. I agree with your point on the underwhelming business content, its what I came to hear and it was’nt there to any great extent. I expected to hear real start-up case studies and did’nt.

By: Stephan

Stephan — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:13:12 +0000

Hi,
Thank you for the description of Berlin. I had to smile about “it is very very “German”. Well then…
Warm greetings to Ireland.
Stephan

By: James

James — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:43:39 +0000

Thanks Cal

By: cal

cal — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:47:23 +0000

“the more detailed book he recommended too, if I can remember the name of it”

scalable internet architectures by theo schlossnagle
http://www.amazon.com/Scalable-Internet-Architectures-Developers-Library/dp/067232699X/