H E L L O · F R I E N D S · and neighbours of the web2.0 social sphere. Im back from a manic week in Berlin. I was attending the international Web2.0 Expo and continued my exploration of Berlin and the digital cultural scene in the European Metropolis.In Berlin you have great opportunities to choose from a multitudeof experiences. First the Expo with lecures by intersting speakers like Tim O’Reilly founder of the O’Reilly publishing house, a wellknown litterature source if you are a computer science student. And Yossi Vardi the inventor of ICQ and the diacronic messaing client concept. I see the sector today as a sea of with ripples of new intersting positive internet bubbles in a time of bursts. Like in physics bubbles produces waves on the surface that intersects and interacts. Positive vibrations in a time of bursts.
Combining roles as a new media entertainer and teacher. Duande from Toronto succesdes in that for sure. He has over 200.000 regular wievers of his net-TVshow Duandes World on Adobe.TV. He showed up with his distincte positive apperance, listening, smiling and dressed in a black leather coat with a flex logo on the back. Referenced by the other more formal dudes as ”Billy Idol of Flex”
Adobes Flex 3 for easily production of Rich Internet web sides driven by interaction with applications. New books where available for sale. For example you can build dynamic stock analyst sites for NASDAQ
Cloud computing
The new company Soundcloud from Sweden was presented by Alex. This is a new place for all of us independent musicartists. Alex estimated that +60k individuals are producing music in USA and there is a great market for supporting them on the net. SoundCloud doing this with all kind of services like uploading, community etc.
Salesforce from USA delivers safe solutions for distributed customized client support. Salesforce
I will do a lecture of the risks of cload prel. called distributed or disrupted? A case study from a musicians perspective
iPhones of course, everybody put them up and use the different apps, like the photo apps making sounds and animation of a big shutter.
OpenSource organizations and community as the way of thinking development. You are dispersed and make developement with people all around the world. Thats the new organization of the workforce.
Start ups like mushrooms
Everywhere there where young men and women dressed in a suit maybee for the first time? presenting themselves as CEO, CTO, CIO, CBO etc. actually being you and your best friend starting a company in your flat. Thats pointing to the future. In ten years the chinese suit-dude whery keen on learning will be the new Bill Gates.
A good point for startups is in times of depression, according to wellrenomated Saul Klein of Index Ventures based in London. The key issue is not venture money is in what you and your company can with in much limited montearty found, especially right now in uncertain times.
The Berlin City Development Council was letting entreprenours know that they are willing to give their support. Berlin Partner
Danger! The triad of dead cold products, ok not dead yet
Desktop computers - mail - computer books
Avoid them if possible!
To sum up in a light way - The Web 2.0 Berlin paraphrasing a song popular in YouTube (search for Flee Market Montogmery and sing along).
“Its just like, its just like, a miniolympics, for the future, of internet and computing, oh yeah”
Image above, from the light and sound show of the opening cermony
