Conferences

Le Web comes a long way from “worst tech conference ever”

December 11, 2008

Years ago we were at Le Web in Paris on the famous day when the organizers pre-empted the event with a series of political stump speeches (in French no less) to an infuriated audience. This year the event was an unqualified success in our view although like all such events there are always armchair critics [...]

Read the full article →

Clouds over Berlin

October 13, 2008

A healthy subset of the global geeks are settling into Berlin later this month for a stream of web-technology-focused events.  As "obvious" as is the inevitability of cloud computing may be to most of us there are still a huge number of technical and user obstacles to overcome before it can really be called mainstream. [...]

Read the full article →

Going to Conferences

September 25, 2008

As a research firm we may select conferences a bit differently than those who go for "networking" reasons.  We went to quite a few conferences three or four years ago and they served us quite well as a firehose of information and new contacts to replace what had been lost after a few years in [...]

Read the full article →

Gearing up for Web 2.0 Berlin

September 21, 2008

We’re preparing for a productive Web 2.0 conference in Berlin October 21-23.  Recently Tim O’Reilly was shaken up so much by being in such close proximity to the fires of the financial meltdown at the NYC Web 2.0 Expo that he had to rewrite his whole speech to refocus on doing things that "matter" (instead [...]

Read the full article →

Red Herring comes to Boston

July 3, 2007

For the second year in a row venture-capitalist-aimed Red Herring, self-proclaimed “chronicler of the spectacular ascendancy of the technology industry,” brought its road show to Boston, self-proclaimed Athens of America. Boston is the birthplace of information-technology-centric venture capital but about as relative to the movement today as Athens is to culture. Everything really interesting in [...]

Read the full article →

Le Web 3 – Worst technology conference ever?

December 13, 2006

There are many good reasons to come to France but technology conferences (unless they are hosted by someone like O’Reilly) are not one of them. Since we were in the neighborhood we couldn’t resist stopping in for a few hours of day 2 at the third annual Les Blogs conference now renamed Le Web to [...]

Read the full article →