What the VCowan Likes at Web 2.0
David Cowan gets it. And Business Week seem to agree. Flock is definitely the posterchild of Web 2.1 (assuming Flickr was Web 2.0, although prices and timing suggest flickr was actually Web 1.5) - Even friendly connected colloquial corporates in Australia (because of the business week profile) are asking "Have you used Flock ?" - Well no I havent. What was it like KevBee ? And still no-one has reviewed Flock because of "gentlemen's agreements" to use a Curry-ism - Where is Bashir who interviewed Michael Jackson when you need the story ? I dont mean that in a bad way. I liked the sleeping bag and sophomore "winks" from the techcrunch DD 2.0 boyz. I want in on Flock. Heck, guys lets bring a customised version to Australia : Given, its Mozilla background, it would be like Kanye West's plea for racial equality from the President and Media the night before he launched an album, which I like. (im back to limewire now my pandora 10 hours + beta test period is over) In Australia, the Browser/Blogging/Tagging scene is dead (minus my friends and legally challenged associates) BUT we have 11m+ Internet users. From the Cowmeister :
"Energetic, young and crowded. Developers-turned-entrepreneurs (lets find a solution eh ?) filled the halls to hear Google, Yahoo and Interactive slip hints as to what they'll acquire next. Open source zealots cheered on the demonstrations (on Mac OS, of course) of new web services stitched together in the hopes of attracting huge communities. Zimbra impressed all with the search and sharing features of its AJAX collaboration suite. Ross Mayfield showed off SocialText's cool Wiki apps, and AllPeers demonstrated an application framework that I can't explain because I don't understand (ok, they had only 6 minutes). Rollyo impressed me with its ability to develop new search engines on the fly, and Michael Tanne (Flock angel) of Wink showed collaborative filtering at work in search. Orb streamed a video from its CTO's living room, and remotely turned on his lamp. Jumping on the bandwagon, KnowNow re-spun its alert service as an RSS alternative (but the software persisted in displaying annoying pop-ups during the subsequent demos). Real Travel, ZVents
), Writely, PubSub all demoed well. My favorite, of course, was Flock, even though the company obviously jumped the gun demonstrating a feature or two that weren't yet ready for the spotlight (at least not in its Mac browser). Coincidentally, the Flock launch was today's #1 read story on BusinessWeek"
"Energetic, young and crowded. Developers-turned-entrepreneurs (lets find a solution eh ?) filled the halls to hear Google, Yahoo and Interactive slip hints as to what they'll acquire next. Open source zealots cheered on the demonstrations (on Mac OS, of course) of new web services stitched together in the hopes of attracting huge communities. Zimbra impressed all with the search and sharing features of its AJAX collaboration suite. Ross Mayfield showed off SocialText's cool Wiki apps, and AllPeers demonstrated an application framework that I can't explain because I don't understand (ok, they had only 6 minutes). Rollyo impressed me with its ability to develop new search engines on the fly, and Michael Tanne (Flock angel) of Wink showed collaborative filtering at work in search. Orb streamed a video from its CTO's living room, and remotely turned on his lamp. Jumping on the bandwagon, KnowNow re-spun its alert service as an RSS alternative (but the software persisted in displaying annoying pop-ups during the subsequent demos). Real Travel, ZVents
), Writely, PubSub all demoed well. My favorite, of course, was Flock, even though the company obviously jumped the gun demonstrating a feature or two that weren't yet ready for the spotlight (at least not in its Mac browser). Coincidentally, the Flock launch was today's #1 read story on BusinessWeek"
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