Month: November 2007

The wiki of the open space parallel to the web2.0 expo finally has information on some prechosen sessions during the next two days.

=> Prechosen Sessions at Web2Open

Dr. Werner Vogels of Amazon just announced in his keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo today, that buckets at S3 can now, starting today, be stored in Europe by default. S3 and EC2 are in my opinion the proof of concept of a new form of solution providers saving your company building knowlegdge in areas that are not your core competency much more than previously available by tech outsourcing.

I have not yet found an official press release or european prices yet.

Update: Dr. Werner Vogels has confirmation up on his page. The prices for Europe can be found directly at the S3 page.

Check out David Orban’s Blog for some more impressions from Day 0 of the Expo (in some ways, it was more a Day 0 than a Day 1).

The first couple of slides have been made available through slideshare!

=> Slides from the Web2.0 Expo

At his Web 2.0 Expo Berlin Keynote yesterday, Tim asked the audience a question: “Are you all looking forward to the launch of the iphone in Germany?”. Clearly he was expecting a “hell, yeah, can’t wait”-kind of response.

But nearly nobody cheered! Why was that? He must have thought, all Germany is unaware of this great product, we don’t encourage innovation – you could see these thoughts on his face.

What he didn’t know, that nobody cheered because of the expensive tariffs, the traffic limit etc. The question was phrased wrong for this occasion. Statements minus context are hard to evaluate and lead to misunderstanding. So it shows, we have got a long way to go, before these visionary services he proposed can properly understand context.

If you do speak german, there is a good summary of the Keynote by Thorsten Kleinz over heise.de

Photo: Mr. Topf (CC-License)

There is a special conference social network over at crowdvine: http://web2berlin.crowdvine.com/ which has by now already been joined by over 420 users on the first day. A lot of users have added their profiles, so if you run across people on the Expo floor you can network more easily. Let’s see how this interesting start evolves during the week!

offline?

Due to a very connected crowd, we are experiencing IP address shortage here at the Expo. This makes blogging the session

Dion Hinchcliffe:What is Web 2.0: The Rules for Creating Successful Online Products in the 21st Century

a bit less easy 😉

Johannes Kleske and some friends are also blogging live from the Expo with video feeds

=> Berlinblase Tumbleblog

I just came back from the lunch break at the Expo, which came out quite a surprise.

Sandwiches, an apple, mineral water in a lunch packet.

Since when have geeks switched to healthy food? No more junk food, pizza and coke? Signs of change clearly visible on the horizon 🙂

Update:

Here’s a picture I found at Flickr:

(c) xwolf

There will be an Ignite Session today evening, directly at the Messe, 18:00.

Ignite Sessions are a nice fast idea, related to a lightning talk:

• 5 minutes per session
• 20 slides rotated automatically
• 15 seconds for each slide

Sounds promising!