The big, sold out, $2800 per person Web 2.0 Conference takes place this week, but forget about that. The real web technology event not to be missed is
Merlin Mann’s gig, the blink tag worshiping Web 1.0 Summit. Merlin is the snarkalicious “mann” behind 43 Folders, 5ives and other web goodness.
The Web 1.0 Summit happens this Wednesday, October 5th from 7-9pm at the lovely House of Shields in San Francisco. More info on Upcomming.org.
The previous Web 1.0 Summit took place in Merlin’s garage and wasn’t as well attended as he had orginally expected. Here’s what Merlin is planning for year’s event:
Proposed format for brief, non-primarily-drinking-and-socializing portion of the Conference:
1. You sign up on a sheet to do your presentation
2. I hold and manage a timer (duh)
3. You have 2.0 minutes to make a case for your 1.0 technology or squirrely business model
4. Whenever you say “monetize,†“font face,†or any of a variety of secret 1998 words, everyone drinks
5. Repeat until a) 20 minutes, b) we get bored, or c) every person in the room completes a first round of funding
UPDATE: ok, my photos of this paradigm shifting event are now online
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This shall be kick-ass. I expect no less.
And darn it Scott, your camera better be there, wearing out it’s clicker.
Blink tag revivalists unite. oh my god Frames are awesome, what were you thinking – you used a non websafe colored gif, are you mad?!
We never should have abandoned netscape 2.0.
Whats this thing mp3 thing i hear so darn much about, real audio 1.0 is pretty sweet.
Web2.0 is what we wished we had had back in 1996 and were forced to code in Notepad (by candle light…)
The technology has finally reached the point where it can enable the vision. Microformats have enabled the dynamic content generation that was limited by technology and bandwidth a decade ago. Remember PointCast?
Creating custom landing pages for multiple individual customers was a significant achievement in 1997, now I can easily publish a Squidoo Lens in well under an hour.
No true Web1.0 seminar would be complete without the hockey stick revenue projections.
Web2.0 could be the ice where these mythical results finally get some play.
Ha ha ha :-D
What happened then?
Love the image.
“Web2.0 is what we wished we had had back in 1996 and were forced to code in Notepad (by candle light…)”
haha…I had to laugh at this…I couldn’t stop imagine the scene of sitting at the computer and looking for the letters from the keyboard.
I’m glad things are brighter now and we can use web 2.0
I’ve heard something about web 3.0 . Maybe someone can tell me more about this
HI, web 3.0 everyones talking about it but nobody has much information about it. So far all i herd is its a bunch up/ to consolidate multiple Api’s into a single api.
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