The upgrade from Web 2.0 to Web 2.1 went really well. Yesterday’s Web 2.1 event was a huge success and something tells me we will be seeing even more events like this in the near future. Here are some photos that I shot throughout the day. A big thanks goes out to Chris Heuer, for producing such a great a event and for Brian Shields and KRON for hosting us.
At Web 2.1, KRON’s management talked about their new video journalism program, Rajesh Setty gave out free copies of his new book “Beyond Code”, Christopher Allen showed off his open source editing interface SynchroEdit, Jeff Jarvis talked about his new disaster coordination project Recovery 2.0, Dan Saffer from Adaptive Path walked us through their new blog statistics service Measure Map, Josh Elman from Zazzle showed us their online t-shirt design and ordering system (the Web 2.1 t-shirts were make using Zazzle), Lawrence Coburn talked about how RateItAll.com is in the process of convering from a Web 1.0 to a Web 2.0 company and finally, Adam Kalsey gave a demo of his tag suggestion service Tagyu.
I’m not sure if we ever found out who won the “Web 2.1 Lego Sculpture Contest”.
UPDATE: KRON ran a short segment on Web 2.1 last night.
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Thanks for coming to share your knowledge and for all the support. Not only did we have a great event, but it was less expensive than we had thought, and a nice sized donation will be made to the Internet Archive this week. Something really amazing is percolating in the world right now and I just can’t wait to see what it is.
You are right about the “What is Web 2.1 Sculpture Contest” – we did not get to announce the winner because we just had to much we had to talk about with each other and that felt more important. If I were judging it though,the robot was the winner – not only was it cool, but the message drove it home, we should not be thinking CHI (computer human interface) we should be thinking (human computer interface) which is how the rest of the world looks at the technology at the center of our world. When it is as simple to use as a pencil, we will have achieved a terrific milestone
Thankfully she did get to learn the most important meaning which the contest was intended to convey. Web 2.0 was the tub of legos, what people did with them was Web2.1 That’s cool – thanks to Will Pate for suggesting the metaphor. Unfortunately I dont recall her name, so if someone can tell me who it is, we will be paypalling her $25 for the winning the prize with her great message and cool sculpture.
After I collect a few more links I will post something on my site – and somewhere soon I will be sharing some ideas on what next
Although I did show http://www.editthispage.net, I mainly showed http://www.synchroedit.com
Thanks Chris. I was trying to remember the website you were demoing, but for some reason I could only recall editthispage.net. I’ve updated my post to reference synchroedit.com.