Here are my highlights from WidgetWebExpo from earlier this week:
- Debating the importance / likelihood of data portability with Chris Saad and Khris Loux
- Debating hub & spoke with Khris Loux
- Clearspring CEO Hooman Radfar's "History of the World of Widgets" keynote - presentation here.
- Hearing about Nabbr over beers from fired up CTO Bill Cromie
- Enjoying the sweet (but accurate) irony of my friend Carnet Williams of the self promotion tool SproutBuilder describing Web 3.0 as the era of self promotion
- Hearing Fred Wilson talk live and in person about a future of widgets that is in the river and out of the sidebar
- Hearing Fred Wilson explain the case against social graph portability - that each community is different, and to get real value you need to take the time to build the appropriate network for the community
- Meeting Ivan Pope
- Hitting some very cool New York bars: Sweet and Vicious and Max Fish, where our group had three separate pizza deliveries
- Seeing Jonathan Mendez of Ramp Digital present the results of a very cool widget ad campaign run by Dockers
- The fact that there was someone there from CDC there learning about how to virally spread information to contain diseases! Awesome!
- Catching up with SEO to widget crossover guru Patrick Sexton
- Talking to numerous fired up entrepreneurs about the cool shit they are working on - like WidgetLocker, AllHipHop, AmnestyWidgets, and more.
