About the Talk
As we all drift off into the Cloud, what exactly is Web 3.0? Does the web co enable a mushrooming Culture of Narcissism? I’ve recently been collaborating with Don Marti on a social game that integrates with Twitter, called Heist. I’ve been closely observing the behaviour and demographics of web gamers (and other web users) and have found some interesting things. Where is the web headed and what can we do to stake our claims and make our statements? How does this relate to conferences such as BIL and TED?
About the Speaker
I’ve been involved with computers since 1976, when I wrote my first program in BASIC on an HP minicomputer. Since then, I’ve watched with fascination as the technology has continually evolved on an increasing trajectory. My role in the industry has varied, from mainframe operations, to real time control systems, to technical writing and training and developing specialized software and system infrastructure for Fortune 500 clients. I’ve written articles for the O’Reilly Network and in 2007 had the privilege of presenting at OSCON. Most of my work in recent years has been a strange combination of management consulting and developing database driven web sites of the LAMP stack variety. Like most of us, I’m enamored with the social impact of the web and have been doing a lot of web watching along with development of some custom web analytics.
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Great talk! Good information and also very funny. A pleasure to hear a speaker not sounding like a packaged pitch. Your proposal for defining a Web 3.0 is excellent. The user most certainly needs more respect. Your new ideas for marketing from within games are also quite good. Best of luck. Raj.
Very informative and “fun” listening to you, i thought it was fun to hear you talk about mafia wars(i do not play it anymore)
i liked the part where you said that vampire wars was the thing
Be sure to tell me when you`r going to do something like this again.
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