Come meet some of the Bryght guys!

Launch Party Vancouver is a lively mixer for the city's brightest entrepreneurs, tech junkies, bloggers, investors and marketers, who are doing it, have done it or want to make their ideas happen here. The goal of the event is to foster a deeper connection among BC's growing community of Internet and new media leaders.

Grab a cocktail, set your iPhone to vibrate and get ready to swap some cards and have some fun with others, who share your interest in technology and new media.

Here's my EverythingCasting presentation (PDF of my EverythingCasting presentation, mashup video that I put together for the session, Everything Casting Bookmarks - help us out and add some of your own!) at Saskatchewan Interactive 2007. It was an honour to present immediately after Megan. We were a great one two punch Web 2.0/ social media act. I commented a lot during her presentation and she very helpfully took photos and asked questions during mine. Together we covered most of that crazy world we call Web 2.0 and social media. My message was (and is) 6 words: Listen. Create Compelling Content Constantly. Repeat.

I was happy to finish the presentation part of my session in about 25 minutes and devote the rest of the time to discussion.

I loved Megan's presentation pictures. Nicer than my all text slides. I am going to try that out for my next conference presentation on social media diaspora (rough Moosecamp 2007 notes) which will be at TAAC 2007 in Denver in July. I bet I'll be able to find some great images to use in my 24000 or so flickr images.

Chris Brooks and Scott Bateman from U of S

• What is the web? - embodient of human knowledge - TBL
• The idea of linking
• "Digital Natives" don't know what it's like to be unplugged - Roland - I hate the term "digital natives" but I have to admit it does have relevance and meaning
• Mid 90s beginning of new web, resurgence of AI after the "AI winter of the 80s"
• AI driven by total connectivity and mobility and large sets of data and real time
• Data Mining was the result of this
• Out of this was born :-) the semantic web - XML, RDF, etc
• Describing the uppercase Semantic Web
• The revival of agents - to personalize the web for YOU
• Clippy was an early non web attempt from Microsoft (researcher blamed development team for not implementing "half" of it)
• Ontology - write things down in a standard way after we agree what we are talking about
• The hard part is doing "deep" things
• Semantic Web problems - technology is too hard for 'humans' (not compatible with 'view source' mentality of the web), tried to solve too generic problems
• Where are we ? Lots of techy tools that only techies can use (so works in scientific orgs like NASA and e-learning), Smart Agent promise not realized
• Moving on to Web 2.0 ....
• Parallel movement
• Purpose based rather than generic apps for social media and networking
• Facilitated by new tech like AJAX and consumer contributions (Wiki, Blogs, tagging)
• Took 10 years for the core ideas behind blogs (web page creation for everybody) and wikis (editing somebody else's website)
• YOU are the point of Web 2.0
• The Long Tail - people out there just like you no matter how microniche you are in
• Business has picked it up
• Web 2.0 is the greatest online word of mouth network
• Show "Teaching the machine" video from Kansas
• Web 2.0 has limitations....
• Noisy tags mean noisy knowledge
• Are we reaching a limit already?
• Does the machine learn from this?
• Thesis of Scott and Chris: convergence needs to happen
• Bring the high tech tools to cope with the Web 2.0 explosion of Content
• Few to Many and than Many to Everybody (Web 1.0) and then Web 2.0 Everybody to Everybody
• TBL's Semantic Web vision and Web 2.0 ARE compatible
• FOAF == machine readable social networking
• Ontologies 'r Us ! - Roland - Yes
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Roland will be giving a talk on EverythingCasting at Saskatchewan Interactive 2007.

From their website:

• Everything you need to understand about Web 2.0
• The latest developments on mobile platforms
• An overview of computer gaming in the traditional sense, moving into online games, serious games, games for health and the virtually unlimited opportunity e-Gaming offers to education, industry, and to service providers
• Developments in eGaming and eLearning at the University of Saskatchewan and University of Regina, as well as exciting research at TRLabs
• Practical, real-world examples of applied simulation training in industrial applications
• A presenter from one of the companies that creates immersive on-line worlds, such as the enormously popular "Second Life"
• Marketing yourself online
• An overview of developments in England - a major player on the world stage in the e-Gaming industry
• An update on Fortune Cat Game Studio - Manitoba's recently-launched not-for-profit game development incubator to create a successful eGaming industry in Manitoba
• An overview of developments across Canada, from the formation of the national body (CIAIC), to NewMediaBC's World Centre, to the Banff New Media Accelerator Program, to Manitoba's animation and game industry, to Quebec's highly-developed industry, to PEI's bold move in
  

It's late notice, but myself and Andre Charland will be presenting on Using the Tools of Web 2.0 at the BCTIA Go 2 Market Roundtable tomorrow morning (Sept. 28th). It's taking place at the BC TIA Boardroom.

What are the tools of web 2.0? Well, the audience will mainly be marketing focused, so we'll cover some interesting marketing ideas and basic concepts around blogs, wikis, and customer interaction. That's code for "I need to work on some more slides tonight". I'll definitely cover how for small businesses, blog == Better Listings On Google.

[Cross posted from B. Mann Consulting]