23rd Apr 2003
Emerging Tech, Part Uno
I am at the Emerging Tech Conference in Santa Clara, CA. Santa Clara… reminds me of Los Angeles (where I grew up). I’m 100 feet from a Palm Tree, which triggers all sorts of Santa Monica/Dogtown/Beach memories.
But this entry isn’t about Palm Trees and the waft of suntan oil and surfboard wax… I’m here to learn as much as I can, and to look forward. Oh, and I am determined to have fun! (and to figure out how many cans of Guinness I can jam into my minibar)
As Tim O’Reilly put it this morning, this conference is not
as focused as many others. I’m going to sessions in the
next few days that deal with Nanotech, Lazyweb. WebDAV, Collaborative
Mapping, XML & Web services security, and well, you get the idea.
It’s a bit all over the place. The sessions aren’t going
to be real hardcore tutorials, but they should be good snippets.
One session in particular, LazyWeb as Competitive Sport should be pretty interesting and entertaining. as it’s a sort of open forum for web/internet “what if?” ideas. I am wondering if I should mention ThereThen addresses Seems like
a friendly crowd here. I haven’t seen anyone carrying around
throwing tomatoes, so that’s good - I won’t get physically hurt,
and I can certainly handle flames (all those years of Usenet…
whatcha lookin at, punk?!) Hmm, maybe a couple of folks will actually like it.
