BarCampBlock Sponsor Roll
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- CastTV
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- Get Satisfaction
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- Ignite PR
- Independents Hall
- Inovis
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- Jaiku
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- Jeff Clavier
- Joe Hewitt
- Joyent
- JPG Magazine
- JS-Kit
- Koders
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- Laughing Squid
- Leverage Software
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- Move Digital
- Mozes
- Mozilla
- MyStrands
- Ning
- Node 101
- Omidyar Network
- Open Publishing
- Oracle
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- OrganicStats
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- Palomar Ventures
- Pandora
- PBWiki
- Pete Prodoehl
- Plasq
Ross,
you are very welcome, love to support such a great event!
Cheers from the JAJAH HQ,
Frederik
Posted by: Frederik Hermann | August 20, 2007 at 09:42 AM
Ross,
Thanks for having us...everyone was very supportive. Learn a lot...
Dean
Posted by: Dean McCall | August 21, 2007 at 04:09 PM
With the attention of so many 2.0 afficinados in this spot I thought I'd drop this crumb. A colleague wondered if such a thing existed: a clearinghouse for functions.
Put another way, there are some key sites to find 2.0 functions (e.g. http://www.go2web20.net/, http://www.reflexz.com/)even tucows qualifies in some sense, but none of them are collaborative. The needed model is community match-making. Individuals can either search for something they're looking for, or they can suggest what they're looking for (in the event it exists, but is 1) either not in that collection or 2) was too hard for them to find). If it doesn't exist, others can add their desires to have the function, thus serving as a demand-chain for new development.
It also becomes an open forum for competition. For example, people may be using things that aren't quite right for the purpose at hand (although many 2.0 tools suggest this isn't a bad thing). But there's adaptation and then there's loss of productivity. An open forum to express need allows a competitor to offer something 'different'. Or, the community can suggest their clever work-arounds.
Effectively, this becomes a mechanism for radically increasing productivity from all sorts of angles.
Do not mistake this for 'code' sharing. This is finished function stuff -- people just need to be connected to it if it exists or express what they're looking for if not.
In the particular scenario of my colleague (a mac'ie, with an iPhone and past 50) she wants a fileless system that operates like gmail or del.icio.us, where the files are retrieved via metadata -- but works with existing operating systems.
Many of the directories of 2.0 stuff only list things that include collaboration. While 2.0 includes collaboration the greater value is in simplicity. In this case the collaboration happens at a different level -- helping to facilitate connections(shorten the distance between) functions and people who need them.
And if the same space could be used to share code design patterns, what's to stop it? It's just a category...
Unlike Flickr and more like del.icio.us, the 'thing' isn't stored there -- it's just a directory.
Posted by: Paula Thornton | August 23, 2007 at 04:34 PM