New Web Conference: Frothy and no women

September 2, 2006 By

The other day I was talking with a developer (who’ll remain unnamed cause he didn’t know I was gonna quote him) and he told me about all the froth he was seeing in the Web 2.0 space. He was wondering where the people were who were paying attention to business. Profits. Customers. He pointed to a lot of the events he’s been attending lately and said “they are frothy.”

One event, the New New Internet, is so frothy that a few people like Christopher Locke are even thinking it’s a parody. I had to look at it several times to realize this was a real conference, not something funny. As Dave says, they are excited about being excited. Frothy.

One other thing. I watched the video from that conference and I notice that there aren’t any women there. Frothy, without women. Oh, I’m SO excited! :-)

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  • Christopher Coulter

    A good business is a good business, nothing special about making it webby or labeling it Web 2.0, it’s just all a marketing/distributional method. And nothing new new about the new new…it’s just the natural evolutionary product cycle, the same since dawn of time, new to specalized community to commodity.

    The problem is we aren’t talking enough about them. Instead we’re talking about the froth.

    Well, agreed there. So talk about non-froth. :)

    Business and revenue models, at an internet conference?? Surely you jest. But you are on the right track…in wanting that. :)

    End Prog

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  • http://iggyz.com/ Iggy

    So John points us to a picture of two women in bikinis surrounded by about ten guys and is trying to sell us on the fact that women were represented? Notice the women were leaving in the picture. For all we know that is a picture of a hotel pool. The geeks didn’t seem to make that big of an impression. As I mentioned above the women look as if they are about to make an exit.

  • http://iggyz.com Iggy

    So John points us to a picture of two women in bikinis surrounded by about ten guys and is trying to sell us on the fact that women were represented? Notice the women were leaving in the picture. For all we know that is a picture of a hotel pool. The geeks didn’t seem to make that big of an impression. As I mentioned above the women look as if they are about to make an exit.

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  • http://www.live-conferencing.com/ mark

    Marco: mm interesting. Well it says it “lets you video chat“, but it still doesn’t specify
    whether you can actually HOST it.

  • http://www.live-conferencing.com/ mark

    Marco: mm interesting. Well it says it “lets you video chat“, but it still doesn’t specify
    whether you can actually HOST it.

  • Jimmy

    Doesn’t amuse me a bit as I went through similar similar crunchy situation with a client 3 months ago..when I just used my http://www.gomeetnow.com conferencing software for the 1st time.

  • Jimmy

    Doesn’t amuse me a bit as I went through similar similar crunchy situation with a client 3 months ago..when I just used my http://www.gomeetnow.com conferencing software for the 1st time.

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