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What I Thought of my March Conferences and Events (Part One)

Posted on March 26, 2008
Filed Under Daily Links, March USA Trip 2008, Microsoft Mix08, O'Reilly Etech 2008, SXSW 2008, VON.x Spring 2008 |

O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology 2008
A definite change of gears from Tim O’Reilly’s flagship conference - in previous years Etech has felt very much like a number of cliques who have moved down for an Easter holiday from San Francisco. Not this year, although lots of Bay Area people were around the atmosphere was much better, there was more mixing, and the session actually felt worthwhile, new and interesting. Of all the panel session over the March trip, the Etech panels were the most worthwhile, and were what I expect from every conference panel committee.

Microsoft is on the move, but to where?
Ray Ozzie’s keynote at Mix08 definitely signaled a change in direction of Microsoft, the question (that I ask in more depth here) is where they will end up pointing. What is clear is they are on the path to change, and as Steve Ballmer points, there’s a lot of teenagers out there that know Microsoft as the guys behind Halo and the XBox, who don’t care about what they did in the eighties and nineties - that could give them an interestingly clean slate in the minds of a key demographic.

The Computer Outlook Radio Talk Show, with John Iasiuolo
One of the highlights of Las Vegas was popping up to the studios of the Computer Outlook Radio Talk Show. I met the team at San Jose many years ago at a Palm Developers Conference, and have kept watch on the show since then - first with streaming, and then with the daily podcast of the full show (but only when it was an ‘interesting’ episode you understand! I even made a number of transatlantic calls into the show. BUt to get into the studio was great fun, and the feedback shows the audience liked the change of gears as well. And if you missed it, here’s my appearance in all it’s glory.

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