Conference is still going...
I need an invite to Joost!!! Who's got one for me? Please please please!
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Web 2.0 Conference part 3
Day 3
The rest of Monday just didn't compare with the vulnerabilities session. It was standing room only at one session so I left and learned little to nothing about large file systems. Stuff I already knew. The only neat thing that I didn't know about was Amazon's S3 service.
The keynotes were interesting although a little uncomfortable as Tim O'Reilly had a talk show style interview with Jeff Bezos. Two nerds trying to entertain a few thousand people doesn't work so well and there were a few awkward laughs and uncomfortable questions. It was interesting to see the dynamic between these two. O'Reilly asked a few pointed questions that Bezos didn't want to answer. Bezos appears to be a good businessman and was good at avoiding questions or just refusing to answer.
The expo opened last night. Nothing like thousands of nerds running around trying to get free garbage.
Slept in this morning and relaxed. Planned a little bit for Costa Rica and wandered over to a less crowded Expo. From what I see, there are a lot of companies that are doing something that involves housing or uploading private or sensitive data to their servers. That scares me. Especially after the vulnerabilities session. I really want to laugh when a sales person reassures you that all their data is in a secure datacenter. That's great, so everyone at your company may have access to my data and do whatever they want with it, but at least a thief can't steal your servers.
Current session: Super Ninja Privacy Techniques for Web App Developers
Real title should be: Privacy Techniques used at Wesabe.com
It's super windy outside and I'm stuck inside. :(
The rest of Monday just didn't compare with the vulnerabilities session. It was standing room only at one session so I left and learned little to nothing about large file systems. Stuff I already knew. The only neat thing that I didn't know about was Amazon's S3 service.
The keynotes were interesting although a little uncomfortable as Tim O'Reilly had a talk show style interview with Jeff Bezos. Two nerds trying to entertain a few thousand people doesn't work so well and there were a few awkward laughs and uncomfortable questions. It was interesting to see the dynamic between these two. O'Reilly asked a few pointed questions that Bezos didn't want to answer. Bezos appears to be a good businessman and was good at avoiding questions or just refusing to answer.
The expo opened last night. Nothing like thousands of nerds running around trying to get free garbage.
Slept in this morning and relaxed. Planned a little bit for Costa Rica and wandered over to a less crowded Expo. From what I see, there are a lot of companies that are doing something that involves housing or uploading private or sensitive data to their servers. That scares me. Especially after the vulnerabilities session. I really want to laugh when a sales person reassures you that all their data is in a secure datacenter. That's great, so everyone at your company may have access to my data and do whatever they want with it, but at least a thief can't steal your servers.
Current session: Super Ninja Privacy Techniques for Web App Developers
Real title should be: Privacy Techniques used at Wesabe.com
It's super windy outside and I'm stuck inside. :(
Monday, April 16, 2007
Web 2.0 Conference part 2
Current session: "Vulnerabilities 2.0 in Web 2.0: Next Generation Web Apps from a Hacker's Perspective" Alex Stamos
The bad: 60+ people sitting on the floor (including me)
The good:
* Finally a session that is what it says it is!
* This Alex dude is awesome. Security consultant. Bad mouthing Web2.0, MySpace, all sorts of stuff. Awesome.
I'm off to listen...
The bad: 60+ people sitting on the floor (including me)
The good:
* Finally a session that is what it says it is!
* This Alex dude is awesome. Security consultant. Bad mouthing Web2.0, MySpace, all sorts of stuff. Awesome.
I'm off to listen...
Web 2.0 Conference part 1
I'm up in San Francisco this week for the Web 2.0 O'Reilly conference. Someone had the bright idea to start this conference on a Sunday. That person is evil.
Thought I might take some notes while sitting in these sessions.
So far, the trip has been pretty fun. Anne came up to the city to mooch on a free hotel room and see some friends. We flew up Saturday so Dan and I could hit up some kiting, and hit it up we did! A storm blew through in the morning and by early afternoon it was 9m weather in Alameda. As we didn't have 9's, we flew our 12s. There was a Naish kite demo at the beach, so I flew a few demo kites. I've never really thought Naish kites were very interesting, and now I'm sure of it. The day was fun, very choppy, gusty and overpowered.
Conference on Sunday was brutal. This conference is supposed to be about Web2.0 but really it's just about web applications with a slight trend to talk about AJAX or the like. Sunday's sessions were 3 hours long! I could only make it through one of them. We tried to kite again, but just stood around in our wetsuits for 2 hours. Bummer.
I'm sitting in the second of like 5 sessions on Monday. Here are some thoughts;
* These chairs suck real bad.
* There are a lot of people here and they really have us packed in. No empty seats, people sitting on the floor. The rows of chairs are so close together that no one can get in or out.
* Tiny coffee cups! What the heck??! Coffee is the only thing to get us through this stuff, give us more!
* They've named sessions some long fancy sounding title, but they turn out to be one big marketing speech for a single product. Example, session title, "Securing and Optimizing Web 2.0 Application Delivery" what the real title should have been, "Citrix talks about their NetScaler devices"
* The free bag sucks real bad too. I actually packed light and didn't bring a backpack since every conference gives you some schwag pack on day one. The time they gave us a tiny purse thing that can barely hold my laptop. Lame.
more to come...
Thought I might take some notes while sitting in these sessions.
So far, the trip has been pretty fun. Anne came up to the city to mooch on a free hotel room and see some friends. We flew up Saturday so Dan and I could hit up some kiting, and hit it up we did! A storm blew through in the morning and by early afternoon it was 9m weather in Alameda. As we didn't have 9's, we flew our 12s. There was a Naish kite demo at the beach, so I flew a few demo kites. I've never really thought Naish kites were very interesting, and now I'm sure of it. The day was fun, very choppy, gusty and overpowered.
Conference on Sunday was brutal. This conference is supposed to be about Web2.0 but really it's just about web applications with a slight trend to talk about AJAX or the like. Sunday's sessions were 3 hours long! I could only make it through one of them. We tried to kite again, but just stood around in our wetsuits for 2 hours. Bummer.
I'm sitting in the second of like 5 sessions on Monday. Here are some thoughts;
* These chairs suck real bad.
* There are a lot of people here and they really have us packed in. No empty seats, people sitting on the floor. The rows of chairs are so close together that no one can get in or out.
* Tiny coffee cups! What the heck??! Coffee is the only thing to get us through this stuff, give us more!
* They've named sessions some long fancy sounding title, but they turn out to be one big marketing speech for a single product. Example, session title, "Securing and Optimizing Web 2.0 Application Delivery" what the real title should have been, "Citrix talks about their NetScaler devices"
* The free bag sucks real bad too. I actually packed light and didn't bring a backpack since every conference gives you some schwag pack on day one. The time they gave us a tiny purse thing that can barely hold my laptop. Lame.
more to come...
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