Last year I attended two Office 2.0/Web 2.0 conferences and I left them feeling overwhelmed, humbled, and totally delighted. For a technology junkie like me, there's nothing like spending a day or two being bombarded by technology and trying to sort it out on the fly.
You stand there in the aisle thinking:
- Is this really new and unique?
- Is it valuable? So valuable that everyone will want it?
- How does it fit into the way the market is evolving?Does using it demand rearranging all our ideas and plans?
- How much is it going to cost?
- Who are the people who are going to bring it to market? (Tricky -- the people who invented it may have brought it to the conference in the hopes of finding a buyer or a marketing partner)
- And -- most important - would I kill to have one now right now? (I remember feeling that way the first time I see the pre-alpha version of PowerPoint, back when we did slides by using an Orator Typeball on our selectric or paying a graphics artist to create the slides.)
So, once more into the fray I go at Office 2.0 in San Francisco (at the St. Regis Hotel, September 5-7). They are expecting more than 50 of these goodies in two jam-packed days. Since they will have multiple things going on at once (no fair: I want to see it all), I will no doubt be zipping around like a maniac trying to be certain I haven't missed anything amazing. If you want to join me, click here: http://www.o2con.com/
And bring your roller skates.
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