Web 2.0 is one big party — if you live in SF

Kicked off by Om Malik talking about SanFran being a Web 2.0 centre,Mathew Ingram wondered if Canada was missing the Web 2.0 boat … hardly!  I think Mark Evans would agree with me that Canada is doing a lot for Web 2.0 and where?  Here in Southern B.C of course! Tags: Web 2.0

Kicked off by Om Malik talking about SanFran being a Web 2.0 centre,Mathew Ingram wondered if Canada was missing the Web 2.0 boat … hardly! I think Mark Evans would agree with me that Canada is doing a lot for Web 2.0 and where? Here in Southern B.C of course! Tags: Web 2.0,

Of course this is simple. Why not! Where is Canada’s Web 2.0? B.C., of course! Kicked off by Om Malik talking about SanFran being a Web 2.0 centre,Mathew Ingram wondered if Canada was missing the Web 2.0 boat … hardly! I think Mark Evans would agree with me that Canada is doing a lot for Web 2.0 and where? Here in Southern B.C of course! Tags: Web 2.0,

Does this blog mean I have to move to BC otherwise I can’t find Web 2.0 Job? I quote the blog here:”Kicked off by Om Malik talking about SanFran being a Web 2.0 centre,Mathew Ingram wondered if Canada was missing the Web 2.0 boat … hardly!  I think Mark Evans would agree with me that Canada is doing a lot for Web 2.0 and where?  Here in Southern B.C of course!” Tags: Web 2.0

Does this blog mean I have to move to BC otherwise I can’t find Web 2.0 Job? I quote the blog here:”Kicked off by Om Malik talking about SanFran being a Web 2.0 centre,Mathew Ingram wondered if Canada was missing the Web 2.0 boat … hardly!  I think Mark Evans would agree with me that Canada is doing a lot for Web 2.0 and where?  Here in Southern B.C of course!” Tags: Web 2.0

Does this blog mean I have to move to BC otherwise I can’t find Web 2.0 Job? I quote the blog here:”Kicked off by Om Malik talking about SanFran being a Web 2.0 centre,Mathew Ingram wondered if Canada was missing the Web 2.0 boat … hardly! I think Mark Evans would agree with me that Canada is doing a lot for Web 2.0 and where? Here in Southern B.C of course!” Tags: Web 2.0,

Mathew Ingram wondered if Canada was missing the Web 2.0 boat … hardly! I think Mark Evans would agree with me that Canada is doing a lot for Web 2.0 and where? Here in Southern B.C of course! Tags: Web 2.0,

Web 2.0 as a Naked Party Matthew Ingram is increasingly convinced that Web 2.0 isone big SF-centric party. I don’t disagree that there is a sometimes unseemly excess of (relative) youth and frivolity in all the 2.0-ish messing about, but the tribalism and constant conversations that people are seeing exposed via blogs et al., today has gone on in the

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Does this blog mean I have to move to BC otherwise I can’t find Web 2.0 Job? I quote the blog here:”Kicked off by Om Malik talking about SanFran being a Web 2.0 centre,Mathew Ingram wondered if Canada was missing the Web 2.0 boat … hardly!  I think Mark Evans would agree with me that Canada is doing a lot for Web 2.0 and where?  Here in Southern B.C of course!” Tags: Web 2.0

Totally a party dude!

San Francisco is astonishing in its pace. Its truly shocking.

Yeah, Toronto is a real hotspot too :-)

sometimes, it makes you want to pack up the kids (and wife, of course) and move to silicon valley until you realize a small bungalow is going to cost you an arm and a leg. still, a good offer to work within the centre of the high-tech universe…..

Where’s Canada’s Web 2.0 Party?

Om Malik had a post (hat tip to Mathew Ingram) about a 24-period where he stumbled into a series of high-profile entrepreneurs and VCs, which, I guess, is just another day in Silicon Valley. It certainly seems like a great time to be there given the ex…

heck, who said anything about work? i just want to go to mike
arrington’s parties and hang out at the cafe om was talking about :-)

Um, guys, doesn’t all this feel ljust a little too 1998 for comfort? Is it just me?

Not that I don’t like a good party jammed with smart people talking about interesting things. And beer :-)

Hey, why don’t we try to fire one up here? Like First Tuesday used to be (they still around)? I’d spring for some brews if we could get some cool people out. I’m serious, btw.

– Stuart

t does feel a little bubblicious, doesn’t it? it sounds like fun
too, though :-)

maybe we should try to do a meetup/first tuesday kind of thing
(doesn’t look like the latter has a presence in toronto any more from
the website). at least it would be a good excuse to get out of the
house.

good times or bad, you will see this type of activity continue for a few more years – the barriers to entry are very very low and the potential payoff seems worth it…for now. by 2008+ web services will be as commoditized as hardware (i say 2008 because i would offer that webservices are already a commodity, it will just take two years for this to filter out to the sheeple), and it will be obvious that there is little upside, and in fact a huge risk of wasted time.

the market will only reward the appearance of innovation for so long. sooner or later you have to deliver something real people will highly value. by 2008-2010 this will probably be a product in the alternative energy space (the world does not “need” another website), and the rewards will be very large. this will change the focus of young thinkers again, back to a field with a high barrier to entry, where the rewards are also high.

I’d say Vancouver is Canada’s Web 2.0 hotspot … IMHO

Well, I guess that makes sense — B.C. is kind of Canada’s version of
California in a lot of ways :-)

Vancouver is almost like Silicon Valley…

A usual day contains mountain biking on The Shore with Paul, skiiing at Whistler with Dick or catching a Canucks game with Tim. Ok maybe that’s not quite how it happens for me but maybe for a high flyer like Andre ;)

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Well, we do bust our ass working hard as well, it is not *only* about partying.

PS: My blog’s URL is blog.softtechvc.com :-).

Sorry Jeff — I don’t know where I got the idea it was a Typepad address… I must have been thinking about one of the other party-animal bloggers :-)

Seriously though, I know you guys do work too. It’s just hard to read posts like Om’s sometimes when you live so far from the action, as it were. It also reinforces how much face-to-face type stuff still matters, even with Web 2.0 or Business 2.0.

Anyway, thanks for the comment — I enjoy your blog.