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Web 2.0 Summit: Day 1 Highlights

I’ll blog more in detail on some expanded thoughts but I thought I would give some quick highlights from the first day:
Tabblo: I haven’t heard Antonio Rodriguez, the founder of Tabblo speak before (Tabblo was acquired by HP six months ago). I was much more impressed with his product after seeing him talk […]

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Conversational Marketing Highlights

This post is long overdue. In my defence, I’ve been waiting for the videos from all of the sessions to be made available, that and I’m a slacker.
Many of my regular readers know that I went to Federated Media’s Conversational Marketing Summit last month. It was a great event, seriously John Battelle and his crew […]

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I’ve Got a Golden Ticket

I’m pretty excited about getting to go to the Web 2.0 Summit. First I got an email two weeks ago apologizing that the summit was full, then I got an email last week from my friend Jared, saying that he scored me a ticket. HP is one of the sponsors so I’m sure […]

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Some Musings on Web 2.0 Design

Remember what websites looked like during the ’90’s?
For the last few years rounded corners and minimalistic design have been the trend. Ajax and other 2.0 GUI features have given rise to a rather Mac-esque web trend. This is great for us geeks but what happens as “2.0″ goes main stream?
Your website is becoming […]

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Web 2.0 Jumps the Shark

I’ve seen this happen with trends many times before. It doesn’t matter if it’s music, fashion or the internet.

A small subculture adopts a new way to distinguish themselves from everyone else. Rappers, Skaters, Goth kids and Bloggers all started off this way.
Eventually the trend begins to gain some traction. Said trend […]

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Facebook Reality Check

I want to know how many bloggers who are touting the praises of Facebook had an active MySpace page 2 years ago? Come on, raise your hands.
Most of the people I see getting all hot and bothered about Facebook missed the MySpace craze. Most of the people I know who were actively using MySpace may […]

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Office 2.0 unconference

I just got back from the Office 2.0 unconference and I wanted to make a quick post on my highlights:
I met fellow HPer Jim Rawson and we dominated participated in a session on using internal Web 2.0 to collectively share and aggregate information across an organization. FreshBook’s Sunir Shah shared his work in progress wiki […]

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What do you do?

I always get two questions from people: “What do you do?” I explain to them that I am the LaserJet Web 2.0 Strategic Lead at HP. This is always followed with the question: “So what do you do?” The second question is much harder to answer.
Mike Manuel has a great post about […]

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Back 2 Back 2.0 Conferences

I will be in San Fransisco the first two weeks in September attending back to back conferences.
Office 2.0
My first stop will be the Office 2.0 conference, Wed. Sept 5th-7th. They’re running two tracks, one geared towards the next gen web based office tools and one geared towards the ever buzz worthy Enterprise 2.0.
I’m always […]

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Is This Really Advertising?

I know I’ve been a little quiet. Things at HP have been very busy. Busy good though. Look for some really cool marketing to come out of HP at the end of the month.
Like a lot of big companies HP has been moving a lot of ad dollars online. One thing that HP has […]

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