Here is the presentation from my talk at Web 2.0: "The Future of the Desktop". I hope to blog about the material I pulled together for the talk, but it can be summed up as: web services enable rich desktop applications, users like desktop apps, and there is life beyond the browser. The Q & A session was really great, and unfortunately the awesome questions aren't captured in the slides. Thanks to everyone who attended!
I don't know what to think of the whole conference. Moscone sucks - way too big to have a community feel. The show floor was interesting, and some of the vendors like Effective UI and Bungee Labs seemed to really get good value from it, which is great for them. Kevin Lynch's demo was awesome - I love the rapid fire demo style that he has, and it was awesome to see San Dimas demoed in front of such a large audience.
I won't say who it was, but lots of people were peeved at one of the keynote presentations from the CEO of a large Internet company who basically gave a 15 minute vendor pitch. Of course many of the sessions were nothing but vendor pitches. I tried to keep that to a minimum in my talk, and I hope that folks got some useful information out of it that wasn't eBay-specific. There was great buzz about Rolf's "Web 2.0++" talk (my co-worker) (Birdz, OMG!). 500 slides in 45 minutes, and none of it was a vendor pitch. You have to see this talk... and you can at the eBay Developers Conference in Boston - June 11th - 13th! Hey, I know its a pitch, but everyone is doing it...
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