I didn’t mean to drop off of the face of the Earth after that last post on Friday but the whole process of getting home and back in the saddle isn’t as easy as it used to be.
Fun stuff in San Francisco – the first day of Supernova at Wharton, the backchannel and discovering what a sick twisted sense of humor certain web denizens have, meeting up with old and making new friends, networking, schmoozing and just hanging out.
And on the other hand – what does it take to figure out a public transportation system that interconnects with other public transportation systems. As in is it impossible to take the bus to the BART to the train to Palo Alto without having to walk clear across the City?
Farewell City by the Bay. I’m sure biddness will be taking me back there before long.
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Nick of Valleywag puts it best:
The couple in question met online, lied to each other, met in person for burgers, went to a movie, and then fooled around in Pete’s back seat. This is all, of course, MySpace’s fault. And the lovers’ pain can only be assuaged with millions and millions of Rupert Murdoch’s dollars.
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Everytime I’m out here in the Bay Area I’m struck by the differences in knowledge and attitude towards social media between here and where I’m coming from. It’s not just that people in Westchester County don’t know what tagging is, it’s that it’s not even something that they would ever possibly want to know about. Sure there’s plenty of people who are “using” RSS but the fact that they have no idea what it is, should that matter?
An anecdote: Last month our town has gained itself what’s politely called a paroled sexual offender. A meeting was called at the school and the Chief of Police of our nice safe exurban town, an otherwise nice smart man who smiles at small children when he’s at the local chat and chew, went off on a long tangent about Internet safety and how we should all keep our kids off of MySpace.
So what do you think was the reaction from the assembled parents?
If you guessed it was a room full of puzzled looks and a few parents who came up to me afterwards cause they figured I know this stuff and might explain to them what MySpace is, you guessed right.
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Every time an exec of a hot-to-trot web2.0 company says ‘we did it all without any marketing or PR’ some very hard working public relations person who worked like a dog 24-7 to get the exec to where he or she is says ‘WTF???’
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