John Martin's Blog : web2expony

Web 2.0 Expo Day 3: Why Tim O’Reilly wants you to Stop Throwing Sheep!

John Martin — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:42:00 GMT

Tim O’Reilly put everything in perspective for us this morning by contrasting the current mega-problems of the world (disease, poverty, hunger, slavery even!) with developers' apparent passion for Facebook apps like the one where you can throw sheep ....(read more)

Web 2.0 Expo Insight of the Day: It’s Simple - We Should All Quit Our Jobs!

John Martin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Comments on keynotes and sessions from Web 2.0 Expo in NYC, including Gary Vaynerchuk, hyperkinetic and super-frank keynoter; Jonah Peretti of BuzzFeed who revealed to us the previously unknown size and power of the “Bored at Work Network” (BWN) which evidently determines what “goes viral” and what does not; and Lane Becker who kicked off my day with a session on how Customer Service is the New Marketing, and suggested that we all act as “concierges” to our customers. ...(read more)

3 Insights from Day 1 of the Web 2.0 Expo

John Martin — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:43:00 GMT

Today was the first real day of the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC . Several of us from the MSDN and TechNet team are attending . I attended a session on Search Engine and Social Media Optimization (see Rob Veliz's blog on our SEO efforts) and Katie Larson reported...(read more)

Connect with the MSDN & TechNet Team at the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC

John Martin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:19:00 GMT

This week, several members of the MSDN and TechNet team will be attending the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC. I'll be blogging from the event, and will also be trying to Twitter throughout the week. My teammates below will also be attending: Husain Shambhoora :...(read more)