I had the privilege of visiting the www2006 conference in Edinburgh with Tero-Markus. New perspectives, new thoughts, old thoughts suddenly visible in new light, new ideas seen eventually in old light (whatever that might mean?).... of course good beer and extremely nice city. A short summary of www2006 conference in Edinburgh.
We actually developped a nice routine - we were at the conference around 9am to hear the openings. Separated to follow different threads. The did some comparisons on what we had heard and first thoughts aroused during the lunch time - had some good laughs too on some issues. At around 5pm we headed to (always a new) pub, got ourselves a pint of (mostly always different) beer, opened our laptops and wrapped the toughts and ideas together into a slideset. We also got one "briliant service idea" (yeah sure !) which indeed still was brialliant in the next morning ...and still is - let's see if something comes out of it.
I had WidSets running in my mobile all the time at the conference, and even though it's our creation I still had a childish internal "wow" when I was listening to a panel about mobile web2.0 - one of the panelists (a gentleman from Vodafone whose name I do not recall) took a picture with his N70 ... I didn't actully see him taking the picture but I noticed it from my Widsets Flickr widget which I had set to monitor tag "www2006" and our system pushed the new pic with that tag to my mobile from that same room taken about Ronald Geisler just standing on the floor. - "Wow ! this actually works as we thought it should !". Nice feeling & worth of remebering.
(This was the pic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/torgo/152491341/)
Btw, Flickr seems to now have 1,531 pics of collaborative photgraphing about that conference week - nice cross section from hundreds of individuals.
One memorable incident was that one morning when we had fire alarm at 6am in our hotel... we use the waiting time to get back in hmmm comfortably and that morning we did make it to the conference in time for 9am.
ps. No offence meant here but there are indeed some similarities in the way that Rowley QC in Fast show and Sir Tim Berners-Lee talk
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