First Speakers and Sponsors
Friday, July 28th 2006 | Ismael Ghalimi
The upcoming Office 2.0 Conference is off to a great start. Thanks to the help of Jeff Clavier at SoftTech VC and Raju Vegesna at AdventNet, we just signed our first speakers and sponsors.
On the speaker side, we have the privilege of welcoming Oren Michels, CEO of Mashery, Nik Cubrilovic, CEO of Omnidrive, Sridhar Vembu, CEO of AdventNet, Rod Boothby, author of the Innovation Creator blog, and Jeff Clavier, founder of SoftTech VC and blogger extraordinaire.
On the sponsor side, we have the honor of receiving support from AdventNet as first Platinum Sponsor. AdventNet is the company behind Zoho, which is arguably the first complete Office 2.0 productivity suite. We will announce a couple other sponsors in the coming days, but additional sponsorship opportunities are available, so feel free to drop me a line if you’re interested.
And on the press side, we shall receive the active participation of Dan Farber, Vice President at CNET, and one of the very first representatives of the IT press to have fully embraced blogging as a first class medium for journalism.
Dates and location are confirmed: October 12-13, San Francisco, CA.
Save the date!
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Ismael,
I just saw this 2003 quote from Ray Ozzie on the web at Tim O’Reilly’s blog and I thought you might find it interesting.
Ray Ozzie: “I believe we’re currently in a transition period for personal computing: from a tethered, desk-bound, personal productivity view, to one of highly mobile interpersonal productivity and collaboration, communications, coordination. We’re focused right now on devices and networks because we’re coming at the problem bottom-up: preoccupied by gizmos and technologies’ capabilities rather than focusing on how our lives and businesses and economies and societies will be fundamentally altered.”
More on the same subject from Ray Ozzie summerized here by Harold Carr.
-Ryan
Related article here.
For Microsoft, it’s more about the revenue from embedded ads than trying to solve a business or user problem.
“It’s a dramatic sea change,” Gates said of the overall shift to online services.
“The live phenomenon is not just about Microsoft. It’s partners, it’s competitors… the whole space is being transformed.”
[…] Initially, our chap asked one of his good friends for advice, and together they convinced four other friends to show up. But things got off to a slow start. The only tool our chap could use to find new friends was his tiny little blog, and not very many people paid much attention to it, but those who did really liked it. Then one day, something magical happened. One of our chap’s friends heard that a website was better than a blog to organize a meeting, so he hacked something together, and… voila! The gathering had a website. That was a long, long time ago. A whole 1,382,400 seconds ago. Sixteen days. Two weeks and two days. […]
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