As always, the venue of choice for a Wine 2.0 meetup is Bedales in Spitalfields Market. It was great to spend an evening with James Governor, Dennis Howlett, Hugh MacLeod, Kyb, Andy Piper, Richard Brown and Alan Wood.
I took some notes, and managed to break a (very nice) wine glass. Conversation topics included:
- “Social events” trump social networking (as the evening proved, events are an important part of networking)
- Enterprise Irregulars (must read this)
- Twitter (since January it seems everyone is talking about Twitter. James sees value. Others were not convinced. I’m getting closer and closer to trying it)
- “Darwinian algo-trading” (and a guy whose average trade holding is 7 seconds. Wowsers)
- Michael Marshall-Smith (a sci fi author James suggests I should read)
- Ray Ozzie, Lotus Notes and “MQSeries”
- What has happened to Scoble (mix of opinion, from “C-list” to “keep watching”)
- Thingamy (Hugh says check it out)
- Chris Barger
- Why doesn’t Bedales have wifi?
- Cars as avatars
- Why I’m a “f*cko” for not having my blog(s) and avatar name on my business cards (it’s true, and something I need to fix. My guerilla (not gorilla) Moo cards do get me most of the way there, but I ran out half-way through the evening)
Great fun. I am already excited about the next one.
Given how hard IBM is pushing second life you really need formal corporate cards with avatar etc on them.
I’d say we’re pushing virtual worlds, rather than Second Life, but yeah.. I hope my next corporate card will contain even more useful metadata.
RFID tags! hCard microformats!
I need new business cards, period. And an email address on my Moo cards. Bad planning on my part.