Next week I'll be in San Francisco for two conferences. The first is the Office 2.0 Conference (o2con). I attended this event last year with Pete. I enjoyed it, but I did provide a somewhat scathing write-up last year about the parade of companies that were attempting to completely replace all desktop applications with less than desirable web-based alternatives. This, of course, smacks in the face of decades of conventional wisdom in computer science. At one point I pointed out the absurdity of this and one fellow suggested that they were distributing processing across client and server, with javascript. It will be interesting to see how these companies have progressed.

I'm very surprised the event is not hosting a panel specifically on wikis. This seems like a glaring omission. Then again, I am biased. I will be demoing this year. I'm in the "Modernist track" on Thursday some time between 10:30 and 12PM. Stop by. I promise you'll be dazzled. My personal guarantee. 

I will miss a portion of  o2con to make it to the Data Sharing Summit.. I'm really very excited about this event. MindTouch is keenly interested in an Open Web Initiative, most recently being called SNAP (great name), by which we, the users, can take ownership of our online identities and more capably control our content.

As long as I'm on the topic of conferences, I'll be speaking on a panel about information overload at the upcoming Defrag Conference in Denver CO. This is on November 5-6. It's a partnering event to o2con. This event is the first Defrag, but it’s quickly shaped up to be a promising gathering. Spread the word.

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