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Web2.0 sold our emails :(!

Krzysztof Kowalczyk — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:12:49 -0000

I noticed that conference organizers sold the email database - it sucks.

Food and Coffee or lack hereof!

Peter — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:58:40 -0000

At one stage I actually thought that I was part of a hidden camera jest.

I have never experienced such gastronomical terror, as when I sunk my teeth into the would-have-loved-to-be-a-sandwich-but-never-quite-made-it and subsequently drank the nearest liuid in a desperate attempt to save my life. Unfortunately I was exposing my body to the black-fluid-which-has-yet-to-meet-a-coffee-bean.

Andreas Weigend

Peter — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:48:15 -0000

Although andreas might have a big brain, it is unfortunately dwarfed by his insanely big ego.

Never before have I seen a man putting such an effort into stage setting himself at a conference.

He completely ruined several interesting panel debates by spending more than 30 minutes of the one hour sessions talking about him self in a veeeeery sloooooooow and annoooooooyyyying voice.

Please, please, please never use him again

bad air - bad faireground

Gottfried Kube — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:24:26 -0000

The place of the expo was not very good.
Too much space between the areas - very confusing ways - very very bad air.
There are better locations - even on the fairground of Messe Berlin - Messe Nord.

The AC is Too Cold

Sebastian Macias — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:52:16 -0000

I'm freezing.

Great after effect!

Lars Hemmingsen — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:06:36 -0000

After having attended 4 days and 17 sessions I lefted this years event with a bit of scepticism... like in a vacuum. But after a few days and after having shared my learnings, inspirations and my outlook from the conference with friends, colleagues and likeminded, I've found some of the value-for-money I'd hoped for.
It's when you do your storytelling based on your experiences that it becomes clearer to see the perspective of the great power this media represents.
It can be expensive and hard work to climb a mountain, and it's not before you stop and take a view you know why you're doing it...

Company representatives buzz off!

Lars Hemmingsen — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:43:54 -0000

As a web marketing manager representing a large international manufacturing company I was quite surprised to meet several speakers and sessions only addressing or appreciating Entrepreneurs, VCs and Journalists. I spoke to at least 3-4 others who was left with the same impression.
An idea for the next Expo event could be to make sessions and key notes targeted directly to the attending segments. After all that's what Web 2.0 is all about... listen to the masses and give them what they demand.

The whole "media" category was missing

Alberto D'Ottavi — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:44:09 -0000

I found the Expo overall interesting, and liked a lot the workshop, "hands-on" model

But I think that the entire category "media" was missing: except for one (small) panel about newspapers, there were no experiences / case studies / experts / storytelling etc about big media companies - or from them

How is Web 2.0 applying to traditional media's Internet strategies? Newspapers, televisions, etc. What are they doing, and what are they not doing (and why)?

I think that this would have been a very interesting line

Thanks,
Alberto D'Ottavi
-- http://infoservi.it

Programming Herd Behavior

vangelis tsoumenis — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:12:40 -0000

A topic that i expected to be big at the conference but didn't see at all was the problem of getting benefit out of data-mining vs. pushing herd behavior.

Will the users behavior be negatively influenced by early published results from data-minined peer-data?

Tim O'Reilly blogged about this in context of the inbreeding techrcruch-top-bloggers.

What are techniques to avoid this?

Where was the discussion about this?

Privacy

vangelis tsoumenis — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:38:02 -0000

i think that privacy and data-security was vastly underrepresented at the conference.

How can we keep the users confidential data secure?

What to do to minimize problems for the users that gave us their data in case of a security breach?

Web2.0 companies are trusted with a lot of data from a lot of people and should show some foresight by thinking about problems that could arise from that.

General overview

Jorge Gregorio — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:13:18 -0000

Great sessions in the keynotes area, specially the interviews with tariq krim, the Kathy Sierra speech and the "entreprise 2.0" by the author of wikinomics

Monday and rest of the week

Jorge Gregorio — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:49:54 -0000

I think the first day was the better, the sessions were longer and the speakers can go deeply into the themes they talk about.

The overal sessions were ok but i think that the sessions in the future must be longer, i speak to some people at the worshop and all of them think the same way...the topics were covered but the need more information.

Relevent to Web 2.0

Ayman Makki — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:45:12 -0000

Hi;

Some keynotes weren't really relevent to Web 2.0, or at least the speakers didn't make the relation so clear.

Keynotes Videos

Ayman Makki — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:41:25 -0000

Will the keynotes be available for online download? That would be really great.

WEB 2.0 Expo in a 0.5 Ambiance

Andy Kurth — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:06:26 -0000

Hi there,
first of all: Thank you very much for bringing the Expo to Berlin. Speakers and topics were well choosen.
But unfortunately I couldn´t feel the spirit atmosphere of WEB 2.0 during my stay. It was more like visting a finance expo.
For me the WEB 2.0 Expo startet at 9 am on Monday, drooling over coffee. I found myself in presentation room with no windows, no inspiring decoration and a poor guy on the podium trying his best to get the audience´s attention. His desperate calling for collaboration died away in the darkness of the presentation room.
Next time, please think about all the creative tools we know form applied social studies like open space workshops, small groups brainstorming, audience guidance, center mapping etc. And please: Think about your presentation room designs. Classroom seating does not really fit the WEB 2.0 ideas.

Reconsider your location as well. The huge and "calculating" buildings of Messe Berlin is not a geeking ambiance. Every nursing home is a better think tank. Think about your decoration, large market places, the idea of the speaker´s corner in London´s Hyde Park, bill-boards etc.

There were so many interesting people (investors, programmers, designers, start-up....), but your expo design was prejudicial to the ideas of WEB 2.0 like sharing knowledge and experiences, bringing people together and last but not least givng ideas a chance to be implemented.

Anyway, thanks very much for the expo and please go on.
Andy

Messe maze

Bartek — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:59:20 -0000

Overall, the conference was a great and very fruitful experience but the venue sucked - and I don't mean Berlin, which is one of my favourite cities!

Feedback system

Filipe Correia — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:42:00 -0000

Apart from some minor issues (http://feedback.berlin.web2expo.com/feedbacks/5723-regist...), it was good to have the feedback system available. Hope the collected information will be put to good use next year.

Group dynamics

Filipe Correia — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:39:07 -0000

Using crowdvine was great, but I felt that a bridge to real world socializing was missing. Maybe some group dynamics activities could help there..

Where was the collaboration?

Inga — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:38:18 -0000

Hello Team,
the web2.0expo is one great event and I was so excited to see it come to Berlin. The keynotes, the speakers, the sessions - they were very inspiring. Pls bear this in mind when reading the next lines:
WHERE WAS THE COLLABORATION? It felt like the American invasion! You did not hook up with the local community, with the regional industry, with the national press! If you had you would not have been fooled into the location and made the terrible mistake to let THEIR team handly any of your concerns. You mader Berlin look dreary. That is not very considerate of you. Jan Chipchase: "We need to listen!"
Pls, in the future, integrate persons from the location you are descending on into your team. Europeans actually do know how to make some great conferences. Check out: DLD Confernce.
better luck to the next location
Inga

Cost vs. Benefit?

Thomas — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:27:12 -0000

My heart went out to the vendors in the Expo, each time I passed through, normally at 9am, lunch, coffee, or 6pm, the place looked empty. The vendors where all talking to each other. I have to say I made it a point to vist almost every booth through out the 4 days...

I would love to hear what the vendor's thought?

Best Sessions Engaged the Audience

Thomas — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:18:50 -0000

I mainly partcipated in the Strategy and Business Model track and I have to say the best sessions were interactive. For example; Soren Stamer, CoreMedia provided such an extreme real-world example it engaged the audience into a discusion. Andrei Nabergoj, New Europe Online, had a small group attending Thursday morning, but had everyone introduce themselves and state why they are attending his session that lead to a very interactive session. Lee Bryant also kept us from chasing our tails on a tool discussion in the Enterprise 2.0 session. Stating that it is really about organizational change and adoption, not tools! That open a very informative discussion... These are a few examples....I wish I could point too more....

Super-Sized Facility

Thomas — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:07:55 -0000

Don't get me wrong each room and expo was nice, but way too spread out. Most conference participants camped out on the floor over lunch versus heading up to the Expo floor. The layout needed to set up better to ensure traffic through the expo floor providing benefits to the participants and vendors.

yacks....

Mike Gamaggio — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:29:01 -0000

Berlin is great, but th fairground is poor. I really haven't seen such a horrible fairground ever, what a labyrinth...

Food: Only edible thing were the apples. But after 4 days of apples and a great Apple season I have had enough of Apples, doesn't mean I dislike Apple :-)
Even travelling in coach gives you better catering. I won't even talk about the coffee...

As for the technical equipment: We are showing the latest technological development and had constant problems with mikes, no reasonable sound for video, zapping computer slides ...

Web 2 Expo Feedback

Ahmet — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:10:58 -0000

Hi all,

i think the expo was very interesting. I met a lot of people and have learned many new stuff.

I'm looking forward to attend the expo next year.

Bye

Some great and very inspiring..others ok

Mike Gamaggio — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:35:36 -0000

I felt very inspired by some Keynotes, very motivating...
-Jesse James, Tariq, Blaise Aguera, Rod Beckstrom, Kathy.

Others were allright.