One Conference Down

Well, yesterday was the long awaited Carson Summit which seemed to go pretty well all in all. Lots of reviews and notes around at the moment but I’ll just throw a couple of my personal observations into the mix.

The presentation where all good, but nothing mindblowing. Most had something going for them; whether enthusiasm, numbers or a special announcement

I liked Tom Coates diatribe about clean URLs, it something I’m fairly keen on too, I’m uming and arring over whether I too am a URL Fetishist

The Google vs Yahoo show was entertaining and interesting. Reading that Google tend to be more academic with Yahoo being a little bit more unhinged/entreprenurial is one thing – going to a conference where the guy from Google came across as something of a mad german professor with something of an axe to grind, compared to the Yahoo mob who ranged from a self confessed hippy to Cal and his three quarter length trousers. It’s appears all the rumours are true.

I did a couple of stints of SubEthaEdit collaborative note taking with Simon which was fun and interesting at the same time. The who’s going to write the next part bit was quite amusing – at times writing the same things down, then everyone deleting them, then a pause.

The after show was, as always, good fun and fairly drunken. The pub was nice, but whomever suggested it on the wiki was playing a cruel joke. A conference with 800 geeks and a pub about 3 people wide at it’s widest point is not sensible. Neither was Patrick’s suggestion about not eating, but it all worked out in the end.

Was good to meet up with lots of people, both those I had met before and those that I hadn’t. Hope to see everyone again soon, if not it will have to be @media.