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West Coast Mini-Tour, June 26 – 30
If you'd like to meet me during the mini-tour, please drop me a line. Email link is in the post body.
Sections: Emerging Practice News
Topics: aggregation folksonomy microformats xFolk
June 26 – 30, I'm going to be in the Bay Area (San Francisco, specifically) catching up with Tantek Çelik and “The” Ryan King on microformats, likely attending the Vertical Leap conference signaled to me by Dave McClure of simplyhired, and attending at least part of Where 2.0. It's going to be an exciting trip. As I signaled earlier this week, microformats have some real implications for distributed business models. Specialty search engines like technorati, simplyhired, and gataga would seem well positioned to take advantage of microformats in their business models.
If you would like to see me on this tour, drop me an email. I'm very interested in meeting readers. Please note that my geographic knowledge of the Bay Area is limited. For instance, I thought the SDForum where Vertical Leap will be held was in San Diego (SD, get it), so keep that in mind when suggesting meet-up locations. Fortunately, a quick phone call with Dave McClure cleared up the SDForum confusion before I booked a flight to San Diego.
I'm going to have more to say on search, microformats, and tag search engines like gataga later this weekend. I see an emerging business model built on high quality tag aggregation using microformats like xFolk. I'll see if I can't get gataga to implement a technorati-like coup in this regard.
Bud posted this on June 18, 2005
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