2008-03-29
Community Next Conference
I just got back from a Community Next conference at Level 3. I only got 4 hours of sleep because I had to transport myself to LA by 9am to get to this conference. It was well worth it (besides the fact that the free Red Bulls kept me awake). I got to listen to a lot of really innovative people speak and I had a chance to personally talk to people with great ideas who are on the bleeding edge of technology and the Internet.
I chatted with Aza Raskin, founder of Songza and co-founder of Humanized. Aza, a huge proponent of interface simplicity, posed some incredibly unique solutions to unnecessary complexity in various types of web interfaces. Mozilla acquired Humanized recently and Aza told me he works next to Firefox developers and expects to potentially influence some big changes in Firefox's interface.
I also got a chance to talk with Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit (and drawer of the alien). I asked Alexis what types of problems the Reddit team has been thinking of in order to help users sift through the enormous variety of content of the website. Alexis said they have tried a lot of things but told me to be on the lookout for big changes to Reddit at the beginning of this summer that may combat this problem.
I took a bus back and on the way we passed hundreds of zombies walking down the sidewalk of Sunset Boulevard. Some of them banged on the windows of our bus. They did not eat any of our brains. I also had to be escorted through some gates on the way to my room because hundreds of kids were lined up to see some Nickelodeon screening and the path to my room was blocked off. Today was successful.
I chatted with Aza Raskin, founder of Songza and co-founder of Humanized. Aza, a huge proponent of interface simplicity, posed some incredibly unique solutions to unnecessary complexity in various types of web interfaces. Mozilla acquired Humanized recently and Aza told me he works next to Firefox developers and expects to potentially influence some big changes in Firefox's interface.
I also got a chance to talk with Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit (and drawer of the alien). I asked Alexis what types of problems the Reddit team has been thinking of in order to help users sift through the enormous variety of content of the website. Alexis said they have tried a lot of things but told me to be on the lookout for big changes to Reddit at the beginning of this summer that may combat this problem.
I took a bus back and on the way we passed hundreds of zombies walking down the sidewalk of Sunset Boulevard. Some of them banged on the windows of our bus. They did not eat any of our brains. I also had to be escorted through some gates on the way to my room because hundreds of kids were lined up to see some Nickelodeon screening and the path to my room was blocked off. Today was successful.
Labels: LA, reddit, songza, technology, zombies
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