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WordCamp SF Here I Come!

Lloyd — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:19:02 +0000

Only two more weeks until WordCamp San Francisco 2009. I can’t wait!

This is the original WordCamp. Every year has been fantastic! There is no other event that brings so many of WordPress‘s elite together.

They’re friendly people to boot! Thankfully, the elite are welcoming and generous with their time, knowledge, talent and bad jokes (puns). It’s a great learning environment.

The best kept secret about WordCamp is that the speaker line up includes many technology and web luminaries – Matt Cutts, Philip Greenspun, Tim Ferriss, Tara Hunt to name a few of the incredible speakers.

Can you believe it is near free — the $25 cost doesn’t even cover the cost of the food. Thank you sponsors!

Even if WordPress wasn’t your thing (shame!), if you’re in the web, it should be a must attend event. It’s a great event for all bloggers and anyone publishing online.

There is also an after party celebrating the sixth anniversary of WordPress!

And Sunday, we’re hosting a barcamp-esque WordPress developer day:

…expect more hardcore geek content like heavy WordPress performance optimization, BuddyPress internals, an intro to Erlang, a guide to secure coding, WordPress-as-CMS discussions, and more. If there’s a topic you’d like to lead start thinking about it now…

There are only 64 spaces left for WordCamp, so sign up now! (Already 536 people have registered.)

I hope to meet you there.

Budd Family helping at Genius Bar WordCamp SF 2008, as seen at http://central.wordcamp.org/

Chris Messina and Friends Productions

Lloyd — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:45:39 +0000

“This is true”, Chris Messina giggles at a minute thirty of Citizen Garden Episode 1: Winter Solstice Edition in response to Larry Halff asking him about being involved in a social networking project. If you know Chris, you know “this is true” is a chrisism. If you don’t, I’m excited that he and friends Larry, Tara Hunt, Brian Oberkirch and more have recently started giving us great opportunity to get to know their isms with at least two productions:

Podcast Citizen Garden, “seeding the citizen web”
Videocast OpenMediaWeb, “exploring the possibilities and opportunities of the Open Media Web and developing the methods, formats and protocols to make it possible.”

Both already have a couple great sessions and other content. Enjoy!

What’s your business?

Lloyd — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:06:53 +0000

Or “Companies fail because they run out of money.”

Don Dodge on Why Companies Fail in Hindsight 2.0, Lessons from a Failed Web 2.0 startup about the online calendar service Kiko being sold on ebay ($50,000):

Web 2.0 companies, or any company for that matter, do not fail because of high expectations. They fail because they run out of money. They run out of money because they don’t have a viable business model.

We are talking real businesses correct? Lets take the model out of business.

So what is your business? Do you have one or more professionals figuring this out? Tara Hunt, though I love her, does not count because a business probably can’t be described in a single prose blog post.

It is definitely rude to casually ask other people what their business is.

The term “business model” has bothered me [, Peter Rip,] for a long time. I have always found it to be a glib method of characterizing a company’s relationship with its various constituencies, e.g., customers, suppliers, competitors, etc. The problem isn’t really the concept. The problem is that it’s a complex, multidimensional structure that doesn’t really lend itself to a summary sentence, at least not if you really want to understand the business.
Peter Rip, EarlyStageVC, Business Model, Schmizness Model