Thursday, October 10, 2002

Sam has posted his keynote online. 10:56:21 PM

The amazing thing is that the Web Services DevCon II is turing into BlogCon I. I have attached faces to so many faces of bloggers (over 15 so far). The really nice thing is that everone already feels close with one another, like we already know each other to some degree. Besides the usual culprits that I already knew well like Peter Drayton, Sam Ruby, Don Box, Tim Ewald, Ingo Rammer, John Burkhardt, Steve Loughran,   and Jim Murphy, I have met  Greg Reinacker, Brian Graf, Chris Kinsman, Clemens Vasters, Matt Croydon, Yassar Shohourd (whose book rocks and Congrats on Microsoft!), and of course Brian Jepson (its finally good to meet your editor!). It feels so much more intimate than last year and I think Blogs have a huge amount to do with that. 10:50:15 PM

I'm falling a bit behind: it's awesome to learn that Sam, Greg and others are diving into some Groove experiments - particularly in the area of web services.  Based upon what I've seen thus far, it's going to be really interesting to see what might be possible .. particularly in the area of aggregation and integration.  Sam and Greg ... thanks! [Ray Ozzie's Weblog] Thanks Ray! And a big welcome to Sam Ruby who has joined us! 9:33:46 PM

I'm home from Day 1 of the Web Services DevCon II for the night and I see that Brian has already beat me to the wire with great coverage from day 1. A great read. 9:24:27 PM