As we all know in Hollywood, a sequel is a guaranteed box office smash – well most of the time any way.
Here at bub.blicio.us we feel the same way. Only in this case, a sequel is always in the cards when you have two reporters, two photographers and one video blogger at the same party. Why? Because it’s a Supernova party and well, it’s worth it. There are far too many influencers in one place for any one person to connect the dots.
It took Julie Blaustein, Adriana Gascoigne and me just to get the job done. I can’t wait to see how we’re going to work out covering the Supernova conference after trying to keep up with the pre-party.
Chris Heuer and Tom Foremski
Maya Baratz of flickr
Deb Schultz
Nonetheless, it was star-studded affair – by tech standards, with many of the usual suspects, familiar faces and those who normally don’t tour the tech party circuit.
We had great conversations with:
Heather Harde of TechCrunch
Deb Schultz
Chris Heuer of the Social Media Club and Kristie Wells of Joyent
Ben Wan
Matteo Fabiano of YourTrumanShow
Scott Beale of Laughing Squid
Kevin Werbach
Tom Foremski of Silicon Valley Watcher
Dave McClure
Megan McCarthy of Valleywag
Gabe Rivera of Techmeme
Renee Blodgett
Ben Metcalfe
Peter Pham of Photobucket
Maya Baratz of flickr
Michael Caruso of ClickFacts
Susan Wu – CRV
Peter Pham and Heather Harde
Lane Hartwell of Fetching
Dave McClure
I have to tell you though. New tech and Web 2.0′isms were almost the last thing discussed throughout the night. The main theme was how everyone was behind the 8-ball, trying to keep up with the social economy and all of the work stemming from its boom.
Companies are launching. Customers are subscribing to online services. Conferences are abundant. Life is good. Life is indeed bub.blicio.us. But, we’re not in a bubble. And, most importantly – it’s not anywhere close to ending. This is nothing like 1999 – from an economic standpoint. Yes, true, many of the companies won’t live beyond the next year or two, but they’re being groomed for strategic acquisitions – not IPOs – to add value to a bigger, more profitable service offering.
But I digress.
Supernova’s Kevin Werbach and The Wharton School have created a unique forum where technology and business influencers, leading investors, top innovators and thinkers will come together in a provocative new program to debate the future of the connected world.
There is much debate. Lifestreams, lifecasts, social presence, Web 3.0, flow apps, SAAS, Webware, vertical social networks, enterprise 2.0, etc. are changing everything we do in our personal and business lives.
Scott Beale
Ben Metcalfe
Rene Blodgett
Join the conversation next week in San Francisco.
Register here.
Read the Conversation Hub to read the hottest topics leading up to the event.
Supernova 2007 Challenge Day speakers include:
- Lee Berke (President & CEO, LHB Sports, Entertainment & Media)
- Chris Brogan (Network2.tv)
- Cathy Brooks (Guidewire Group)
- Jonathan Carson (Nielson)
- Elizabeth Charnock (CEO, Cataphora)
- Jeff Clavier (SoftTech VC)
- Aaron Coldiron (Windows Product Mktg., Microsoft)
- Ron Conway (Angel Investors)
- Dick Costolo (CEO, Feedburner)
- Ron Dreben (Partner, Morgan Lewis & Bockius)
- Julius Genachowski (Rock Creek Ventures)
- Flip Gianos (General Partner, Interwest)
- Alex Gove (WaldenVC)
- Steven Haskel (McKinsey)
- Peter Hirshberg (Technorati)
- Mary Hodder (CEO, Dabble)
- Joanne Hovis (President, Columbia Telecommunications Corp.)
- Denise Howell (Bag and Baggage)
- Leszek Izdebski (Director, New Media and Web Service Providers, Cisco)
- Max Kalehoff (VP Marketing, Nielsen BuzzMetrics)
- Sandra Kearney (Director, Virtual Worlds & 3D Internet, IBM)
- Raph Koster (Founder, Areae)
- JD Lasica (Remix Politics)
- Zahavah Levine (General Counsel, YouTube)
- Hugh MacLeod (Gaping Void)
- John Markoff (New York Times)
- Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger (Kennedy School, Harvard)
- Peter Merholz (President, Adaptive Path)
- Mark Morril (Deputy General Counsel, Viacom)
- John Muleta (CEO, M2Z Networks)
- Barney Pell (CEO, Powerset)
- JP Rangaswami (CIO, BT Global Services)
- Andrew Rasiej (Founder, Personal Democracy Forum)
- Scott Rosner (The Wharton School)
- Jeremy Ruston (Head of Open Source Innovation, BT)
- Deborah Schultz (DRS Solutions)
- Doc Searls (Linux Journal)
- Nova Spivack (CEO, Radar Networks)
- Reuben Steiger (CEO, Millions of Us)
- Tim Tuttle (SVP, Video, AOL)
- Fred von Lohmann (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
- Esme Vos (Founder, MuniWireless.com)
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For more pictures from the Supernova pre-party, visit Brian Solis’ album on flickr.
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