A couple of days ago, I mentioned that I'd like to talk to folks at startups working on gadgets widgets. Since then a couple of folks have expressed interest in the idea.
In his post WidgetCon
Om Malik writes
Dare wants
to talk to widget creators. I think it is a great idea. I am happy to
host Dare in SF, and perhaps we can put together an informal event to
talk widgets. You know I love that stuff. Niall, say what? Anyway else wants to jump in and play along, please do. Meebo & Rock U team…. what do you think?
The folks from Meebo and RockYou both expressed interest in a comments to Om's post.
Marc Canter also jumps in with a post entitled
Widgetcon where he writes
Om likes the fact that Dare wants to talk to startups about widgets. He even thinks there should be a conference.
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We’re watching these three kinds of constituents all use the same
technology - and try and shoehorn their technology and business models
into them. Whether they’re called Konfabulators, widgets, gadgets,
modules, blog objects - it really doesn’t matter.
It’s happening, it’s all good and we’d love to attend any sort of event around this.
I know my friends at AOL would love to attend too - and if I were a
betting man, I’d say Yahoo would be on-board, as well as NetVibes and
Pageflakes.
Now the question is “can we get Google to show up at such an affair?”
THis would be a PUBLIC event - right dudes? None of this clique shit - right?
Maybe we can even get Microsoft to pay for some Alaskan King Crab legs - like the old days?
I've pinged some folks at work about this and I'm sure there'll be a couple of heads from Microsoft who'd be down with attending. I'm not from the area so I'd suck at organizing something like this from Seattle so I'll just follow Marc and Om's lead on this. I'll also ping some of our developer marketing folks to see if we can spring for food if enough people are down with attending.
To make this "Web 2.0", maybe someone should create an attendee list wiki. ;)