2 days at Mesh, a roundup
Over the past 2 days I was at the Mesh, Canada's Web Conference, in Toronto. Overall it was a great time and a lot better than I was expecting. To be perfectly honest I didn't pay too much attention to the sessions, other than the keynote talk by craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster. It was great and you could tell that they've got an awesome thing going on there. Some tech specs since I'm a nerd: they're serving 7 billion page views a month on 200 servers. And over the past 12 years they've never had a programmer leave. That is just crazy.
The best part of the conference was meeting various people in the community and putting faces to the sites that I'm familiar with.
Robleh Jama (Sneaker Play) - cool and smart guy that just graduated Uni similar to myself. They're getting great traction and attention so it was cool to talk to him about their accomplishments.
Alex de Bold (ChickAdvisor) - I joked with him a bit accusing him of stealing the "love it" idea :P
Scott Brooks (ConceptShare) - I've known Scott for a while now, and he's a great guy and Concept Share is doing fantastic, which is amazing for a web company out of Sudbury. If they keep it up maybe Sudbury really will be the next valley HAH!
Sean Wise (Wise Words) - one of the people behind Dragon's Den which I friggin LOVE so it was very cool meeting him. Sean also just released a new book Wise Words, and is a columnist for the Globe and Mail.
Saroop Bharwani (Ogrant) - another person I've met with before, but we talked for a while at Mesh. These guys haven't launched yet, but they're doing something pretty cool and I'm rooting for them. I'm not 100% convinced of the idea, but Saroop and his partner impressed me with their intelligence and business savvy so I'm sure they'll figure it all out.
Anthony Carbone (MadWhips) - another guy I know well so it was good to see him again and chat it up.
Simon Pulsifer (QuillSoft) - the King of Wikipedia, this guy has 96,000 edits to Wikipedia which makes him the most active contributor in the world, so it was very cool to meet him. We talked for a while and he gave some of this thoughts on ProductWiki which were quite helpful.
Sunir Shah (FreshBooks) - one of the first people I met that is heavily into the wiki world it was great seeing him again. Sunir now works for FreshBooks and they were interviewing some of the startups to profile them on their blog. He interviewed me, so hopefully we show up!
Now, after 2 days of web and tech and startup talk I'm officially burnt out. I don't want to hear people talk about VCs, or bootstrapping or anything like that for a little while. Time to get back to products!
The best part of the conference was meeting various people in the community and putting faces to the sites that I'm familiar with.
Robleh Jama (Sneaker Play) - cool and smart guy that just graduated Uni similar to myself. They're getting great traction and attention so it was cool to talk to him about their accomplishments.
Alex de Bold (ChickAdvisor) - I joked with him a bit accusing him of stealing the "love it" idea :P
Scott Brooks (ConceptShare) - I've known Scott for a while now, and he's a great guy and Concept Share is doing fantastic, which is amazing for a web company out of Sudbury. If they keep it up maybe Sudbury really will be the next valley HAH!
Sean Wise (Wise Words) - one of the people behind Dragon's Den which I friggin LOVE so it was very cool meeting him. Sean also just released a new book Wise Words, and is a columnist for the Globe and Mail.
Saroop Bharwani (Ogrant) - another person I've met with before, but we talked for a while at Mesh. These guys haven't launched yet, but they're doing something pretty cool and I'm rooting for them. I'm not 100% convinced of the idea, but Saroop and his partner impressed me with their intelligence and business savvy so I'm sure they'll figure it all out.
Anthony Carbone (MadWhips) - another guy I know well so it was good to see him again and chat it up.
Simon Pulsifer (QuillSoft) - the King of Wikipedia, this guy has 96,000 edits to Wikipedia which makes him the most active contributor in the world, so it was very cool to meet him. We talked for a while and he gave some of this thoughts on ProductWiki which were quite helpful.
Sunir Shah (FreshBooks) - one of the first people I met that is heavily into the wiki world it was great seeing him again. Sunir now works for FreshBooks and they were interviewing some of the startups to profile them on their blog. He interviewed me, so hopefully we show up!
Now, after 2 days of web and tech and startup talk I'm officially burnt out. I don't want to hear people talk about VCs, or bootstrapping or anything like that for a little while. Time to get back to products!
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