Monkeying Around San Francisco

Thu, 01 Sep 2005 comments

I got to spend a couple weeks in San Francisco last month, hanging out at commerce.net where I spent a lot of time talking about a future of the web.

While there, I got a chance to meet a lot of cool people in person:

chatted about CSS with Eric Meyer (where I ignorantly called an attribute a tag, for shame)
microformats with Tantek (who explained why technorati has issues with scaling)
greasemonkey/javascript with Aaron Boodman (who writes even cooler javascript on bar napkins)
dojo/jot with Alex Russell (woot on 0.1!)
spring/ui with Robb Beal (created spring for OS X)

I also ran into Scoble "MS Geek Blooger" at a bar where I was talking with Robb, Aaron, and Alex. He had three guys with him so it was a full house. It was an interesting conversation. I didn't get a chance to say hi to Scoble, but after hearing him in person and reading his blog, he has won back my ears to listen to Microsoft. (at least until I hear Gates or Balmer calling GPL viral or communist)

A quick does not do justice to the many conversations at Commerce.net, so expanded blog posts will come.