March 15, 2006 was the first DC area Web 2.0 event put together by Stowe Boyd and Dion Hinchcliffe. Two local web 2.0 players. The meeting was sold-out and well attended, I would say about 50 people. The meeting had three parts, one the state of web 2.0, the organization of the DC 2.0 group, and demos of some “local” companies. Where local was from Baltimore to North Carolina.
Demo Highlights (in order of presenting)
Greg Greshman from Blogdigger. Blogdigger is providing structure around blogs to create local communities and groups.
Greg Narain of SyncPeople.com presented xposted.com. xposted is a market exchange for content. Writers and content providers can upload articles and pieces for buyers to find. Content can be public or private. Target market is associations and small businesses who need related content. From the xposted website: provides resource-starved conference staff with a vibrant marketplace to browse, negotiate, and purchase content for their increasingly important blogging presence.
Zi from ZiWiki. ZiWiki which allows individuals to build and edit a website using wiki type technology. Themes and modules allow for customization.
Andrew Brooks and Matt Howard from SMBLive. SMBLive is a hosted service to provide users Intranets, extranets, or Project Portals. Their software is built upon Microsoft SharePoint, so it integrates nicely with most organizations, Microsoft Office applications.
Clarence Wooten from CollectiveX was very slick. It enables groups to quickly setup a collective workspace for file sharing, shared calendars, and discussions. During the presentation, I heard from another attendee – why can’t we get ours to work as nice.
Near-time a hosted service combing blogs, wikis and other modules. It was the first wiki that I saw that started to add additional structure to the wiki pages. Each page can be tied to a Category and a Tag. I have been looking for a Wiki with structure for my requirements gathering and validation project. More on this later.