One of the most fascinating events of the season opens today, TechCrunch Disrupt, where the technology of the future is on deplay in the form of various start-ups -- apps, gadgets, ideas.
I'm going to cover it hopefully for all three days.
Today Bill Gurley, an investor in Linden Lab among other companies will be speaking, which should be interesting -- I don't think we've ever heard him speak.
I will be on the lookout in particular for Glassholes, since there are sure to be some who have forked over the $1500 to Google to get themselves outfitted with the privacy-busting two-way goggles.
Robert Scoble has already announced he isn't taking them off, and a picture of him in the shower (they don't get short-circuited when wet) is already going viral.
You can read Scoble's review of Glass on Flip-board.
Oh, wait, that's just one of the very things I want to find out about.
I just put Flip-board on my i-phone (I don't have an i-pad and likely won't have one for a year or more as other more urgent purchases are on the list of more practical use, like a newer computer (the fan is going out once again and graphics card is groaning).
But I can't give you a link, like a URL, to where Scoble's piece is because it's...out there...in here...somewhere inside that Flip-o-verse inside my phone. Even if I were to crank it up now which I don't have time to do, I wouldn't have a URL to grab (I don't think) but just a person to follow.
So if you get Flip-board too, you will go find Scoble's thing about Glass.
Except...this is going to get hard to do if you aren't famous and there are a gadzillion uploads on there as Instagram has.
So this jump from "that old Internet" to the phone -- I dunno, what are we supposed to do?
I personally am already app-saturated as I just don't feel like putting any more on there. I have more than i can look at now...it's such a tiny screen...who has the time? I can't keep staring at it all day...
Two sight-unseen quick impressions:
o Looks a lot more commercial, less idea-rich than other years. This is a natural progression as ideas get made and then applied and then competition kicks in and then it's a question of how to be the first in the market. Apparently a guy in the hackathon (which I missed due to work) gave a lecture about how we shouldn't be "sharing" so much with all these companies anyway
And yes, that's the privacy issue with Glass, not Scoble in the shower, but Google having all the data scraped from everything he sees and everyone else sees and being able to manipulate it. Now didn't I just see that Larry Page is saying that Google has to move from an ad-driven company to commerce-driven. That is, instead of selling ads using other people's hijacked content, Google will have to make and sell stuff now. We'll see how that goes.
o Where is Arrington? Is he not going to interview the speakers as he has in past years? What is his role, if any, following allegations of scandal which he has vigorously rejected with lawyers (and which no one really could pin down beyond some unsubstantiated allegations).
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