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This video from Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, explains the basics of Web 2.0 in 5 minutes. It's a little fast paced, but for those of you needing a true crash course, this may help you wrap your head around it.
Well I just reserved my spot at An Event Apart in Boston. It looks like it's going to be an awesome conference and having never been to one, I'm really excited. They have an awesome lineup of speakers, including some of my personal favorites: Steve Krug, Dan Cedarholm, and Cameron Moll.
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Boston here I come! If you're in the area and would like to meet up let me know.
I just watched this great video on Google today of Seth Godin giving a speech at Gel 2006 on marketing mishaps. It's about a lot of the "do not do's" of marketing. Enjoy 
This image is from the New York Times. Do any of these Microsoft marketing gurus seem excited about the launch of Windows Vista? If you take a close look, not a single one is smiling, and they certainly don't look as though they've been "wowed". As Seth Godin (marketing guru extraordinaire) said on his blog this week in response: "Just because a marketer says something is amazing, exciting or just plain wow doesn't mean it is."
I'm very inclined to agree. While Vista will be a evolutionary step from Windows XP, it certainly is not doing anything nearly as innovative as Apple is doing in it's next iteration of Mac OS X codenamed Leopard. Perhaps the "wow" refers to the fact that they've finally managed to make a copy of Apple's Dashboard, or Expose technology and bring it to a new version of Windows. I bet all these guys own a Mac and are loathing giving this presentation.