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Sat, 08 Mar 2008
Day two of Startup Camp was consisted of two more hours of unconference sessions. I went to one where the topic was leveraging social networks. Somewhat interesting, but not really that valuable. The focus was on how you leverage business oriented social networks such as LinkedIn or Ecademy to build your professional reputation and network. That has certain value, but personally I am more interested in the consumer oriented sites and their potential as a platform for distributing and syndicating Scred, and also for providing access to the kinds of communities that we are servicing with Scred. Another thing with all those business networking sites (and the consumer ones as well) is that social network portability is urgently needed. Later today I filled in my profile at YouNoodle. What for, really, I don't know. One more site where I've manually entered my CV, qualifications and interests. What we need and data portability efforts may ultimately achieve, is a sort of social multigraph. You need to be able to connect to the same people over multiple channels no matter where they're listed.
The other unconference session I attended today was about "cool things": useful web-based services, mashups and all that. Kind of interesting but I wasn't paying too much attention (being occupied with finding out how to get to Luton in a few hours ... this is where my laptop run out of battery and I switched to reading an Iain Banks novel - it was Scotland I was flying to after all).
Arrived in Glasgow. My brother's place has a nice view over the city, but this being Saturday night and right in the center of the city, well, it is kind of noisy down on the street. No matter though. Feeling plenty tired after Startup Camp so time to sleep. Glad we went there. Loads of good feedback and lots of work to be done in refining our pitch.