I am really looking forward to getting down there, looks to be great. Should be a blast.

So it appears as if the season is upon us. Returned recently from a fantastic conference put on by Carson Workshops, The Future of Web Apps in London. There were such a great diversity of voices speaking on everything related to the rapidly developing space. Tara Hunt and Chris Messina of Citizen Agency ran a great panel on many discussions of community development where some great thoughts and participation emerged from the crowd. Plus there were many more, including the team from Last.fm, who really dove into their process and history, which was invaluable to evaluating many decisions that are required daily in building new web apps.

I was initially skeptical as to the overall benefit of what would be achieved, but in the end, it truly was an invaluable couple of days. I am looking forward to SXSW coming up this weekend, and hope to catch up with a bunch of folks to continue to discuss the climate for community and experience. I hope that it can be nearly as valuable as FOWA was.

Still evaluating web 2.0 expo, not 100% sure who the audience is, and hopefully will have a better sense in the near future to determine if it seems like a valuable trip. I am excited however about the Web2Open. It seems a great and exciting way to connect and discuss and learn fom peers experiencing many of the similar challenges and successes, and these conferences are really a great spot to put faces to the names that overflow my NetNewsWire feeds.