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I was recently at the Geek Entertainment TV turns 1000 event which was fun. I said "Hello" to a group of guys and asked them what they thought of the party. One of them declared that it's just like the dot.com bubble all over again: People partying, drinking, and so on. I was a bit taken aback. Then later a friend talked on about how wonderful things will be with Web 2.0. This equally seemed strange.

It's just as much a mistake to say "no ostentatious parties" as it's a given that all will be great now that we have "Web 2.0". Such judgments are based on the appearance rather than their content and value of things. A raucous, zealous party is only inappropriate when undeserved. Apple had party blowouts long before the dot.com period and it was for hardworking employees that deserved to splurge and enjoy.

At the same time, to assume that the fuzzy identifiers of Web 2.0 are a given. That we are in a state of technological bliss is similarly superficial. Technologies are advancing and making an impact on people's overall usage of net software with AJAX, microformats, RSS, and so on. But none of these technologies are a given, some will likely not pan out as expected and all require serious work into the future.

I went to my first SuperHappyDevHouse -- the sixth and last this year. A very productive evening that I left around 4 am. SuperHappyDevHouse is scheduled to go until 7 am |).

I met and talked to several people; some I had just met briefly before like factoryjoe, aka Chris Messina, and many I talked to for the first time. The only distracting incongruence were the guys from Meetro. The Meetro product looks like a fun, interesting and useful tool. But they came in promoting, promoting, promoting while everyone else was there to learn and get work done. I suggest they find out what an event is about and see how to make their product fits into that environment.

Among the ideas and products demonstrated I found fascinating was iGlance, an open source real time collaboration system. And Rhyzomatic, a service to create a personal permalink that unites all your identities in one place.

I'm going to start working on ideas for features and capabilities in video based on the conversations and information presented .