Next BrainJams Event: Making Web 2.0 Relevant

The inference in the title here is that Web 2.0 is still largely irrelevant to most folks out there beyond us Silicon Valley types, who tend to get buzzed off this stuff. For all the potential of "social apps" and web-as-a-platform, there's still a huge chasm between most web users' needs and what Web 2.0 offers. This was one takeaway for me from last weekend's tagcamp.

We want to address this head-on. We're planning the next BrainJams all-day get-together for December 3rd at SRI in Menlo Park, and focusing specifically on ways to translate human needs into web 2.0, rather than starting with cool technology and trying to chase - or worse create - a market. The wiki's getting fixed, but there will soon be more info.

One exciting element will be a jam focused on and made up of teens as users, creators, and developers. Richard MacManus recently wrote about this, citing the new Pew study on teens. Kids are doing amazing things with new technologies. Getting the next generation's perspective on what matters here is pretty crucial.

The first jam was at Web 2.1 in SF as an answer to the overhyped and overpriced Web 2.0 conference. We're on the Penninsula in December, and the unconfirmed plan is to host our next event in Berkeley in February or so. More to come...

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