Day 2 - the day of the start ups

16:50 mareku 0 Comments

The day started with a demo of the parrot drone helicopter. This is a quadricopter with can be controlled with an iphone or even better ipad. It has 2 build in cameras for augmented reality purposes. It was very cool to see. Wondering how much it will cost and how long it will take other to use the sensors of the ipad for remote controlling.
Next to the conference there is the WEB 2.0 expo on which we saw many new interesting start ups. Lot's of them based on social data and mashing up data in on or the other way.
A panel discussion between the development managers of the leading browsers (IE, Firefox, Opera, Chrome) made me realize how extremely difficult the talks about standardization are at the moment - and that these discussions really are dragging the innovation of the web.  This together with backwards compatibility issues for the hundreds of millions of users of IE6 - makes it very difficult to move ahead. No wonder that the iPad or Android Apps are so popular: you have no legacy there (yet). Maybe an other reason for the idea that browsing as we know it could be dead in a couple of years...
Next to services in the cloud - we see all kinds of (social) data sharing popping up. Slideshare is moving into video, scribd into presentations. Both are using HTML-5 by the way. The whole flash discussion is over I guess: HTML-5 a clear winner.
We saw some nice start up presentations:
askyourtargetgroupmarket.com
engleasy.com
pearltrees.com
rhomobile.com
strings.com
stupeflix.com