Ian On The Red Dot

It has been one week since nexus 2007 which was organised by The Digital Movement and I am finally able to sit down and organise the notes I took at the awesome event. Lot of people have already blogged about the event, so I’ll start this point by linking to them.

Nexus 2007: Live from NTUC Conference Center by Sg Entrepreneurs

Aftermath of Nexus 2007: Future of the Web by Sg Entrepreneurs

Podcasts for the event by Brandcast.biz

Posts by Justin and Bjorn. Go down to ping.sg and search for Nexus 2007 to get more.

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The event was a great one and definitely worth the $15 dollars I paid for it. One problem (actually more of an inconvenience) with the event though was the lack of power points in the main auditorium. Although, one could tell that a fair number of people were seasoned attendees of such events because they came with their own extension cords and multi-plugs.

Finally had an excuse to use campfirenow by 37signals. It was really fun to be able to chat online while the main action was happening on stage. Some people really asked good questions on it and hopefully in the future, those questions would be able to be directed to the panelists. Some really great insights were obtained from the chat too.

Food. Food. Glorious Food. Definitely ate more than $15 worth of it. The chillout session at the end was awesome with the amount of beer and alcohol present although I couldn’t partake in them. And it was a great experience listening to all the people sharing in the small groups that formed at the chillout session. A lot of smart people there. Harish of poundbang shared something he had been working on and it was really awesome. It was some way of taking a 360 degrees picture and then presenting different POVs with what was captured. Imagine if they use it for live soccer matches! Awesome.

One thing I noticed is that it can probably be assumed that the geeky gals in Singapore are quite good looking and not your stereotypical girl with brains ugly betty kind while the guys..hahha..well..think we are split down the middle. The female host of the event got qute abit of attention on the online chat. Hmmm… Think someone even logged off from it to go find out her name. Oh, and has anyone given her a thumbdrive yet?

The first two panels (”The New Asia Pacific” and “Mobile and Online Media Panels”) I attended were a bit hit and miss while the final two (”The Future Of The Web” and ” “Riding On Change”) was a buffet of ideas,insights and information. There was this sense that the two gentleman from Velvet Puffin and Microsoft in the second panel were more interested in pitching their product and company to the audience. On the other hand, I felt that the two gentleman from Salesforce and Yahoo (in the third panel) while mentioning their companies and what they were doing, were actually trying to answer the questions asked and using their companies as an example to enhance what they were sharing with the audience and not trying to pitch.

Hopefully, I’ll be able to finish up going through the notes I made for the event and post somemore about what I’ve learned from it over the course of next week.

On a final note, I would really like to thank the organisers of the event. They did a really awesome job and I think everyone benefited from it.