Web 2.0 Expo Wrap-Up

In many ways, Web 2.0 Expo was like most other conferences - some of the sessions were very good and some of the sessions were not so good.  But it was extremely well-organized, the format for most of the sessions was excellent and the crowd (it was very crowded) was pumped.  Ignite on Sunday and the Launch Pad series were terrific.  Other sessions that stood out, for good or for bad:  Interviewing public company CEOs in front of 3000 people is a mistake.  Jeff Bezos got to do a 5 minute commercial for Amazon Web Services and then (not surprisingly) refused to answer any of John Batelle's tough questions.  If you know he's not going to answer (because he can't) then why ask?  Batelle's interview with Jeff Weiner of Yahoo! was much better.  I checked out Ten Ways to Run a Start-Up Like Genghis Khan which was surprisingly good.  Late yesterday afternoon I attended Enterprise 2.0: What Corporations Want and Are Using, which didn't quite hit the spot.  (One of the panelists was from Cisco; what happens technology-wise at Cisco is different than what happens at many other companies.)  The keynote earlier in the day - Web 2.0 for the Enterprise: Is it Soup Yet was more interesting, in that it probed what a corporate CIO might think about Web 2.0 tools "leaking" behind the firewall.  I'm sure these issues discussed in these sessions will be handled much more effectively at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston in June.