Liveblogging Sat. Keynote @ Northern Voice 2008
10:13AM We’re in a free market, and in a free market the best solutions win.
(Standing Applause)
10:11AM I could spend these 45 minute talking about the social graph but honestly it doesn’t matter in 2 years. What matters is discussing the underlying architecture, and working to improve it.
What if there was a wiki for every bill, and it could be edited by citizens before becoming law?
10:09AM Code isn’t the most needed thing with most software. The problems with most software - design, branding, color, usability. Most enterprise software suffers immensely from these problems.
10:08AM Matt says he didn’t know how to code when he started WordPress, but he learned.
10:07AM “Ask not what your software can do for you”
10:02AM Social Objects - people congregating around social objects: photos, tags, slideshare because they are more useful than things like friend requests.
9:56AM Exhortation #3: Kill the megabrands. The age of portals is over.
9:52AM Exhortation #2: We have to respect other people’s time.
- Ex #1: johnchow.com - he
showed this blog as an example of a cluttered interface where it’s hard to find the posts. - Ex. #2: “a once popular internet company”
9:51AM Facebook’s largest strategic error to date: rules too lose for apps has created a mess of spam (like hot potato requests and zombies)
9:47AM Wikipedia - Jan ‘08: 2.1 Million articles. WordPress blogs - creating equivalent of 2 Wikipedias a month.
9:45AM Exhortation #1: Reduce Friction - we need invisible software
9:43AM Form dictates writing - ex. Prologue theme. It mimics twitter, so people write short posts, as they would with twitter.
9:41AM 4. Validation: comments matter a lot to bloggers. It’s how they know they have readers, and interact with their community.
9:39AM 3. Public: Systems that default to being open end up being most successful.
9:37AM 2. Handling Spam: Spammers are the online version of terrorists.
9:34AM 1. Expression: people want their blogs to represent themselves. Presentation tab in WordPress is one of the most important things about it. People can choose or create a theme that makes their online presence their own.
9:33AM 5 years: 7,226,049 downloads. Let’s look at the 4 things most important to blogger:
9:32AM WordPress: way back in 2003 WordPress started as a fork of b2. Able to do this b/c b2 was open source.
9:30AM Blogging and Social Media: Where do we go from here? Almost a decade into blogging, and we’re just at the cusp of where this is all going.
9:29AM Boris introduces Matt Mullenweg!
9:26AM Today’s color is Brown!
9:25AM Boris Mann: Northern Voice is now a registered society in BC! Part of this year’s conference registration fee helped cover expenses for this. Congrats to the organizers - an excellent milestone!
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5 Comments, Comment or Ping
Lloyd Budd
Wonderful job live blogging Matt’s keynote.
Feb 24th, 2008
Stewart Mader
Thanks Lloyd! It was an excellent keynote; well worth liveblogging to get those great ideas down in print. What was your favorite thing Matt said?
Cheers,
Stewart
Feb 25th, 2008
Lloyd Budd
“The taste of freedom - once you have experienced it, its hard to go back. Once you`ve experienced transparency of open source then its hard to go back. What if there is a wiki for any law that is built on? Isn`t that transparency very powerful? Creating better alternatives is the option. ”
As transcribed by Robin Yab
Feb 27th, 2008
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