The Progress Bar

Last week’s Webinno was as usual a great event. Nothing comes close in terms of local net-heads cramming into one room to imbibe, rant, demo and press the flesh. Founder David Beisel is setting up anther small group dinner, this one is titled “The Secrets of Social Network Platform Apps”.

I just sent David a list of topics, hope he thinks they are interesting enough to invite me to the dinner.

Topics of interest:

• Separating reality from they hype of FB apps.
• What probably won’t work as a FB app.
• The total lack of business applications on FB. Surely we all will get sick of throwing food and writing on Superwalls.
• Zombies and Vampires – how to unearth the hidden value of reputation on FB.
• From websites to web services, what’s next?

My man GPC does a scorecard about how he thinks the WebInno 13 presenters are going to do. I prefer to wait until afterwards, because I really have nothing to say about something like (Beacon Street Girls) until after I see the demo.

I did however have a great demo of Webkins over the weekend. I will be hanging out there with my god-daughter to play games and goof off with her from time to time. Webkins is 8,0000% more fun than Myspace and there is a ton of stuff to do. We did a 20 minute demo and got through less than five percent of the features. It’s like cartoony game-driven SecondLife for the under-10 set. First you go to Webkins, then you graduate to Beacon Street  Girls or any of the other tween-focused social sites.

See you at WebInno on Monday July 9th.