Some of you like to follow me on my travels via my blog and my Twitter. I’ve added a Flickr Photoset where I’ll dump my travel photos when I get back, too, so you can see the rest of the pictures that don’t come from my cruddy cameraphone. : )
It was a good trip in NYC. I got into the city on Wednesday night and met up with Eric Skiff and met the team behind his new startup (all nice folks). Their product will be really supercool in a week when you see all the top secret stuff I saw. : )
In the morning, I got to watch John C. Havens do a panel talk with Dina from Blip, and Ben from IBM, and oh god… Jim? from A&E. It was swell, and lots of interesting points (even pessimistic ones) were made. I also got to hang with Ben and Alex from Unleashed as well as Kathryn and Nick from If Not Now. And of course, I saw Jonathan and Geo and Andy/Stu, and I met Chiaki, and dozens more folks.
I had a crazy day all over the place. We met Steve Rubel(I was so happy to actually meet him in person finally!). The day kept going like that, including meeting Jason Krikorian of Sling Media (who was really great to talk with) and our new friend, Lubna, and of course Jeff. I spent my time between Video on the Net stuff and Network2 stuff, with a smattering of PodCamp built in.
At night, I got to attend the Video 2.0 meetup, led by Yaron Samid of Pando. This was community. I spoke with the ever-promoting Bill Cammack (who is a great guy, and who knew “Gas Face!”), as well as Mr. Michael Smolens from dotSub, Andrew Baron ( you know), as well as meeting all kinds of wonderful people (Sandira sticks out, but she hasn’t emailed me her contact info yet). I really liked the energy of Marc Siry from NBBC (NBC’s new broadband dealie). If you are in NY or can get to NY easily, I *HIGHLY* recommend attending this event. Yaron was great, and so was the crowd he gathered around him.
I spent all day today in and around Boston, meeting with investor types for Network2. That’s been really educational to me, and I will eventually think of a way to make what I’ve learned useful to you. But in the mean time, I’m processing it all. I’ve learned lots about the types of venture capital people I like, as well as people who probably appeal to someone other than me. It’s always good hanging with Jeff and James (happy birthday!) and Amit, too. We have a few laughs in between answering tough questions.
Lastly, I’m SO happy to be home to connect with my family. We’re celebrating my son’s birthday this weekend with a big 1 year old party bash. I’ll get to see Rob and Megin, as well as lots of local friends, and my family, as well. It’s great.
My email box was buried, so give me some time.
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