Conference Week @ Filtrbox
I’m not much of a conference blogger, but given that I’m at Defrag today in Denver it was only fitting that I get at least one blog post out from the event. The event has been good so far, and very well organized and attended for it’s rookie year.
One of the big focuses of the conference has to do with the “implicit web”, which is the implied side of the content world. Another term thrown around by some vendors is the “attention economy”, which is similar in concept (or is it?). As far as Filtrbox goes, I suppose we straddle the fence a bit between explicit and implicit content discovery. Both are necessary in our world, so it’s great to see what others are working on and how some of the other services define and derive implicit relationships in the world of related content. We’ve already had some great conversations with the folks from Adaptive Blue, Lijit, Yahoo!, and others. Great to see as many out-of-town attendees as locals, as well as some blogging illuminati like Don Dodge and Brad Feld.
Later this week I’ll be in Vegas at the BlogWorldExpo event. I’m speaking on a panel with Robin Seidner of Collective Intellect, and Howard Kaushansky of Umbria Communications on “Tracking Reputation in the Blogosphere”. We’ll be discussing the dimensions of reputation, if it matters to you, and how to take advantage of the data. The panel is Thursday at 10:15 in case you are there!
P.S. We just added Intense Debate’s blog commenting system to the Filtrbox blog, so check it out!