I was recently confirmed as a speaker at this year’s NY Digital Basins Software Forum. This two day conference, May 22-23, is presented by Concerted Networks and will be located at the Auburn Public Theater in Auburn, New York. I will be speaking on day two of the conference on the topic of “Creating Award Winning User Interfaces for Web 2.0 Sites.”

My inbox receives about 200 emails a week from a diverse group of people. I find that an email address is a direct indication of a persons age. I decided to make a little Email Time Line in a persons life to illustrate my point.

JohnnySmith85@aol.com The first email you ever make as your parents are looking over your shoulder.

Skatrman69@yahoo.com The first email you make when your parents are not looking. Plus the #69 or incorrectly spelt Skater lets your friends and email recipients know how cool and or tough you are.

John.Smith@COLLEGE.edu No pressure in picking this email because it was given to you by your college. It is easy to remember because you are going to be intoxicated most of the time.

John.Smith@gmail.com After you graduate college you leave both the happiest place on earth and your email address. Now you have to pick a fresh new smarter online identity. Safe bet is to go with something similar to your college one, and just make the excuse that it was easy to remember. Remember creative email addresses look cool on a bar napkin not a resume.

John.Smith@(InsertFortune500Comany).com Back to getting an email address picked for you. This email is a great way to show x-girlfriends what type of job you have when you email her wishing her a “happy” birthday. (If you have a corner office just attach the picture in the email)

TheSmiths33@sbcglobal.net Once you get married sharing is not limited to your physical space it includes an email address. While it might be embarising to write your new joint email address down on the PTA sign up sheet, at least you can not be held totally responsible when they change the start of a little leauge game.

Skatrman69@yahoo.com This oldy will come in handy again when you attempt to threaten any guy who tries to date your daughter posing as her cool and or tough older Boyfriend from another town.

John.Smith@shaddygroveretirementhome.com At this point picking out an email is the least of your worries. It is simple but you are going to forget anyway.

JohnSmith19430574@Heaven.org or JohnSmith24785@hell.org After scanning the inbox of all your prior email address the Big Guy upstairs will assign you with one or the other account.

It is a Saturday night, I have a bad cold and have been writing and researching for the better part of the last two days. Well I just wanted to get a Time Stamp on one of my thoughts as I begin to work on what I hope to be an interesting article on the politics behind Social Networking and the micro online governments they create. I am not sure which is tougher to shake this cold or my Machievilianspace Theory.  

Director of the Conference Robert Chiarito contacted me today with the reviews of my speech on “The Perception Makers.” I received one of the highest scores of the conference with a 4.7 out of 5. I also received some interesting comments about my speech:

“Wow! Seemed like a ‘know-it-all’ teenager on speed. Clearly knows a lot about Web 2.0?  - Paula Berg, Southwest Airlines

“Great energy, more than makes up for somewhat disjointed content. Where will he be in 10 years?” - Maggie Fox, Social Media Group

“Great!” - unsigned evaluation (no my mother was not at the conference) 

“Thoroughly educational and entertaining! Great speaker to end the day with” - Eric Tatro, Cohn & Wolfe

I am pretty excited to get back a very favorable score and remarks from the people attending the conference. I would like to thank everyone who left feedback. I wanted to post video of the event but Bobby the idiot tapped over it.  

From Shaboo on our Carrot Blog 

Mike and I have been working on an extremely exciting and perhaps profound piece of literature to be released in the near future. The article is tentatively titled “In a Web 2.0 State of Mind: optimizing time, energy and resources in a consumer-generated content world.” In the article, we discuss the overbearing influence Web 2.0 can have on the user: 1) the difficulty and confusion from various layouts and designs of various Web 2.0 platforms 2) the all-consuming nature of having various platforms to cater to that often creates an inability to properly access and optimize the user’s talents and time according to business and personal needs. We then apply the Theory of Multiple Intelligence postulated by Dr. Howard Gardner of Harvard University, a theory that is quite renowned in the field of education, and apply it to the world of Web 2.0, which in many ways is the most profound ground in education online. Our findings and implications are meant to help users gain a stronger understanding of themselves, their needs and their relationship within the Web 2.0 world so that they can utilize their only talents and needs in the consumer-generated platforms that are vastly becoming necessary tools in our lives.

Hopefully, you will enjoy the article as a means of practical knowledge for your Web 2.0 business and pleasure needs. If you would like to know more about the article, keep your eyes open for further posts on its release. We also invite any suggestions on the various medias we should target the article for as we are currently exploring publishing options.