Defrag Blog

Amidst the day of endless details that make up the two weeks prior to a conference, I’ve got a phone call with Chris Shipley to discuss the sessions she’s involved with at Defrag - and I’m looking forward to it. Folks have long known Chris as one of the smartest folks in tech when it comes to startups and future trends, and she’s obviously running a great conference in DEMO (yes, I’m on the record as stating that DEMO will survive the next 4 years, while TechCrunch50 will not). I’m sure that with Chris leading the discussion, things will move in a productive direction.

The two sessions that she’s moderating are “Getting into the flow applications” and “Making the social web.”

The “flow” session has two companies demo’ing stuff (workstreamer and sxipper), and is really meant to fuel some talk about what happens when we no longer go “to” an application, but rather have apps working in our own personal flow. This is part of the much larger topic we have going at Defrag around re-imagining the metaphors that underlie email, RSS, calendars, etc.

The “social web” session was actually suggested by Kevin Marks of Google. It’s an interesting topic - and one that I think is right up Chris’ alley given some of her recent blog posts.

In any case, that’s one of the highlights of my day ahead — you see, stuff really IS happening outside of the fear and loathing in silicon valley and on wall street.

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