Web 2.0 Expo Ticket Giveaway
Web 2.0 Expo returns to San Francisco April 22-25, at Moscone West. Now in its second year, the Expo will feature nine tracks, over 100 sessions, more than 150 exhibitors, Web2Open — an “unconference” — and more. Recent additions to the lineup include keynotes from Mitchell Baker, chairman of the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corp., and Aristotle “Ari” Balogh, chief technology officer at Yahoo.
As a media partner, GigaOM is giving away tickets to the four people who can best answer the question, “How has Web 2.0 changed your daily life?” Just leave your answer in the comments section of this post, along with a valid email address. The tickets are valued at $1695 each, so make those answers good ones! The entry deadline is April 1. GigaOM readers can also get a $100 off conference registration or a free Expo Pass, simply enter the code websf08ob15.
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Web 2.0 has convinced me of the long-term viability of the browser as a platform.
Web 2.0 has given me new ways develop personally and develop a fulfilling career. It has afforded tools to work with people around the globe. Also, my interactions with people I know in the ‘real world,’ (i.e. my friends and family) are more frequent and, as a result, stronger. My connection to business associates and networks of people around the world that push me and my company to be more responsive, stronger, and better are only a click away.
From finding the best education resources (like Wikipedia), business contacts and networking (Jigsaw, Spoke.com, Facebook, and LinkedIn), business research (Survey Monkey), funding sources (Prosper.com), Charity (Kiva.org), and political affiliations (MoveOn.org), Web 2.0 has changed business models, the way we meet, the way we stay connected, the way we learn, and the way we sustain ourselves and our planet. The best part is that we’ve only just scratched the surface!
I spend all day on Twitter/Pownce and Flickr/Facebook, thank you very much.
My grandmother in India knows more about what I am doing right now than…I do. Really. I twittered recently that I changed my facebook message few days ago to “chai, emails and shower.”
A minute later, the phone rings. I am replying to emails. The caller on the other line asks me “beta, having chai?” Shook me for a second. Then I smiled. Even more so because the chai was still in the microwave. Thanks to web2.0 I can live in the future, past and present–all at once.
WordPress has yanked all the difficulty out of making something look pretty, and my blog has helped people get solar panels on their roof, from education to connecting them with installers and making solar power for people a reality, web 2.0 literally helps me make a difference.
Web 2.0 or social media in general has brought me into the social matrix. I feel like NEO, always plugged in. I can load information at the tips of my fingers, I can view whats going on with my friends, and I have become the ultimate sponge soaking in the world of blogs. All without having to swallow any pill.
Furthermore, I have connected with people I never would have met. From old friends to new relationships I have slowly been able to bring my life online with the help of creative web 2.0 entrepreneurs.
So in essence, I wake up, go to work, and open my browser to start my day with my iGoogle page which takes me to Gigaom, Techcrunch, Facebook, Mashable, Digg, and the latest youtube videos. Hence, Web 2.0 is my daily life.
Web 2.0 has made me realize the social and professional value of networking. The sheer power of connections has tingled my senses in a way no other technology ever had before. I feel connected, informed, educated, and consequently, powerful. I spend endless hours reading about and playing with tools that utilize Web 2.0 to make my daily actions more productive and enable me to influence people I don’t know or never met before. I even landed my current job through LinkedIn, which is a testament to my claim about networking power.
For someone who never imagined writing or authoring content, I have been writing my own little blog which gives me tremendous satisfaction and an outlet to reach out to the hyper-networked world. Web 2.0 has had a profound effect on my life.
Leaving my email address for the last comment: lakhanirahul_at_yahoo_dot_com
Web2.0 has made my computing dependency easier. I don’t have to install unnecessary software on my laptop; I can use computer as a place to manage my routine e.g. using services from basecamp.Overall for me now(because of web 2.0) Internet is a big server where I can login from any place at anytime..no need to carry anything physically with me.
I don’t know what I’d be doing for a living without web 2.0 services: market watch thanks to RSS and Netvibes, find business contacts with LinkedIn, Communicate with Gmail & Facebook, Share business files with Box.net, Network with Twitter.
There used to be any alternative to this?
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