Matt Browne

The Great Twitter Debate: Is Twitter Ready for the Mainstream?

@jbruin and @mattsurfs discuss if the learning curve for twitter is too high? Is the mainstream ready for twitter as is, or do they need to make major changes to reach critical mass.

This session was inspired by Jenn’s post about the Real World Relevancy of Twitter.

I posted a quick video of the event, but you need to friend me on Viddler for access.

BarcampSD III was definitely the best Barcamp yet. All the ‘un-organizers’ did a great job putting the show together. The people were down to earth, the sessions looked valuable, and the games and contests were a riot. Truth be told, I didn’t actually make it to a session yesterday, but I plan to make up for that today.

However, I did participate in the Wii bowling tournament and kicked ass! I figured that if wore my Wii shirt, I had to represent! My efforts earned me a copy of Grand Theft Auto 4 which I gladly donated back to the group. (I love GTA, but I don’t have an Xbox to play it on.)

Dan did a great job organizing DefCamp II. DefCamp was a series of challenges that involved engineering (or hacking) your way through a gauntlet of geeky puzzles and riddles. Once you figured out the secret anagram, you then got a crypt that you had to open without destroying. I am interested to see who won.

I will be at Barcamp from 10am - 1pm, Saturday May 4th. I am doing a talk with @jbruin on “The Great Twitter Debate: Is Twitter Ready for the Masses” at 11am in the main room. I plan on posting a recording of the session if anyone is interested.

It was great to see the tech community leaders get together and strong a great event. To all the local companies that sponsored and made the effort to participate in Barcamp (especially Microsoft), you are rawking San Diego, thank you!

I didn’t think I’d ever admit this, but Microsoft is really winning me over lately with their involvement in the community. Between Lunch 2.0, BarcampSD, and some of the more positive things I’ve read about Microsoft lately, I’d say they are more than putting forth the effort that reflects the legion that they are.

Where is my Apple at? This Microsoft praise just doesn’t feel right.