The top 5 things about attending the Web2.0 conference

1. Networking
2. More networking
3. Inspiration 
4. Getting up to date with the development around the world
5. The parties!

Time to go again. I am attending the Web2.0 Expo in New York together with my colleague and co-blogger Mr. Roy Lindemann. If you want to meet any of us for a chat, please get in touch!

Today I arrived in San Francisco. The whether is nice and I’m looking forward to spend the week in the Bay Area. There will be 4 days of conferencing and networking among others active in the area of innovative web development. Apart from attending the Web2.0Expo and visiting partners and customers I will try to get some time to really see the city and see what the nightlife has to offer. On Thursday I will go to the Web 2.0 Afterparty arranged by the Netvibes Team where they will launch their “Netvibes Universe”.

If you happen to be in the area and would like to have a meeting to discuss what Voice On The Web can do for you, please contact me directly at niclas@voice-corp.com.

VoiceCorp announced today, together with VocalFruits, that they launcing the rSpeak VocalFruits Information Composing System.

It is a “Web 2.0″ web application where anyone can create a podcast from any RSS source and where content owners such as bloggers can offer their audience a speaking version of their content!

The blog posts- Bang! Right into iTunes.

rSpeak VocalFruits will basically replace AudioFeed (www.audiofeedcreator.com), a not very social, but very appreciated free web service that I created about a year and a half ago.

With the new web based podcasting service, any registred user can create a podcast from any RSS feed in no time! There are also a couple of really cool features like aggregating a number of RSS feeds into one podcast or why not create a personal podcast that you can update (adding posts to) just by emailing to your personal vocalfruits email address.

In addition to the podcast RSS feed it also creates a web browser version and a mobile version ideal for mobile devices such as mobile phones and PDA’s.

In this release there will be support for US English, French and Spanish. Support for more languages (Swedish, Dutch, German, UK English and Portuguese) will be available within a month or two from what I heard. Also it will be changed so that you do not need to be a registered user to be able to listen… Anybody should be able to listen. That is key.

Check it out at www.vocalfruits.com. Stay tuned!

If you are interested in having a meeting with me for a live chat in San Francisco between the 21st and 25th of April please contact me or my office. I will be attending the Web2.0Expo conference, co-produced by the Webtech and O’Reilly Media, this year as well. More about the web2.0Expo at the conference homepage.

Last year the event was really successful. A great opportunity to network with people ranging from newbeez to gurus in the field of web 2.0.

About this web2.0 thing; I was attending the Monaco Media Forum end of last year, and there was this conference track, moderated by Dale Dougherty (who coined the expression Web2.0 in the first place), that had the title “Web3.0”. Now, what is that all about I asked myself. Obviously, most other attendees seemed to ask themselves the same thing, so the conference room was really filled up. And what was it then? Was it a new technology thing? A new Internet “behaviour” or business logic kind of thing? Well, we just have to wait and see

Niclas