Montreal 2.0 San Francisco

Marc-Antoine Ross April 14th, 2007 Add comment

I’d give a 4/10 to Air Canada today. I was very pleased that the planed pushed back from the gate a few minutes earlier than supposed, which is unusual. We unfortunately went right back to the gate: the engine’s starter blew off. After 2 hours waiting in the plane, we finally pushed back and took off. The flight attendants were nice, but didn’t offer anything to accommodate us for those 2 hours of delay.

I arrived in San Francisco and everything went very well from there. Went to check-in my room at the W, worked a bit, went shopping and ended up in the lobby of the W to work/drink/eat.

The Web 2.0 Expo is not even started and I’ve already met the folks at Netvibes: Franck, product manager, François, Developer and Tariq, CEO. I had a very interesting conversation with them. I didn’t even know Netvibes was a French company! They will be announcing Netvibes Universe on Monday. I haven’t been able to learn much about it, but it will apparently generate new revenues for the company, I’m expecting it will generate revenues for the users as well. I’ll follow-up on that after their press release. This would probably help Netvibes continue its growth, which seemed to have slowed down a bit in the last months, looking at their Alexa ranking.

Tomorrow is the workshops day. I didn’t decide which sessions I will attend yet. What do you think?