Reflections on DEMOfall 2006

This is likely my final post on DEMOfall.  (I know that's probably a relief after the 20 or so posts on the conference in the past few days.)

Paul Kedrosky comments that he found this DEMO rather light. I don't entirely disagree. Certainly there were no "Oh wow!" moments for me.  The closest was probably Moixa Energy with their USB rechargeable batteries.  But overall I thought there were more singles and doubles than homers. 

The one company that jumped out at me for its home run potential was Wallop.  Their flash-based competitor to MySpace seems to have real potential. 

And as one of the journalists pointed out in the wrap-up panel (I confess I forget which one), Wallop really shows the power of Flash applications generally.  More on that in another post.

So was it light?  Yes, I'd probably agree.  But I still find DEMO to be one of the few conferences worth checking out regularly. It's refreshingly light on pontification and sponsor pitches.  It packs a lot of learning into a small window of time.

Tags: DEMOfall, DEMO, Wallop, Moixa Energy, Paul Kedrosky