Chris Dessi - Vice President zanox, Inc

I hope my web2.0 Expo overview was helpful and gave you some idea of the exciting things occurring in our industry. I'll post more in the coming days - in the interim - Here are more url's that you may already know - but I want to share including some top bloggers and resources:

www.visualcomplexity.com
www.many-eyes.com - take a look at the word most often used in John McCain's acceptance speech with the visualization chart
www.instantaction.com - owned by IAC
www.nowisgone.com
www.rapleaf.com
www.buddymedia.com
www.rocketon.com
www.smeet.com - Berlin based
www.etsy.com - great business model
www.diggnation.com
www.bringtheloveback.com
www.wearesmarter.org - great message
www.failblog.org - funny stuff
www.icanhascheesbuger.com - more funny stuff
www.drop.io - coolest stuff
www.deborahschultz.com - blogger
www.thisisgoingtobebig.com - blogger and founder www.path101.com
www.socialmediaclub.org
www.briansolis.com

Last week New York City’s Jacob Javits center played host to Web 2.0 Expo and I was lucky enough to attend. It was a rare opportunity to have extended exposure to software developers, VC’s and other great minds shaping the internet today. The speakers included a wide range of talented people - from Arianna Huffington of the Huffington post, to Anthropologists that spoke about how the internet is affecting the world we live in, as well as nations that don’t have the internet yet (apparently in Malaysia they burn paper laptops so the dead can use them in the afterlife). The daily schedule of topics was a wish list of what’s cool right now. Once the week was complete I was floored by the sheer volume of notes I took during each session. Main themes that were heard often throughout the entire conference:

1. Companies need to pay attention to their customers more
2. The next big theme online is going to be “unplugging” from the internet – Meetup.com was seen as a leader – moving people away from computers and into the real world (Akoha from Techcrunch50 was cited as well.)
3. Digg, Twitter, and facebook are on everyone’s lips. This should help us with our Marketing and PR decisions in the future –
4. Top German company presence – Smeet.com, Berlin Partner, and of course zanox, Inc.