The Future of Web Apps expo last week (FOWA) started and ended on a religious note.
When I arrived on Thursday morning, I was greeted by hordes of people wearing red MyChurch t-shirts. “Good morning, good morning, good morning,” each of them greeted every new arrival.
At first I thought they might be a start-up at FOWA pulling a marketing stunt. But no, MyChurch, the christian social network, already is a thriving social network with an expo of their own.
Highlights of the FOWA expo itself included Languages don’t scale by Blaine Cook and Joe Stump and Huddle’s Andy McLoughlin’s part of How to survive prosper outside Silicon Valley (fast-forward into the middle for Andy’s part).
The expo ended in the same surreal way it started, except instead of MyChurch, this time it was the cult of Diggnation. The difference was not as obvious as one might have thought.
The expo itself was good fun and the Carsonified team obviously know how to stage these events. Kudos to them.
For a more detailed recap check out Mycycle and for a report from the fringe, the new media whore blog.
