Karmængine

… was pretty good, but the case studies were like a ‘case’ of taco-bell-expulsion.

Overall I felt that the summit was great, and a lot of information was circulated to those who could stop bloody twittering for five seconds to listen.

I really don’t understand 70% of the people who attended the summit. That 70% sat through every single day with their laptops open – blogging, tweeterizing, facebooking, skyping, etc. The guy in front of me was litteraly writing Twitter stuff like “I am sitting in the GAAC summit listening to Avinash.” Well, no, you stupid twerp, you are not listening to anything, you are wasting your company’s money and using pointless antisocial media tools in order to increase the size of your ego. And by golly, you would bloody realize it if you actually WERE paying attention.

And yes, there’s me, advocating actually paying attention, meanwhile observing the person sitting in front of me instead of the actual speaker. Classic, eh?

But it really riled my nerves to see so many people who ‘live’ on web 2.0. You are all a bunch of vegetables. If you have 200 friends on facebook and spend all day telling them what you’re doing – I think you’re pathetic (and damnit NOT becaue you ‘only’ have 200 friends on Facebook!!!). If you’re spending thousands of dollars on attending a summit at Google, and your activity there is limited to describing the free food you get on the internet  - then, I think you’re worthless as a human being.

Thanks to all who created the summit. I personally got a lot of value from it, and I hope the format doesn’t change much for next year.