A presentation I gave about Six Apart's work for the O'Reilly Open Source conference in 2006

1. Trying to Suck Less Making Web 2.0 Mean Something

2. Anil Dash (lousy coder)

3. Blogs!

5. Connect with the people you care about.

6. Hooray Blogs!

7. Cute Overload Cat Pictures 2.0

9. Influencing Mainstream Media

13. Niche Communities

15. (Helping Furries Get Married)

16. (Helping Anybody Get Connected)

17. Web 2.0!

20. It’s great stuff.

21. Blogs don’t suck. (Mostly.) Web 2.0 doesn’t suck. (Mostly.)

22. Getting Carried Away

23. “ We’re the fourth most popular mobile application for tagging podcasts!” (Digg This!)

24. http://www.hat.evr

26. Who would want to use this?

27. Is it making my life better?

28. This sucks!

29. Sucks = Could Be Great

30. Uh oh! You succeed in your plan, and nobody’s any happier .

31. Uh oh! You build something great, but you have to shut it down .

32. Sucks = Doesn’t Scale

34. Profit! (Any way that you want to.)

35. Profit! (So you can scale.)

36. But wait, it gets worse!

38. They’re not open!

39. Even many sites that don’t suck aren’t open .

40. It’s not a witch hunt.

41. Not Just Table Scraps

43. It’s still worth trying.

44. Making lives better!

45. What’s It Take To Build This Stuff?

46. Requisite LAMP Stack Slide!

47. Perl gods: We’re Hiring!

48. Yay, LAMP!

49. Uh oh, LAMP.

53. The Platform Perlbal Memcached MogileFS Djabberd

55. Real Scaling!

59. OMG FILES! M O G I L E F S !

61. Perlbal Memcached MogileFS Djabberd

63. We build on this.

64. Extracted from real working apps.

65. Web 2.0's greatest hits are built on this.

67. So What Does Web 2.0 Mean? It’s open. It doesn’t suck.

68. Go get it: http://developer.sixapart.com

69. Now go build something that doesn’t suck.

70. Thank You!

71. See our sessions: Stump the Band: 1:45pm, E142 Plagger: 2:35pm, Portland 256 Data::ObjectDriver: 11:35am Thursday, Portland 256 LiveJournal’s Secret Spinoffs: 11:35am Friday, F150