Web 2.0 comes to Toronto
Everyone’s talking about it (well all the people in a particular geeky subset), there’s going to be a web 2.0 conference here in Toronto in early May.
We share a common fascination and enthusiasm for what’s happening now on the Web and in blogging, and are eager to find a way to showcase Toronto and bring smart, interested people here from elsewhere to join our community for what we hope will be a rousing and stimulating exploration of Web 2.0.
I’ll be very interested to see how this plan pans out. There has been a lot of talk recently (here and here for example) about Toronto being off the curve when it comes to all this 2.0 stuff, events like this can only help.
Personally I have a feeling that Toronto’s, and in general Canada’s, lack of prominence in the ‘web 2.0′ world is not because there aren’t cool people here doing cool things, it’s just because we don’t make so much noise about it (for better or worse, probably both in fact). Reminds me of a discussion I heard about art, that there’s an implicit assumption that art out of New York is better and more important just because of where it’s from. There seems to be almost the reverse syndrome for tech stuff in Toronto, and maybe that’s not all bad.