Rebooted

If last year’s Reboot conference in Copenhagen tacitly found inspiration in Skype, del.icio.us and Flickr this year’s was all about myspace. Two topics hit home: the internet will be finally social; and none of us at the conference may be young enough to belong there.

Ontology – a strong meme last year – is now old news since the question that the web lives to answer isn’t what, where, when or how but who. Who are you? Who am I? Who do you know? Who am I like? and, most importantly perhaps, who do I belong with?

The official theme this year was ‘renaissance?’, and a fair few of the speakers tried to contrive their talks around the subject.

But, as the conference went on, I got the sense that something or someone was missing. Where were the under-18s – the most prolific sharers on the web? The ones who do it simply because everyone else they share with is sharing too? Maybe they don’t come to conferences, maybe they only live in myspace.

In every way, though, it was an exhilarating couple of days and I’ll be writing up and posting the talk notes I made (and, no doubt, more random thoughts that came to me) shortly.

Tags: copenhagen, myspace, reboot