For the latest news use the Wiki and the Insytes Blog. This site will be updated with more info over the next few days as we figure out exactly what it is. There has been some great coverage across the blogosphere from some of the great people that attended the event. Not only did Jeff Jarvis attend, he said the coolest thing he saw at Web 2.0 was at our event when Adam Kalsey of Pheedo fame demoed Tagyu A great overview of who presented can be found on Laughing Squid and will soon be added to the Wiki as the site evolves.

For the sake of explanation, I am leaving the event details below so that it might explain what we did, but check out the other voices for more info on what happened. Enric posted some nice video of the event, there are a lot of cool photos on Flickr from LaughingSquid, Tara and others.

My personal event wrap-up is posted at Chris' Insytes

bloggers, business people, developers, entrepreneurs, podcasters, creators of media, and anyone who is interested in creating or benefitting from the next wave of Internet technolgies often referred to as Web 2.0

A half day unConference and networking event for discussing what Web 2.0 is, what it's missing and what we want from Web 2.1

A BrainJam is a new type of event (inspired by BarCamp, Gnomedex, TechCrunch BBQ and WebZine2005) that brings people from diverse backgrounds together to focus on a few key questions, sharing knowledge, collaborating, solving problems, demonstrating cool tools, networking and hopefully making the world a better place while having fun. You only need to bring your mind, your past experience, some new Insytes and something for note taking. The event coordinators supply you with a general direction for the conversation, WiFi access, some collaboration tools and an opportunity to create magic.

At this point, with less then a week to go, we really need your help. Not only do we need people to register right away so we can make sure the venue can accomodate us, but we need volunteers to help with a lot of different things. To understand our situation better, it would be great if you could take a moment and read more about the idea.

Friday October 7, 2005
1:00 - 5:00 PM
KRON Studio 2
1001 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94109

After Party 5:30-7:30 PM
Cafe Royale

Stay abreast of the event details and see who else is attending (add your name if you have not yet) on the Web2.1 Wiki

Web 2.0 may mean many things to many people, but one thing is fairly certain - it is about people first and foremost. It is a time where the "release early and often" mantra is taking root across the technology landscape. It is a time where businesses are launched with less money then a dotcom boom press party. It is a time where the Cluetrain's proclamation that "markets are conversations" has been proven true and worthy of focus from all levels of an organization. It is a time where the 'garage' is often a corner of the bedroom or home office connected to collaborators from every corner of the globe. We feel it is also a time where we can all join together to discuss what we want from our tools, demonstrate what we are building and contribute our perspective to each other's passions.

BrainJams are a new type of networking event based on the open source principles of sharing knowledge, solving problems, making friends and having fun doing it. We are still working to identify characteristics of these types of events, but feel it is sort of a mashup between a conference, an open source project and a networking event. Over at the BrainJams wiki, we are just beginning to discuss the potential of such events, gather best practices and define what we want them to be through the BrainJams wiki. "Web 2.1: A BrainJam for the rest of us" is an event that will apply the principles of BrainJamming to the general discussion on Web 2.0, what it's missing and what we want from Web 2.1

OK, so why are we doing this now, with less then a week to go before the event? We believe that the ability of a person to add value to a conversation has little to do with their ability to pay $3,000. As is the case with most people who want to participate in the conversation about Web 2.0 and Web 2.1, we dont have the money to attend that other conference. So instead we figured we would just hold our own.