Overheard at the NY Tech Meetup

“Metadata is what you know. Data is what you’re looking for.”
-David Weinberger, author, Everything is Miscellaneous

“The Facebook guys are betting that the next fad or fun thing will be built on Facebook, not the internet.”
-James Hong, co-founder, Hot or Not

“I’ve been writing a blog comparing web 2.0 to hip-hop. The five elements of web 2.0 vs. the five elements of hip-hop. You know about the five elements of hip-hop, right? There’s breakdancing, DJing, graffiti, MCing and, um.. another one. Then there’s the five elements of web 2.0: blogging, RSS, podcasting, tagging and embedding.”
-Guy in the row in front of me

This entry was written by Sean Flannagan, posted on June 5, 2007 at 11:25 pm, filed under Curiosities, Ideas, New York. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

One Comment

  1. Steve
    Posted June 6, 2007 at 7:39 pm | Permalink

    That’s hilarious.

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