I’ve been swamped even more than usual this week, so I haven’t been able to mention the VertigoCon gathering held Monday on the heels of Vloggercon. Some 45 developers and figures in the grassroots media movement showed up at the San Francisco State University Downtown Center for a combined meeting of Video Vertigo and the Open Media Coaliton to discuss interoperability — how to share tags, comments, media, etc., more easily between independent media sites.
We sketched out a fair-sized list of open APIs that can be shared across sites — a list that needs to grow considerably over the coming months. Here’s Mike Hudack of Blip talking about idenity, one of the subjects tackled during the afternoon by the 40 guys and four women who turned out.
Check out my Flickr page for a few photos from the gathering. More on the Open Media Coalition in a bit.
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
It was such a great experience being in the room with all these brilliant people. I am so glad I took part.
I am encouraged by the dialog that is continuing after the conference. We can have a smart common layer of interoperability one day that serves the users instead of the big companies.
It was great to meet you at Vloggercon JD.