Struggling to write more positive posts, but mind been distracted elsewhere. Consultant work has been dominating my life more than I want to, which has left me little time to explore what’s out there.  A little late, but discovering the joys of facebook, a far superior myspace alternative.  What I like about facebook is it has a better focus. I count myself as extremely web and technically savvy, but found myspace mostly annoying. I like the play the dumb user on the web, as that is how a site should operate – coaxing, nudging and informing me - I dont want to think, I do that at work! I am losing track slightly of web 2.0, but it is my nature to think “yes, thats interesting, but what next??”.  Social bookmarking seemed to start it all (happy to be corrected on that), though of course youtube was largely responsible for a mass acceptance (also happy to be corrected on that :)).Â
 In my early exploratory exercises in the late 90’s, using opens source LAMP applications, all these web 2.0 web applications existed back then, but the general web community was still in a pretty “static” state. As I have said many times - hindsight is a wonderful thing, now all i need is to build that time machine. I have accepted at this moment in time, my time is not here yet. My early attempts at video streaming/sharing venture in 2004, fell short at last post of funding. I found the fascinating trustedplaces post $1 Million in 83 days, a summary of their hunt for funding for the web 2.0 venture.  As well as inspiring I am sure to many, it also made me realise my mistakes back then.Â
 Am I just waiting for my new idea, or just hesitant of sinking my time and passion into something else? Well, I have a baby daughter now, who I want to ultimately inspire, so I am sure the ideas are sitting in my head somewhere.Â