BarCamp Dallas III turnout was great. There were a lot of good sessions covering interesting topics. I was able to have very good conversations about emerging technology trends and to exchange ideas with local entrepreneurs.

Erica and Caleb showed great leadership and excellent organization.

Giovanni Gallucci did an excellent job covering the event in audio, video and pictures.

Special thanks to all the people who attended the event and to Microsoft for letting us use their Las Colinas building.

See you at BarCamp Dallas

When: 3rd Weekend in January (2007) – Jan 20th – 21st

Where: The 4th floor at the Microsoft Las Colinas Campus.

Everybody in IT wants to build the next big thing but in reality it’s almost impossible. Especially for small firms that don’t have plethora of resources.

If you are a web entrepreneur, you know that driving traffic to your website is very vital to its survival. But how do you generate traffic?

The most effective way (in my opinion) is to encourage users to contribute content to your website and then to do some SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to enhance the visibility of this content. Thus driving more users to your website by exposing the content to search engines.

But isn’t that the same “egg and chicken” story? we need users to get content and we need content to get users….

Getting the content

Jim Young and I have been always thinking about ways to collaborate by integrating Data and services between Jambo and TagMyCity. We decided to focus our efforts on creating the next small thing and then integrate with other websites to form the next big thing.

This picture got much bigger when I met with Christopher St. John

Christopher had a much bigger goal… his goal was to create a standard license to govern and facilitate information sharing via RSS and Microformats.

The idea is great because it will allow people to utilize shared content by using a simple technology (RSS + Microformats) and by following a standard public license.

We don’t have a clear vision on how this license should be, but we are inviting everybody to participate by editing the wiki.