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Lovely day out last Thursday with Robert Loch’s ‘internet people’ group. I have no idea how I came to be invited. Normally, my lot is a bit more ‘meeja’, but it was great to get out to meet some entrepreneurs actually ‘doing the do’. The day started at the Boat, Coq D’argent, the East Rooms on Tabernacle St., where As I make my way down Cannon Street, I feel like death warmed up. I’ve had a bad cold for three or four days, and I’ve used the magical power of cigarettes to develop a simultaneous cough of room-shaking proportions. I’m off to see Julie Meyer at Ariadne Capital. Julie is perhaps best-known as the co-founder of I have been lucky enough to interview Paul Graham, partner at venture firm Y Combinator and author of Hackers and Painters, about Web 2.0 and some of the business issues it has provoked. Paul has an interesting take on who is going to be powerful in coming years: “A hacker with design sense is The signs of Web 2.0 are clear. Look for some aspect of community collaboration, of user-generated content, of the ability to customise the content, of a desktop-like application experience. But why exactly should we care? In the words of a BusinessWeek headline on June 5, 2006, why is that “Web 2.0 Has Corporate America Spinningâ€? Users benefit |             | |||
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