Irwin Lazar's "Real-Time" Blog

You Choose the Sessions at Enterprise 2.0!

This year's Enterprise 2.0 conference is trying something different this year, building the program via a social network.

They've created a survey on their web site where you can review session proposals and vote for the ones you'd like to see on the program.  You can also discuss the program and the event on the Facebook group.

Just more evidence that humankind is bored

Cheesburger in a can

Underwhelmed by Apple

Obviously nobody expected Apple to be able to top last year's MacWorld when it unveiled the iPhone, but I'm less than excited about what I heard coming out of this year's event.  Looking at them one at a time:

• A new WiFi base-station with a built in hard-drive for Time Machine backups for laptops.  OK, this is a great idea, though the tech savvy probably already have a server for home backups
• iMovie downloads - with price points of $3-5 per movie, plus restrictive viewing policies (30 days to watch, must finish watching within 24 hours of starting) I don't think this will sell compared to either NetFlix/Blockbuster type services, or PPVs.  If you have a TiVo, you can get a PPV for about the same price and watch it whenever you want.
• Revamped AppleTV - the price point is still $229, which is pretty high if they want to use this to spur iMovie.  Why not give it away, or price it far lower as a loss leader?
• MacBook Air - this is getting all the buzz, but I don't see why I would buy this versus a 15" MacBook Pro.  Sure it's lighter and thinner, but the performance/storage/ports are lacking compared with the Pro.  I'm not sure of the target market for this, it was obvious the MacBook was aimed at the college crowd, and it's been a huge success.  But who is the buyer for the Air?

I guess we'll have to wait a few more weeks/months for the 3G iPhone, but Apple did note that they've sold 4 million iPhones so far, which is phenomenal.

Don't get me wrong, the iMac I recently bought is the best computer I've ever used bar none, but I didn't see anything today to get excited about.