The Real McCrea

The Data Sharing Workshop is getting into gear this morning at SFSU. About 50 people in the room, representing a wide variety of companies and technolgies. Kickoff speakers have included folks from Google, Microsoft, Plaxo, and SixApart.

Here’s a video of Joseph Smarr of Plaxo trying to frame the key problems that might be worked on:

And here’s a picture including three “share bears” (Chris Saad, David Recordon, and Joseph Smarr, plus Kevin Marks of Google):

UPDATE:

Here’s a nice shot from Marc Canter’s fiery kickoff talk: