Software and the smell of coffee
by Paul Miller
While Kirsten and the gang are checking out the prospects for software in India, I'm back where it all began in San Francisco and finding that the next wave of internet innovation is building up to full force.
I'm blogging this from Ritual Coffee Roasters in the Mission district which has become something of a hub for people working on so-called Web 2.0 software. As well as smelling of really good coffee, I think this place might have the highest concentration of Apple hardware on the planet.
Check out this Wired article for more of the buzz.
There's so much hype around Web 2.0 that it's sporned a parody site aiming to burst the bubble before it's even formed. They've got their launch party tonight - organised, as it happens, using social software.