The Future of Web Apps
October 31st, 2006
Written By: Adam Sussman
This morning I came across Carson Workshops and it appears they recently had a two days Summit with some big name speakers such as Kevin Rose of Digg, Matt Mullenweg of Wordpress, Cal Henderson of Flickr and many more.
While poking around the site, I came across all their presentations in MP3 and PDF format. It was interesting hearing how Digg was started with a programmer from Elance who charged only $10 an hour, 20 hours of work for a total of $2,000 for the site development.
Not a bad return considering Kevin Rose made $60 Million in 18 Months off this site.
There are BILLIONS of websites yet these guys created something from nothing and are becoming household names. Below are 7 speakers I think are worth hearing, but check the site if you want to hear them all.
- Kevin Rose, Digg
- Mike Arrington, TechCrunch
- Tantek Celik, Technorati
- Matt Mullenweg, Wordpress
- Cal Henderson, Flickr
- Steve Olechowski, Feedburner
- Ryan Carson, DropSend
October 31st, 2006 13:14
Sweet!
Thanks for sharing.
November 1st, 2006 20:51
20 hours at $10… or 200? 200 seems more realistic for the site. Still very interesting to see.
November 1st, 2006 23:02
Kent, Good catch. Kevin Rose said the programmer charged him $10 an hour for 20 hours, but I thought he said during his presentation the total cost was 2k. Perhaps I got that wrong. Here is the bit where he talks about the cost.
November 6th, 2006 09:51
As a designer, I got a great foundation of web apps, which will make it much easier to work with developers.
November 7th, 2006 05:31
I thought he said during his presentation the total cost was 2k.and I just remember this thing nothing else
May 9th, 2008 07:38
Great post. This is big name.
I’m fan of Flickr.com
Thanks for Cal Henderson
Thanks for your post.