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Re: The story of the Alta Vista party at SXSW

Kenneth — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:58:20 -0000

That altavista party was the best one I went to. Free beer was good too of course! See, it does pay to stalk people on twitter (thanks laughingsquid!)

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Re: The story of the Alta Vista party at SXSW

mai-ling — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:16:14 -0000

twitter as a invite tool.
very ingenious.

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Scabr — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:39:05 -0000

quick wit + t wit ter = win!

Re: The story of the Alta Vista party at SXSW

Derrick — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:59:43 -0000

Well I still use Altavista for their translation tools.

Re: The story of the Alta Vista party at SXSW

SearchEngines — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:47:28 -0000

The sad tale of AltaVista is one that every startup should study.

Great technology for its day - but short sighted people who never saw the potential of search.

Wonder how much politics and egos had to do with their decline.

Ironically, brin and page were encouraged to invent Google because they discovered that one could use the LINK: operator in Altavista.

It was bizarre when the man who oversaw AltaVista's decline was hired by Yahoo - who also declined in search share

Re: The story of the Alta Vista party at SXSW

bobwyman — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:44:08 -0000

A "footnote in history"? Robert, that's a bit harsh. Couldn't you have gone with something like "a now largely forgotten *chapter* in history"?

How soon we forget even the roots of Altavista -- which grew out of DEC ("Digital Equipment Corporation") once the second largest computer company in the world but now also largely forgotten.

bob wyman

Re: The story of the Alta Vista party at SXSW

Enkerli — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:37:49 -0000

The Austin Zealots brewclub was also at GM that night. But they went in the front because of all the bird droppings. When locals tell you not to sit under a tree, it's a sign...
(The tweets convinced me to go to GM but I hung out with the brewcrowd. Still got a chance to chat with Merlin Mann.)

Re: The story of the Alta Vista party at SXSW

David — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:49:37 -0000

sounds like SXSW is overexposed and tired...

Re: The story of the Alta Vista party at SXSW

Gib — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:26:33 -0000

Very funny!

I love how this sort of proves that social media competes with search engines!

When people are looking for something to DO - social media connects trusted sources of information (a Tweet from a friend/follows) that tromps any monolithic algorhythm of Page Ranking (the party list).

The social aspect of Twitter (friends tweeting friends) meant probably that the coolest people arrived earliest -- which is an in real life example of the social filter beating out Google's policies (represented by the bouncer/list keeprr).

Best,

Gib

PS: AltaVista is always on my list for Babelfish, which seems slightly better at translation than Google's tools.

PS2: relegate is a great word.

Re: The story of the Alta Vista party at SXSW

Thomas — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:33:44 -0000

Ha is that Johannes in that picture?

sigh for snowy Toronto. sxsw sounds like a blast this year.

Re: The story of the Alta Vista party at SXSW

Chris R — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:18:48 -0000

Parties initiated by a Twitter invitation should be the new norm.

Re: The story of the Alta Vista party at SXSW

Mike D — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:27:40 -0000

I love the hand written Alta Vista Party sign on this photo:
http://flickr.com/photos/la...

Re: The story of the Alta Vista party at SXSW

Hanan Cohen — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:05:49 -0000

A sad moment indeed. The need to explain "Alta Vista".