Web 2.0 Expo in NYC

A few weeks ago, part of the txtful team got to go to the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC. We had a great time and learned a lot from so many people who were eager to share and help others. So in that spirit of sharing here are a couple of my takeaways from the conference.

One thing that I learned is that users really want to talk to each other, and every website needs to give them a place to do it. We plan on adding features on the site around individual shortcuts where you can go beyond rating and talk about anything relating to that shortcut that you want to.

Another lesson was to create more value than you take. This was from a great keynote given by Tim O'Reilly that you can watch here. We definitely agree with Tim here and have always felt that txtful could be a great and affordable way for charities and non-profits to connect with their users as well as bring the power of the web to people who don't even have regular access to the internet. So we're expanding our efforts to work with organizations to bring some new shortcuts on this theme. Keep an eye on the blog and we'll showcase them here.

We learned plenty of other things as well, and we'll be making changes to our site in the coming weeks to reflect that and which we hope will make txtful even better for you guys.