Yesterday, I was invited to hold a presentation at the Berlin Open ‘09 Open Source event. This was related to earlier activities, such as the Open Source Yearbook published by professor Berndt Lutterbeck of the Technical University of Berlin. Professor Lutterbeck was also the main organiser behind Berlin Open.

After some, ehh, logistic challenges (a scenic detour over Alexandersplatz), I got to the Marshall House at Messe Berlin and met with the hosts. A well organised event, with lots of twitterings under http://twitter.com/berlinopen, and plenty of good presentations.

My presentation was on the architectures of social networking using MySQL and myself as examples. I started by making some of my favourite points:

1. Easy wins (by walk-over) are still available for those who mirror their goals and activities into Web 2.0
2. This goes for companies, Open Source projects, developers, researchers, investors, anyone
3. The risk of a disadvantageous Internet presence isn’t mitigated by absence (as the description is then left to others, with their own interests and disinterests)
4. Too much theory at the beginning of such a new phenomenon (as Web 2.0) isn’t beneficial, as it scares us away from Just Doing It — but a too unsystematic approach isn’t good either (so go maintain a decent profile on  Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Slideshare & Co)

I have uploaded the 60-slide presentation (which is partly in German) onto my Slideshare account, which you can access through http://kaj.arno.fi/slideshare. This specific presentation is available at http://www.slideshare.net/kajarno/berlin-open-09-architekturen-sozialer-netzwerke-fallbeispiel-mysql and through clicking on the below picture.

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