[BNM] Brighton the next Silicon Valley?

[Raj Anand]

Hi Dave,

Barcamp was very nice. Some very good presentations/presenters. Many
pictures and slideshows are available on Flickr and
slideshare.net<http://www.slideshare.net>(tag: barcamplondon2)

I must admit I missed some points in my blog (about Brighton). Actually
these points I came up with, were just my initial thoughts.


It will be great if you could post your earlier comment to the Blog
www.kwiqq.com/blog/ , would be a nice read.


Raj

P.S.: Just heard someone saying at BasecampLondon:  Second Life is looking
for office space in Brighton :)

On 2/19/07, Dave Phelan <dave.phelan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Raj,
>
> On 2/18/07, Raj Anand <rajeshwar.anand at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Just returned from BarCampLondon2. Just thought this blog entry might
> tickle
> > you. I'm very keen to hear your feedback on this.
> > Brighton the next Silicon Valley ? <http://kwiqq.com/blog/?p=21>
>
> Well, it's been said before, though I think I frame it as Brighton
> being the closest thing the UK has to San Francisco, rather than the
> Valley. The Valley is a flat souless plan of former fruit-farms turned
> into office real estate. You want that for Brighton?
>
> You could have actually linked to the piertopier.net website for your
> quote about the Wifi on the beach, or the guardian article. But we
> prefer quoting the Wired piece, or the blog listing the beach as one
> of the 10 best with Wifi in the world:
> http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72371-0.html?tw=rss.index
>
> http://www.geekabout.com/2007-01-18-78/top-10-beaches-with-wifi-internet%20-access.html
> And then there's Looseconnection, who unwire up some of the best
> drinking establishments.
>
> To my mind, you're missing some important factors though, in your
> comparison.
> a) a cosmopolitan, creative, artsy, source of talent
> b) a young population (willing to work for peanuts^H^H^H^H^stock options)
> c) a thriving gay community
> d) people willing to bootstrap stuff for free (man), aka 'the aging hippy
> ethic'
>
> Good luck convincing Silicon Glen, Silicon Fen, and the M4 Corridor
> (did they ever get a catchy silicon name?) that Brighton's the next
> Silicon Valley though. Kinda reminds me of Al Gore's best joke. "Hi,
> I'm Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United
> States".
>
> Barcamp any good then?
>
> Dave Ph
>
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