Web 2.0 Conference offers collaboration lessons

Sept. 3 marked the kick-off of the third annual Office 2.0 conference at San Francisco's St. Regis hotel. The event focused heavily on using collaborative Web technologies to increase productivity gains and business agility. While many talks were broad overviews, some highlights included a spirited discussion of UI design and the business lessons learned by GE as it built an internal social network.

The first day of Office 2.0 was an un-conference with dynamically designed sessions focused on audience participation. Steve Bristol, co-founder of lesseverything.com, lead a talk on UI design that discussed everything from Apple to speech-based operating interfaces. Lesseverything.com is a Ruby on Rails consulting firm, but Bristol is likely better known for his accounting program, Less Accounting. He said that developing that application showed him just how much more complex the back end of software can become when the user interface is simplified heavily.

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