Originally posted on my old blog.

I just got back from a Community Next conference at Level 3. I got to listen to a lot of really innovative people speak and I had a chance to personally talk to people with great ideas who are on the bleeding edge of technology and the Internet.

I chatted with Aza Raskin, founder of Songza and co-founder of Humanized. Aza, a huge proponent of interface simplicity, posed some incredibly unique solutions to unnecessary complexity in various types of web interfaces. Mozilla acquired Humanized recently and Aza told me he works next to Firefox developers and expects to potentially influence some big changes in Firefox’s interface.

I also got a chance to talk with Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit (and drawer of the alien). I asked Alexis what types of problems the Reddit team has been thinking of in order to help users sift through the enormous variety of content of the website. Alexis said they have tried a lot of things but told me to be on the lookout for big changes to Reddit at the beginning of this summer that may combat this problem.

I took a bus back and on the way we passed hundreds of zombies walking down the sidewalk of Sunset Boulevard. Some of them banged on the windows of our bus. They did not eat any of our brains.