Web 2.0 Places

Best sushi in downtown Montreal?

My favorite Sushi place in downtown Montreal is Japonais Sushi Zenya Inc (486, Rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, Montreal) . Agree, disagree? Click on the place name and cast your vote!

Next event : NYC Conversational Marketing Summit

The conversational marketing summit is June 9-10 in New York.

An excerpt from the site to give you an idea of the scope :

To keep building our brands, we have to go where the audience has gone. And every month, more than 600 million people visit conversational media sites -foreign lands when it comes to brand marketing. Or ....are they?

• What kind of marketing works in social media?
• Which of the lessons learned from marketing in traditional media apply when the audience joins the conversation?
• Why will we pay an $80 CPM to reach women, 18-34, in Vogue, but just $3 to reach the same audience online?
• What do we make of the promised new platforms from Google, AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo?
• Are CPC networks simply harvesting the hard won brand value we've built offline?
• How does one create engagement and build brands in the context of conversational media?
• What are the online analogs to the executions we so love in magazines and television, and how do we execute them?
• Who's already doing it right, and how?

Praized will be there to cover the event and enjoy all the interesting places around...

Fred Wilson's New York perspective

We've decided to try a little experiment here. Could we assemble a list of places around an event by using a well-known person as our base criteria?

It turns out that even if "trust in peers" trumps A-List, using a proxy to derive interest works quite well (we know, we have been working on this for a while).

So we picked Fred Wilson (and his extended network) to help us choose places in NYC for our trip to the Conversational Marketing Summit. That works quite well, because he's a prolific blogger and shares a lot of places in social/conversational media. He's even using these smartlinks to refer automatically to defined concepts and we thought places would be a great addition to his collection of links. And since he has already blogged about taste neighbors, we believe he would love the concept.

Here's a few select NYC picks from blog posts (with source blog post in via link)

• Little Owl (via)
• Gramercy Tavern (via)
• Spotted Pig (via)
• Mary's fish camp (via)
• Barrio Chino (via)
• Babbo (via)

Share your favorites for other CMsummit attendees by searching, voting, commenting and tagging with cmsummit2008.