Finally, FOWA 2007 was finished. The first thing I've learned is attending 2 of full-day seminar burns you life energy. The second one is carrying 2.2kg iBook (with other gears) is painful, I'm considering of iPhone now.

(FYI, 85% of laptops in FOWA have the shining apple logo on them, even Kevin Rose just asking in London-live Diggnation: "Is this MacWorld?")

For a poor, home-away, self-funded student as me, FOWA is expensive. I spent around 200 pounds for entrance fee and transporation (train from Sheffield + Underground 7-day pass). I can live for a month by this amount of money!!! Anyway, I think it's worth.

Beyond taking photo with Web 2.0 celebs, I listened to their behind-the-scene of success: how to be a good start-up, how to run the community, how to scale-up when your site rapidly grows and so on. If you have analysis instinct in your blood, you can extract the 2008-2009 web trends from these sessions as well.

The most important lesson from FOWA is "running internet startup in Thailand is hopeless". I'm very confident that Thai IT people are competitive. (Although many said the quality of our CS student is crap but I still know many cool guys.) The actual problem is ecosystem for these guys and their start-up business. Thai VCs are long gone to hell and key factors are not money but the knowledge to run a company. It seems to be over-pessimistic but it's the fact we must admit. Raising few money in Silicon Valley is many times easier.

I will summarize my experience on Blognone, including vdo clip from selected sessions such as the architecture of Facebook. Oil will do this on DuoCore too. We both spent quite a lot money for FOWA. We think this is an investment for international level know-how, not only for us but for Thai people. The money was paid and the only way to utilize it as much as possible is to spread this know-how to many people as possible.

Please keep your eye on Blognone and DuoCore. The whole story should be complete by next week.