The Mesh 2007 Conference kicked off today with a great line up of speakers and panelists. One of the great aspects of the Mesh Conference is the social interaction between speakers. Its a great environment to interact with speakers and other members of the industry.

One of the dominate themes I’m seeing at this years Mesh is the exploitation of the Long Tail. Content continues to find readers on the internet. For example Cynthia Brumsfield talked an online web camera watching cheese age, and people are watching. I think this is a great example of the Long Tail. It costs almost nothing to web enable cheese aging but a certain percentage of the population will watch and it can be monetized.

I think we’ll see more example of this going forward and there are niches developing that represent significant opportunities. For example this year’s Mesh also featured a Charity 2.0 presentation and Women 2.0 presence. Niches are hot right now and its becoming cheaper to connect people across geography that have a common interest or goal.