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Obama's Google Moderator stats

The White House asked to use Google's moderator program for President Obama's town hall meeting, which garnered huge participation numbers. Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering at Google, explains to Tim O'Reilly at the Web 2.0 Expo how people were able to not only ask questions, but to vote for...

Tags: Google Inc., Obama, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, President, Barack Obama, White House, Google, Web 2.0 Expo, Moderator, questions, voters

Videos 2009-04-03

Google demos prototype of mobile Gmail app

At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Google VP of Engineering Vic Gundrota showed off the prototype of a new Web-based Gmail app that could one day be used on any smartphone. By using HTML 5 standards, he predicts, developers will no longer have to choose just one platform...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Mobile, E-mail Providers, Web 2.0, Smart Phones, Cloud Computing, Channel Management, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Web 2.0 Expo, smartphone, iPhone, HTML, developers, applications, app, Google, platform

Videos 2009-04-03

Adobe announces Flash Catalyst, Facebook connection

At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch demos a beta version of Flash Catalyst, a Web development program that allows developers to import pictures and make each shape into a Web element. Flash Catalyst also creates Flex code of these elements, letting...

Tags: Adobe, Adobe Systems Inc., applications, Channel Management, code, Developer, Facebook, Flash, Internet, Marketing, Web, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Expo, web development

Videos 2009-04-02

Web 2.0 Expo exposes Web 2.0 Bust

I think the down economy has finally bled through into tech space. When I attended my first "web conference" in San Francisco's Moscone Center, it was like a day in wonderland. Free coffee, fast wifi, and lecture halls packed with programmers, marketers, and PR people. ...

Tags: Web, Twitter, Web 2.0 Expo, Ev, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-04-02

Nokia releases 'point and find' technology

Location, location, location. At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Nokia Executive Vice President Anssi Vanjoki outlined his company's vision for the future of mobile computers based on its new map-based user interface. Vanjoki predicts that in the near future, people will no longer ask, "Where are you?" and...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Location, Web 2.0, Notebooks, Wireless And Mobility, Internet, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Nokia, Web 2.0 Expo, mobile devices, mobile computers, GPS, social locations, cell phones

Videos 2009-04-02

Palm announces WebOS platform, Mojo messaging service

At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Palm Senior Vice President of Applications and Services Michael Abbott announced an early access program of the company's new developing platform, WebOS. The new platform will run apps natively on the device and enables greater integration with cloud applications like Google and...

Tags: Palm Inc., Messaging, Messaging Service, Web 2.0, Instant Messaging, Groupware, Internet, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Palm, WebOS, Mojo, applications, platform, mobile computing, developers, Facebook, Google, Web 2.0 Expo

Videos 2009-04-02

Marc Andreessen, past and present

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape and co-author of Mosaic, sits down with John Battelle, founder and chairman of Federated Media publishing at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Andreessen talks about his current social-networking site Ning, and the impact of Facebook apps and Google's OpenSocial.

Tags: Marc Andreessen, Ning, OpenSocial, Facebook, Browser, Google, Social Networks, Web 2.0 Expo

Videos 2008-04-24

Podcast: From Web 2.0 to Enterprise 2.0

I posted a video clip of the panel on Web 2.0 in the enterprise (also known as Enterprise 2.0) I moderated the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last week. Panelists included Ross Mayfield, CEO of SocialText; Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google Enterprise; and Satish Dharmaraj,...

Tags: Web Technology, Web 2.0 Expo, Software Infrastructure, Social networking, Search, SaaS, Podcasts, Open Source, Office 2.0, General

Blog posts 2007-04-27

Web 2.0 for the enterprise: Wisdom of the employess

At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, I moderated a panel on Web 2.0 in the enterprise (also known as Enterprise 2.0) with Ross Mayfield, CEO of SocialText; Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google Enterprise; and Satish Dharmaraj, CEO of Zimbra. We discussed the impact of wikis, Web...

Tags: Web Technology, Web 2.0 Expo, Social networking, SaaS, IT Management, General, Enterprise 2.0

Blog posts 2007-04-20

Web 2.0 Expo: Top 5 picks

Webwares Rafe Needleman, Josh Lowensohn and Erica Ogg scoured the isles at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco this week and selected their Top 5 products and services: Tellme, Octopz, Dapper, Coghead and Spock. Watch to video to find out why.

Tags: Web Technology, Web 2.0 Expo, Social networking, Search, Personal Technology, Mobile, General

Blog posts 2007-04-19

Google presentation app on the way

In an interview with John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Expo today, Google CEO announced that a presentation application that is part of the Google Docs and Spreadsheets is forthcoming, completing the basic "Office" suite."We dont think its a competitor to Microsoft Office," Schmidt said. "Its casual and sharing and...

Tags: YouTube, Web Technology, Web 2.0 Expo, Microsoft, Google, General

Blog posts 2007-04-17

Swivel launches a YouTube for data and charts

Swivel doesnt mention the term "data visualization" in explaining what it does. Instead the company speaks about "exploring all the worlds data and making it fun and insightful for everyone." As an example, Swivel announced that The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD is making its 2007 OECD...

Tags: Web Technology, Web 2.0 Expo, General

Blog posts 2007-04-17

Tim O'Reilly: We are becoming part of the machine

Tim OReilly opened the keynote phase of the Web 2.0 Expo describing the Web 2.0 philosophy: "Its about building the global computing network and harnessing all the collective intelligence of all the people who are connected....We are talking about persistent computing in which we are becoming part of a great...

Tags: Web Technology, Web 2.0 Expo, General

Blog posts 2007-04-16

Web 2.0 Expo notes for Monday

Its been a pretty action-packed day here at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco between a full slate of sessions and a number of briefings with companies who are announcing interesting new or improved products and services here at the event. One of the trends I see is that there...

Tags: Web Apps, Web 2.0 Expo, Software, Productivity

Blog posts 2007-04-16

Web 2.0 Expo: Amazon's S3 passes 5 billion objects stored

Speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezo shared the growth numbers for S3, the companys on demand storage service. In July of 2006, S3 held 800,000 million objects. Today the number surpasses 5 billion. The best day was 920,847,345 objects added and the peak second is ...

Tags: Web 2.0 Expo, SaaS, General, Amazon

Blog posts 2007-04-16

Web 2.0 Expo: WebEx Connect seeks developers

Last year WebEx launched WebEx Connect, an on demand development platform for collaborative, composite mashup applications. At the Web 2.0 Expo, the company announced Connect Developer Network that includes tools, community resources and marketing programs for participants. WebEx claims that its distribution, integration and monetization platform will...

Tags: Web Technology, Web 2.0 Expo, Salesforce.com, SaaS, IT Management, General, Enterprise 2.0

Blog posts 2007-04-16

LeapTag - a new way to find online content

Ive been test driving LeapTag, a new browser add-on for finding content related to topics of interest to you that combines a number of unique ideas Ive not seen in similar tools. LeapTag, as the name implies, uses tags you define to conduct searches for related content. To help...

Tags: Windows, Web Apps, Web 2.0 Expo, Utilities and Add-Ins, Mac

Blog posts 2007-04-16

Web 2.0 Expo: Changing the face of the desktop

One of the byproducts of the latest incarnation of Web 2.0 is the marginalization of operating systems. Personalized home pages, such as Google, Live.com, MyYahoo, Pageflakes and Netvibes; browser-based, rich Internet applications such as Zoho and ThinkFree; thousands of widgets, such as the Flash-based yourminis; even faux desktops such...

Tags: Web Technology, Office 2.0, Web 2.0 Expo, General

Blog posts 2007-04-15

Spock's alpha people network

One of the debutantes at the Web 2.0 Expo this week is Spock. While the name was acquired from the now defunct Dr. Spock Web effort, this Spock is about finding people, not health and babies...or Star Trek. Mike Arrington Techcrunch, Rafe Needleman Webware and Tim OReilly have covered it...

Tags: Web Technology, Web 2.0 Expo, Search, General

Blog posts 2007-04-14

Coming up: Web 2.0 Expo

Next week at Moscone Center West in San Francisco, a crowd of 7,000 to 10,000 people will congregate for the Web 2.0 Expo. It is both a conference and product expo, including interviews with Jeff Bezos Amazon, Eric Schmidt Google and Jeff Weiner Yahoo as well as numerous panels covering...

Tags: Web Technology, Web 2.0 Expo, General

Blog posts 2007-04-13