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- Web 2.0 isn't dead, but Web 3.0 is bubbling up
- Nick Carr was at this best synthesizing the week that was--the Web 2.0 Summit--and he wasnt even there. I agree with other bloggers, commentators, writers, reporters, pundits, podcasters, vloggers, journalists and user generated content creators who said that the Web 2.0 Summit, which I covered extensively, didnt produce any...
- Tags: General, Web Technology, web2con, Web, Web 3.0
- Blog posts 2006-11-12
- Web 2.0 Summit, Google speed, offline synch, quad-core and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, I give my rundown on the Web 2.0 Summit, including presentations by Jeff Bezos, Ray Ozzie, Marissa Mayer and others. David give his take on Wi-Fi in airports and Microsofts Zune, and we discuss the impact of quad-cores on datacenters, Zimbras offline...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure, Hardware Infrastructure, Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Dan &, David Show, Entertainment, web2con, Office 2.0, podcast, Web 2.0 Summit
- Blog posts 2006-11-10
- Yahoo planning a 180 on Yahoo 360
- Yahoo co-founder David Filo, who rarely gets in front of a conference crowd, chatted with John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Summit, aided by Bradley Horowitz, Yahoo vice president of product strategy. Filo is the product focused half of the founding duo. The other founder, Jerry Yang, focuses on the...
- Tags: General, Personal Technology, Web Technology, web2con, Yahoo! Inc., David Filo
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
- Google's Marissa Mayer: Speed wins
- Marissa Mayer of Google gave a testimonial to speed. Her key insight for the crowd at the Web 2.0 Summit is that "slow and steady doesnt win the race." Speed is a huge component and big market driver of Web 2.0, she said.In testing out the user interface for Google...
- Tags: General, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure, Hardware Infrastructure, Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, web2con, Google Inc., Marissa Mayer
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
- Zimbra demos offline client
- Zimbra showed an offline AJAX client, which has the same look and feel as the online client. Mail, calendar, contacts, and documents are cached and then synched with the server when the user gets back online. "Technically the Zimbra Offline client is the same AJAX client UI, but...
- Tags: General, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology, web2con, Zimbra
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
- Try Microsoft's Photosynth
- After seven months of development, Microsoft is making Photosynth tech demo available. You cant upload photos but its a cool demo of how to navigate a photo site. In keep with Microsofts merging of the Web and client, Live Labs head Gary Flake called Photsynth an "elegant marriage between the...
- Tags: General, Personal Technology, Web Technology, web2con, photograph, Photosynth
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
- Yahoo embeds IM in mail
- Ethan Diamond, director of product management for Yahoo Mail, demonstrated some cool new features that integrate instant messaging chat into mail client. Users can see if contacts are logged on to Yahoo Mail and initiate a chat, and then have the contents of the chat automatically inserted in an email,...
- Tags: General, Personal Technology, Web Technology, web2con, Yahoo! Inc., Brad Garlinghouse
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
- The great [structured] database in the sky
- MySQL ECO Marten Mickos opened the morning session of the Web 2.0 Summit with his dream of the great database in the sky. He envisioned a database in which all structured data could be shared, open sourced so that people could instantly know what is happening in the world. For...
- Tags: General, Open Source, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology, web2con, database, Marten Mickos
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
- IBM's Jeff Jonas: Reducing corporate amnesia
- Jeff Jonas lives in Las Vegas and used to make his living helping casinos reduce fraud and three letter agencies find the bad guys with unique technology as founder and chief scientist of Systems Research & Development. His software can sift through information captured in multiple database and correlate data,...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Security, web2con, Jeff Jonas
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
- Wikinomics and mass collaboration
- During a presentation at the Web 2.0 Summit, author and consultant Don Tapscott previewed some the highlights from his forthcoming book, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything.He views the next phase of the Web as about mass collaboration and harnessing the power of self organization. It will have a profound...
- Tags: Groupware, Don Tapscott, Wikinomics, collaboration
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
- The new age of platforms and ecosystems
- I caught up with Salesforce.com Marc Benioff at the Web 2.0 Summit, where he gave a presentation of enterprise mashups. In the video I asked Benioff about the shift from focusing on individual applications to platforms with diverse ecosystems and utility-like infrastructure services, such as his company’s Apex platform and...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Hardware Infrastructure, Web Technology, web2con
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
- Ray Ozzie's very interesting juncture
- "We are at a very interesting juncture," said Ray Ozzie speaking with John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Summit. He was partly referring to Office and Vista being released to manufacturing. But is also a time in which the Web is becoming a better application platform, Microsoft is transitioning into...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure, Security, Web Technology, web2con, Office 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
- Ask and Microsoft talk about challenging Google
- Ask CEO Jim Lanzone and Microsoft search head Steve Berkowitz were asked about competing with Google during a session at the Web 2.0 Summit. Neither came up with a convincing plan for how they might knock Google off its game. Ask has about a 6 percent share and Microsoft is...
- Tags: General, Web Technology, web2con
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
- Searching for human-like search
- Search is the motherload of the Internet today, as has been proven by Google. But it is still clunky and you end up with 149,000,000 results for "ajax" delivered in .05 seconds. At the Web 2.0 Summit, hakia showed a beta of its "meaning-based" search engine. According to the company,...
- Tags: Web 2.0, SEARCH, Barney Pell
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
- More from the Web 2.0 Summit
- Yesterdays Web 2.0 Summit included a few highlights worth mentioning. Elinor Mills covered Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstroms chat with John Heileman, Skype plans to offer bloggers and others the ability to hold audio chats in the next version of it service. The next version of Skype will enable people to...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure, Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, web2con
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
- Riya launches Like.com visual similarity shopping
- Riya’s facial search service was one of the first darlings of the Web 2.0 world. The company garnered more than $15 million in venture capital to make facial and object search as easy as text search. It turned out that searching by facial similarity was a nice bit of computer...
- Tags: General, Personal Technology, Web Technology, web2con, Like.com, Munjal Shah
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
- Review of Web 2.0 Summit Launchpad
- At the Web 2.0 Summit Launchpad, 13 web startups have 5 minutes each to present their wares. Here are some quick impressionistic views of how it went.... In the chair is a music-based video game, where people can interact with music - e.g. generate your own content and play...
- Tags: tool, Web 2.0, News, Tech, Social Media, web2con, Internet Companies, Products, Reviews, Social Software, Two-Way Web, Web as Platform, Web
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt: We would never trap user data
- John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly kicked off the industry heavyweight portion of the Web 2.0 Summit with a few remarks about Web 2.0 and the theme of the event, disruption and opportunity. “Web 2.0 is about harnessing the network effect, which gets better the more people use them,” O’Reilly...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Eric Schmidt
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- Inside the mind of the Net generation
- During a session at the Web 2.0 Summit, author and consultant Don Tapscott shared results from a research project on the Net generation, the first humans to grow up digitally. An estimated 80 million people in the U.S. alone are coming into the workplace and marketplace with a far different...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Web Technology, web2con
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- The invasion of Enterprise 2.0 software
- Blogger and stock analyst Paul Kedrosky introduced the topic of Enterprise 2.0 at a morning workshop at the Web 2.0 Summit by trying not to define the concept, calling the definitional discussion a masturbatory exercise. Nonetheless, he offered Harvard Business School Associate Professor Andrew McAfees definition as a starting point:Enterprise...
- Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
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