IT Conversations has posted the full audio of Peter Cochrane’s keynote from January’s Emerging Telephony Conference:
As a major driver of global wealth, the advance of technology is paced by various forces including new discovery and human inertia. In this keynote, Peter Cochrane, the highly esteemed and engaging techno-futurist, delivers a fascinating analysis of change in our increasingly smart, networked world.
Peter Cochrane is first up in this podcast from Daniel Steinberg. From the intro:
Peter Cochrane argues that it is us standing in the way of progress. He points out that he is now working with children who have been online all of their lives. How does that change our expectations for the future? Cochrane says that companies usually change when managers die and get out of the way. He looks at what might be coming next in the world of handheld devices.
Collective wisdom, that is. ETech is in good company in this new article by Steven Levy and Brad Stone that illustrates both the Web 2.0 and “architecture of participation” memes.
Annalee Newitz attended a luncheon we recently held for press to preview Where 2.0. One of the Where 2.0 speakers, Di-Ann Eisnor, was on hand at the lunch to talk about her company, Platial. Here’s Annalee’s article.
Platial provides a home for people who love quirky geographical information or just want to mark the locations that have meaning to them. Sign up for a free account, and you can start building and sharing personalized maps, complete with place markers, tags and descriptions of each spot. Collaborate on them with your buddies, or keep them to yourself.
Jason Lee Miller covers the ROOT/Vaults launch at ETech:
ROOT Markets premiered ROOT/Vaults, an application to store, manage and share personal clickstream data, at O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (ETech) last week. The company calls it an “attention banking service” aimed at providing a secure personal database for managing everything Web users browse online.
Jon Udell, who also was a plenary speaker at ETech, had several posts relating to this year’s event:
Carrying a BlackBerry is admitting that your commitment to your current activity is only partial, writes Steven Levy in his article on Linda Stone’s ETech presentation.
The latese issue contains an article surveying open source in business and uses MySQL as an example. CEO Marten Mickos, who will be keynoting at the MySQL Users Conference next month, is quoted.
Information overload is an increasing problem on the Web, writes Erick Schonfeld, Business 2.0 Magazine editor-at-large.
More startups are trying to cash in by cutting through the clutter. In a world of multiplying TV channels, hundreds of different types of jeans and salad dressings, and the constant pinging of e-mails and instant messages, the one resource that is increasingly scarce is our attention.
Greg Gianforte, CEO and founder of RightNow Technologies, has just been confirmed as a keynote speaker. He’ll deliver a presentation on Bootstrapping: Starting an Open Source Business With Almost No Money!
Juan Carlos Perez released this article via the IDG News Service:
Microsoft will begin testing an enhanced version of its search engine which will feature a new image search service, a redesigned user interface, new tools to refine query results and a new name: Windows Live Search… Microsoft, which will unveil Windows Live Search at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California, will also introduce at the show a new test version of its MSN Toolbar called Windows Live Toolbar.
Notes Stefanie Olsen:
In today’s gadget-jammed, sensory-overloaded culture, drawing and keeping a consumer’s attention is more important than ever to businesses. That’s the premise here this week at O’Reilly’s ETech Emerging Technology Conference, where the attention is on attention.
Janko Roettgers has published two more pieces:
On Monday, Quinn Norton posted a piece on Eric Bonabeau’s presentation:
Bonabeau, a former researcher at the Santa Fe Institute, calls his innovation “the hunch engine.” Presented to a general audience for the first time at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference here, the engine is a technological implementation of the “obscenity principle” — a user of the hunch engine may not know what they are looking for, but they will “know it when they see it.”
A couple of posts from the Lifehacker extraordinaire Gina Trapani:
Writes danah boyd:
Last week, i gave a talk at O’Reilly’s ETech on how large-scale digital communities can handle the tensions between global information networks and local interaction and culture. I’ve uploaded the crib for those who are interested in reading the talk: G/localization: When Global Information and Local Interaction Collide.
API explosion forces questions of licensing and robustness, writes Peter Coffee earlier this week:
As I noted in a summary blog from last week’s O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, the competition there to launch new Web services APIs seemed like a software-centered version of the new-hardware blitz that used to characterize the Las Vegas Comdex show each fall.
Quinn Norton sets the scene:
You’re in a maze of twisty subroutines, all alike. Now, thanks to a new software-collaboration tool, you and your intrepid party of fellow hackers can navigate your labyrinth of code and slay its dastardly bugs, all in a dungeonlike world similar to an old-school text adventure. Called playsh, the new tool is a collaborative programming environment based on the multi-user domains, or MUDs, so popular online in the early 1990s.
Alex Handy writes this about Laszlo’s commitment to Ajax, which the Laszlo team delved into at ETech:
With the announcement that IBM would be launching the Open AJAX initiative came a long list of participating companies. Among them was Laszlo Systems…
Via Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing, here is the full text of Bruce Sterling’s ETech presentation for your reading pleasure.
Over at IT Conversations, Doug Kaye has posted Cory Doctorow’s talk on Europe’s Coming Broadcast Flag from last year’s EuroOSCON. As usual, Cory’s passionate, reasoned insights are worth a listen.
ETech is over, so I’ll take a look back on some of the meta-trends of the conference, gender balance in the attendees, and covering topics Dick Cheney style.
Today is the last day of ETech and things are starting to wind down… The most interesting session I attended was Meredith Patterson’s “One of these is not like the others” presentation on her Query By Example extension for Postgres that showed how to make Postgres support advanced features for selecting and ranking data according to a given example. And even selecting and ranking data that is unlike a given example.
In case you missed the Laszlo (one of our sponsors, thanks!) announcement at ETech on Tuesday, here’s the updated, full text of the press release:
Dennis O’Reilly dropped me an email today pointing to two posts from ETech (”It was indeed ‘mind-boggling,’” writes he)–he also promised to write a news story on Jen King’s RFID security presentation, which should be on the site tomorrow.
Stefanie Olsen describes one of the extracurricular ETech activities:
Last August at O’Reilly’s exclusive Foo Camp, where geeks meet to camp and brainstorm, some attendees stayed up to the wee hours of the night playing an organized bluffing game called Werewolf, also called Mafia. It was apparently a Foo Camp hit, according to conference-goers and organizers, and now it’s back at O’Reilly Emerging Technology confab in San Diego this week, where more than 1,200 showed up.
From Cyrus Farivar’s introduction to his podcast:
The Macworld Podcast heads south toward the future this week. More specifically, I’m in San Diego for the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2006, an annual event focusing on high-tech trends. This year’s conference focuses on the Attention Economy, a phrase dealing with efforts to streamline information consumption. I sat in on a few sessions I’d like to call your attention to—everything from discussions of the Firefox extension Greasemonkey to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. We’ll close out the show with a look at future of multi-touch user interfaces, including an interview with Jeff Han of New York University, talking about his research in this field.
From yesterday’s PR Newswire, a press release gives details on a new service from EVDB, which CEO Brian Dear announced here at ETech.
Power to the people has now reached the world of event bookings with EVDB Inc.’s new Eventful Demand, a free online service for mounting grassroots campaigns to attract performers, personalities, conferences and more to local venues.
David A. Utter posted this yesterday:
Microsoft upped the ante in the quest for more users with a couple of updates to Windows Live that offer new search capabilities and toolbar functionality. The O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference continues to provide a platform for product debuts. Microsoft brought along a couple of new toys to share with the crowd, as they announced their latest updates to the Windows Live service.
Ewan Spence and his cohorts over on The Podcast Network have uploaded a swath of ETech podcasts for your listening pleasure, from Tim O’Reilly and Bruce Sterling to previews of the show with speakers like Peter Morville and Maribeth Back. He’s promised us several hours of interviews, which we’re looking forward to.
A new kind of search engine could make the act of Web searching more sociable, writes Michael Fitzgerald.
At the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego this week, a new software application was introduced, called Boxxet (pronounced “box set”), which allows online interest groups to form by aggregating content from users, instead of the more traditional way of networking around a person or event.
Writes Laurie Sullivan:
Laszlo Systems Inc. said it plans to extend its Ajax development platform, OpenLaszlo, to support applications for browsers on multiple platforms. Laszlo Systems Inc. plans to extend its Ajax development platform, OpenLaszlo, to support applications for browsers on multiple platforms, a company executive said Tuesday night at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology (ETech) Conference in San Diego, Calif.
As the year before, ETech featured a night of Makers exhibiting their fascinating, fun, and warranty-voiding work for attendees.
Jennifer King, a master’s student at UC Berkeley School of Information, has been studying RFID and the govenment’s approach to using this technology in passports and immigration documents. Her case-study of the upcoming e-passports which incorporate RFID tags shed some needed light on this complex and controversial issue.
Danah Boyd takes a look at g/localization, a nasty term used to describe cultural clashes between global and local cultures. What happens when a local culture with one morality clashes with another culture of another morality in a global online space? Danah studied this issue and suggests a few courses of action to avoid these culture clashes.
Mark your calendars, y’all. ETech will be back at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, March 26-29, 2007. Look for the call for participation this summer; we’ll open registration in the fall.
Janko Roettgers has filed three stories (so far):
Amy Jo Kim studied experimental psychology as an undergrad, received a Ph.D. in Behavioral Neuroscience from the University of Washington, and now (among many other things) teaches game design at USC. Her session at ETech was called “Putting the Fun in Functional” and focused on the mechanics of game design and how these concepts can be extended to other non-game systems and applications.
Last October I attended the Web 2.0 conference and all during the conference I was trying to put my finger on what Web 2.0 really means. Have you wondered what the term Web 2.0 means? I have, and here at ETech Tim Bray offers a solid definition.
Sun’s Tim Bray has a unique and accomplished resume that few in the Internet world can compare. Here’s what he had to say at ETech on Atom and standards in general.
Clay Shirky just gave a fantastic talk at ETech about the patterns behind moderation systems, which went beyond that. Best talk so far for me.
Another thing that gives me a warm glow inside, akin to how I feel about announcements and launches at our conferences? A “twofer” mention of O’Reilly stuff in the first paragraph of a news article, by Stefanie Olsen of CNET News.com no less:
Mark Pilgrim, author of “Greasemonkey Hacks: Tips & Tools for Remixing the Web with Firefox,” gave a talk Tuesday afternoon at O’Reilly’s ETech Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego to show off the promise (and peril) of the Firefox Web browser add-on, which is nearly at its one-year anniversary.
(Here’s the link to Greasemonkey Hacks for more info.)
“A new tool offers to create websites on any subject, allowing web surfers to sit back, relax and watch a virtual space automatically fill up with relevant news stories, blog posts, maps and photos,” writes Celeste Biever of Boxxet which made its debut at ETech.
Cyrus Farivar blogged this about ETech:
So I’m attending the opening days of the O’Reilly Emerging Technology 2006 conference in sunny San Diego. One of the highlights of the morning sessions today was from Jeff Han of New York University. Han wowed the crowd this morning with his session, “The Future of Interfaces Is Multi-Touch.” While OS X users like to think that we have the best computer interface out there, Han demoed a computer interface much more closely resembling something from science fiction.
More on Yahoo!’s APIs, from Juan Carlos Perez:
Yahoo Inc. will release new and enhanced application programming interfaces (APIs) for four of its online services in the coming months, the Sunnyvale, California, company plans to announce on Tuesday at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego. The move is part of Yahoo’s ongoing effort to open up its online services to Web developers, said Ash Patel, Yahoo’s chief product officer.
I gave a talk at ETech on Monday called “Entrepreneuring for Geeks.” I’ve given this general talk a few times now: how can the more technically minded among us move into making companies of our own? I really enjoy the talks because I really enjoy entrepreneurs; at least, I enjoy the ones who are really excited about making something fantastic through their efforts. “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to change the world?” Right.
Are you wondering what the Attention buzzwords at ETech are all about? I certainly did and wasn’t able to make heads or tails of it until I had a chance to talk to someone immersed in the field. I think I understand the basic concepts and am now ready to take in more ideas on this topic. Read on for my initial take on the attention buzz.
Amazon wants to employ people to do menial Web tasks that computers can’t handle, posits Sam Williams.
Speaking to a room filled with Internet developers at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego this week, Luis Felipe Cabrera, Amazon’s vice president of software development, outlined a project to harness human intelligence for tasks that computers can’t handle well, such as recognizing objects in images.
ETech regular Peter Coffee writes:
Early in the opening keynotes came Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie, with a talk entitled “Simple Bridge-Building” that demonstrated early work on “Live Clipboard” — a facility for copying and pasting to and from the Web, not merely doing that with static stuff like text and images but doing it with underlying metadata. The clipboard, as Ozzie showed, automagically learns about new data types as it encounters them: things like linking an RSS feed into a personal mashup page become copy/paste convenient.
Another cockle-warmer (hm, that came out funny): having so many announcements here at ETech. The latest is from sponsor Laszlo Systems. The press release begins, “At the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, Laszlo Systems today announced the planned extension of its advanced Ajax application development platform, OpenLaszlo, to support the delivery of applications in browsers with or without a Flash plug-in.”
“A multitouch system that reportedly ‘will change the way people interact with computers’ was demonstrated at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology conference,” writes Laurie Sullivan.
There’s many different ways to find something, and Peter Morville wants to help us improve our systems so this common task becomes easier for the user. Morville’s background in library science caused him to focus on findability issues in information architecture. Morville likes to think of the emerging discipline of information architecture as the balance of art and science.
Eric Auchard’s thoughts on Ray Ozzie’s morning presentation:
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) extended an olive branch to some of its harshest critics on Tuesday by proposing a way for Internet users to “cut and paste” live Web data across different sites, just as they can between computer programs. Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s chief technical officer, told a conference of top Web developers here that his company wants to openly license a simple technology for sharing data between Web and computer programs — whether Microsoft-controlled or not.
But my favorite line from Eric’s article that warms the cockles of this PR Gal’s heart? His description of ETech as “an intellectual hothouse for Web developers.” Sigh.
Day 2 of ETech started off with a powerful demonstration of future user interfaces. The Multi-Touch display screen demonstration showed how using touch screen displays with more than one finger opens up the the world of user interfaces. This exciting innovation will require us to reconsider our core assumptions of user interfaces.
Leslie Walker blogs about several presentations here at ETech. One of my favorite comments:
You’ve got to love a conference where the host invites a famous writer to deliver the opening speech, only to have the writer read the host’s own work aloud in mock ridicule.
Aw, look what the stork brought to ETech–Foldera!
Foldera(TM), Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: FDRA), the only free, open and easy-to-use web-based Organizer and Messaging/Collaboration Service will be presented to a select group of technology professionals during the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference.
Coupla press releases with more details: Yahoo! Finance and PR Newswire.
eBay has announced the lucky and deserving laureates:
Dylan Tweney posted notes on Tim O’Reilly’s talk from Monday night:
Tim has just taken the stage, sporting a beard. He proposes a title for his talk: “Watching the Alpha Geeks.” O’Reilly’s mission, he says, is to find interesting people and spread their innovations by passing along information through books, conferences, and online.
Phil Windley writes:
This morning SXIP CEO Dick Hardt is doing a sequel to his Identity 2.0 talk from OSCON, made famous by his style and humor. This morning’s talk is titled “Who’s the Dick on My Site?” The content was new, but the message was very much the same and the presentation is more tutorial in nature.
Nik Cubrilovic at TechCrunch reports on the SalesForce.com developer community that will be launched at ETech today:
I have had the privilege of getting an exclusive look at the new developer community and toolkits that Salesforce will be launching at the eTech conference tomorrow. Salesforce have been on the cutting edge of what we now call Web 2.0 in the business space for years…
ETech began out here in San Diego with a bang. No really. Like my Powerbook hitting the curb in front of the Manchester Grand Hyatt as I was stepping out of a cab.
Our friends (and ETech sponsor, thanks!) over at MapQuest sent us the following info about the launch of the beta version of MapQuest OpenAPI and–of special interest to developers everywhere–the scoop on their Developers Challenge.
This morning’s whiz-bang-wow moment was provided by Jeff Han, a research scientist at NYU’s Department of Computer Science. Han showed off a prototype of a multi-touch interface that has the potential to drastically change the way we interface with computers.
Ray Ozzie has been thinking about wiring the web and wonders where’s the equivalent of a web clipboard. Ozzie started off the day here at ETech with a simple but powerful demo that extends the clipboard metaphor from the PC desktop to the web, and back again. The universal clipboard uses RSS beneath the hood to act as the connective tissue between web sites and works by placing a live clipboard control on web sites. Ozzie believes there is real power in bringing the ability to weave together composite apps up to the user level, and what better way than to use the copy and paste technique that users are already so familiar with.
Nimble-fingered Dan Farber has already posted about Ray Ozzie’s presentation on “Simple Bridge-building“:
…Ozzie demoed a way to bring the clipboard concept from the PC to the world of the Web. The Web clipboard is implemented as a clipboard on the clipboard, taking the text format of the clipboard and putting in more structured data, XML schemas.
Dan Farber reported bright and early this morning on the new APIs from Yahoo! and browser-based authentication:
Yahoo is turning up the heat up on its developer platform, which is turning out to be a key battle ground as all the major portals (AOL, Google, MSN, Yahoo, eBay, Amazon, etc.) try to open up their technology as a way to earn more time and attention (= revenue) from tens or hundreds of millions of users and developers.
Well, it’s going to be a tough act to follow. Kathy Sierra, whose Creating Passionate Users blog will give you an insight as to why, blew my mind at Etech with her tutorial on that same topic…if Kathy is any indicator, Etech is going to be a blast.
Rael Dornfest and Tim O’Reilly welcomed the sold-out crowd here at ETech in their Monday evening keynotes. Rael reviewed the themes of previous ETech conferences and set the stage for this week’s focus on the Attention Economy, and Tim explained why he watches the early adopters who are pushing the envelope in an updated version of his “The O’Reilly Radar” talk.
On the first day of ETech, Marc Hedlund shared a load of valuable proverbs with geeks aspiring to become entrepreneurs. Rather than going back to school to get an MBA, Marc suggests a number of things to consider if you have a tech background and are thinking of starting your own company. Robert Kaye blogged Marc’s session in great detail.
Over on the O’Reilly Radar, Tim’s just posted about bionic software, a meme he was recently introduced to by Boxxet founder You Mon Tsang, who will be speaking at ETech on just that subject.
…Now Supports Inserting Shared Images From Flickr
So reads the headline of this ETech sponsor release, hot off the presses. It continues,
ThinkFree Online Microsoft Office Alternative Allows Users to Add Photos From Flickr to Write, Show and Calc Documents; Additional Enhancements Include International Spell-Check and Faster Loading
Foldera has just put this announcement out on the wires:
Foldera(TM), Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: FDRA), the only free, open and easy-to-use web-based Organizer and Messaging/Collaboration Service will be presented to a select group of technology professionals during the O’Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference.
A lot of geeks are up and at it bright and early today here in San Diego. Monday is tutorial day, and while I saw a few stragglers the majority of the attendees were in their chosen tutorial and ready to go at 8:30 a.m. The morning choices were surely difficult for many, as all four of the tutorial options sound excellent.
Interested in hearing more about our first Emerging Telephony conference that happened at the end of January? Tune into Bluebox’s podcasts.
Headed to San Diego for O’Reilly’s 2006 Emerging Technologies conference? Then put the Tuesday night special event, a Werewolf Game hosted by yours truly, on your calendar right now. Or you WILL be devoured by flesh-hungry technologists before you can say “full moon.”
So writes Avant Gamer Jane McGonigal on a recent post. Get yer ‘wolf on, baby!
Wi-FiTechnology.com picked up this announcement from one of our ETech Gold Sponsors, iNetOffice:
As part of iNetWord’s introduction to the online community, iNetOffice will serve as one of the Gold Sponsors of the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego March 6 to 9.
It’s a little old (in blog years–it’s from February 21), but Jon Udell previews his ETech presentation, Attention Focusing Strategies in InfoWorld.
The nice folks over at GISuser.com posted our press release announcing that the preliminary program for the Where 2.0 Conference is up.
Paul Krill’s recent InfoWorld round-up of RSS projects includes an ETech mention:
At IBM, Rod Smith, vice president of the company’s Emerging Technology group, will use the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego next week as an opportunity to tout “mashup maker” technology developed at Blue Blue.
ZDNet’s Dan Farber posted this note last week:
New companies, many under the Web 2.0 umbrella (meaning not boring Web pages or siloed services), are popping up. I expect many more at ETech next week in San Diego, where I will be sampling the wares.
Last year we expected to fill every seat but were able to keep registration open until the conference began. This year, though it was close, we had to close general registration on Friday before the conference team decamped Sebastopol for San Diego. (It’s beautiful here, by the way. The weather is fine, and the hotel has a great atmosphere and is well situtated for those who want to do a little sight-seeing and/or explore the Gaslamp District.)
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