Graphing Social Patterns scored a few mentions in this blog:

The Facebook conference season is in full force! Today, Graphing Social Patterns: The Business & Technology of Facebook kicks off in San Jose.

Facebook Conference Calendar: 3 More Coming Soon

Upcoming conferences focus on building for the Facebook Platform

Another Radar post, this time from Brady Forrest about the Graphic Social Patterns (GSP) Conference:

Facebook developers and partners now have their own conference, Graphing Social Patterns (GSP). GSP has a day of workshops and two days of sessions devoted to business. It’s being held October 7-9 in San Jose, CA. As Conference Chair Dave McClure describes it in a press release:

Tim recently had an O’Reilly Radar post on high performance websites, which includes a discussion on our new conference: Velocity:

We’ve long believed that one of the side-effects of Web 2.0 and the demands of the internet as platform is that more is required of web sites than ever before in terms of availability, performance, and scalability

This a recent Radar post from Tim about our new conference: Graphic Social Patterns:

People have been talking about Facebook as the “social network operating system.” At the Graphing Social Patterns conference the other day, I talked a bit about why, for that statement to be true, Facebook will have to focus on interoperability with other providers of social graph data — and I don’t particularly mean other explicit social networking sites like MySpace.

Welcome to the new O’Reilly Media Graphic Social Patterns news & coverage page. This link will take you conference Chair Dave McClure’s site, where you can read the coverage for the 2007 event:

This page is a list of recent press articles and links about Graphing Social Patterns

David Carr attended Web 2.0 Summit and filed this report yesterday:

Half an hour into the party, there was a ripple of excitement, and people started murmuring and pointing toward the door. When the crowd parted, I expected to see Mark Zuckerberg, the young overlord of Facebook, or Steve Ballmer, the battle-hardened Microsoft veteran. Then again, this is a MySpace party, so maybe Britney Spears or Lindsay Lohan? Instead, it was Rupert Murdoch — old school, old media, and at 76, just plain old. From the reaction of the crowd, it might as well have been Lindsay Lohan. He was overwhelmed by an immediate onrush of hospitality as the geekerati lined up to get a word with him.

This is kind of fun, straight from the halls of RailsConf Europe!

How can you express Rails, Berlin and the people @ railsconf europe with just one word for each of these topics ? We’ve challenged the RailsConf Europe 2007 attendees and we’ve condensated their answers in this 5 minutes video.

This blogger had his work featured at MoMA, but was inspired by RailsConf Europe…

Anyway, at RailsConf Europe a few weeks ago, Dave Thomas’ keynote speech emphasized the role of software designers as artists. He said, “treat your projects as though they are artworks, and sign your name to them.” Or pretty close to it. I think this is incredibly valuable advice for software designers today.

A speaker from RailsConf Europe posted this after the show:

I had the pleasure of presenting to the Rails conf audience this morning about and Building RIA’s with Flex . I wasn’t sure what to expect going in, I was kinda worried it would just be me and 3 guys who were in there to sit and check email :)

More from this German publication from RailsConf Europe:

In der Ruby-on-Rails-Welt hat sich in den vergangenen Wochen einiges getan. Wichtige Ereignisse waren die europäische Rails-Konferenz RailsConf Europe sowie die Veröffentlichung der Preview-Version von Rails 2.0. Darüber hinaus stellt dieser Beitrag ein kostenloses Rails-Buch sowie nützliche Tools für Entwickler vor.

A nice piece in the location based market about the CFP for Where 2.0:

What are the hot new technologies that will change the way we think about mapping information? The data mashups that will change the way we travel? The innovations that drive local search and shopping? The ultra-local killer app that’s about to take off?

Paul Kedrosky on social networking and Money:Tech:

Mention “social networks” in a stock market context and most people immediately think of a host of icky prediction sites that try to get people to wager on stocks & markets. Some of that stuff works, most of it doesn’t, but that’s a topic for another day.

Interesting article on Web 2.0 Summit:

The bubble question also lurked in the minds of many attendees at the Web 2.0 Summit conference in San Francisco last week. Along with Facebook, search and online advertising juggernaut Google has an even scarier valuation. In Google’s case, Wall Street justifies its market cap of around $209 billion because of what analysts consider is a huge untapped sector of the advertising market that has not yet moved to the Web.

Dean Takahashi covered Web 2.0 Summit:

John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly opened the Web 2.0 asking a question, “Is this a bubble?” Few folks raised their hands in the ballroom of the Palace Hotel. But this is the land of the faithful. True believers are the ones who are starting Internet companies in social networking and media

More from Web 2.0 Summit from eWeek:

CEO Mark Zuckerberg parries dogged questions about online advertising.

Google Health: I’m Feeling Yucky

Joel Dreyfuss has some interesting theories of everything new sounding familiar at Web 2.0 Summit:

At one point during the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this week, I thought I’d fallen into a time warp. I suddenly found myself listening to pitches that might have been appropriate in the 1990s at a mainframe computer convention, not a cutting-edge event like this summit is billed.

Richard MacManus, a Web 2.0 Summit veteran filed the following stories:

2007 Web 2.0 Summit Review: How the Web 2.0 Conference Has Evolved Over 2 Years

MySpace Evolves - Developer Platform Details, Partnerships, Growth Figures

Twine: The First Mainstream Semantic Web App?

The New Era of Semantic Apps

Web 2.0 Summit 2007: Mary Meeker and Internet Trends

Web 2.0 Summit 2007: Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance at Web 2.0 Summit had many mentions in the media, here is what USA Today’s Jefferson Graham had to say:

Much has been made of the youth of 23-year-old CEO Mark Zuckerberg (left) of the red-hot social network Facebook.

It’s official, the conference is open and ready for business. Here is the release announcing the opening of registration for Money:Tech:

Inaugural Event Coming to New York

It’s official Rails friends and fans, the Call for Participation for RailsConf 2008 is open!

RailsConf 2008 is returning to the Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon, from May 29-June 1, 2008. RailsConf, co-produced by Ruby Central, Inc. and O’Reilly Media, Inc., will gather over 1,600 attendees for four days of keynotes, sessions, tutorials, panels, and events to explore the latest Rails developments.

Lots of stories from Web 2.0 Summit from CRN/Channel Web, here’s a good one:

Among the many buzzwords associated with the Web 2.0 hype, none has quite the cachet as “open.” Yet no idea is more profoundly troubling to the companies trying to build profitable Internet businesses.

And for the rest of the coverage:

Summit Coverage

Business Week sent a few reporters to Web 2.0 Summit, which resulted in the following stories:

Summit Coverage

Clint Boulton of eWeek wrote this piece regarding John Battelle at Web 2.0 Summit:

Reporter’s Notebook: John Battelle puts the screws to Mark Zuckerberg in a thrilling grilling.

Reuters filed tons of stories from Web 2.0 Summit, here are most of them:

Reuters Coverage

This is an article filed by Reuters regarding Web 2.0 Summit:

Start-up companies at the Web 2.0 Summit this week displayed confidence that the Internet has become a big enough home, with hundreds of millions of users, for many of their projects to find a market.

Bloomberg covered Web 2.0 Summit like crazy, this will link you to their stories:

Web 2.0 Summit Coverage

Blog Talk Radio uploaded a few broadcasts from Web 2.0 Summit, you can listen to them here:

PodCasts on Web 2.0 Summit

Barron’s publishes several pieces, including Tech Trader Daily. This link will show you all the stories on Web 2.0 Summit:

Barron’s Coverage

We’re coming up on the deadline to submit proposals for the MySQL Conference & Expo for 2008. If you want to be included, get your proposal in by October 30 . We’ve also shifted the dates a bit, so make a note of the dates: May 14-17, 2008. Everything else stays the same. Visit this link to submit your ideas:

Submit a Proposal

This is an interest follow-up piece from Web 2.0 Summit, but also addresses the Graphic Social Patterns conference which will become an O’Reilly conference in the new year…

“Everyone woke up and realized this was not a minor thing they did,” said Dave McClure, a Silicon Valley investor and the organizer of last month’s conference, Graphing Social Patterns: The Business & Technology of Facebook. “Now everyone is trying to copy and implement their own version of that.”

Jon Fine, reporter at Business Week wrote this column about Web 2.0 Summit:

…this New York media guy (read: storyteller) traveled to the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, at which a smart set gathers to discuss, among other things, how technological change inflects media.

Yes, it’s in German… but it’s a solid article on social networking from Steffan Heuer of Technology Review who attended Web 2.0 Summit:

Wenn es bislang noch irgendwelche Zweifel daran gab, dass das Mitmach-Web auch die letzten Winkel der etablierten IT- und Medienkonzerne durchdrungen hat, wurden sie beim diesjährigen Web 2.0 Summit ausgeräumt.

This panel at Web 2.0 was amusing, Mitch Wagner sums it up:

The Web 2.0 Summit got a delightful dose of reality from a panel of a half-dozen baby boomers, giving the point of view from a group usually unrepresented at industry conferences: The ordinary Joes and Janes who have to use the technology the industry builds.

Interesting story that seems to support the notion of a bubble forming, from Web 2.0 Summit:

The money was great… Larry and Sergey were focused… but a panel of ex-Googlers revealed why they have now gone off to build their own Web 2.0 fortunes.

Looks like “Web 3.0″ is getting bandied about, but for now here is a story from Web 2.0 Summit:

Silicon Valley has painted a picture of the web in 2030, and it is very powerful - and very smart - indeed

Richard Martin covered most of the news stories from Web 2.0 Summit, here is his article on Launch Pad:

Last week at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco I ran through the contestants in the startup beauty pageant known as Launch Pad, and asked for readers’ votes on the one Most Likely to Succeed. The results are in — plus I’ll reveal the actual winners chosen at the summit.

Thanks to Marc Orchant for mentioning the presentations from Web 2.0 Summit, found here:

A number of the interviews conducted by Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Summit last week in San Francisco have now been posted online at blip.tv including Battelle’s interview with Steve Ballmer of Microsoft which was one of the highlights of the event for me.

Once again Bobbie Johnson does a thorough job reporting from Web 2.0 Summit:

eBay confronts $1.4bn Skype disappointment

$10bn for Facebook? Maybe, but the real value lies in the ads

Microsoft remain tight-lipped over Facebook

Murdoch plans new role for Wall St Journal

Microsoft keeps hunting as part of online battle with Google

Facebook founder says social networking sites in it for the long haul

Steven Pearlstein covered Web 2.0 Summit last week and published the following in his column about a tech start-up and speaker Rupert Murdoch:

For the next two minutes, the two scheming entrepreneurs traded stories, the jowly septuagenarian media mogul filling in some details of how he broke the newspaper printers union on London’s Fleet Street

Here is an official copy of the “call for participation” news release for TOC:

Call for participation is now open

AT&T makes the following announcement at Web 2.0 Summit:

AT&T Inc said on Friday it plans to participate in an upcoming government auction of airwaves in the 700-Megahertz spectrum band, but it is still deciding whether to bid for a portion of the spectrum reserved for open access

Oliver Starr and Marc Orchant have been covering the Web 2.0 Summit:

Events tend to swirl at the Web 2.0 Summit. The pace of speakers appearing on the main stage is frenetic and there are so many interesting conversations, demos, and briefings taking place in the lobbies and hallways of the Palace Hotel.

Oliver Starr reports from Web 2.0 Summit:

O’Reilly and the CMP Media team did something that I hope will become a standard across not just our industry but every industry; they gave everyone a tree to be planted in each of our names via TreeNation

And a counterpoint to the previous article, this is another view on Google/Facebook at Web 2.0 Summit:

I have to say that until now I thought Josh Quittner was a pretty smart guy.

Josh Quittner’s piece on Google:

Why Google is spooked by Facebook and would dearly love to squash it, says Fortune’s Josh Quittner.

San Jose Mercury News reports on Web 2.0 Summit’s new companies and big business:

On the ground at the Web 2.0 Summit. Web 2.0 is the label for Internet companies that live on hype, hope and swelling online audiences. For years, they have incubated their technologies and made bold promises about changing the world. Now there are signs these youthful ventures are becoming real businesses.

Web 2.0 Summit was picked up on KQED:

This week opens the much anticipated Web 2.0 Summit taking place in San Francisco, with everyone from Rupert Murdoch to the founder of Facebook on hand to cut deals and promote their vision for the web.

Coverage of Web 2.0 Summit:

You don’t need to be a developer to create mashups or FaceBook apps.

International coverage for Web 2.0 Summit:

Opinions on the Web 2.0 Summit are varied across the blogging sites as excitement surrounding the event mounts

Kara and John have been posting from Web 2.0 Summit:

All Things Digital

John Musser is covering Web 2.0 Summit for Programmable Web:

At the Web 2.0 Summit yesterday MySpace’s Chris DeWolfe and Newscorp’s Rupert Murdoch unveiled some of their plans for opening-up MySpace. They’ll be doing this in stages over the next few months.

Popular Science covered Web 2.0 Summit this week, here are some of their stories:

Popular Science At Summit

Mostly video, but here’s what Loic LeMeur has been up to at Web 2.0 Summit:

LeWeb

Here is coverage from the Launch Pad at Web 2.0 Summit:

Today’ Web 2.0 Summit ended with a Launch Pad session where six startups each got six minutes to pitch their companies to the crowd and a panel of venture capitalists. Here’s a thumbnail sketch of each with my initial impressions

PC Magazine’s Natali Del Conte filed this story from Web 2.0 Summit:

According to panelists at the Web 2.0 Summit on Thursday, startups that fight to be the next “It” platform probably won’t survive the Web 2.0 era. Startups that fight to be a part of the platform have a far better chance.

Web 2.0 Summit coverage:

We live by routines. In January, we make resolutions for the new year. In November, we give thanks at Thanksgiving. And in October we go to the Web 2.0 Conference and try to outdo each other with our declarations of “Bubble 2.0″.

The figures on attendance are due to be corrected, but here is the Web 2.0 Summit coverage from David Louie:

These are faces you may not know, but they’re people shaping the future of the internet.

Mitch Wagner’s report from Web 2.0 Summit’s informal press gathering:

John Battelle of Federated Media, Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media, and Eric Faurot, senior VP at CMP, got together this afternoon to put out an overview of the Web 2.0 Summit and look at the future of Web 2.0 in cell phones, sensors, and

This story orginated with Investor’s Business Daily but ran on CNN. Money regarding Web 2.0 Summit:

Don’t call Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) a one-trick pony. According to CEO Steve Ballmer, it’s a two-trick pony.
If recent investments pay off, the software king also will become a three-, maybe four-trick pony as it pushes further into entertainment and Internet advertising./a>

PC World is here at Web 2.0 Summit, here is their story about Bruce Chizen (picked up from IDG):

At this week’s Web 2.0 Conference, Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen talks about why Photoshop won’t be a hosted application, what he thinks of Microsoft’s Silverlight, and Google’s Gears.

For you readers who are fluent in German, here is the coverage of Web 2.0 Summit from Stern.de:

Stern.de Coverage

The Launch Pad “Venture Capital” Edition took place last night at the Web 2.0 Summit. Realius won “Most Creative” G.ho.st won “Best Presentation,” and CleverSet took “Best in Show” and “Most Likely To Exit First.”

Here is a link to all the participant’s news regarding the event:

New “TripIt To Me” Feature for Road Warriors is Unveiled at Web 2.0 Summit

Realius at Web 2.0 Summit Launchpad

Click Forensics Selected to Present at Web 2.0 Summit - Company to Speak at Conference’s Prestigious Launch Pad Event for Early-Stage Web 2.0 Start-ups

CleverSet News

Spiceworks News

G.ho.st news

One of the hardest working journalists here at Web 2.0 Summit has been VentureBeat’s Mark Coker. Here are a few more stories from Summit:

Here are the companies presenting at today’s Launchpad event at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco: G.ho.st, Realius, Cleverset, Click Forensics, TripIt and Spiceworks.

Surprise: Mary Meeker offers skepticism about U.S. tech industry

Microsoft’s Ballmer: MSFT will acquire 20 companies a year

Web 2.0 Summit’s a big topic for the Valleywag:

At last, I understand the vision of synergy between News Corp. and Dow Jones. It’s all about Kara Swisher, basically. The abrasive, pint-sized reporter-turned blogger spent dinner at Web 2.0 Summit locked in conversation with gregarious, pint-sized megamogul Rupert Murdoch,

News release from MySpace and Skype from Web 2.0 Summit:

MySpace, the world’s most popular social network, and Skype, the leading Internet communications company, today announced a partnership to empower the MySpace community with voice communications.

Mitch covers Bruce Chizen at Web 2.0 Summit:

In an era when content gets given away for free and funded by ads, how does Adobe survive — and thrive? Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen answers at a Web 2.0 Summit Q&A.

Bobbie Johnson is a busy, busy reporter here at Web 2.0 Summit, here’s another:

The chief executive of eBay answers questions on her company and her thoughts about how you make it work.

Continued coverage from Michael Calore at Web 2.0 Summit:

For the last few months there’s been a lot of talk on the net about the Web 2.0 Address Book — a technology that knows where you are and what you are doing.

Live blogging by Mitch Wagner at Web 2.0 Summit:

It’s a little after 3 on the opening day of the Web 2.0 Summit. I’ve alienated thousands of my fellow conference attendees by elbowing my way to the front of the crowd of people waiting to get in so I could score myself a seat next to an electrical socket. It’s like _Mad Max_ here folks — hordes of barbarians fighting each other for access to precious supplies of juice.

Julie Sloan from Wired, on Web 2.0 Summit:

I chose instead a session where Marc Canter of Broadband Mechanics and Joseph Smarr of Plaxo extolled the many virtues of open data and the many open platforms that weren’t using it to their best advantage.

The Merc’s Mark Boslet is onsite writing about Web 2.0 Summit:

Web 2.0 dynamo Facebook said that an initial public offering is still years away but that it’s making progress on a “financing” that some reports claim could value the start-up in the billions of dollars.

Bobbie Johnson’s continued coverage of Web 2.0 Summit:

Microsoft chairman Steve Ballmer takes the stage in San Francisco to answer questions about the software giant and its future.

Another great story from the Technology Chronicles, covering Web 2.0 Summit:

Google is a “threat and a friend,” today’s Internet companies are too expensive to buy and rival Facebook is cool but not that cool, News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch said.

An article from Information Week’s Antone Gonsavles regarding Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance at Web 2.0 Summit:

Mark Zuckerberg estimates an additional 400 workers will be needed to help enable developers to build third-party applications that run on top of Facebook services.

This is Computeworld’s take on the the Steve Ballmer talk from this morning at Web 2.0 Summit:

Microsoft CEO says Popfly tool can help non-programmers build Web 2.0 software

Sonoma County’s local paper, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, filed this story about Web 2.0 Summit. It’s always great to be featured close to home:

SF conference highlights the growing importance of creative collaboration between the Web’s biggest players

More Web 2.0 Summit coverage from Heather Haventstein:

Facebook.com co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave some hints Wednesday about what’s on tap from the current Web 2.0 darling: a possible advertising network and the ability for users to export the data from their profiles to outside applications.

MySpace opens its platform to developers

One of the more interesting presentations on the first day of Web 2.0 Summit was Marissa Mayer’s presentation on Google Health. This is Computerworld’s Heather Havenstein’s coverage:

Less than two weeks after Microsoft Corp. announced plans to support online personal health information records, Google unveiled plans to follow suit.

It’s always good to get covered by the BBC, this was in the UK version regarding Web 2.0 Summit’s guest speakers Rupert Murdoch and Chris DeWolfe:

Social network MySpace is to allow third-party developers to build applications for the site.

Here’s an interesting post regarding Web 2.0 Summit:

It would be good to be this hot.

Bobbie Johnson is here covering Web 2.0 Summit and filed this story yesterday:

A host of CEOs, movers and shakers are assembling in San Francisco for the Web 2.0 Summit

A very perceptive article that references Web 2.0 Summit:

Internet companies with funny names, little revenue and few customers are commanding high prices. And investors, having seemingly forgotten the pain of the first dot-com bust, are displaying symptoms of the disorder known as irrational exuberance.

A very nice opening article from the Tech Chronicles regarding Web 2.0 Summit:

Don’t bother calling any Internet executives this week. You probably won’t have much luck with start-up entrepreneurs either.

Michael Calore is onsite at Web 2.0 Summit and filed this story:

For the last few months there’s been a lot of talk on the net about the Web 2.0 Address Book — a technology that knows where you are and what you are doing.

Information Week writes about Web 2.0 Summit:

Now in its fourth year, the Web 2.0 Summit has moved past trying to define what Web 2.0 is and isn’t. Looking ahead to the conference, here are the concepts and issues I most want discussed at the show:

Paul Boutin, Owen Thomas and others of Valleywag hit the 2.0 Web Summit early this morning and posted the following stories:

http://valleywag.com/tech/web-2′0-summit/

More news from Web 2.0 Summit, this time from iQuestions:

Biggest Names in Technology to Convene at Web 2.0 Summit

Another great article regarding Web 2.0 Summit from TimesOnline’s Jonathan Richards:

The chief executives of Facebook, MySpace, eBay and Viacom, among others, are gathering to discuss the future of ‘web 2.0′

News from Richard MacManus from Web 2.0 Summit:

Today Microsoft is announcing two strategic partnerships, with enterprise software company Atlassian and RSS solutions vendor NewsGator.

A post that covers what it’s like to be a blogger at Web 2.0 Summit:

Opinions on the Web 2.0 Summit are varied across the blogging sites as excitement surrounding the event mounts

Web 2.0 Summit sponsor HP announced the following today on day one of the conference:

HP today announced new relationships and print capabilities with several major web properties - including Disney.com, Windows Live Spaces, Flickr and the Graffiti Application for Facebook - to make it easy for people to print relevant, customized content from the web.

Mark Coker at VentureBeat filed the first Web 2.0 Summit coverage:

Web 2.0 Summit, co-hosted by O’Reilly Media and CMP, kicks off this Wednesday at San Francisco’s Palace Hotel. A who’s who list of Web 2.0 digerati will converge for three days of deal making, partying and more deal making.

Michael Calore of Wired got a headstart on covering Web 2.0 Summit:

The Web 2.0 Summit kicks off next week here in San Francisco. Epicenter’s Julie Sloane and I will be there, blogging and passing out cards (and just plain passing out).

Here is the official press release announcing the Call for Participation for Where 2.0:

Where 2.0 2008 Brings New Depth to Location-Based Technology

Conference chair Brady Forrest had this to say about the Where 2.0 2008 CFP:

We have launched the Call For Participation for Where 2.0 2008, our conference for the geo-enabled internet.

Here is the latest news for Web 2.0 Summit:

Sponsors Plan to Unveil New Strategies and Innovations at Sold-Out Event

Here are links to more BlueAce coverage for RailsConf Europe. For those of you who can read Dutch that is…

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

TOC also got a mention with Publisher’s Weekly:

The conference, which focuses on the way technology is shaping and changing the industry, will this year explore what defines today’s publishing business.

More mentions of our TOC call for participation….

Last June we told you about O’Reilly Media’s inaugural Tools of Change for Publishing conference (TOC), an event designed to expose publishers to a range of new technologies that are transforming their industry.

Cory mentions TOC in this post:

O’Reilly is throwing their second annual conference on the future of publishing, called “Tools of Change,” next February in New York, and they’re looking for talk proposals

This is a very nice mention of Jason Hoffman’s tutorial session from RailsConf Europe:

Jason Hoffman from Joyent had a great tutorial at RailsConf Europe on Scaling a Rails Application from the Bottom Up.