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.