News from Dash Express, a follow up from products seen at last year’s Where 2.0 Conference:

Last year at the Where 2.0 conference, I first saw the Dash Express, a location-aware device that connects to the Internet to get information in real-time from your car. I just got e-mail from Dash that the testing phase is nearing an end and they’re about to release a limited number of these handy devices in the first quarter of 2008.

This is an interesting article that references the Graphing Social Patterns:

The Graphing Social Patterns conference earlier this month explored multiple aspects of the FB and social networking phenomenon. Coming up this week is SNAP (Social Network Application Platform), a one-day conference focusing on the Facebook platform and beyond.

Tom discusses a recent presentation at the Graphing Social Patterns conference:

He also says that Facebook will not be the dominant social network, he predicts different social sites for people’s different interests. He was speaking at the recent “Graphing Social Patterns”conference organised by Dave McClure.

Nice Velocity mention….

Still want to know more? If so, you should enlist for O’Reilly media’s planned Velocity conference in San Fransisco June 23-24 next year, which they claim is a first of its kind. In addition to Cal Henderson, Amazon.com and other global web sites will be presenting.

Interesting comments on Ubuntu’s adoption…

Earlier this summer, I was at O’Reilly’s Ubuntu Live conference in Portland, and the Ubuntu tribe were almost all using the GUI interface.

A nice mention in the Config-mgmt mailing list blog regarding Velocity:

Looks like it’s pretty web-site focused, but it should be interesting
for others, too.

Just a reminder for all those proposals for Where 2.0, the time is now!

Last reminder, proposals for the O’Reilly Where2.0 conference are due December 3. So make sure and get your submissions in!

This video is actually from the Web 2.0 Berlin event, but offers a great definition of what the phrase Web 2.0 means:

Tim O’Reilly on Web 2.0

We got a nice “hit” on GISuser.com for Where 2.0:

http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/13201/

We are very excited to let you know that AdaptiveBlue is going to be one of the sponsors and exhibitors of the next year’s ETech conference. If you are not familiar with this conference, it is really one of the best emerging technology conferences that draws a fantastic crowd of prominent tech people.

A nice pick up on the latest TOC news release:

Driven by the Internet, technology is fundamentally transforming publishing.

Here’s a mention for our latest conference: Velocity:

O’Reilly has announced a new conference called Velocity. From their front page:

Steve Souders, co-chair blogged about Velocity on Yahoo’s Developer Network:

O’Reilly just announced Velocity, their first conference focused on web performance and operations. It’s scheduled for June 23-24, 2008 at the San Francisco Airport Marriott in Burlingame. I’m proud to say that Jesse Robbins and I are co-chairing Velocity.

Velocity conference co-chair, Jesse Robbins, posted the following:

I’m happy to announce that Steve Souders and I will be co-chairing Velocity, the new O’Reilly conference dedicated to Web Performance and Operations.

Start your engines ladies and gentleman, Velocity 2008 call for participation is officially open!

Velocity Press Release

More coverage from Web 2.0 Summit from LaNacion (albeit in en espanol!):

En San Franciso, durante el Web 2.0 Summit, la marca finlandesa de celulares presento una nueva computadora de mano mientras Apple, paradojicamente, anunciaba mejoras para su iPhone

Blogger Fran Toolan writes about publishing issues, referencing TOC in a larger piece:

I would argue that publishers need to become - or re-emerge as - ‘Reader Services companies’. They need to facilitate the styles and habits of the reader in whatever form or fashion that reader is, and to lower the barriers that exist between the brain of the recipient and the ideas of the author.

Medialoper is lending support for TOC 2008:

TOC is an O’Reilly Media sponsored event, designed to help the slow moving world of book publishing ease gently into the 21st century. It’s the place to be if you have any interest at all in the future of publishing. It’s also one of those rare events that will likely have a substantial impact on an entire industry for years to come.

LaNacion’s coverage from Web 2.0 Summit. The reporter said that was the story was in the top ten of most viewed stories that day…

Mark Zuckerberg, ex estudiante de Harvard, es el cofundador y CEO de la ultima nina mimada de las redes sociales online; estuvo en el reciente Web 2.0 Summit realizado en San Francisco y revelo detalles del boom

More coverage from LaNacion from Web 2.0 Summit, this time on Google Health:

Por que la marca mas valuada del mundo pone en cuestion la salud?; en pleno debate por la seguridad social en EE. UU., en el Web 2.0 Summit de San Francisco, la empresa revelo su interes por esta problematica

Here is the official registration is open release for the Tools of Change Conference:

2008 TOC Conference Will Turn the Page on Publishing Technology

It’s great having a conference chair who also has an active blog. Here’s what Paul Kedrosky had to say about Money:Tech this week:

Two stories caught my eye today with respect to my conference on financial technology and alternative data sources.First, today’s Jimmy Cayne story in the WSJ about how the Bear Stearns CEO was, apparently, golfing and playing bridge during some of the worst days of the Bear Stearns hedge fund meltdown this summer. How do we know that? From looking at publicly available data on golf handicaps, and the 2007 North American Bridge Championships.

Always nice to get a conference mention in the GalleyCat. Ron Hogan plugs TOC:

When I met SharedBook CEO Caroline Vanderlip at the O’Reilly “Tools of Change” conference this summer, one of the first ideas I got from her company’s “reverse publishing platform,” which essentially allows users to pick and choose from a database of registered content and assemble their own books, was for personalized cookbooks.

This was published on the site of the oldest and second largest newspaper in Argentina regarding Web 2.0 Summit:

San Francisco fue la sede de la Web 2.0 Summit, un encuentro sobre las tendencias web actuales y futuras; organizado por Tim O´Reilly y companias líderes como Facebook, Microsoft, Nokia y Google, hubo importantes anuncios

This article is in Japanese but covers social media news from Web 2.0 Summit:

Web 2.0 Summit Report — Next edge; social graph in the real-world society

This is a good article that points out why the Money:Tech conference is so timely:

But the event described below is truly unique in that it is about the intersection of finance and technology. Financial blogs are just one example of the inhabitants of this intersection. Others include various forms of “Web 2.0″ trading and research technologies. This event will feature Barry Ritholz, the world’s most-read financial blogger and the most alarming and hair-raising financial technology yet to be developed by scientists: Jim Cramer.

Sarah Lacy, who is working on a book about the rise of Web 2.0, attended Web 2.0 Summit and gave her spin on the Facebook/MySpace debate:

Those were among the few nuggets of news emanating from O’Reilly Media’s annual Web 2.0 Summit, which also featured Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who said as little as possible about reports he’s lining up financing that could value his company at upwards of $10 billion