Saul Griffith is a remarkable guy: inventor, entrepreneuer, Squid Labs, ThinkCycle and Instructables founder, columnist, genius grant winner and now president of the clean energy start-up Makani Power. A couple weeks ago, I did a talk at eTech, and while I was there, I had the fortune to hear Saul give his presentation on energy literacy and climate change. Saul’s essential point is that climate change is a problem we can choose to tackle: that the means are within our control, if we’ll learn to think clearly about them.
Probably not - or not directly. But some of the same people that have 2 million people tracking their MPs’ voting records via the site theyworkforyou.com and who, through farmsubsidy.org, got the EU to publish full subsidy data, have set up UNdemocracy.com, an attempt to shed light on the inner workings of the UN. The UN has for some time made copies of its resolutions and other information online at un.org, but like a lot of government initiatives the data published is hardly reusable in any meaningful way. URLs are not persistent, and data formats are not open. A small group led by Julian Todd, a “civic hacker” in Liverpool is seeking to change all that by laboriously scraping the data out of the site and republishing it with persistent URLs. That way, even if the UN removes the information it will be retained in Google caches or the Wayback Machine at the internet archive (archive.org). The site also links through to other decisions and debates. When you do that, said Stefan Magdalinski, Tom Loosemore, and Danny O’Brien at the Emerging Technology conference (conferences.oreilly.com/etech) last week in San Diego, some strange voting patterns emerge.
Tuesday April 29, 2008 4:04PM
by Avila Reese - PR Contributor
in Web 2.0 Expo
Read Eric Auchard’s article on Yahoo’s plan to expand data sharing and networking among its estimated 500 million monthly users.
“We are not building another social network,” Chief Technology Officer Ari Balogh told more than 1,000 attendees at the Web 2.0 Expo conference in San Francisco on Thursday. “We are building social into everything we do.”
Friday April 25, 2008 4:56PM
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Mary Jane Irwin writes this article on John Battelle’s discussion with Marc Andreessen during their Thursday morning Keynote.
It’s almost as shocking as if Al Gore were to endorse Barack Obama: Marc Andreessen, who helped create the first Web browser and jump-started the Internet economy–and who ultimately saw his company decimated by Microsoft–thinks the Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo! would be “a really good deal.”
Fake Steve Jobs, also known as Forbes business reporter Dan Lyons, has just given a talk at the Web 2.0 conference that’s been happening this week in San Francisco, about how he accidentally created a social media empire.
Friday April 25, 2008 4:18PM
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Dean Takahashi reports on the Tim O’Reilly and Jonathan Schwartz Q&A session, detailing everything from “utility computing,” to Sun’s adoption of a “greener infrastructure” and of course Sun’s recent purchase of MySQL.
Schwartz says his top job is being a communicator as CEO. Getting a message across to the troops, who ask him questions like “Why did we spend $1 billion on a company (MySQL) that gives away its products for free?” How does he keep his own voice and PR out of it,” Reilly asked. Schwartz said it did terrify him when his general counsel started blogging.
Friday April 25, 2008 3:36PM
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Daniel Terdiman contributes this article on the entertaining and irreverent Fake Steve Jobs:
In a frenetic keynote address Friday morning at the Web 2.0 Expo here, Fake Steve–otherwise known as Forbes writer Dan Lyons–gave his unique take on the world of technology, the people who drive it, and the future of media.
This spring’s SF show attracted about 8,500 web-savvy geeks and associates and I was impressed with the consciousness of both the collaborative conference editorial orientation as well as the folks in attendance.
Friday April 25, 2008 2:00PM
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in Web 2.0 Expo
Leslie Katz rounds up the Web Expo experience, “It was all Web apps, all the time in San Francisco this week, as some of the Internet’s most prominent movers and shakers gathered for the giant Web 2.0 Expo.”
The Internet is increasingly controlled by its users, and not its designers.
That shift was evident Thursday at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, a three-day conference co-produced by Sebastopol-based O’Reilly Media.
Nathan Halverson on internet adolescence and the future of Web 2.0:
Web 2.0 is rapidly transforming as it hurdles toward adulthood. Even the most entrenched Internet gurus have questions: Where are the cool and effective places to advertise now? Will current online behavior such as social networking lead to lifelong habits for the younger Internet generation? What should corporate executives write on their blogs? And how should marketers handle their online communities that let people both praise and defame their products?
Thursday April 24, 2008 2:31PM
by Avila Reese - PR Contributor
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Shannon Clark comments that Web 2.0 Expo might not deliver the “business emphasis and focus” she was looking for, but makes up for this when it comes to in-depth technical expertise and innovation.
As an entrepreneur my advice to anyone attending the show would be to take it slow. To indeed take a walk through the exhibit hall and see the booths, see how potential partners and competitors present themselves. But then to find a good spot at one of the many table filled seating areas, announce your location via twitter, then settle in for a few hours of lobbyconning (sitting still and letting people come to you to stop, meet, and reconnect).
Thursday April 24, 2008 2:31PM
by Avila Reese - PR Contributor
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Mitch Wagner on Niall Kennedy’s Tuesday tutorial ” Web 2.0 Best Practices:”
I found Kennedy’s presentation to be terrific, really quite eye-opening. Until watching him speak yesterday, I still thought of the Web site itself as being the most important part of a company’s Internet presence, and getting people to come to the site to be the goal of any Internet publisher.
Yahoo is swinging the doors of its Web platforms wide open to let outside developers create applications across its network of sites, as well as radically stitching together its online services under the social profile concept….”It is rewiring Yahoo from the inside out, across all of our properties, to fundamentally open up those Web services and provide a consistent development model, a consistent deployment and consumer experience as well,” said Ari Balogh, Yahoo’s chief technology officer, during a keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco on Thursday.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire - April 23, 2008) SnapLogic 2.0 enables “Really Simple Integration,” a new approach to data integration that leverages RESTful Web technology to provide agile data integration solutions for business IT groups. Really Simple Integration enables enterprises to quickly and easily make data from databases, SaaS applications, SOA Web services, and other common data sources readily available for use by business analysts and other business users.
Thursday April 24, 2008 1:40PM
by Suzanne Axtell
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The RWW team reports from Web 2.0 Expo:
Yahoo! to Rewire for Social Graph and Data Portability
Yahoo! announced today at the Web 2.0 Expo the availability of the first program in its large vision for a dramatic overhaul of the company across all its properties. The Search Monkey developer platform will let site owners alter their search results listing, including through semantic markup. Mark Hendrickson at TechCrunch has an in-depth review of that platform.
Tim O’Reilly: Tackle Big, Hard Problems With Web 2.0
Tim O’Reilly opens the Web 2.0 Expo keynotes with a discussion on the opportunities in web 2.0 today. Here are some real-time notes on his session. His main message is to “not follow the headlines” and the hot consumer apps, but go after “big, hard problems”.
So You’re Launching a Platform: After Ubiquitous APIs - What’s the Next Frontier?
We’re here at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco and are getting inundated with press releases about new APIs and developer platforms, many from companies we’ve never even heard of in the first place. How long ago was it that the forward-looking thinkers argued that APIs and platforms would soon be available everywhere?
Thursday April 24, 2008 1:33PM
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Jeffrey Burt provides the scoop on Microsoft’s Live Mesh upcoming debut:
The idea behind Live Mesh is to create an environment in the cloud where a user’s devices can be quickly synced and work in concert with each other. The company is looking to do this by using a Live Mesh API to give users access to various services, including some Live Services, through the devices in their personal mesh. These Live Services include Storage, Membership, Sync, Peer-to-Peer Communication and Newsfeed.
Thursday April 24, 2008 12:50PM
by Suzanne Axtell
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Betsy Schiffman poses this question: “When is Bill Gates not the devil? Answer: When he’s saving the world from total technical chaos. That’s according to internet golden child Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Ning.”
Thursday April 24, 2008 11:37AM
by Avila Reese - PR Contributor
in Web 2.0 Expo
Brief summary of the Forrester Research Web 2.0 survey and results discussed at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco.
56 per cent of North American and European enterprises rank web 2.0 as a priority in 2008 with consumer giants such as General Motors, McDonalds, Coca Cola and Microsoft investing massively in the sector.
Keynote speakers at the Web 2.0 Expo on Wednesday delivered inspirational messages to keep innovators dreaming and working hard in the face of an economic slowdown. Tim O’Reilly, CEO of O’Reilly Media, said the Web 2.0 revolution is just getting started. He challenged attendees to work on big, world-changing problems, saying that the most successful companies in the technology industry have “big, hairy audacious goals.”
Wednesday April 23, 2008 10:06AM
by Suzanne Axtell
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Writes Terry McSweeney: “At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco Wednesday, a Mountain View company will announce a service that believes in the saying: ‘ask and you shall receive.’ Tellme is announcing a voice to visual service for GPS equipped Blackberries. If you ask for a map or directions or where a movie is playing, then Tellme will tell you.”
On the eve of the latest and largest Internet gathering this year, O’Reilly’s [and TechWeb’s} Web 2.0 Conference and Expo, Forrester Research dropped a report that concludes that companies will spend $4.6 billion on Web2-related technologies by 2013. What that means for you, fellow office dweller, is that Forrester believes the world of wikis, widgets, blogs, mashups and social networks will increasingly find a way into your work life.
Wednesday April 23, 2008 9:28AM
by Suzanne Axtell
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“Who’s a real platform provider?” asks Clint Boulton. “Opinions abound at Web 2.0.”
A funny thing happened in the buildup to the Web 2.0 Expo. During briefings with Web application platform provider Etelos and PAAS (platform as a service) provider Bungee Labs, it became clear there is some disconnect on what companies qualify as platform providers and which simply don’t.
Wednesday April 23, 2008 9:18AM
by Suzanne Axtell
in Web 2.0 Expo
“D. Mark Hornung is attending this week’s Web 2.0 Expo because he doesn’t want to get hit by a tsunami,” writes Juan Carlos Perez.
A senior vice president at employment marketer Bernard Hodes Group, Hornung sees a tidal wave of blogs, wikis, social networks, virtual worlds and other Web 2.0 applications approaching his industry. Along the way, these technologies are re-shaping employment marketing in fundamental ways that are more disruptive than the shift from print to online media, he said.
Most IT executives I talk to are baffled by Web 2.0. Don’t get me wrong, they get excited about the technology like anyone else, and arguably they understand its inner workings better than some of the Web 2.0 cognoscenti. Where they stumble is on its applicability in the enterprise. They struggle to ignite the flame. They need to come to fun events like Ignite.
Wednesday April 23, 2008 8:19AM
by Suzanne Axtell
in Web 2.0 Expo
“This interview actually happened by accident. A lot of the good ones normally do.” Simon Chen’s post from yesterday continues: “Day One at Web 2.0 is always a little quiet as the Expo doesn’t actually start until Wednesday. Today - there are just 2 workshops. One in the morning and one in the afternoon. I still think about 1000 people show up though.”
Web 2.0 is set to be embraced by Enterprise 2.0 as businesses prepare to spend nearly $5 billion by 2013 on social networking tools. Over half of the companies in North America and Europe see Web 2.0 as a priority for next year, a report says. The news comes as San Francisco plays host to the Web 2.0 conference on next generation of the web.
At the Web 2.0 Expo today, O’Reilly Media, the most recognizable Web 2.0 business in the world, announced the launch of O’Reilly InPractice. This new consulting and training division aims to help companies intelligently and successfully reposition themselves in the global network—and thrive in a user-centered economy.
Tuesday April 22, 2008 5:09PM
by Suzanne Axtell
in Web 2.0 Expo
Sara Peyton interviews George LeBrun, who takes the reins of a newly launched O’Reilly division-O’Reilly InPractice.
This new consulting and training division, announced today at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, aims to help companies intelligently and successfully reposition themselves in the global network—and thrive in a user-centered economy. And George, a top media and communications authority and now Chief Strategy Officer/General Manager of O’Reilly InPractice, is already working with companies to help them deliver positive experiences for their customers by applying transformative Web 2.0 tactics. This week George and his team are in San Francisco attending Web 2.0 Expo. But before George headed off, I got a chance to talk to him about his career and why he’s excited about leading O’Reilly InPractice.
Tuesday April 22, 2008 4:39PM
by Suzanne Axtell
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“I am relieved to see that we do all the (right) things,” writes Eliane Fiolet in this quick post “according in Trisha Okubo’s must-do list to produce a good Blog.”
JackBe is looking to bring enterprise mashups to the business user with widgets called “Mashlets.” The company is expected to announce Presto 2.0, the new version of its enterprise mashup platform, April 22 at the O’Reilly Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco.
Last week’s JK Rowling/Warner Brothers versus RDR Books trial made me very uncomfortable. On one hand, I completely support an author’s right to protect copyright. It’s time this nation (world, really) learned serious lessons about copyright — what it is, how it’s applied, fair use (yes, kids, fair use is part of copyright). But there’s something, well, chilling about how this case has played out…Rowling is famously protective of her copyright, to the point that her zealousness has backfired. As Kirk Biglione noted in his “Tools of Change” presentation (download PDF), Rowling’s refusal to release an ebook version of the “Harry Potter” series due to fear of piracy (among other reasons) lead to, you guessed it!, increased piracy without a single legal alternative for consumers. Demand existed for the ebook — small demand, sure, but demand — yet only the pirates met it.
Monday April 21, 2008 4:24PM
by Suzanne Axtell
in Web 2.0 Expo
Now that the first burst of enthusiasm for social networking has died,” writes Betsy Schiffman, “people are realizing that web 2.0 is actually a huge time sink.” She continues:
…Counselors who treat “internet addicts” would likely have a heyday at the Web 2.0 Expo, which begins in San Francisco on Tuesday. Ostensibly, the conference is for web designers, marketers and web professionals, but it’s definitely weighted toward businesses that claim to help users and publishers harness data, or the web, to improve efficiency and productivity. Some of the scheduled panels include discussions on how to innovate in a timely manner; ways to make email useful; how to create an effective user interface; ways to optimize a site for search engines; and a session on how to build a flash application in three hours.
Customers at the MySQL conference this week said Sun Microsystems’ acquisition of the database company could increase MySQL’s credibility among senior IT decision makers still skittish about using open-source software.
There were some, though, who feared that ownership of MySQL by a traditional IT vendor would diminish growth in the community of MySQL developers, who provide a regular stream of patches and new features for the database.
Santa Clara, Calif. (PRWEB) April 15, 2008 — Zmanda, Inc., the open source leader in backup and recovery software, today announced that its CEO and founder, Chander Kant, will deliver a keynote presentation on “Radically Simple Backup & Recovery for Live MySQL,” at the sixth annual MySQL Conference and Expo. Ann Ruckstuhl, Zmanda’s vice president of sales and marketing, and Dmitri Joukovski, vice president of product management, will also lead conference sessions highlighting technology solutions for backing up and recovering MySQL databases.
The new release, for example, offers faster query response times by supporting both table and index data partitioning. With partitioning, only the relevant portions of a data set need to be scanned for a query instead of the entire table or index. Such partitioning also accelerates some data storage and database maintenance operations, according to Sun.
The awards recognize individual contributors who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, creativity, and collaboration in the development of Open Source Software. Past recipients for 2005-2007 include Doc Searls, Jeff Waugh, Gerv Markham, Julian Seward, David Heinemeier Hansson, Karl Fogel, David Recordon, and Paul Vixie.
Deadline is May 15. Send your nominations to osawards AT oreilly DOT com.
Another deadline to keep in mind is the early registration discount–you’ll save up to $250 if you register by June 2.
Monday April 21, 2008 12:57PM
by Suzanne Axtell
in Web 2.0 Expo
“Businesses need to transform to adopt Web 2.0,” writes Mitch Wagner> “But it isn’t easy, as Dell’s experience–trying to address rotten customer service with Web 2.0 — shows.” Mitch continues:
What does it take for brick-and-mortar companies to become Web 2.0-enabled? Conventional wisdom says it’s a matter of deploying Web 2.0 applications like blogs, wikis, and Ajax applications. But that’s just a coat of paint — to be really Web 2.0-enabled requires a complete change of business model, says Tim O’Reilly, CEO of O’Reilly Media.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. & SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MindTouch, the company behind the most sophisticated wiki available today is delivering the most full-featured application platform. MindTouch Deki Wiki, which empowers everyday users to create real-time reports and integrate systems quickly, while preserving IT governance, has set major new benchmarks for company growth in the most recent calendar quarter ending March 31. This quarter was MindTouch’s largest ever with respect to sales, revenue, and enterprise deployments - and is the fifth consecutive quarter of increasing sales. MindTouch is showcasing Deki Wiki this week at the MySQL Conference and Expo in the DotOrg Pavilion, which is located in the Expo Hall.
SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kickfire™, Inc. and Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: JAVA) today announced Transaction Processing Performance Council - H (TPC-H) benchmark results that break previous price-performance records. The benchmarks were run on Kickfire’s new database appliance, which is based on Sun’s MySQL™ database. The Kickfire Database Appliance demonstrates the speed of high-performance commercial database systems at a fraction of the cost with an exceptionally small, low-power footprint and the hallmark ease-of-use of MySQL, the world’s most popular open source database.
Sun has delivered a “near final” build of the next version of MySQL and has promised to make no changes to the culture of the open-source database organisation whose $1bn (£500m) purchase was announced in January. A release candidate of Version 5.1 of MySQL can be downloaded now, but the full production version should be ready by June, said Marten Mickos, former chief executive of MySQL and now a Sun vice president. He has no desire to repeat the bug problems of MySQL 5.0, which the company released two years ago, he told the sixth annual MySQL Conference & Expo, in Santa Clara, California, this week.
Program chair Brady Forrest has just posted the list of participants for Launch Pad and Ignite at Where 2.0. At Launch Pad, startups will have five minutes to show their new products–no slides, demoes only. Fast-paced Ignite talks will follow–20 slides that advance automatically after 15 seconds. (To get the Ignite idea, watch Ignite ETech presentations on YouTube.)
Allen Hurff, SVP Engineering at MySpace, Adam Nash, Senior Director at LinkedIn, Watercooler’s Justin Smith, Lance Tokuda of RockYou, and Nick O’Neill of Social Times have all signed on to speak at Graphing Social Pattern’s east coast debut. Program chair Dave McClure is still putting the finishing touches on the schedule, and it’s beginning to shape up nicely.
Thursday April 17, 2008 2:43PM
by Suzanne Axtell
in Velocity
Steve Souders, co-chair of Velocity and author of High Performance Web Sites (at one point the #1 selling computer book on Amazon) will explain the Performance Golden Rule, review his performance best practices, and use YSlow to analyze the top web sites in the world. Introducing Steve will be Andy Oram, author, blogger, and senior editor for O’Reilly Media.
This is a free live event taking place Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 17:00 GMT for approximately 45 minutes. Attendance is limited, so register now. We’ll send you a reminder before the webcast. And please feel free to invite your friends and colleagues to join in!
Wednesday April 16, 2008 9:59AM
by Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist
in MySQL Conference and Expo
SANTA CLARA, CA. — April 16, 2008 — Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the availability of MySQL™ Workbench, a new visual database design tool that integrates data modeling, physical database design, database creation, change management and documentation capabilities into a single, seamless environment for MySQL developers and DBAs.
MySQL Workbench is available for download in two versions: an open source Community Edition and a (US) $99 commercial Standard Edition. Both are available now for Microsoft Windows, with future cross-platform support for Linux and Macintosh OS X under development.
The announcement was made this morning at the sixth annual MySQL Conference and Expo. With nearly 2,000 attendees, it is the world’s largest community event for open source database developers, users, DBAs, vendors and corporate IT managers.
Wednesday April 16, 2008 9:02AM
by Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist
in MySQL Conference and Expo
Sun Microsystems pushed out a “near final” version of MySQL 5.1 on Tuesday, but is holding back the production release of the open-source database until it irons out some remaining bugs, officials said Tuesday. James Niccolai reports from MySQL.
Wednesday April 16, 2008 8:54AM
by Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist
in MySQL Conference and Expo
When Sun Microsystems paid $1 billion to buy MySQL, perhaps the biggest question facing the merger was the apparent culture clash, writes Charles Cooper.
Wednesday April 16, 2008 8:40AM
by Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist
in MySQL Conference and Expo
Charles Babcock talked to Sun Microsystems senior VP Marten Mickos. “Sun has a lot of expertise in scalability,” he said in an interview following his keynote before the MySQL Conference & Expo, an annual MySQL user group meeting, in Santa Clara, Calif. Tuesday.
Tuesday April 15, 2008 1:58PM
by Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist
in MySQL Conference and Expo
San Jose, CA April 15, 2008 - Continuent, Inc., the leading provider of
commercial open source middleware solutions for database high-availability
and scalability, today announced a key addition to their executive
management team. Craig Stevens joins Continuent as Vice President of
Worldwide Sales and Marketing, responsible for expanding its customer base
and building long-term relationships with clients. Read the full release here .
Tuesday April 15, 2008 1:48PM
by Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist
in MySQL Conference and Expo
MySQL Conference & Expo, Santa Clara, CA - April 15, 2008 - Continuent, Inc., a leading provider of commercial open-source middleware solutions for database high availability, today announced support for Sun Microsystems’ Solaris™ operating system (OS). Continuent uni/cluster 2008 benefits Solaris customers who find themselves challenged with highly demanding workloads, making database high availability and scalability fast and easy for mission-critical applications.
Read more details here.
Now, in addition to nonstop talk about mashups and startups mixed in with handshaking and backslapping, there will be a multitrack conference, an “unconference” program called Web2Open. You might think of it as a forum for creativity, engineering, and innovation. I like to think of it like a hometown restaurant: come for the food, but stay for the pie.
Tuesday April 15, 2008 10:02AM
by Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist
in MySQL Conference and Expo
Sun Celebrates Third-Party MySQL Storage Engines
Oracle, Kickfire, PrimeBase Technologies and Infobright Join Sun in Supporting the World’s Most Popular Open Source Database
SANTA CLARA, CA. — April 15, 2008 — Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced new and enhanced third-party support for the MySQL(TM) database’s unique pluggable storage engine architecture. The MySQL Certified Storage Engine Program (www.mysql.com/engines) enables commercial and community database engine developers to certify that their software has been tested and is compatible with Sun’s MySQL Database Server - helping to assure MySQL users that these certified engines have reached high-level standards of usability, performance and integration.
Sun also helps promote these third-party solutions to its MySQL database customers and open source community through a range of co-marketing activities.
Tuesday April 15, 2008 9:37AM
by Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist
in MySQL Conference and Expo
Sun Microsystems Announces MySQL 5.1C
New Version of the World’s Most Popular Open Source Database
Delivers up to 15 Percent Higher Performance for Large-Scale Enterprise Applications
SANTA CLARA, CA. — April 15, 2008 — Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced the pending general availability of MySQL(TM) 5.1, a new version of the world’s most popular open source database, designed to improve performance and simplify management of large database applications. A near-final release candidate of the GPL software is available for download now at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/.
The announcement was made this morning at the sixth annual MySQL Conference and Expo . With nearly 2,000 attendees, it is the world’s largest community event for open source database developers, users, DBAs, vendors and corporate IT managers.
Monday April 14, 2008 6:59PM
by Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist
in MySQL Conference and Expo
April 14, 2008 , MySQL Conference & Expo, SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kickfire™, Inc. and Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: JAVA) today announced Transaction Processing Performance Council - H (TPC-H) benchmark results that break previous price-performance records.
Monday April 14, 2008 6:54PM
by Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist
in MySQL Conference and Expo
April 14, 2008, SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kickfire™, Inc. today announced the first MySQL database appliance that brings the high-performance capabilities of large commercial database systems to the MySQL market. The company, which officially launches this week at the MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, CA, has built its appliance by developing an ultra-modern database kernel and a revolutionary SQL chip that packs the power of 10s of high-end CPUs. The result is a small form-factor MySQL appliance that delivers the high performance of large systems but with dramatically lower hardware, power, and cooling costs.
Monday April 14, 2008 6:40PM
by Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist
in MySQL Conference and Expo
SANTA CLARA, CA–(Marketwire - April 14, 2008) - MySQL Conference & Expo 2008 — Infobright, the first analytic data warehouse provider to be named a MySQL Certified Storage Engine Partner, today announced that its executives will be presenting in two sessions at the sixth annual MySQL Conference & Expo. Infobright’s CEO, Miriam Tuerk, and vice president of engineering, Victoria Eastwood, will highlight Infobright’s role in enabling MySQL users to reach new levels of performance and scalability with their data warehouses. Read the full release .
Monday April 14, 2008 6:31PM
by Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist
in MySQL Conference and Expo
Kickfire™, Inc. today announced partnerships with five leading vendors in the open source world to provide joint customers the ability to deploy robust, full-stack, business intelligence solutions that leverage the industry’s first high-performance MySQL database appliance. Launched this week at the MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, CA, Kickfire’s family of database appliances bring the power of the highest performing commercial database systems to the MySQL market at a fraction of the cost.
Monday April 14, 2008 6:20PM
by Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist
in MySQL Conference and Expo
kylehase writes “CIO.com has a writeup about MySQL’s 5.1 release planned for next week. Among the enhancements are many bug fixes from 5.0.” Read more on this
MySQL developers should be able to get their hands on a major update to the open-source database next week when Sun Microsystems hosts its first MySQL conference since acquiring the company earlier this year,” writes James Niccolai. “Sun will use the event in Santa Clara, California, to release MySQL 5.1, an upgrade that adds several new features to make the database more suitable for critical applications at large enterprises.”
Monday April 14, 2008 4:11PM
by Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist
in MySQL Conference and Expo
Exadel, a leading provider of Web 2.0-based Enterprise solutions and professional services, today announced dVisionTM, the company’s RIA for on-demand access to enterprise data stored across multiple data sources, has been certified for MySQL Enterprise 5.0. The new enhanced support provides full integration between dVision and MySQL Enterprise.
Monday April 14, 2008 4:05PM
by Suzanne Axtell
in Web 2.0 Expo
With co-producers TechWeb, we’ve put out a news release:
Industry Leaders Publicly Unveil Products and Services–TechWeb (formerly CMP) and O’Reilly Media, Inc., today preview big product and market announcements to be made at the upcoming Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco, April 22-25, 2008 at Moscone West. Web 2.0 Expos are the leading global gatherings of developers, designers, marketers, and business professionals building the next generation Web.
Sunday April 6, 2008 4:02PM
by Suzanne Axtell
in Web 2.0 Expo
“There’s no fighting it,” writes Daniel Terdiman. “Conference 2.0, as some have called it, is here to stay.”
Dan Fost wrote a related piece for CNN Money on what’s being called “Conference 2.0,” noting that, “Social media is putting an end to the passive role attendees traditionally play at business gatherings” and quoted Web 2.0 Expo co-chair Dave McClure in the article.
As someone who attends a fair number of conferences in many different cities, it’s become painfully clear to me that, in general, the confabs’ organizers have not yet climbed fully aboard the green train. That is to say, conferences are often not the best examples of a focus on taking care of the environment…That’s why I was pleased to see a post today on the official Web 2.0 Expo blog announcing that event’s new attempts to address its impact on the environment.
A lively public stock exchange is often considered the necessary centrepiece of any successful economy. Yet at the O’Reilly Money:Tech conference in New York in February, which looked at how the internet is affecting the financial industry, one session discussed two troubling developments in the world of share trading: dark pools and crossing networks.
Sunday April 6, 2008 2:35PM
by Suzanne Axtell
in ETech
Over at Nikkei Electronics, Tatsurou Hokugou reports on OpenMoko’s announcement at ETech that it will start selling mobile phones to general consumers.
Stanford law professor and internet icon Larry Lessig called on geeks Wednesday night to be “heroes” who can help Americans believe in their government again, by creating tools to help drive the influence of money out of politics.
One of the most exciting concepts demonstrated during ETech was a data visualization concept, a phenomenally attractive and useful way to find information so quickly and thoughtfully, it seems at once elegant, clever, and obvious. The company: Stamen, a design studio in San Francisco.
The monumental imperative to save our planet requires launching ourselves over what seems an insurmountable hurdle involving the orchestration of global agreement and policy combined with individual actions that manifest themselves as a nebulous series of micro decisions. So good luck with all of that and call me when the polar bears and penguins are tanning themselves on Fire Island. Or maybe we should completely re-examine our own lives like Saul Griffith, MIT PhD, chief scientist at Makani Power and the most fascinating presenter (despite some 70 slides) at ETech last week.
Sunday April 6, 2008 1:32PM
by Suzanne Axtell
in ETech
Krista Zala mentions ETech in a piece about the DIY movement:
Capturing the spirit of the emerging culture, the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference that took place this week in San Diego, California, ran sessions on how to make aerial drones and on hacking — beyond gadgets to the body, brain and food.
Tuesday April 1, 2008 3:10PM
by Suzanne Axtell
in Velocity
We’ve just heard from program co-chairs Steve Souders and Jesse Robbins that more speakers have been added to the schedule for Velocity, our new web performance and operations conference, including Bill Scott from Netlix on Measuring Performance. The speaker list now includes folks from Microsoft, AOL, Amazon, Sun Microsystems, Mozilla, Farecast, LinkedIn, OpenDNS, plus many others sharing perspectives and expertise.
