The UK’s Digital Mission to the US centered around Web 2.0 Expo New York. Read their enthusiastic reports here.
September 2008 Archives
Web 2.0 Expo
Guillaume Grallet avec Tim O’Reilly à Web 2.0 Expo NY:
…. sera celui des objets. C’est du moins le point de vue de Tim O’Reilly, l’inventeur du concept du Web 2.0, qui sera de passage dans un mois en Europe - il devrait notamment se rendre à Berlin au Web 2.0 Europe Summit - et qui a accordé quelques minutes de son temps à Nos Futurs.
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Brian Braiker talks to Tim O’Reilly about the future of Web 2.0
I spoke with Web 2.0 phrase-coiner, publishing magnate and open source activist Tim O’Reilly at his very own Web 2.0 Expo last week.
Several articles by Abby Seiff and Paul Adams covering Web 2.0 Expo NY:
This week everyone’s at the Web 2.0 Expo at New York City’s Javits Center. Abby reported on a technology that makes your computer talk to you; I met a couple of brothers who were at the show to promote their invention, wherein you talk to your computer.
Read this article and more.
Mary Kathleen Flynn interviews Tim O’Reilly at Web 2.0 Expo NY:
“How can we use this technology to solve real-world problems?,” ponders Tim O’Reilly, who coined the term Web 2.0 four years ago when he hosted a San Francisco conference on the topic.
“There’s been a lot of focus on silly consumer applications, like Facebook throwing sheep,” says O’Reilly in a video interview from the Web 2.0 Expo in New York City last week.
Watch the video.
Claire Cain Miller writes about Union Square Ventures at Web 2.0 Expo NY:
From the day he founded Etsy in 2005, Rob Kalin refused to raise money from venture capital firms to expand his company, which hoped to bring the sale of handmade crafts from small local fairs to the international marketplace of the Web.
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Richard Treadway reflects on his week at Web 2.0 Expo NY:
Last week I was with Curl at Web2.0 Expo in New York. The show was at the Jacob Javits center and shared the exhibition hall with Interop. The Javits show floor is huge with Web2.0 and Interop each sharing half. The difference between the 2 exhibitions was dramatic. The Web2.0 had the typical start-up small booths where as the Interop side had sophisticated presentations and lots of consumer style gimmicks like a race car replica / video game and a beautiful custom made motorcycle shown below.
Read Richard’s blog.
Josh Catone reports on Arianna Huffington’s keynote chat with Tim O’Reilly at Web 2.0 Expo NY:
The secret to success is passion, said Arianna Huffington, founder and editor-in-chief of the web’s top ranked blog (according to Technorati) the Huffington Post, as she sat down for a keynote chat with Tim O’Reilly on the final day of the Web 2.0 Expo in New York this week. The “obsessive compulsive nature of the web” is what first attracted her to blogging, said Huffington, and the ability for people to make a difference on the Internet by just plugging away at what they believe in, regardless of how small their voice is.
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Maurene Caplan Grey: E-Communications & Community
I seek instant gratification from 2.0 applications that measure high on my “wow-ness” barometer. Therefore, I was on cloud nine (pun intended) at the 2008 Web 2.0 NYC Expo.
Read what Fraser Kelton of Adaptive Blue said in the The Real, Long-lasting (and Negative) Impact of Web 2.0 on Technology Adoption session here.
Tom Smith with an interesting quote overheard at Web 2.0 Expo NY:
After three days at Web 2.0, it’s clear the event has a bicoastal following and things in the Web 2.0 space are moving fast enough that it’s not overkill to hold it multiple times a year in multiple places.
Here’s just one paraphrased example from a conversation I (unfortunately) overheard that was a testament to Web 2.0’s sway over attendees: “my daughter was born two weeks ago. I was getting concerned that she would be born this week and I’d miss the show.”
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt highlights conference speaker Dan Lyons at Web 2.0 Expo NY:
Dan Lyons the former Forbes editor whose brilliant Web parodies of Apple’s CEO entertained tech enthusiasts for two years, publicly apologized Friday to those who complain that he’s not funny since he stopped writing as his alter ego, the Fake Steve Jobs.
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Josh Catone discusses keynote address by Albert Wenger of Union Square Ventures
Cloud computing is a term that has been bandied about a lot the past couple of years. Like “Web 2.0,” it’s a term that has been adopted by companies and used for marketing purposes and for which everyone has their own definition. In a session this week at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York, Albert Wenger of Union Square Ventures — which invests in some cloud computing startups, such as 10gen — laid out his thoughts on what makes the cloud the cloud.
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We’re posting videos of all the keynotes. Watch the luminaries of Web 2.0 discuss what matters now and what will matter next. View them here.
The hakia blog hosted the Alternative Search Engine party to celebrate the Web 2.0 Expo in New York
Last night we hosted the Alternative Search Engine party to celebrate the Web 2.0 Expo in New York. We would like to thank Charles Knight, the editor of AltSearchEngines, for organizing this great event that brought together alternative search engines based in New York or visiting the Big Apple.
Check out some pics of the event.
Watch Mary Kathleen Flynn’s interview with Fred Wilson, Tim O’Reilly and the creators of Lonelygirl15 as they react to the Crisis on Wall Street at the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC.
Watch the video.
Larry Dignan highlights a message from Drew Bartkiewicz of The Hartford at Web 2.0 Expo NY:
Web 2.0-or its business cousin Enterprise 2.0-sounds great on the surface. Who doesn’t like lightweight applications, users who become de facto developers and content creators and authentic market intelligence? Businesses would be silly to not jump head first into these newfangled technologies right? Not so fast. There are big risks to companies both large and small and few are paying attention.
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Chris Snyder reporting on Tim O’Reilly’s message at Web 2.0 Expo NY:
Open source evangelist Tim O’Reilly has a small request for all you Web 2.0 startup wannabes: While you’re working on your first billion, do a little something to save the world, OK?
Read the article.
Claire Cain Miller covers Web 2.0 Expo NY:
How many more new social networking or micro-blogging or video-sharing site can one person use? Most of us don’t have time to respond to voice mail and e-mail every day, let alone check our Twitter updates and Facebook accounts and Flickr friends. And even if we have the time, do we need another site that helps us share and connect and network?
Read the article. Scroll to the bottom for Crowdvine creator Tony Stubblebine’s comment.
Josh Catone highlights Gary Vaynerchuk’s keynote address at Web 2.0 NY:
With all due respect to Fred Wilson and Jason Fried, who gave great talks, it was really Gary Vaynerchuk who stole the show at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York today. Vaynerchuk, who is behind the ultra popular wine-centric video blog Wine Library TV, delivered the last of the day’s keynote’s at the conference. And though he was at times a little over excited for his own good, and contradicted himself once or twice (for example, he urged the audience to both not worry about making money and make sure they have a sound business model), his message was essentially very simple: Do what makes you happy and rock as hard as you can at it.
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…says Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media of the web 2.0 conference. We talked to him about web 2.0, enterprise 2.0 and what will be next on the Internet.
Watch the video of Ulrike Reinhard’s interview with Tim O’Reilly at Web 2.0 Expo NY,
Ray Capece on what he’s learned at Web 2.0 Expo NY:
My charter with Venture Files is to contribute to and promote entrepreneurship and the startup scene around DC in general. Now, as I’ve warned, my posts may reveal my bias towards the Web 2.0 world. (It’s what my startup is about.) But heck I’m at the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC, so . . .
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NY1’s Adam Balkin reports from Web 2.0 Expo NY:
Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, Twitter, these are typically the types of sites that one thinks of when they hear the phrase “Web 2.0.” Though, as you’ll find at the first annual Web 2.0 Expo in N.Y., the official definition for what is “Web 2.0,” it is constantly under revision.
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Chris Snyder reporting from Web 2.0 Expo NY:
The Web 2.0 Expo in New York may have the misfortune of happening during the worst week for tech companies since the collapse of the bubble and a global equities meltdown born of a unrelenting crisis of confidence — but you wouldn’t know it from the unbridled optimism and business-as-usual attitude during a slew of presentations to the young and the hungry.
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Follow the CNET crew as it rubs elbows with managers, VCs, and business strategists in exploring how businesses are embracing Web 2.0 technologies.
Chris Snyder on the “Calling All Innovators” Challenge
Dean Kamen has teamed up with Forum Nokia to encourage young mobile developers to create the next big application to benefit society. The contest “Calling All Innovators,” which they announced today at Web Expo 2.0 in New York, will award up to $150,000 dollars to the winner, and Nokia will help him or her to distribute the application.
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Judy Breck: How to Recognize The Future When It Lands On You
The cloud is becoming a place where small schools — even individual classes or assignments — can do their educating in the connective digital ecology. Educators early on thought of top-down, systemwide ways for wiring schools and managing digital edu stuff. At the Web 2.0 Expo I found an example of a method that works in the opposite way. What I found works for projects other schools, of course, but I have been looking for how Web 2.0 can impact teaching and learning, and here is a powerful way:
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Ulrike Reinhard interviews Jennifer Pahlka at Web 2.0 Expo NY:
Today started Web 2.0 Expo in New York. We were lucky to talk to Jennifer Pahlka, co-chair of the conference. She gave us some hints what to expect in Berlin …
Watch the video.
Amanda Fung: Beginning Monday, the first Big Apple-hosted Web 2.0 Expo will take over the Javits Center, bringing with it technology geeks from all over the globe.
Tech geeks from around the world will descend upon Manhattan’s Jacob Javits Convention Center next week to show off their latest Web creations. For the first time, the Big Apple will host the Web 2.0 Expo, a tradeshow and conference bringing the Internet community together for workshops and panel discussions. The four-day event, co-produced by O’Reilly Media and TechWeb, begins Monday evening. So far, 5,000 attendees—about 10% of them from overseas and 47% from outside the tri-state area—have signed up to attend. And about 125 tech companies will showcase their new products.
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Judy Breck on blogging about education at Web 2.0 Expo NY
The title of this post is the subject of Clay Shirky’s keynote that he will deliver next Thursday at the Web 2.0 EXPO in New York City. Shirky is on the Advisory Board for this first time appearance of O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 EXPO in New York City .
A proud New Yorker myself, I will be blogging at the Web 2.0 EXPO, which will be held at Javitz Center from September 16-19. I will be looking for Web 2.0 ideas that can and/or could apply to education.
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RailsConf Europe 2008 Delivers Advanced Skills to European Rails Community
Berlin Conference Showcases Successful Rails Experts from around the World
Sebastopol, CA, Sept. 12, 2008—The third annual RailsConf Europe September 2-4 in Berlin gave the dynamic European Rails community exactly what it asked for: Technical tools to match its advancing skills. From the ambitious novice to the experienced programmer, Europe’s Rails users said they wanted in-depth sessions and real-world solutions that would give them an edge in innovation and productivity. Co-presenters Ruby Central and O’Reilly Media gave them what they wanted.
“It was particularly gratifying to hear from many attendees that they found the program content more advanced and more instructive than last year,” program chair David A. Black said. “It’s always hard to fine-tune the level of talks across a big program like this, and I’m really glad to have evidence that people overall felt it had gone in the right direction.”
Web 2.0 Expo
Leading Web 2.0 Keynotes from Europe and the US Will Meet in Berlin to Share Key Insights on the Progress and State of Web 2.0
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 12 — TechWeb and O’Reilly Media, Inc., co-producers of the annual Web 2.0 Summit and the global Web 2.0 Expo event series, today announced the second annual Web 2.0 Expo Europe, a conference for Web 2.0 leaders and technologists who are building, leveraging, and driving the European Web economy. Web 2.0 Expo Europe, scheduled for October 21-23, 2008, will be held at a new venue, the Berliner Congress Center in Berlin, Germany.
Web 2.0 Expo is a major gathering of technical, design, marketing, and business professionals, from all across Europe and the US. This year’s event will provide a mix of inspirational, theoretical and practical sessions with keynotes from major European and US entrepreneurs and CEOs. Sample themes that will be discussed at this year’s conference include Financing your Start-up, Mobile 2.0, Cloud Computing, and Social Network Advertising. Conference organizers have redesigned Web 2.0 Expo Europe to address the dynamic culture of Web 2.0 and lessons learned from the 2007 event.
Die deutsche Version der Pressemitteilung finden Sie hier.
An Evening of Geek Performances Co-Presented by the New York Television Festival
NEW YORK, Sept. 11 — Web 2.0 Expo, produced by O’Reilly
Media, Inc. and TechWeb, partners with the New York Television Festival
(NYTVF) to present the second Ignite NYC, an evening of dynamic, original,
and often surprising five-minute presentations from members of the Web 2.0
community. The event will be held on Monday, September 15th, 7pm - 10pm at
New World Stages, 340 West 50th Street. Web 2.0 Expo New York happens
September 16-19, 2008 in the Javits Convention Center.
Web 2.0 Expo New York and NYTVF tap into the burgeoning population of
Web innovators and geeks in New York City, showcasing their creativity by
imposing strict constraints: each talk is exactly five minutes long, and
exactly 20 slides, advancing automatically every 15 seconds. Ignite NYC
happens the night before NYTVF’s very first Digital Day, dedicated to
exploring the creative side of the digital frontier and the opportunities
created for producers exploring this space.
Inaugural New York Event Serves as Platform for Global Web Industry
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8 — O’Reilly Media, Inc. and TechWeb, today preview product and market announcements that will be made at the upcoming Web 2.0 Expo New York. Web 2.0 Expos are the leading global gatherings of developers, designers, marketers, and business professionals building the next generation Web. Web 2.0 Expo New York happens September 16-19, 2008 in the Javits Convention Center and will welcome over 120 exhibitors. Registration is now open at https://en.oreilly.com/webexny2008/public/register.
“The companies that are making their announcements in New York recognize the power of Web 2.0,” said Jennifer Pahlka, Web 2.0 Expo General Manager and Co-Chair. “Web 2.0 Expo New York is clearly meeting a need in the market. We’re gathering the community and providing a platform for the most innovative industry in our economy today.”
The line-up of Web 2.0 Expo New York exhibitors making announcements or demonstrating new products for the first time will grow as the event nears and currently includes:
Read the full listing.
Szeryf Kowalczyk with informative details of sessions at RailsConf Europe:
It seems that I got too carried away writing about DHH keynote and forgot to mention other session I’ve been to that day. The first one was Hacking the Mid-End: Unobtrusive Scripting and Advanced UI Techniques in Rails, then Rails Software Metrics and Modeling Denormalization - The Speed You Need, the Order You Crave. I’m going to cover each one below.
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David A. Black: I got home yesterday from RailsConf Europe 2008 in Berlin, and am very happy to say that the event was a major success.
It was particularly gratifying to hear from many attendees that they found the program content more advanced and more instructive than last year. It’s always hard to fine-tune the level of talks across a big program like this, and I’m really glad to have evidence that people overall felt it had gone in the right direction.
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Jonathan Weiss sums up his 2nd day at RailsConf Europe:
Day two of RailsConf Europe 2008 is over and so are my two sessions.
On tutorial day Mathias and I did a 4h workshop on deploying and monitoring Rails applications. The tutorial went really well, apart from the AirportExpress base station not coping with 100 laptops connecting to it. In the practical part we had a FreeBSD server with 40 virtual machines running and helped the audience deploy an example application with git or svn and Mongrel or mod_rails.
On day two I held my Security on Rails session where I go over the various attacks and countermeasures against Rails applications. This session was also well received and I hope I could educate people a bit about WebAppSecurity.
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Johannes Fahrenkrug participates in Community Code Drive in Berlin:
I’m in the keynote session right now and day 2 of this year’s RailsConf Europe is almost over. Yesterday was actually the tutorial sessions day, which I didn’t book. But a much more exciting thing was going on in a small room down the hall: The Community Code Drive. I was one of the first guys in the room in the morning and was quickly joined by other developers and David Black, who quickly explained that the plan for the code drive was that there is no plan. You could just suggest a project that you’d like help with and then hope that someone would like to hack away at it with you.
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ETech
Living, Reinvented: The Technology of Abundance and Constraints
ETech Opens Call for Participation and Invites Proposals
Sebastopol, CA–The O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference will explore the technology of abundance and constraints March 9-12, 2009, at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California. O’Reilly Media and Program Chair Brady Forrest invite proposals for ETech 2009 conference sessions, panel discussions, and tutorials, as well as brief and rapid-fire High Order Bits.
ETech will gather hackers, grass roots developers, researchers, strategists, makers, thought leaders, artists, entrepreneurs, business developers, venture capitalists, city planners, medical professionals, life scientists, CxOs and IT managers, doers, and other technical visionaries. These futurists will turn their energies toward reinventing the ways in which their lives, and those of the entire world, can use new technologies. Centered around the technology of abundance and constraint, the program will define how those technologies can intersect for a better world.
Read more here.
MySQL Conference and Expo
Open Source and Database Enthusiasts Gather to Work/Learn Together
Sebastopol, CA–O’Reilly Media has opened the Call for Participation for the 2009 MySQL Conference & Expo, scheduled for April 20-23, in Santa Clara, California. Conference program chair Colin Charles and the program committee invite proposals for conference sessions, panel discussions, and tutorials. More than 2,000 attendees are expected to participate in over 120 sessions at next year’s event.
Proposals can be submitted here. The deadline runs through October 22, 2008.
Co-presented by O’Reilly Media and Sun Microsystems, the MySQL Conference & Expo is the largest gathering of MySQL developers, users, and DBAs worldwide. The event reflects MySQL’s wide-ranging appeal and capabilities. The open atmosphere of the MySQL Conference & Expo helps IT professionals and community members create the best database applications, tools, and software through expert instruction, hands-on tutorials, and interaction with readily available MySQL developers. Users gain the knowledge they need to rapidly build solid applications with MySQL that scale with the enterprise. New to the 2009 program will be MySQLCamp, a place where any and all participants can create an “unconference” within the larger event.
Casper Fabricius’ blog summary of David Heinemeier Hansson’s keynote address:
Be proud of your legacy code. Extract concerns. Make exceptions from DRY. David Heinemeier Hansson’s keynote at RailsConf Europe 2008 was titled “Living with legacy software”, and centered around the notion of how to deal with your own old code. The article summarizes the talk.
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- November 16-19, 2009
- New York, NY
