O’Reilly Conference Opens Call for Participation
Sebastopol, CA, November 17—Want to make your websites fast, scalable, efficient, and reliable? O’Reilly’s Velocity, the Web Performance and Operations Conference on June 22-24, 2009, at the Fairmont in San Jose, CA, shows how to develop those traits. Dedicated to helping people build better infrastructures, Velocity offers developers and engineers the key for crossing over from cool Web 2.0 features to sustainable websites. Program chairs Jesse Robbins and Steve Souders have opened the call for participation and invite proposals for conference sessions, panels, and a newly added full day of tutorials at Velocity 2009.
“Velocity pulls together industry leaders covering the most important areas of web performance and operations. I’m looking forward to discussing how to get the most out of the latest browsers including Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3, Safari 4, and Chrome. The competition is really strong in this area, especially with regard to JavaScript performance,” says Steve. “Another theme we’re highlighting is best practices in performance and operations that improve the user experience as well as the company’s bottom line. These are the best kind of win-win optimizations that everyone can rally behind.”
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Closing the summit is former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who famously went from losing the 2000 presidential election to winning an Academy Award for the global-warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth and a Nobel Peace Prize. He came to the Web 2.0 Summit to talk, at least in part, about Current Media, a Web video company he co-founded that partnered up with Web darlings Digg and Twitter to cover the election last week.
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Riding the tailwind of an historical election, Web 2.0 Summit set out to establish the Web as part of that history thanks to a dynamic, provocative panel that included Arianna Huffington (Huffington Post), Gavin Newsom (yeah, that one: Mayor of San Francisco), and Joe Trippi (political consultant).
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Sebastopol, CA, November 6, 2008—Registration has opened for ETech, the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, scheduled for March 9-12 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California. Conference chair Brady Forrest has unveiled the program, which explores the technology of abundance and constraints to discover ideas that matter.
ETech is O’Reilly Media’s flagship “O’Reilly Radar” event. Since 2002, ETech has put onstage ideas for radical innovation, bringing to light the disruptive yet important innovations that we see on the horizon, rather than the ones that have already arrived.
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Dr. Larry Brilliant, today’s first speaker at the annual Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, has marked a turn in the tone of this seminal conference. Brilliant, a long-time philanthropist who has spent his life helping fight disease around the world, is the executive director of Google.Org, the search giant’s attempt to make a difference in the world, and he opened the main stage conversations and “high order bits,” with John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly.
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As part of the continuing theme of do-good at Web 2.0 Summit 2008, Lance Armstrong, unretired cyclist-cum-philanthropist extraordinaire took the main stage as the dinner keynote. This was the only appearance he agreed to honor after announcing his cycling comeback and his visit was much anticipated. It didn’t disappoint.
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Sold-out Event Explores the Intersection of World and Web
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3 — TechWeb and O’Reilly Media, Inc.,
co-producers of the annual Web 2.0 Summit (http://www.web2summit.com),
announced that this exclusive event has sold out for the fifth consecutive
year. The event’s program will look at how the technologies, values and
cultures of the Web can address the world’s most pressing limits. Web 2.0
Summit, which takes place November 5-7 at the Palace Hotel in San
Francisco, will bring the great minds of our time together this week as
leaders of the Internet economy turn their attention to the solutions the
Web can provide to the world at large.
With complex systems seemingly reaching their limits, it has become
apparent that the Web provides an avenue for new ways to address these
limits. The Web’s greatest inventions are, at their core, social movements.
Reflecting that growth, the program has expanded to include leaders in the
fields of healthcare, genetics, finance, global business and politics.
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Insights from Found co-chair, Vanessa Fox’s Blog:
Those of you who work in search marketing know that there’s a ton that goes into search engine optimization. And solutions, particularly for technical issues, can be complicated. It’s easy to say that a site shouldn’t use tracking parameters in URLs, but it’ a bit harder to really dig into the optimal solution that takes into account why the tracking parameters are used and what the system architecture that processes them is like.
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