Launch Pad Finalists to Receive Real-Time Feedback from Industry Experts
SAN FRANCISCO - March 27, 2009 - O’Reilly Media, Inc. and TechWeb, co-producers of Web 2.0 Expo, Web 2.0 Summit and Gov 2.0 Summit, today announced the five companies chosen to participate in this year’s Launch Pad, sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark. Launch Pad, which takes place Thursday, April 2 during Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco at the Moscone West, is a unique public forum for unveiling distinctive new companies and products. Web 2.0 Expo is the leading global gathering of developers, designers, marketers, and business professionals building the next generation Web. For more information visit: www.web2expo.com/sf.
Web 2.0 Expo’s judging panel of industry experts includes: Anand Iyer of Microsoft BizSpark, Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb and Matt Marshall of Venture Beat. Evaluating each Launch Pad company’s value to their market, the judges selected five finalists to present for five minutes in front of Web 2.0 Expo’s cutting edge audience. John Battelle, Founder/Chairman/CEO of Federated Media and Program Chair of Web 2.0 Summit will emcee the program as the following five companies present on the main stage of Web 2.0 Expo on Thursday, April 2 at 1:15 pm.
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Event Showcases Everything from Major Product Announcements to New Service Launches and More
SAN FRANCISCO - March 23, 2009 -O’Reilly Media, Inc. and TechWeb today preview a sampling of exhibitor announcements to be made at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco, happening March 31 - April 3 this year at Moscone West. Web 2.0 Expos are the leading annual events that bring people, ideas, products, and companies together to build stronger Web 2.0 communities, shaping the next-generation Web. Registration is now open at www.web2expo.com/sf.
“The Web is the innovation engine of our troubled economy,” said Jennifer Pahlka, Web 2.0 Expo General Manager and Co-Chair. “The companies making announcements at Web 2.0 Expo are building out a rich and healthy ecosystem on the Web, helping consumers and businesses find both efficiencies and opportunities. These companies are modeling growth and innovation during a tumultuous time.”
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Sebastopol, CA, March 12, 2009 - O’Reilly Media, Inc., and TechWeb, co-producers of Web 2.0 Expo, Web 2.0 Summit and Gov 2.0 Summit, today announced the lineup of keynotes scheduled for Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009, themed this year around the concept of “the Power of Less.” Captains of industry such as Microsoft’s Stephen Elop, and Google’s Vic Gundotra will share the stage with innovative startups, thought leaders, and creative geniuses. The event takes place March 31-April 3, 2009 at the Moscone West Convention Center. More information available at: http://www.web2expo.com/sf.
“The power of less can mean how to get more done with fewer resources, it can mean the attractive power of simplicity, and it can mean all the ways in which constraints drive creativity and opportunity,” said Jennifer Pahlka, conference co-chair of Web 2.0 Expo. “We wanted to explore how this principle manifests across all sizes and types of organizations and many different roles, in order to spur innovation and help attendees thrive during the downturn.”
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Event Applies Web 2.0 Principles to Stimulate Change in Government
San Francisco, CA, March 9, 2009 - O’Reilly Media, Inc. and TechWeb, co-producers of the annual Web 2.0 Summit and Web 2.0 Expo events, today announce the launch of the Gov 2.0 Summit. This new event will bring government leaders and innovators of Web 2.0 together to explore how technology can enable transparency, participation, collaboration, and efficiency at all levels of government. Gov 2.0 Summit will take place September 9-10, 2009 at the Grand Hyatt in Washington DC, with a follow up Gov 2.0 Expo to take place in 2010. For more information visit http://gov2summit.com.
“The success of the Obama campaign in using new media and participatory democracy techniques has set high expectations for the use of those same techniques in governing,” said Tim O’Reilly, CEO and founder of O’Reilly Media. “Meanwhile, there is enormous talent on the consumer Internet that can be applied to the problems the government is working so hard to tackle. We can uniquely bring these two elements together, and help the leaders in Washington enable transparent, participatory, and efficient government.”
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Program chairs Jesse Robbins and Steve Souders have just unveiled the schedule for the second edition of Velocity, the web performance and operations conference. Building on the very successful premiere of the event last year, Velocity will feature some of the most talented experts in the business, giving all participants the skills and knowledge they need to raise their game and beef up the bottom line–critical functions in this down economy.
A sampling of the speakers and topics on the agenda include:
- Luke Kanies (Reductive Labs), Introduction to Managed Infrastructure with Puppet
- Mandi Walls (AOL), Migrating www.aol.com from a Proprietary Web Platform to Open Source
- John Allspaw and Paul Hammond (Flickr), 10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr
- Bill Scott (Netflix), Event Delegation: Speeding Up the Netflix Queue
- Douglas Crockford (Yahoo!), Ajax Performance
- Richard Campbell (Strangeloop Networks), Death of a Web Server: Crisis in Caching
- Jeremy Zawodny (Craigslist), MySQL Performance from Day #1
- John Adams (Twitter), Fixing Twitter: Improving Its Performance and Scalability
- Stoyan Stefanov (Yahoo!), YSlow 2.0
- Robert Johnson (Facebook), High Performance at Massive Scale - Lessons Learned at Facebook
- Nicole Sullivan, Nine Ways Engineering and Design Come Together to Make Your Site Slow
- Nicholas Zakas (Yahoo!), Writing Efficient JavaScript
New to Velocity 2009 is a full day of workshops, which will immerse participants more deeply into essential issues for making websites fast, scalable, efficient, and available.
Registration is also open; the early registration discount ends May 4.
Program Teaches How to Build a Better Internet
Sebastopol, CA, March 5, 2009—O’Reilly Media has opened early registration for Velocity, the Web Performance and Operations Conference on June 22-24, 2009, at the Fairmont in San Jose, CA. Program chairs Jesse Robbins and Steve Souders have revealed the program for this three-day event dedicated to helping people build better infrastructures. Early registration savings of up to $300 end May 3, 2009.
Velocity provides the place to learn how to build websites and services that raise the standards for fast, scalable, efficient, and reliable performance. Velocity 2009 focuses on accomplishing more with fewer resources, efficient design and scaling techniques, and the best ways to manage change. The program also highlights best practices in performance and operations that improve the user experience as well as the company’s bottom line.
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Innovation Transforms How Readers Receive Content
Sebastopol, CA, March 2, 2009 - The O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, held February 9-11, 2009 in New York City, highlighted the many dynamic possibilities ahead for publishers who embrace a digital future. At the heart of the world’s publishing capital, TOC showcased the tools, the business models, and the knowledge that publishers need to succeed in a changing landscape. The conference deciphered trends and technologies that can keep the industry profitable and more connected to readers.
In a time when naysayers question publishing’s very survival, TOC showed the industry how to flourish.
Featured keynotes included one by Tim O’Reilly, CEO and founder of O’Reilly Media, who gave conference-goers reasons to stay excited and optimistic about the future of publishing. Nick Bilton, who explores technologies for The New York Times R&D Labs, talked about the future of news. Bob Stein, executive director of the Institute for the Future of the Book, said books are no longer objects but instead are becoming places where readers and authors congregate. Other keynote speakers included Chris Baty of NaNoWriMo, Peter Brantley of Digital Library Federation, Neelan Choksi of Lexcycle, Cory Doctorow of Happy Mutants LLC, Jason Epstein of On Demand Books, Jason Fried of 37signals, Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine.com, Sara Lloyd of Pan Macmillan, and Nina Paley of Nina Paley Productions.
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