White Paper Previews Key Concepts for Web 2.0 Summit’s Sixth Anniversary
SAN FRANCISCO, June 23 - O’Reilly Media and TechWeb, co-producers of the Web 2.0 Summit, announce the release of a white paper and an accompanying webcast on Web Squared, which will define the next phase of the Web. The free webcast is scheduled for Thursday, June 25th at 10:00 am PDT, and the white paper will be available on the conference web site shortly thereafter. To sign up for the webcast visit http://www.web2summit.com/web2009/public/content/webcast.
The Web Squared white paper, by Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle, addresses the evolution of the Web from the emergence of Web 2.0 to its current and future state, illustrating how the principles articulated in 2004 have evolved the Web so dramatically that they fundamentally changed the game. The authors see a new direction for the Web, one that opens incredible new business opportunities, and enormous new possibilities for impacting the world’s most pressing problems.
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Open source technologies are some of the most economical choices you can make for your business and we’ve just made it a little easier to get the info you need to maximize the value open source affords: The early registration discount for the O’Reilly Open Source Convention has been extended to June 23, 2009!
At OSCON 2009, you’ll explore how to migrate from expensive commercial installations, the latest innovations in network administration designed to increase efficiency, ways to keep your system scaled and optimized for time-saving performance, and much, much more.
In just five short days, OSCON packs in the richest, most diverse open source content around. Hundreds of experts lead sessions in over 20 tracks, offering hype-free guidance to give your business a solid footing for success, from cloud computing and Linux to Python, web apps, and beyond.
OSCON takes place in San Jose, California at the McEnery Convention Center. Join with nearly 3,000 other programmers, developers, engineers, admins, educators, and managers from around the world for a nowhere-but-OSCON learning and networking experience.
Be sure to save by signing up for OSCON before the early registration discount ends on June 23, 2009.
New Event to Bestow Govie Awards and Host Apps for America 2 Competition
Sebastopol, CA, June 3, 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 Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase, a one day event featuring government projects that leverage the Web as a platform. The event will highlight the projects leading toward transparency, participation and collaboration in government. Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase will take place September 8, 2009 at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC.
The Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase will feature 20 government 2.0 projects in five categories, selected by a panel of judges, and will bestow the first ever Govie Awards to the top project in each category. In addition, the Showcase will host the Sunlight Foundation’s Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge, the winner of which will also receive a Govie.
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