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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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.

Read the full press release.

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.

Read the full press release.

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.

David Hobbs writes:

The Web 2.0 Expo will be in NYC for the first time this year, and I’m happy to be attending. Although also interested in the grander discussions of the direction of the industry and social aspects, I’m most interested in how things get implemented. On the implementation side, there’s both the technical perspective (the design and architecture of delivering solutions) as well as the people perspective such as consensus-building. In terms of Web Operations Management, I’m most interested in the Execution layer. This implementation aspect seems to get a lot of attention at the conference, and in particular there are several sessions around the theme of managing Web products.

Read the rest of David’s article.

RIchard MacManus supports the “Web Meets World” Auction by offering free passes for the best auction item ideas:

This year the Web 2.0 Summit conference (5-7 Nov) is hosting an auction to benefit a few innovative organizations that are solving big problems.

To show our support for this initiative, ReadWriteWeb is running a competition in this post.

Tom Donoghue previews Web 2.0 Expo New York, happening September 16-19 at the Javits Center.

Arianna Huffington, Marc Benioff and Tim O’Reilly Kickoff Keynote Lineup; Event Registration Now Open

SAN FRANCISCO–TechWeb (formerly CMP) and O’Reilly Media, Inc., co-producers of Web 2.0 Expo, announce some of the keynote speakers for this inaugural East Coast event. Web 2.0 Expo New York will convene the brightest minds of the next-generation Web to celebrate the power, size and innovation of the industry on the East Coast. Web 2.0 Expo New York happens September 16-19, 2008 in the Javits Convention Center.
Registration is now open at:
https://en.oreilly.com/webexny2008/public/register.

Since its dramatic launch in 2007 in San Francisco, Web 2.0 Expo has grown in double digit percentages and expanded to include events in Tokyo and Europe, in addition to the upcoming New York show. The Expo makes the principles and practices of Web 2.0 accessible to a broad and influential audience and has acted as the platform for major exhibitor announcements and launches. The New York event is poised to take advantage of the growing demand for education and networking in the Web 2.0 world, and will highlight the tremendous innovation occurring on the East Coast.

“There’s a thriving Web community on the East Coast, interwoven with the financial, advertising, and consulting industries in New York,” said Jennifer Pahlka, co-chair of Web 2.0 Expo. “Web 2.0 Expo New York is driven by and built for that community—the developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and other Web professionals who are realizing the promise of Web 2.0 in the center of world commerce.”

Speakers in the spotlight at this year’s conference include:

Jay Adelson with digg was suckered out of the world of film and broadcasting into helping kick-start the Internet industry in 1993. Since then, he has helped engineer Netcom, the first ISP in the United States, worked at DEC research lab in Palo Alto to build the secret back-end of the Internet, and founded the billion-dollar Equinix.

Marc Benioff is chairman and CEO of salesforce.com. He founded the company in 1999 with a vision to create an on-demand information management service that would replace traditional enterprise software technology.

Arianna Huffington is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of eleven books. She is also co-host of “Left, Right & Center,” public radio’s popular political roundtable program.

Dan Lyons is a senior editor at Forbes and the author of the The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. Dan joined Forbes in 1998 and wrote for various computer trade publications including CRN and VARBUSINESS before that. He’s been a journalist for 25 years.

Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. Tim’s blog, the O’Reilly Radar #8220;watches the alpha geeks” to determine emerging technology trends and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community.

Clay Shirky divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client/server infrastructure that characterizes the Web.

Gary Vaynerchuk has captured national attention as a businessman and Internet celebrity. Gary’s fame can be attributed to his pioneering, multi-faceted approach to personal branding and business building, currently with winelibrary.tv.

Fred Wilson works with Union Square Ventures and began his career in venture capital in 1987. He has focused exclusively on information technology investments for the past 17 years.

Web 2.0 Expo New York proudly features leading women, with over 40 percent of the keynote lineup being female. In addition to Arianna Huffington, the Web 2.0 keynote stage welcomes Maria Thomas, COO of Etsy, Deborah Schultz, and Irene Greif of IBM, among many other female speakers at the event.

A forum for creativity, engineering, and innovation, Web 2.0 Expo New York includes a multi-track conference, workshops, an “unconference” program called Web2Open, a major tradeshow, and many networking events. Web 2.0 Expo welcomes industry leaders who are participating and exhibiting in this year’s show including Diamond sponsors Microsoft and Salesforce.com;
Platinum sponsor eBay; Gold sponsors Amazon Web Services, curl, Force10, Intuit QuickBase, ONEsite, OpSource and Sun Microsystems; Silver sponsors Acquia, Awareness, BlueArc, Coradiant, Dixero, Jive, Kapow, Lithium, Panther, SynthaSite, Industry Live and WebAsyst.

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Nicole Ferraro reported on conference highlights:

Vysr Beats Yahoo to the Punch With RoamAbout

What’s Next for Social Platforms?

Tim O’Reilly: Web 2.0 Is Not Over

Yahoo: Social Is Dimension, Not Destination
MySpace Talks Apps & Facebook (But Not Yahoo)

Fake Steve Jobs Invades Web 2.0 Expo

Searching for the Next Search Engine

Slideshow: Web 2.0 Expo

The prolific Juan Carlos Perez reports that “Marc Andreessen had no idea that the Mosaic browser he co-developed would kick off the Web revolution and become such an enduring and important piece of software.”

Juan Carlos Perez reports on Expo, starting with the great opening line:

D. Mark Hornung is attending this week’s Web 2.0 Expo because he doesn’t want to get hit by a tsunami.

Web 2.0 Expo earned world wide coverage. Here’s what Jan Becker wrote for German readers

The News Blaze crew covered many of the major events and announcements at Web 2.0 Expo SF.

Bernardo Parrella reports on the conference: Prosegue l’abbraccio tra socialità online e mondo high-tech, mentre al Web 2.0 Expo di San Francisco Tim O’Reilly mette in guardia contro il “lato oscuro” della Rete…

More international coverage of several conference highlights in FayerWayer, Dosis diarias de tecnología en español.™

Mathieu Ramage shares his take on the conference for French readers.

Caroline McCarthy contrasts the revelry of Web Expo parties with the more cautious tone of the conference itself in this post:

The economic attitude of the Web 2.0 Expo hangs in an awkward limbo: The tech industry relies on innovation, but no one can deny that these economic times demand caution. What’s a geek to do?

Mitch Wagner, on FriendFeed:

So I took a break from Web 2.0 Expo to get some alone time with my laptop and FriendFeed. Yes, I am aware of the irony: I have traveled all this way to a conference saturated with social networks, and I left the conference to connect with a social network.

Therese Polleti contributes this article on the shaky future for Web startups:

Comments from savvy executives like Andreessen and a pep talk given by Web 2.0’s Tim O’Reilly, are signals of the tough road awaiting Internet companies looking for venture funding…

Deborah Gage and Ellen Lee look at another side of Web 2.0.

Yardena Arar highlights the coolest startups, innovators and exhibitors on the Expo show floor:

The Web 2.0 Expo at San Francisco’s Moscone Center West, which wraps up today, doesn’t take up a huge amount of space: Startups predominate, and most don’t have money for big flashy booths. But there’s more cool new technology per square foot here than at many big trade shows.

Thomas Clayborn gives Dan Lyons kudos for his engaging Keynote in this post:

I was all set to dislike Lyons, perhaps anticipating that he shared the arrogance of his Fake Steve Jobs character. But he was just too funny. Granted, you have to enjoy snarky, disrespectful insider humor. But I found Lyons’ remarks were more illuminating than many of the more serious presentations at the conference.

Leslie Katz rounds up the highlights, launches and green innovation at Web Expo.

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.

Dave Matthews contributes this article on Keyword Spamming, what it does, what it means for SEO and what Google’s “spam maven” Matt Cutts had to say about it, in his Friday keynote: “What Google knows about Spam.”

Dan Beyers discusses the various lauches by Intridea at Web 2.0 Expo:

Upender, the chief executive of Intridea, said the speed of development today forces the company to rapidly launch and improve products.

Oracle executive offers perspectives on newfangled, data-linking Web apps, including what they need to provide in order to succeed in enterprises
Paul Krill reflects on Oracle’s Vince Casarez’s Wednesday presentation, “Mashing Up: Taking Enterprise Mashups to the Next Level”

George Shirk writes, “Among the various engines driving the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco - and arguably it is the biggest engine - is the attention on all things mobile.”
Shirk continues,

Indeed, on Thursday the conference featured a number of “focus tracks” specifically dealing with mobile. Developers and content specialists crowded in, hoping for clues as to what “Mobile 2.0” will look like.

Susan Kuchinskas covers Artur Bergman’s presentation at Web 2.0 Expo: Tips for startups work for any Internet business.

Over on the Bay Area’s News Station, Brian Shields was very busy at Web 2.0 Expo, shooting over 17 interviews, including this overview with Jen Pahlka:

and this interview with George LeBrun and Joshua Ross, the O’Reilly InPractice team that launched at Web 2.0 Expo:

Everyday new applications and ideas come out that expand the way we’re all able to use the Internet. KRON4.com is giving you a peek inside the future of the web courtesy of some of the innovators and visionaries who attended the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco in April, 2008. Watch the videos, follow the links, and share your thoughts on the Internet’s Next Big Thing.

Check out video of Jennifer Pahlka, General Manager and co-chair of the Web 2.0 Expo and TechWeb, who sat down with Liane to talk about the community-driven content and events.

Jennifer Pahlka On Web 2.0 Expo’s Community Driven Content - Girls Gone Geek from Girls Gone Geek on Vimeo.

Liane also spoke with TechWeb’s VP of Marketing, Stacy O’Connell about the active community that is Web 2.0 Expo.

Web 2.0 Expo Is An Active Community - Girls Gone Geek from Girls Gone Geek on Vimeo.

The open social party is apparently the place to be,” writes Maria M. Diaz:

Even old Microsoft just announced LiveMesh). Now Yahoo, who’s Flickr photo sharing site is the second most popular used API on the web, has rolled out a limited preview to the developer platform they announced in February called SearchMonkey. The limited developer preview was announced by Yahoo! CTO Ari Balogh at his keynote speech at the Web 2.0 Conference held last week in San Francisco.

Fritz Nelson, Executive Producer at TechWeb, talks with Tim O’Reilly at the Web 2.0 Expo 2008 in San Francisco about the corporate and IT uses of Web 2.0.

Ari Balogh, CTO at Yahoo! just offered a preview at Web 2.0 Expo of a very new kind of Yahoo!. One that invites developers to take advantage of our huge scale to write applications that build on our existing properties (think Mail, Sports, Search, our front page, mobile, My Yahoo!, etc.), tap into millions of loyal users, and make Internet experience more relevant and useful.

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.”

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.”

Dean Takahashi posts this on Fake Steve Jobs.

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.

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.

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.

Jon Leland has some great things to say about this year’s event:

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.

At the Web 2.0 Expo, the company unveils its new software-plus-service platform,” writes Darryl K. Taft.

David Spark provides the ‘definitive’ on cool –what was (and wasn’t) at Web 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.”

Josh Catone on the not so clear definitions of Web 2.0, 3.0 - past, present and future.

“Yahoo reveals new strategy of letting outside developers mix search results with other sites,” writes Nathan Halverson.

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.

“An instant portable note-taker, superslick (and easy) Flash Web site creation, and a versatile drop box for all things digital” writes Yardena Arar. “Check out these and other nifty Web-based apps that we saw at the Web 2.0 conference.”

Joyce Park, CTO of Renkoo, talks about the ups and downs of developing applications for Facebook, which she says is tightening up controls on developers after some bad actors used spam and other dirty tricks to increase their user base.

Caroline McCarthy contrasts the after-hours parties with the onstage Web 2.0 Expo presentations in this post.

Video of the Web 2.0 Expo keynote presentations are starting to go up on blip.tv.

TechWebTV’s Fritz Nelson sits down with Zude’s (Fifth Generation Systems) CTO and Chairman, Steve Repetti.

O’Reilly hosts conference on how to make business work in rapidly transforming online world

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?

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).

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.

Fritz Nelson shot this last night:

Juan Carlos Perez of IDG News Service covers news from Yahoo! revealed at the show:

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.

Open Source Solution Powers Secure Data Distribution, Enterprise Mashups, RIAs; Professional Edition, Technical Support Subscriptions Now Available

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.

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?

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.

Rafe Needleman, Caroline McCarthy, and Josh Lowensohn have posted lots from Blogtropol.us, the blogger lounge here at Web 2.0 Expo:

• Web 2.0 Expo: The walkthrough
• Web 2.0 Expo: What to watch for
• Max Levchin envisions an Alcoholics Anonymous app on Facebook
• Flash Web builder tool, Rambla, demos at Web Expo
• Mozilla chairman sets sights on mobile devices
• History lessons with Marc Andreessen
• Live from Web 2.0 Expo!

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.”

Charles Cooper on a very “un-Web 2.0-ish kind of guy,” Steve Pearlman.

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.

Mitch Wagner opines on the Web 2.0 Expo opening keynotes:

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.”

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.”

Michael Copeland reports on a trend identified here at the Web 2.0 Expo:

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.

“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.

“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.

Ubergizmo covers the beta launch of the Profy platform.

Fritz Nelson has posted a nice piece on Ignite, which Web 2.0 Expo co-chair Brady Forrest spearheaded last night at DNA Lounge:

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.

Over on her Eye on Blogs Brittney Gilbert posted a number of entries from the show yesterday:

• Web 2.0 Expo: The Business of Blogging
• More Scenes from the Web 2.0 Expo
• Lunchtime Conversation
• Web 2.0 Best Practices: Widget Words

“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.”

Simon blogged this today: Twitter Seems Useful (at Web 2.0 Expo at least).

“GM is among companies showing a keen interest in Web 2.0“, writes Maggie Shiels. She continues:

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.

O’Reilly InPractice to Extend Web 2.0 Principles Across a Broad Spectrum of Business, Entertainment, and Media Channels

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.

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.

Justine documents her voyage to San Francisco for Web 2.0 Expo.

“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.”

Darryl K. Taft notes that JackBe will ship its Presto 2.0 mashup maker starting April 22.

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.

Paul Krill writes that Serena, JackBe, Kapow are readying mashup products and services, including hosted offering and an online marketplace. “Mashups, which unite disparate data sources in quickly developed Web applications, are a hot topic at the Web 2.0 Expo conference in San Francisco this week, with companies including Serena Software, JackBe, and Kapow Technologies offering new products geared to mashup development.”

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.

“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.

Michael Singer on what’s to come at Web Expo:

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.

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.

“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.

Daniel Terdiman has posted some thoughts about the green efforts Web 2.0 Expo co-chair Jen Pahlka outlined in a recent blog:

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.

Call for Participation Now Open

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/ –CMP and O’Reilly Media, Inc., co-producers of the annual Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco and Web 2.0 Summit, today jointly announced the launch of Web 2.0 Expo New York. The Web 2.0 Expo brand was introduced last April in San Francisco and received an overwhelmingly positive reception, with double the expected attendance and dozens of major announcements. The New York event is poised to take advantage of the demand for education and networking in the Web 2.0 world, and will highlight the many innovative companies and individuals on the East Coast, as well as welcome visitors from around the world.

Here’s the official press release unveiling the preliminary program for this year’s Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco.

This video is actually from the Web 2.0 Berlin event, but offers a great definition of what the phrase Web 2.0 means:

Tim O’Reilly on Web 2.0

The definition, according to the Miami Herald:

The definition of Web 2.0 differs depending on whom you ask.

Rafe Needleman writes: When you go to this site you’ll think I’m covering the company because its homepage says, “Join the Webware revolution.” But Coghead is more than just a slogan I can get behind. It’s a clean online application builder that takes the complex job of creating an online database and makes it almost simple.

No matter how straightforward the development tool, creating a database application is hard intellectual work. Coghead does a good job of getting out of your way so you can focus on your data structure and entry forms. It will still be intimidating for a database newbie, but if you have a smattering of experience with creating your own databases it should make sense.

Read the full post on Webware.com, Hands On.

Michael Singer writes: Microsoft may not have been at the forefront of creating social networks, but the Windows company is ready to lift the lid on a conversation with the new architects of Web 2.0.

The company is launching PhizzPop.com on April 30. The site will serve as a place where companies that build Web 2.0-enabled software can network, exchange ideas, learn about events, browse job postings and even learn a thing or two.

Of course, Microsoft will invite people to show off their stuff, but not in a Channel 9 or 10.Net kind of way. Consider it more like a forum or online conversation where you can show off (or find out who is a show off).

Read the full post on InformationWeek’s Microsoft Weblog.

Barry Levine writes: On Tuesday, Google took another step closer to offering a complete alternative to Microsoft Relevant Products/Services’s ubiquitous Office suite of desktop productivity applications. Eric Schmidt, Google’s chairman and chief executive, announced that the search giant would add presentation software, dubbed Presently, to its emerging lineup of online office software.

“Collaboration is a killer app for how communities work,” Schmidt said in his keynote presentation at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. His presentation was made using Presently, the new software designed to enable presentations to be made and shared over the Web.

Read the full article on Sci-tech-today.com.

Leading Event Series to Bring Together Europe’s Rapidly Growing Web 2.0 Business and Developer Communities

SAN FRANCISCO — O’Reilly Media, Inc. and CMP Technology, co-producers of the annual Web 2.0 Summit and the global Web 2.0 Expo event series, today announced the launch of a new conference and tradeshow that will bring together top leaders and technologists who are building, leveraging, and driving the European web economy. Web 2.0 Expo Berlin, scheduled for November 6-8, 2007, will be held at Fairground Berlin, Germany.

Read the full announcement here.

Marc Orchant reports: I’ve been test driving LeapTag, a new browser add-on for finding content related to topics of interest to you that combines a number of unique ideas I’ve not seen in similar tools. LeapTag, as the name implies, uses tags you define to conduct searches for related content. To help understand your interests and readng preferences, LeapTag can import tags from your del.icio.us account to build a keyword list and allows you to select blogs from your RSS subscriptions to establish a baseline for the kid of news and opinion you like to read. You can import RSS subscriptions from Bloglines, NewsGator Online, or Google Reader in the current beta version.

Read the report on ZDNet.com.

Michael Calore reports: Today’s keynote presentation session at the Web 2.0 Expo kicked off with the Launch Pad event. New companies, hand-picked by the conference organizers, are given five minutes each to demonstrate their products and ideas.

Vidoop’s Luke Sontag stole the show with his demo of his company’s secure website login technology. The Vidoop system is innovative but simple. When a user sets up a Vidoop login (using OpenID if they want), they pick two categories that interest them. Say, “horses and food” or “airplanes and beer.” Every time the user logs in using Vidoop, they see a grid filled with nine images, and each image has a letter associated with it. Two of the images fall within the categories the user picked, so they find those category images and enter the letters in the images. The letters associated with each photo change at each login, defeating keystroke logging.

Read the full post on Wired’s Compiler.

Michael Singer writes: The Web 2.0 Summit was so popular last year that we decided to team up again with O’Reilly and get jiggy with the start-ups. Time to polish up your elevator pitch and don’t forget your score card.

My compatriots and me are hunkered down at the Web 2.0 Expo, which is in San Francisco this week. What strikes me most about this show of 10,000 attendees is the number of people who are passionate about mashups and ubiquitous software… although cooperation is not always the rule of the day. You should see the look on Microsoft’s face when you talk about Adobe’s rich Internet application platforms. It’s not for the squeamish.

Read his article on InformationWeek.com.

The DoubleClick acquisition, Schmidt said, will benefit both Internet users in the form of more relevant ads and publishers in the form of technology to serve relevant ads.

Thomas Claburn writes: At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco Tuesday morning, Google CEO Eric Schmidt presented his company as everyone’s friend, an enabler of communities and an amiable business partner rather than a would-be monopolist of advertising, online software, and user data.

Google’s capacity for evil, or at least monopolistic dominance of the Internet, has long been a concern raised by competitors and pundits, not to mention human rights and privacy activists.

Read the full article on InformationWeek.com.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt just took the stage for a sit-down interview with Federated Media’s John Battelle as part of today’s keyonote presentation at the Web 2.0 Expo. Schmidt started the talk by announcing that Google is releasing its long-awaited spreadsheet application for Google Apps. The slide-show tool is Google Apps’ “missing link” that finally empowers the company to fully compete with Microsoft Windows as a full-featured office productivity suite. Battelle pressed Schmidt about the threat against Microsoft, which Schmidt denied.

“I don’t think we compete with them. We’re not as fully functional as MS Office — we’re more in line with how people use the web than how they use the desktop.”

Read the full article on Wired’s Compiler.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt, relaxed in a pink tie and blue V-neck sweater, jousted with John Battelle on the Web 2.0 stage this morning.

He started off with a little bit of news: Google will add presentation software to its suite of Google Apps.

One would think that’s the PowerPoint piece completing the suite’s ability to compete with Microsoft Office, but Schmidt denied it. “We don’t think” it’s a competitor, he said. “It doesn’t have all the functionality, nor will it ever have all the functionality, of products like Microsoft Office.”

Instead, it’s just a way for people to collaborate. “We have concluded that collaboration is the killer app for how communities work,” he said.

Read the full article on SFGate.com.

CNET has conveniently posted a roundup of Web 2.0 Expo coverage from all their sites on one page on CNET News.com.

Reveling in their success
Thousands converge on San Francisco for Net confab

Dan Fost & Jessica Guynn report: It seems that every official Web 2.0 event brings with it the notion that a new bubble is in full force, and that the increasing success of each conference only proves that the end is near.

If that is so, then the apocalypse is surely upon, as this week’s Web 2.0 Expo is the biggest yet, with 11,000 people converging on Moscone Center West to hear what today’s Internet giants have to say, and sell.

Read the full article on SFGate.com.

JS-Kit launches “JS-Ratings” service to complement existing 2.0 web services.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) April 17, 2007 — JS-Kit today announced release of its much-anticipated “JS-Ratings” service, which lets web sites add the universally recognized, 5 star-scaled feedback feature to any site simply by pasting two lines of HTML, available at http://www.js-kit.com, into their web page or site template.

Offered completely free of charge, JS-Ratings is available as a stand alone service or integrated alongside the existing JS-Comments service. Both versions drive traffic, stickiness and community by encouraging users to offer their considered (and valuable) opinions on virtually any object, whether a pair of shoes, a restaurant or a blogger’s most recent musings. With several off the shelf configurations available, the service is also easily customizable to complement a site’s existing look and feel at http://www.js-kit.com.

Read the full release on emediawire.com.

Marc Orchant writes: It’s been a pretty action-packed day here at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco between a full slate of sessions and a number of briefings with companies who are announcing interesting new or improved products and services here at the event. One of the trends I see is that there a number of companies here that also appeared at DEMO 2007 in January in Palm Desert who are now announcing significant new milestones for the services and products they launched at that event just a few months ago. Web time is indeed becoming increasingly accelerated.

Read Marc’s full post on ZDNet.com.

Zoho Highlighted at Leading Software Events as Company’s Growing Array of
Office 2.0 Offerings Earns Industry Respect

PLEASANTON, Calif., April 16 /PRNewswire/ — As Office 2.0 continues
its evolution from novelty to necessity, Zoho continues to earn industry
respect, building its reputation as a leading provider of Web-based
applications for collaborative business. This month, the company will speak
and exhibit at Web 2.0 Expo and SaaScon, showcasing its growing Office 2.0
suite and sharing insights gleaned from its experience providing customers
with the industry’s broadest set of affordable, high-quality Office 2.0
services.

Find the full release on PR Newswire.

myConduit breaks the download barrier and bonds users with multiple communities in a single click

Redwood Shores, CA — April 16, 2007 — Conduit, the leading platform for building online communities via community toolbars, today announced myConduit, a breakthrough solution for publishers to acquire new community members with just one click. To-date, Conduit has connected over 130,000 publishers with more than twelve million users, and is growing at the rate of a new user every two seconds. myConduit is the breakthrough new channel for publishers to acquire users, and for community toolbar users to connect with tens of thousands of new communities in the Conduit Network. With myConduit users can subscribe to multiple publisher communities without downloading additional community toolbars or sacrificing real estate on their browsers.

Read the full release on conduit.com.

Open API Enables Developer Community to Earn Shares in Cambrian House

Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco, CA -Cambrian House today announced a partnership with Mashery that will enable developers to access Cambrian House’s API, develop mashup applications and, in turn, become owners in Cambrian House. The partnership will help Cambrian House track developer activity and reward them with shares accordingly.

Read the full release on cambrianhouse.com.

Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco, CA - Cambrian House, an online crowdsourcing community that enables members to collaborate around ideas and business, today proclaimed themselves the first Web 2.0 company to be owned in part by its members. Starting today all existing members, and anyone who joins Cambrian House from this point forward, will earn a share in the business. The more engaged they are as members, the more shares they will earn over time.

Read the full release on cambrianhouse.com.

Dan Farber writes: I got a preview of Spock and liked the concept. The software is still under construction, and while it can do some nice tricks, it also demonstrates the difficulty in building a specialty search engine. In addition, I see Spock as more of community site, which starts with people profiles but extends deeply into the social networking sphere, similar to LinkedIn or Facebook but with data gleaned from the entire Web and user inputs.

Read Dan’s preview of Spock on ZDNet’s Between the Lines.

Ryan Stewart reports: Earlier this week, Curl put out a press release that talked about their pending relaunch into the North American market at Web 2.0 Expo. Curl was one of the very early Rich Internet Application players, but they were ahead of their time so didn’t see massive adoption here in the US. In Japan, however, Curl did quite well and has been providing applications to some big clients including Toyota and the bank of Tokyo. The “relaunch” means that Curl will once again bring marketing and sales resources to the North American market. It also coincides with the 5.0 release of the product.

Read Ryan’s full report on ZDNet.

Brady Forrest clues you in on a efficient new tool to plan your days at Web 2.0 Expo:

ExpoCal has all of the views and pivots that you want for figuring out what is happening at a conference. It provides views of sessions by day, tag, and speaker. If you create an account you can make your schedule. People can also share their calendars (here’s mine for the first couple of days). You can see who else is attending a session and what its tags are.

Read Brady’s full report on O’Reilly Radar.

Mike Gunderloy writes: With the Web 2.0 Expo upon us, you’re going to see a lot of site announcements in the next week or so. One that look immediately useful for the web worker is Egnyte, which just went into beta. They’re playing in the same general space as Microsoft Groove or Tubes: applications that let you designate information for sharing on one computer, back it up into the internet cloud when it changes, and then pull it down on to multiple computers when you want it.

Continue reading the post on Web Worker Daily.

Josh Lowensohn reports: Several of the exhibitors at next week’s Web 2.0 Expo have taken it upon themselves to re-create the desktop workspace experience using new Web technologies like Ajax and Adobe Flex. This isn’t a new idea, but what is interesting is how many of them have forgone creating their own tools, and stuck to integrating existing Web services in a stylized portal platform.

Find out what Josh has to say about ZCubes, G.ho.st, and Sparc on Webware.com.

Tim O’Reilly writes: Michael Arrington wrote the other day about spock, the new people search engine, but I have to say that I don’t think he did it justice. Spock is really cool, and performs a unique function that is well outside the range of capabilities of current search engines. What’s more, it’s got a fabulous interface for harvesting user contribution to improve its results.

You can search for a specific person — but you can do that on Google. More importantly, you can search for a class of person, say politicians, or people associated with a topic — say Ruby on Rails.

Continue reading Tim’s post on O’Reilly Radar.

Ulrike Reinhard reports: For the first time Web 2.0 Conference will open its doors tomorrow. Close to 10.000 attendee from 57 countries! Today I had the chance to speak to Brady Forrest, co-Chair for the conference and also responsible for the O’Reilly Radar Blog. Just listen to the attached podcast.

Download the podcast interview on the Who is Who blog.

Brady Forrest, conductor of Ignite, has just posted the Ignite Expo schedule. Eclectic, intriguing, as you’d expect. All are welcome–you can register for a free Expo Hall only pass on-site.

Kristin Edelhauser writes: If you’re interested in learning how to integrate Web 2.0 into your company, this expo’s for you. Web 2.0 Expo is being held April 15 to 18 in San Francisco. It’s a conference for web professionals, marketers and entrepreneurs hoping to learn, network and share ideas with other members of the Web 2.0 community.

Keynote speakers include Jeffrey P. Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, and Eric Schmidt, chairman of the board of directors for Google Inc. Jennifer Black, vice president of marketing for Local.com Corporation, a rapidly growing local search engine, will also be a featured presenter at the expo.

Read Kristin’s full post on Entrepreneur Magazine’s Business Blog.

Rafe Needleman writes: I got a chance to sit down with the founders of the people search engine, Spock, in advance of the company’s grand unveiling, which will be during the LaunchPad sessions at the Web 2.0 Expo. Spock is Yet Another Search Engine, but it’s an important one — it searches for people. You type in a name and it will show you everything it knows about that person and where it found the data. Or, if you search on a term, it will find people that match it. For example, search for “boxer,” and Mohammed Ali shows up, not underpants or dogs.

Read Rafe’s full preview on Webware.com.

Dylan Tweney reports: It’s not too late to get on the “web 2.0″ bandwagon, says publishing magnate Tim O’Reilly, who coined the term. And if you’re wondering what it takes to build a web 2.0 startup, O’Reilly has just the conference for you — the Web 2.0 Expo.

O’Reilly Media and CMP are co-hosting the conference, which runs April 15 to 18 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

Organizers expect between 7,000 and 10,000 people to check out the conference’s 120 exhibitors and seven educational tracks, covering topics from the elementary (web 2.0 fundamentals) to the complex and critical (web operations). O’Reilly describes it as a “how-to conference for web 2.0 developers.”

Read the full report on Wired.com.

Brady Forrest caught Bill Tancer’s presentation at the O’Reilly Radar Executive Briefing yesterday, where he revealed his picks for the next four up and coming Web 2.0 sites. Bill works for Hitwise, a research firm that is able to measure the web activity of millions of internet users.

You can review Bill’s predictions on Brady’s O’Reilly Radar post: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/etech_hitwise_s.html

O’Reilly Media and CMP Technology have just announced the addition of Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo to their 2007 lineup of Web 2.0 events. Given the large number of businesses in Japan interested in Web 2.0 technology, O’Reilly and CMP executives determined that the market was more than ready for this event. Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo is happening November 15-16, 2007, at Izumi Garden Tower in Roppongi, Tokyo.

In the same spirit as the other Web 2.0 events, Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo is designed to be the major annual Japanese gathering of the technical, design, marketing, and business professionals who are building the next generation web.

For more information on Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo, read the press release.

For future updates, visit the event web site at: http://www.cmptech.jp/web2expo/eng/

Internet Event Pioneers Launch First Tradeshow and Conference to Address Web 2.0 Community in Japan

SAN FRANCISCO — O’Reilly Media, Inc. and CMP Technology, co-producers of the annual Web 2.0 Summit and newly created Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, today jointly announced the launch of a new conference and tradeshow that will bring together top leaders and technologists who are building, leveraging and driving the Japanese web economy. Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo, scheduled for November 15-16, 2007, will be held at Izumi Garden Tower in Roppongi, Tokyo.

Read the full announcement here.

Writes Rachel Wimberly:

It was a long, hard road, but dot-commers who stuck around to give the Web another shot have flocked, along with some newcomers, to the Web 2.0 Conference for the last few years to celebrate the second wave of Internet success.

The demand for the conference prompted two of the organizers, O’Reilly Media and CMP Technology, to announce the launch of an expanded version, the Web 2.0 Expo, April 15-18 at Moscone West in San Francisco.

“The timing is right,” said Eric Faurot, CMP Technology’s senior vice president. “The market can support a larger and more cohesive event.”

Yes, we are moving right along here in O’Reilly Conference Land. The latest roll-out is the Call for Participation for our brand new Web 2.0 Expo, the companion event to our Web 2.0 Conference. Web 2.0 Expo will feature workshops and sessions over six tracks, a ginormous exhibit hall (we hope, anyway), and networking galore.

You have until October 30 to submit a proposal; registration opens in the fall. (And I do mean “open”–no invitations required for the Web 2.0 Expo.)

The O’Reilly Conference team and our partners over at CMP are delighted to announce a brand new bundle of conference joy: the first Web 2.0 Expo! Our newest addition to the conference family measures four days in length, weighs in at six parallel sessions and workshop tracks, and sports a full head of expo hall hair.

Enough is enough, I know! Read more about it over on the O’Reilly Radar and here’s the official press release.