Tim O'Reilly Interview

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by Derrick Story
Network Newsletter for 12/03/2002

Dear Reader,

One of my favorite George Carlin jokes goes something like this:

"If you have a table covered with odds and ends and they're all swept off except for one, what's left? An odd or an end?"

This thought came to mind when I was reading Tim O'Reilly's just-published interview with Jennifer Buckendorff, where Tim has the opportunity to address a variety of technology topics that have been on his mind lately. At first these topics seem unrelated (iPod, Web Services, JXTA) but by then end of the interview, they all seem to magically fit together.

Tim also mentions the upcoming Emerging Technology Conference in Santa Clara, California next April, which is the place where he gets to interact with the alpha geeks he cites as technological trendsetters.

If you're interested in the topics that Tim covers in his interview, you might want to consider attending the Etech Conference, which has much of this same flavor.

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One last thought ... Tim also touches on Apple's iApps in his interview, and we've just published a piece that shows how the iApps work together to form an ad hoc IDE for digital content creation ("iApp Power Play").

So, does that make this article an odd or an end?

Until next week,

Derrick

Derrick Story
O'Reilly Network Managing Editor
derrick@oreilly.com

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