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Tim O'Reilly

http://twitter.com/timoreilly

Sebastopol, California

Areas of Expertise:

  • Web 2.0
  • open source
  • emerging technologies

Biography

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. In addition to Foo Camps ("Friends of O'Reilly" Camps, which gave rise to the "un-conference" movement), O'Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the Web 2.0 Summit, the Web 2.0 Expo, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the Gov 2.0 Summit, and the Gov 2.0 Expo. Tim's blog, the O'Reilly Radar, "watches the alpha geeks" to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim's long-term vision for his company is to change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators. In addition to O'Reilly Media, Tim is a founder of Safari Books Online, a pioneering subscription service for accessing books online, and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, an early-stage venture firm.

Books

The Twitter Book The Twitter Book
by Tim O'Reilly , Sarah Milstein
May 2009
Print: $19.99
Ebook: $15.99

Free is More Complicated than You Think Free is More Complicated than You Think
by Tim O'Reilly
April 2008
Print: $39.95

Windows XP in a Nutshell Windows XP in a Nutshell
by David A. Karp , Tim O'Reilly , Troy Mott
Second Edition January 2005
Print: $44.99

Unix Power Tools Unix Power Tools
by Shelley Powers , Jerry Peek , Tim O'Reilly , Mike Loukides
Third Edition October 2002
Print: $74.99
Ebook: $55.99

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UNIX Power Tools UNIX Power Tools
by Jerry Peek , Mike Loukides , Tim O'Reilly , et al.
October 2002
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Windows XP in a Nutshell Windows XP in a Nutshell
by David A. Karp , Tim O'Reilly , Troy Mott
April 2002
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Peer-to-Peer Peer-to-Peer
by Nelson Minar , Marc Hedlund , Clay Shirky , Tim O'Reilly , Dan Bricklin , David Anderson , Jeremie Miller , Adam Langley , Gene Kan , Alan Brown , Marc Waldman , Lorrie Faith Cranor , Aviel Rubin , Roger Dingledine , Michael Freedman , David Molnar , Rael Dornfest , Dan Brickley , Theodore Hong , Richard Lethin , Jon Udell , Nimisha Asthagiri , Walter Tuvell , Brandon Wiley
February 2001
Print: $29.95
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Windows 98 in a Nutshell Windows 98 in a Nutshell
by Tim O'Reilly , Troy Mott , Walter Glenn
August 1999
Print: $44.99
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Windows 95 in a Nutshell Windows 95 in a Nutshell
by Tim O'Reilly , Troy Mott
June 1998
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UNIX  PowerTools UNIX PowerTools
by Jerry Peek , Tim O'Reilly , Mike Loukides
Second Edition August 1997
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Using & Managing UUCP Using & Managing UUCP
by Ed Ravin , Tim O'Reilly , Dale Dougherty , Grace Todino-Gonguet
January 1996
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Volume 3: X Window System User's Guide Volume 3: X Window System User's Guide
by Valerie Quercia , Tim O'Reilly
Fourth Edition June 1994
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X Users Guide Motif R5 X Users Guide Motif R5
by Valerie Quercia , Tim O'Reilly
Second Edition June 1994
Print: $34.95

Volume 4: X Toolkit Intrinsics Programming Manual Volume 4: X Toolkit Intrinsics Programming Manual
by Adrian Nye , Tim O'Reilly
Third Edition August 1992
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X Toolkit Intrinsics Prog  Vol 4M X Toolkit Intrinsics Prog Vol 4M
by Tim O'Reilly , Adrian Nye
Second Edition August 1992
Print: $34.95

The X Window System in a Nutshell The X Window System in a Nutshell
Second Edition May 1992
OUT OF PRINT

Managing UUCP and Usenet Managing UUCP and Usenet
by Grace Todino-Gonguet , Tim O'Reilly
Tenth Edition June 1990
OUT OF PRINT
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termcap and terminfo termcap and terminfo
by John Strang , Linda Mui , Tim O'Reilly
April 1988
Print: $29.95

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Articles

Blog

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Safari Books Online 6.0: A Cloud Library as an alternate model for ebooks

October 27 2009

There has been a lot of attention paid to ebooks lately, and for good reason. Electronic books are portable, searchable, and more affordable than print books. The web has accustomed readers to having the latest information at their fingertips; we all ask why books should be any less available "on… read more

Thoughts on the Whitehouse.gov switch to Drupal

October 25 2009

Yesterday, the new media team at the White House announced via the Associated Press that whitehouse.gov is now running on Drupal, the open source content management system. That Drupal implementation is in turn running on a Red Hat Linux system with Apache, MySQL and the rest of the LAMP stack.… read more

Web 2.0 Summit Starts Today

October 20 2009

Last year at Web 2.0 Summit, one prominent tech executive responded to our focus on "Web meets World" -- the way web technology is being used to attack the world's problems -- by saying "I don't come to this conference to learn how to do good. I come to learn… read more

My Conversation with Austan Goolsbee at Web 2.0 Summit

October 15 2009

He introduces himself as "another tall, skinny guy with big ears and a funny name." Economics adviser to Barack Obama during the campaign, and now a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and chief economist of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board, Austan Goolsbee is a key figure in… read more

Blog Action Day 2009: Climate Change

October 15 2009

Today is Blog Action Day 2009. This is an annual event, held every October 15, with a goal of encouraging an outpouring of simultaneous comment on an important issue calling for global action. This year, the designated subject is climate change. Back in January, I wrote a blog post summarizing… read more

"He not busy being born is busy dying"

October 14 2009

I found myself quoting that great Bob Dylan line the other day on a mailing list for those dealing with the changes sweeping through the publishing industry. Michael Coffey from Publisher's Weekly wrote an eloquent and moving lament that expresses the fear of many that the book might be losing… read more

Microsoft Press Enters Strategic Alliance with O'Reilly

September 24 2009

Today, Microsoft and O'Reilly Media announced an agreement to support and expand Microsoft Press. Under the terms of the strategic alliance, O'Reilly will be the exclusive distributor of Microsoft Press titles and co-publisher of all Microsoft Press titles, on Nov. 30, 2009. We'll be working with Microsoft to develop new… read more

What Does Government 2.0 Mean To You?

August 26 2009

As many of you know, I've built a new conference, Gov 2.0 Summit, around the idea of the government as platform: how can government design programs to be generative, to use Zittrain's phrase? How do we get beyond the idea that participation means "public input" (shaking the vending machine to… read more

Seeing Our Culture With Fresh Eyes

July 23 2009

The other day, I read a novel called Prester John, by John Buchan, published in 1910. This story about a Zulu uprising in South Africa as experienced by a young Scottish immigrant is an entertaining read in the spirit of Rudyard Kipling or H. Rider Haggard: adventure in the furthest… read more

Radical Transparency: The New Federal IT Dashboard

June 30 2009

Today, at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York, Vivek Kundra, the US national CIO, unveiled the new IT spending dashboards at usaspending.gov. The dashboards are designed to help Vivek and the CIOs of individual government agencies get a handle on the effectiveness of government IT spending. At the top… read more

My 140conf Talk: Twitter as Publishing

June 24 2009

I spoke at Jeff Pulver's 140conf a few weeks ago. My subject was the continuity of what I do, from publishing through conferences through my presence on twitter. I tried to draw the connections, and to explain how "social media" means drawing from, curating, and amplifying the voices of a… read more

A Manifesto on Health Data Rights

June 23 2009

As a medical patient, I've always assumed that my medical records were something that I had a right to - after all, they are about me, and my freedom to share them with a second doctor, or see them myself so I can understand my own medical situation, seems self-evident.… read more

Velocity: The Art of Web Operations

June 22 2009

Two years ago, at the 2007 O'Reilly Open Source Convention, a group of web operations professionals, led by Jesse Robbins and Steve Souders along with O'Reilly editor Andy Oram, asked for a meeting with me. Their message: "We need a separate conference for our community." That community: the web operations… read more

Health Care Costs: Am I missing something? Or is there a lot of flimflam going on?

June 20 2009

Driving home from work, listening to NPR's story about health care costs, I couldn't help but be struck by a couple of numbers. The Obama health plan will cost a trillion dollars we're told. A TRILLION sounds big enough to end the debate, doesn't it? Then I hear, almost as… read more

The Benefits of a Classical Education

June 20 2009

As some of you may know, I got my undergraduate degree in Greek and Latin Classics. So when Forbes asked me to do an interview on the subject of how my Classical education had affected my business career, I agreed. The result, part of a special report called Power, Ambition,… read more

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Multimedia

Webcast: Web Squared
June 25, 2009
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free As we approach the six-year mark from the original Web 2.0 thesis, the trends are becoming clearer than ever. Once applications live in the cloud, the key to success will be harnessing network effects...

Webcast: Twitter Power Tips
May 21, 2009
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Preview Video: Free Full Video: Available on Safari Books Online At first blush, Twitter appears to be an easy and friendly medium. But don't be deceived: it's also powerful and complex, supporting a rich third...

Tim O'Reilly

"You can thank Tim O’Reilly for all those classy computer-nerd books with line-art camels and gnus on the cover. But O’Reilly is more than a publisher. He’s also a vocal member of the net community and one of the ardent supporters of the open source movement. "
--Ziff Davis Smart Business