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Dawn Applegate

Biography

Dawn Applegate is the Conferences Publicist for O'Reilly Media, Inc. A graduate of UC San Diego, Dawn has over 20 years experience working in the high-tech industry. A native of Sonoma County, Ms. Applegate has spent the majority of her life in the Bay Area working for firms such as J. Walter Thompson, Sun Microsystems and Hi-Tech PR. Her role with O'Reilly includes handling all media inquiries, passes, and details at O'Reilly Conferences as well as writing and distributing press releases for conference related news. Dawn also manages the news and information blogs for O'Reilly Conferences.

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News Release: Graphing Social Patterns West 2008: Registration Open!

December 19 2007

Okay social networkers, start your engines...the whistle has blown and registration is now open for Graphing Social Patterns West 2007: O'Reilly Launches "Graphing Social Patterns" Conference. GSP West to cover social networks, application platforms from Facebook, MySpace, Google, LinkedIn read more

News Release: Ubuntu Live Conference Call for Proposals Open

December 18 2007

The following press release regarding Ubuntu Live was released today: Ubuntu Live Conference: Taking it Further in 2008 read more

News Release: Registration is Live!

December 17 2007

It's now time to register for MySQL Conference & Expo 2008, here is the full press release: Program Unveiled for MySQL Conference & Expo 2008 read more

News Release: Program Unveiled for the O'Reilly ETech Conference

December 07 2007

Registration is now open for ETech 2008, here is the official press release: Keynote Speakers Include: Saul Griffith, Kathy Sierra, Lawrence Lessig, Tim O'Reilly, and Alex Steffen read more

Yahoo Developer Network: Open Source Projects Welcome at MySQL 2008 Conference

December 03 2007

Always good to spread the word about opportunities to reach potential clients at MySQL: We are arranging a "DotOrg-Pavilion" where we would like to give Open Source Projects related to or based on the MySQL Server or other MySQL Products an opportunity to showcase their work. read more

World Changing Blog: Our own Alex Steffen is a keynote speaker at ETech 2008

December 03 2007

This is a nice plug for ETech (past and present): The social web of today pretty much had its gestation at Etech gatherings in the early 2000s. read more

San Jose Mercury News: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg opens the Web 2.0 conference in Q&A with John Batelle

November 28 2007

Dean Takahashi covered Web 2.0 Summit: John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly opened the Web 2.0 asking a question, “Is this a bubble?” Few folks raised their hands in the ballroom of the Palace Hotel. But this is the land of the faithful. True believers are the ones who are starting Internet… read more

eWeek: Facebook to Crash the Online Advertising Party

November 28 2007

More from Web 2.0 Summit from eWeek: CEO Mark Zuckerberg parries dogged questions about online advertising. Google Health: I’m Feeling Yucky read more

The Red Herring: Is Web 2.0 Growing Up?

November 28 2007

Joel Dreyfuss has some interesting theories of everything new sounding familiar at Web 2.0 Summit: At one point during the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this week, I thought I’d fallen into a time warp. I suddenly found myself listening to pitches that might have been appropriate in the 1990s… read more

Read/WriteWeb: Lots of Summit Coverage

November 28 2007

Richard MacManus, a Web 2.0 Summit veteran filed the following stories: 2007 Web 2.0 Summit Review: How the Web 2.0 Conference Has Evolved Over 2 Years MySpace Evolves - Developer Platform Details, Partnerships, Growth Figures Twine: The First Mainstream Semantic Web App? The New Era of Semantic Apps Web 2.0 Summit 2007: Mary Meeker and… read more

USA Today: Facebook's Zuckerberg: Not your father's CEO

November 28 2007

Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance at Web 2.0 Summit had many mentions in the media, here is what USA Today’s Jefferson Graham had to say: Much has been made of the youth of 23-year-old CEO Mark Zuckerberg (left) of the red-hot social network Facebook. read more

CRN: Web 2.0 Confab Takes Aim At Closed Platforms

November 28 2007

Lots of stories from Web 2.0 Summit from CRN/Channel Web, here’s a good one: Among the many buzzwords associated with the Web 2.0 hype, none has quite the cachet as “open.” Yet no idea is more profoundly troubling to the companies trying to build profitable Internet businesses. And for the rest of… read more

Web 2.0 Video of Tim O'Reilly

November 28 2007

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 read more

LaNacion: Nokia vs Apple: golpe a golpe

November 28 2007

More coverage from Web 2.0 Summit from LaNacion (albeit in en espanol!): En San Franciso, durante el Web 2.0 Summit, la marca finlandesa de celulares presento una nueva computadora de mano mientras Apple, paradojicamente, anunciaba mejoras para su iPhone read more

LaNacion: Ese fenomeno llamado Facebook

November 28 2007

LaNacion’s coverage from Web 2.0 Summit. The reporter said that was the story was in the top ten of most viewed stories that day… Mark Zuckerberg, ex estudiante de Harvard, es el cofundador y CEO de la ultima nina mimada de las redes sociales online; estuvo en el reciente Web 2.0… read more
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