Web 2.0 Expo emphasizes the educational aspect of Web 2.0 through an expanded conference and tradeshow, bringing the themes and core principles to a wide audience.
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.
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.
To learn more about the 2008 Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco or to register visit:
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http://radar.oreilly.com
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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.
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.™
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…
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:
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.
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.
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.”
“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.
