This morning I ate breakfast with Shawna O’Reilly from Mayo Clinic Ventures and the product manager of Web Sphere. This conference is a lot of fun. Jeff Bezos is up now. Here are some Amazon stats: 61 million accounts, 10 billion in sales, seven countries, 1.1 million active seller accounts, 10 million square feet in…
Jonathan Miller
I didn’t get much out of this chat from AOL other than a new acronym – UGC – user generated content. The big buzz at this conference seems to be around that very thing – finding ways to get your users to generate content. Build the right tools and they will come and do stuff.
Ray Ozzie
John Battelle “How has the world changed and how is it going a year after the memo from Bill Gates?” Ray – It is going very well. Some people get it some don’t. Vista and Office are done – released to manufacturing. Should be out to business by the end of November. Vista should be…
BlogHer Presents…World Domination via Collaboration
Jory Des Jardins, Co-founder, BlogHer LLC Caterina Fake, Co-founder, Flickr Jessica Hardwick, Founder and CEO, SwapThing.com – people exchange whatever. Uses social collateral. Lisa Stone, Co-founder, BlogHer Jenna Woodul, Executive Vice President and Chief Community Officer, LiveWorld Importance of community. Is community a business model or does it need to be bought to have value….
Whose Data is It?
Marc Hedlund, Chief Product Officer, Wesabe mentioned a couple of sites with openness in mind. He talked about the fact that many of the map companies purchase that data from other companies. Thus, the need for open data repositories. Here are a few that he talked about: Openmapconent.org wikipedia www.wesabe.com openip.info Stewart Butterfield, General Manager,…
Launch Pad
The launch is going on right now. Every seat is full, and the unlucky late comers are all standing. I guess everyone is interested in the next big thing. Some interesting companies are coming up. Here is the list with addresses: Inthechair.com – let’s learners interact with musicians online when the practice. Users can contribute…
web 2.0 conference – internet
The free internet is sponsered by AOL – the hotel charges money. Problem is that it sucks. I just lost my last post because WordPress died while trying to connect. For those putting on conferences, please include enough access points.
web 2.0 conference day one
I am attending the Web 2.0 conference this week. There is an interesting combination of people here and I must admit that I feel like a foreigner as I am part of an academic group. The current session I am in is titled “The Next Internet Infrastructure.” I expected something about servers and bandwidth which…
David Ball
I attended my Uncle David’s funeral yesterday. He hadn’t been doing well for the past few months, but his passing was still a shock. This kind of funeral leaves you with mixed feelings. I will miss visiting Uncle David on our trips to Idaho to visit my parents, but I have to believe he is…
Cherry Creek Campground trail – Motorcycling near Downey, ID
For 14 years now I have gone motorcycling with my father and brother. In recent years the opportunity has been reduced to just an annual occurrence. I haven’t been very good at keeping track of when or where we go. I know that we have covered miles of high country in southeast and central Idaho,…