Dude, it’s 420
Today is 4/20. That is significant for two reasons. One is that it is my parent’s wedding anniversary. My dad likes to get license plates with significant numbers. For years the…
Web2con2006
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Web 2.0 Conference After Thoughts
The conference was a lot of fun and it was interesting to meet people from all over who have a hand in or want to get their hands into the Web 2.0 craze. The speakers were…
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Alumni from last years Launch Pad
Zimbra Ajax enabled software. The cool thing about Zimbra is that they have a way to run offline. They are showing an email client right now that let’s you read and send emails…
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Disruption Opportunity: Venture Capital – Roger McNamee , Ram Shriram
Shriram – Starting an Internet business has never been cheaper. Looks for teams that don’t have business guys early on. The business can develop as time goes on. Why take 5…
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Disruption: Harnessing the Collective Intelligence
Jim Buckmaster (CEO Craigslist) We manage with only 20 peope by relying on our users to manage what goes on on the site. The users keep us out of trouble. The site is the result…
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Kevin Rose – Digg
What we’ve learned. 600k registered people who find stuff and then digg it to the homepage. Rumsfield’s resignation set an all time record for Digg. It took 4 minutes for it to…
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Stuff from Microsoft labs
Here are a couple of interesting things coming out of MS: Photosynthe – pretty cool. Creates a point cloud in 3D of a group of photos. No human intervention required. It looks at…
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Sun’s Cool Toy
Sun labs is showing a project called sunspot. It is awesome. It is a tiny platform that lets you use Java to control a microcontroller that has all kinds of built in sensors. It…
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Marissa Mayer – What google has learned
Company email list called Googlers. Sometimes it is about Tivo series 3. Sometimes it is about changes in snacks in the breakroom. A year or so ago the googler list was filled…
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Mårten Mickos CEO of MySQL
MySQL has been about giving structured data to structured systems. So now “their” idea is to do what Google has done and get people to open source their data, share that data…
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Yahoo! Technology Preview – Brad Garlinghouse , Ethan Diamond
250 million people access yahoo mail every day. They are building web 2.0 experiences to Yahoo mail. Features: When email it will show you if the other user is online. If you…
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A Conversation with Ross Levinsohn
Arranged the deal and bought Myspace. Youtube is their biggest strategic partner. On the Internet may of your biggest competitors are also your partners. Google will power search…
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Bob Parsons – Godaddy
Failed high school got a diploma because the army wanted him to go to Vietnam. Be careful who you listen to. They started their filing to go public then pulled it a week later. It…
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Afternoon keynotes
Here are some highlights from the keynotes during the afternoon sessions. Eric Schmit (CEO Google) John Battelle “Why did you buy youtube?” Schmit’s response video is a big deal…
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An interesting company
Yesterday Vox.com announced they are open for busines. This is an interesting company to me because it is similar to ozmorz. If you listen to thier story and then to ours they…
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Don Tapscott – wikinomics
Wikinomics – new book. How mass collaboration changes everything. “After the dot com boom many traditional companies breathed a sign of relief. Big mistake.” After the bubble…
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Dr Hyun-Oh Yoo Cyworld
Korean social site. Combination of popular internet activities – blogs, photo, video sharing. Here are some statistics: 20 million subscribers 40% of population 96% of 20-29 year…
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Bruce Chizen
“We don’t view ajax or html documents as competition.” Adobe has been open from day one. PostScript and PDF were open from day one, but we have to make sure to not be so open that…
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Enterprise 2.0 Mashups Marc Benioff
Long term survivors move from being a killer app to a killer platform. Integrate external applications and service into you business application. For example, use iRows…
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Jeff Bezos
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…
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Jeff Jonas Cops and Robbers Las Vegas Style
Helped track down the MIT teams in Las Vegas. Corporate amnesia. Ie marketing sends credit card offer to a guy in jail who just defrauded the company. Companies have multiple…
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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…
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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…
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Meet Ning — Marc Andreessen , Gina Bianchini
Empower people to create their own social sites. I played with the beta a while back and it seemed to be decent. I believe you can download your source code from their hosted…
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The Evenings Entertainment
I hear that at past Web 2.0 conferences dinner on the second night was left to the attendees. This year AOL provided dinner and entertainment in the form of Lou Reed. I like music…
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Vinton G. Cerf and Robert Pepper net neutrality debate
Robert Pepper – Net neutrality is a dichotomous false choice – tyranny vs chaos. It is not necessary to create a regulation regime, but we need a to deal with violations on a case…
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Skype ecommerce
Dinner last night included a chat with Niklas Zennstrom who stated that the eBay aquisition was a perfect fit. This is inspite of everyone in the world saying huh? Jack Ma’s China…
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Yahoo opens browser authentication
You can use Yahoo to authenticate your users if you want. http://developer.yahoo.com/auth/ This might be worth looking at. 500 million people have accounts at Yahoo. Numbers tend…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…