Web 2.0

By Brian Ahier One of the interesting things about the new Lists feature is the expansion of the asymmetrical nature of relationships on Twitter. I use Twitter Lists to control the flow of the fire hose of my data streams into manageable list streams. But another important aspect is the ability to create l...

By Mark Drapeau I'm joking a bit, of course. But when getting retweeted has been boiled down to a science ("Adding 'please' increases retweets by 12.3%!"), every maven is in search of a social media metric that shows who has "authority." Being on someone's Twitter list is a difficult thing to game because it...

By Joshua-Michéle Ross While the iPhone has the richest set of onboard sensors even basic feature phones are allowing for some remarkable innovation (see my interview with April Allderdice of MicroEnergy Credits) This is an enormous leap forward when our devices are not only connected but context-aware. It i...

By Brady Forrest Show me homes under 500K in Capitol Hill" - Via Google Base, Google has real estate information (it has had neighborhood data for quite sometime). Take me on a tour of the top 10 historical sites here" - Using Wikipedia Google can determine what the sites are and where you should be taken. Alte...

By Mark Sigal But the good news is this. If Blackberry can get this part of its user experience right and working really well - i.e., get out of the 'chicken parts' business, and back to delivering living, breathing chickens - RIM will continue to have a seat at the Mobile Players table.

By Ben Lorica UPDATE: Pete Warden has been doing similar analysis to help conference organizers and attendees. He goes a step further and monitors conversations (one twitter user mentioning another user, and vice-versa). Here is Pete's network graph of the recent Web 2.0 Summit.

By Brady Forrest The satellite view looks very sexy in this screenshot. Another advantage to this app is that Google is also making use of its business listings and (presumably) its web crawl data. In the video above MIchael is able to get directions to "the museum with the King Tut exhibit".

By Mark Drapeau As Fred Wellman commented on my original post, "I can't help but wonder if Chris [Dorobek] is seeking a more politically correct or business sounding name of the same tools with the goal of breaking down barriers to implementation and usage as opposed to a lack of understanding of the powe...

By Tim O'Reilly I'll be interviewing Austan Goolsbee on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit. In preparation for our conversation next week, I spent an hour with him yesterday morning. He's a fascinating guy. To give you a taste of the kinds of things we'll be talking about, here's a short transcript of his response to m...

By Mark Sigal Web content, video games, iPhone apps, Facebook sessions, YouTube videos, iTunes libraries, and Hulu media programming drive significant portions of our clickstream activity throughout the day. One plausible theory floating out on the web is that iTunes LP is proof of Apple's aspira...

By Nat Torkington Echofon -- novel take on Twitter apps: sync your unread list between phone, browser, and (ultimately, they promise) desktop Twitter app. (via auchmill on Twitter)GLAM Tech (MP3) -- Radio New Zealand new technology slot about the use of technology in the Galleries, Libraries, Archives...

By Brady Forrest All proposals will be reviewed before Web 2.0 Expo by our panel. Judges will select about five finalists, each of whom will have five minutes to pitch on stage, in front of the Web 2.0 Expo audience (the largest gathering of the innovators in the Internet industry) and the panel.

By Mark Drapeau Are we applauding the government's fan numbers? The article leads with, "The White House currently has more fans than the Washington Redskins." The most powerful global seat of power in perhaps the most recognizable office building in the world has more fans than the local football team...

 CA I expect that apps like Google's Latitude that use geolocation (demoed working in the browser at Where 2.0) and the new gmail that uses offline storage (demoed at the Web 2.0 Expo). I have not perceived the new Browser to be appreciably faster There ...

By James Turner JT: Before we move on to Open Location, I have a couple more questions about location at Yahoo. Flickr is probably the most visibly geo-enabled Yahoo product. What interesting things are you and other people doing with all of those georeferenced photos? And what do you see as kind of the next...

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By James Turner JH: Right. Right. Well, luckily, I mean the way we think about the different sort of anchors of the social networking world: Twitter and Facebook and MySpace and these guys, we embrace them as opposed to trying to compete with them. So one of the things you can do in Whrrl, which a lot of people do...

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By James Turner What's also really cool is how custom the mapping layers are. D.C. has also exposed a lot of shape files. I mean, we were able to grab building's footprints, rivers, parks, and also, the alcohol and beverage control license. We turned the shape file for the ABC license into a heat map. So we're able...

By Eric Ries For most websites, I recommend starting with a simple script that just rsync’s code to a version-specific directory on each target machine. If you are facile with unix symlinks, you can pretty easily set this up so that advancing to a new version (and, hence, rolling back) is as easy as swit...

By Kurt Cagle Will Wright: Well, it's a game that I would say is still very leveraging off of what we saw happening with Sims and user generated content except going to the next level with it where much higher level tools for customizing content within the game is part of the game play.

By Brady Forrest Violet blue (Tiny Nibbles) - Open Source Everything Brian Malow (Science Comedian) - Hydrogen and Helium Jer Faludi (Faludi Design) - Priorities for a greener world: If you could design anything, what should you do? I hope to see you there. You can RSVP on Facebook or Upcoming.

By Vanessa Fox One problem is that the U.S. Census Bureau pages don't use zip codes to denote regions. They use tract numbers. Even if the pages were written in plain language searchers might use, search engine crawlers couldn't get past the JavaScript forms to access the pages.

By Eric Ries There was a time when many technologies required proprietary licenses, big company permission, or custom deal-making ability to access. Those days are rapidly coming to a close. Most technology startups now have access to a staggering array of high-leverage technologies: free and ope...

By Dylan Field In his "Web Meets World" talk at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York last September, Tim O'Reilly described where he saw the web heading. "The next stage of Web 2.0 is going to be driven by sensors," he said. "We are moving out of the world in which people typing on keyboards are going to be driving collecti...

By Brady Forrest This is a significant step for App Engine. By setting a theoretical limit above the dreams of many web apps they are now putting out the call for serious applications. They've already added Google App Engine Apps to Google Apps For Your Domain. I could envision AE becoming the backbone of an En...

By Jim Stogdill The enterprise sucks, just ask the web. But will the web always be fun? <p>The other day Jesse posted a call for participation for the next <a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/11/velocity-2009-themes-ideas-cfp.html">Velocity Web Operations Conference</a>...

By Jim Stogdill While appliances are expanding their footprint in the enterprise, it seems like the exact opposite might be happening on the web? Maybe the idea of a closed appliance is anathema to the open source zeitgeist of the web, but in any case, the LAMP stack is still king. Even traditional applian...

By Ben Lorica In a relaxed conversation with Tim, Shai described an electric car industry that resembles the mobile phone business. Just as telecom companies sell mobile handsets at a discount if one is willing to commit to a contract, their subscription-based model will allow consumers to purchase...

By David Recordon Microsoft joins Yahoo! who implemented support for OpenID earlier this year for all of their accounts. By sometime next year, every AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo! user will have an OpenID which makes the emerging focus on improving OpenID's user experience even more important.

By Tim O'Reilly But the cloud platform, like the software platform before it, has new rules for competitive advantage. And chief among those advantages are those that we've identified as "Web 2.0", the design of systems that harness network effects to get better the more people use them.

By Tim O'Reilly In short, Google is the ultimate network effects machine. "Harnessing collective intelligence" isn't a different idea from network effects, as Nick argues. It is in fact the science of network effects - understanding and applying the implications of networks.

By Joshua-Michéle Ross Beginning on November 5th, 2008 a wide array of thought leaders and practitioners of Web 2.0 are converging on San Francisco to attend the 5th annual Web 2.0 Summit. This year's theme, "Web Meets World" reflects how much Web 2.0 has evolved over the past five years. I recorded an informal conver...

By Marc Hedlund We also want to thank the following startup veterans who have agreed to lead various sessions at the OATV Startup Camp: Michael Arrington: founder of TechCrunch; co-founder of Achex, Zip.ca and Pool.comDale Dougherty: co-founder of O’Reilly Media & GNN; publisher, MAKE magazineE...

By Brady Forrest Leonard Lin, co-founder of Upcoming, has put together a fun reality mining project for the conference. A couple of weeks ago Leonard created Fireball (also profiled on TechCrunch) to let attendees check in locations at the Web 2.0 Expo (like Dodgeball). We got to talking about how on could u...

By Tim O'Reilly Nevertheless, the conceptual underpinnings of Web 2.0, the Web as a platform, have proven to be sound. It might even be fair to say that Web 2.0 has won.Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Microsoft, and Yahoo are busy building upon the Web as a platform, along with thousands of startups...

By Dale Dougherty In traditional media, there are common practices governing the proportion of commercials to programming on TV or the amount of advertising to editorial in newspapers and magazines. Google also established a fairly comfortable mix between advertising and content on its search pages,...

By Andy Oram Even Wikipedia follows this rule in some cases. There are some subjects where everybody in the world holds an opinion and a huge number actually know some facts. But other subjects would never see articles unless a couple of the few dozen experts in the world took time to write it.

By Tim O'Reilly As part of the Semantic Edge panel tomorrow at the Web 2.0 Summit, Nova Spivack of Radar Networks plans to unveil the first application built on their semantic web platform, twine, a new kind of personal and group information... By Tim O'Reilly

By Brady Forrest Nokia gave a talk at the Web 2.0 Summit that spent a lot of time on the new N810 Internet Tablet and unfortunately very little time on Ovi, their new internet services play. The main hardware difference from previous... Nokia gave a talk at the Web 2.0 Summit that spent a lot of time on the new N810 Int...

By Tim O'Reilly I've been meaning to write about the change in the Launchpad event at the Web 2.0 Summit. In previous years, this was a "demo" kind of event in which new companies would show their stuff for the first time. For this year's event, the Launchpad has been revised to have a kind of "reality show" comp...

By tim(tim@oreilly.com) The Web 2.0 Conference, launched in 2004, gave a name to the resurgence of the internet economy, and framed the ideas that are shaping that resurgence. The second conference, and the paper I wrote for it last year, What is Web 2.0?, laid out the principles that distinguish Web 2.0 applications...

By tim(tim@oreilly.com) In addition, even participation (both explicit and implicit) is only part of web 2.0. Can someone really say that Google Maps or Amazon's Simple Storage Service is not Web 2.0? And why are open source projects like Django and Drupal included but not Apache or Perl's CPAN, or sourceforge and s...

By tim(tim@oreilly.com) Note how the Web 2.0 drumbeat begins at around the time of our second Web 2.0 Conference in the fall of 2005. Here are the graphs for AJAX and Ruby. Note that these are not on the same scale as the graph for Web 2.0. AJAX job postings are up about 1400%, and Ruby job postings up about 500%: