Web 2.0 Conference News

We live in a time of constant, rapid change, and businesses need to respond to this change or risk losing their competitive edge.

We all know the network is everywhere. It's pervasiveness is what makes it the most endearing platform we have to address many of the issues we face today.

Some of us take longer than others. Tim O'Reilly moved on years ago from talking about open-source licenses and instead focused on the importance of data to business success.

Article:Ex-Informatica chief returns touting next wave of data :/g/a/2009/11/05/urnidgns852573C40069388000257665006DF55B.DTL Article:Ex-Informatica chief returns touting next wave of data :/g/a/2009/11/05/urnidgns852573C40069388000257665006DF55B.DTL 12:05 PST -- After a stint in digital Hollywood, Informatica Corp.

How doing less can produce better business results. Minimalist design has been in vogue for decades.

Subscribe to this video podcast via iTunes . Or, you may download the file . While the iPhone doesn't ship nearly as much as its humbler brethren - the iPhone opened up many minds about the potential of phones to do a whole lot more than talk.

Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker spoke about mobile Internet-connected devices at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco.

It's a cool sunny day in San Francisco and there's some bustle at the Moscone center.

One of the tenets of Web 2.0, according to Tim O'Reilly's seminal article , is "the perpetual beta." That is, "the product is developed in the open, with new features slipstreamed in on a monthly, weekly, or even daily basis." Well, Web 2.0-ish applications seem to be shedding beta-ness fast and furious lately: first Gmail , now Remember The Milk .

The iPhone could be the fastest-growing consumer electronics product of all time but now it might have a rival in the Open Handset Alliance The new Droid phone is shown at a media event in New York.

The web has changed more in the last two years than in the 15 years since its commercial introduction.

In 2006, two years after the convening of the O'Reilly Media folks at the first Web 2.0 conference, my boss Guido Schroeder loaned me a pass to the exclusive Web 2.0 Summit .

Health 2.0 is a trend accompanied by both buzz and buzzwords. That worries some advocates for the poor, underserved and just plain old and sick.

In a flurry of panels, one-on-one dialogues, product promos and surprise guests, the three day Web 2.0 Summit just held in San Francisco felt a bit like speed dating for tech companies: "Hi, my name's HP and I'm eco-friendly. What's your sign?" "Nice to meet you.

The Web 2.0 summit just wrapped up in SFCA this past week. There are some noteworthy observations and content on their web site and in particular Mary Meeker's annual overview of Internet trends .

Every day millions of people commit the sin of overloading their presentations. It's not easy to simplify.

Sergey Brin: "I Did Not Try To Buy Twitter" Oct. 25, 2009, 10:25 AM 481 Sergey Brin made a surprise appearance at Web 2.0, where he spent 17 minutes talking with John Battelle about a number of topics.

Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker spoke about mobile Internet-connected devices at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco.

When Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, entered the room for the final interview at the Web 2.0 Summit, the audience stood up for him.

What a difference two weeks can make. Toward the end of an Oct. 14 conference call organized by David Keene of the American Conservative Union, congressional candidate Doug Hoffman plaintively asked, "Does anybody know how to get Glenn Beck interested in this?" Monday afternoon, Hoffman was interviewed on Beck's popular Fox News program, evidence ...