Archive for November 16th, 2006
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]A Conversation with Ray Ozzie: Question: Does Microsoft “get it”? Answer: It’s a big company. Some people really “got it” – they got the shift that this industry is undergoing. Others didn’t get it. So I [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]“What GoDaddy Knows” by Bob Parson, CEO of Godaddy You need to be careful about who to listen to – like analysts who don’t understand basic business. www.bobparsons.com – he talked about why they filed for [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]Meet Ning: Gina Bianchini and Marc Andreessen Gina Bianchini: we want to empower people to create their own social networks. the biggest thing is that rather than having your stuff sitting on Flickr branded or Yahoo [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]The Global Plant Floor, by Don Tapscott, author of the new book Wikinomics Just now publishing “wikinomics” – a new book about how mass collaboration changes everything Available for pre-order now: First chapter is available here [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]Cops and Robbers Las Vegas Style, with Jeff Jonas, chief scientist of the IBM Entity Analytic Solutions group has some very interesting ideas on “the database of intentions concept” founded SRD in 1983 worked with the [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com, speaking on Enterprise 2.0 mashups. “Bezos’ presentation summed up one aspect of our business. You have to move from being a killer app to a killer platform. “ We have an elastic database; [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]CyWorld Revealed, Hyun-Oh Yoo, CEO of SK Communications, owners of CyWorld We have 20M subscribers, 40% of the population of Korea (!); 96% of 20-29 year olds (!); 20B monthly page views; [Wow - those numbers [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.] “It’s all about the infrastructure” by Debra Chrapaty, Corporate Vice President of Windows Live Operations The cloud sounds romantic but it’s 1.5 million pounds of batteries, 1 million pounds of steel, 300 miles of cable. [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.] “Atoms and Bits” with Robert B. Carter, CIO for FedEx Check out the Youtube video Fedex Ant Hill. The video shows the pattern of their traffic flows. I don’t really remember much of what he [...]
(For the most recent articles on Web 2.0, check out my full Web 2.0 articles category.) Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]Mary Meeker, Morgan Stanley: The State of the Internet Part 3 Overview of State of the internet can be summarized [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.] Net Neutrality debate: Vinton Cerf, father of the internet vs. Robert Pepper, ex-FCC and now Cisco Bob: this is a falsely premised debate setting up tyranny on the one hand (heavy-handed regulation) vs.chaos (no regulation) [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.] A Conversation with Bruce Chizen, Adobe: he talked a lot about Adobe. blah blah blah. Mostly pitching. There seemed to be a lot of “We get this. Really we do.” He claimed that Adobe has [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]A Conversation with Jeff Bezos, Amazon S3 and EC2 are storage and processing. They should not be very interesting. So why are people so excited? Because the time from concept to delivery has been collapsed. We [...]
