Archive for November 20th, 2006
I like this cartoon from the prolific and funny Hugh Macleod: I would correct it though to: “If two smart, savvy people can’t have an interesting conversation about your product, you haven’t designed your product well enough yet, nor have you marketed it well.” But his is shorter. And fits on a business card.
(For the most recent articles on Web 2.0, check out my full Web 2.0 articles category.) This posting has links to all of the Web 2.0 Summit 2006 blog posts that I wrote: Day 1 Enterprise 2.0 SMB Session Launch Pad Keynote with Eric Schmidt Joi Ito on Worlds of Warcraft Ben Trott of Six [...]
Until now, the mobile phone networks have been walled gardens with pay-per-use data plans and in order to build a telephone application, you had to customize it for every phone and every model and every carrier. It has been frankly a nightmare and has even prompted Michael Arrington to comment at The New New Internet [...]
Here are my summary thoughts on the 3 day Web 2.0 Summit 2006 in SF, CA There were some overall themes that seemed to prevail in the sessions I attended and I’m going to try to capture them here in no particular sequence. It’s one thing to have sat in all the sessions or to [...]
Here are the day 3 notes for the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco: [My notes are in this square brackets.] Harnessing Collective Intelligence with Jim Buckmaster (Craigslist), Owen Van Natta (Facebook), Toni Schneider (Automattic), and Richard Rosenblatt (Demand Media) On the panel: Jim Buckmaster / CEO, Craigslist Owen Van Natta, COO of Facebook Toni [...]
Here are the day 3 notes for the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco: [My notes and analysis in this square brackets.] The Alumni Report – Web 2.0 Launches Revisited: Michael Tanne / Wink: he gave a very long demo Veoh Networks: YouTube except for high-resolution long videos. We have figured out how to store [...]
Here are the day 3 notes for the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco: [My notes and analysis are in these square brackets.] From the Labs: eBay Research Labs, Eric Billingsley: we now have 800,000 people making part or all of their living on that marketplace. labs employees are doing a 3 way split: 1/3 [...]
Here are the day 3 notes for the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco: [My notes and analysis are in these square brackets.] Disruption Opportunity: Venture Capital: Roger McNamee (private equity) and Ram Shiram (seed investing) Shiram: I DO believe that it’s cheap to start a company; it is hard to find talent though. Content [...]
Here are the day 3 notes for the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco: [My notes and analysis are in these square brackets.] Yahoo! Technology Preview Brad Garlinghouse Web 2.0 is about people and emotions Technical specs have never been less relevant Email was sent in fall 35 years ago [I use a rule of [...]
Here are the day 3 notes for the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco: [My notes and analysis are in these square brackets.] MySQL, Marten Mickos Referred to a book on open source titled Innovation happens elsewhere my data + your data + public data = next generation OLAP We are running trillions of transactions [...]
