Thursday, October 29, 2009
Web 2.0 Summit
O'Reilly Media, Inc. and TechWeb co-produce an annual conference called Web 2.0 Summit
This year's theme is "Web Squared":
Web 2.0 Summit 2009
The fifth Web 2.0 Summit took place on November 5-7, 2008.
Here is a brief description of the theme of the 2008 summit:
You can watch the highlights of the web industry summit:
Web 2.0 Summit Videos
Here is a selection:
Rebecca MacKinnon of Global Voices discusses the limits on Web 2.0 user generated content posed by censorship arouund the world:
Isaac Mao of the Social Brain Foundation discussing "Sharism" and Web 2.0 in China:
"Track Me": Web 2.0 Summit panel connects location with information
Greg Skibiski (Sense Networks), Ted Morgan (Skyhook Wireless), April Allderdice (MicroEnergy Credits), Rich Miner (Google), moderated by Brady Forrest (O'Reilly Media, Inc.):
Richard Rosenblatt (Founder, Chairman & CEO, Demand Media Inc.) On "social media solutions" and "verticle media networks."
Kevin Kelly (Wired)Thinking Big about the Web:
Beerud Sheth (Webaroo Inc) on the mobile web user content in 160 characters or less:
Saul Griffith (Makani Power/Squid Labs) Wattzon: User generated data and social media solutions to the problem of energy consumption and global warming.
This year's theme is "Web Squared":
"Entire industries are in the process of painful rebirth—finance and energy, to be sure, but also information technology, media and communications, healthcare, retail—nearly every major sector, in every major region of the world. And while these changes have been ongoing for more than a decade, the global financial crisis has accelerated and clarified this shift. It's the end of one era, and the beginning of another."
"At the center of both the destruction and creation is the World Wide Web. For this year, we are focusing on demonstrating proofs: showing how the founding principles of Web 2.0 have been put into practice to address the world's most pressing problems."Here is the video page from the sixth annual Web 2.0 conference (October 2009) that just concluded:
Web 2.0 Summit 2009
The fifth Web 2.0 Summit took place on November 5-7, 2008.
Here is a brief description of the theme of the 2008 summit:
"Now is the time to ask how the Web—its technologies, its values, and its culture—might be tapped to address the world's most pressing limits. Or put another way—and in the true spirit of the Internet entrepreneur—its most pressing opportunities.
As we convene the fifth annual Web 2.0 Summit, our world is fraught with problems that engineers might charitably classify as NP hard—from roiling financial markets to global warming,failing healthcare systems to intractable religious wars. In short, it seems as if many of our most complex systems are reaching their limits.
It strikes us that the Web might teach us new ways to address these limits. From harnessing collective intelligence to a bias toward open systems, the Web's greatest inventions are, at their core, social movements. To that end, we're expanding our program this year to include leaders in the fields of healthcare, genetics, finance, global business, and yes, even politics."
You can watch the highlights of the web industry summit:
Web 2.0 Summit Videos
Here is a selection:
Rebecca MacKinnon of Global Voices discusses the limits on Web 2.0 user generated content posed by censorship arouund the world:
Isaac Mao of the Social Brain Foundation discussing "Sharism" and Web 2.0 in China:
"Track Me": Web 2.0 Summit panel connects location with information
Greg Skibiski (Sense Networks), Ted Morgan (Skyhook Wireless), April Allderdice (MicroEnergy Credits), Rich Miner (Google), moderated by Brady Forrest (O'Reilly Media, Inc.):
Richard Rosenblatt (Founder, Chairman & CEO, Demand Media Inc.) On "social media solutions" and "verticle media networks."
Kevin Kelly (Wired)Thinking Big about the Web:
Beerud Sheth (Webaroo Inc) on the mobile web user content in 160 characters or less:
Saul Griffith (Makani Power/Squid Labs) Wattzon: User generated data and social media solutions to the problem of energy consumption and global warming.
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