Thursday, October 06, 2005
Wish I Was There. But Kinda Already Am.
This week is O'Reilly's Web 2.0 conference, and O'Reilly conferences keep getting more and more user friendly. But even cooler is how they keep getting more inclusive about who a user can be! An O'Reilly conference attendee can be somebody who isn't even physically at the conference. An O'Reilly session attendee can be in room A, and still attend the session in room B, by pouring over the 15-way coverage later that night! The way O'Reilly conferences aggregate media, blog, and audio/ video coverage has always been impressive, and it enables you to not have to miss any sessions, whether you're there in person or not. But with Web2con, there's a Socialtext wiki that's definitely adding another plane of experience. For whatever reason (because SocialText is a little less intimidating than Twiki?), it seems like people are contributing more to this wiki than to they have to other O'Reilly conference wikis. In any case, I encourage you to check out the coverage of the Web 2.0 conference via the Socialtext wiki, which includes a collaborative blog, shared session notes, and links to attendee blogs. Plus, duh, check out the normal conference coverage page, too.
My favorite conference notes so far has been at blackrimglasses.com.
tags: web2con, oreilly, business
(original neato photo courtesy x180, on flickr)
This week is O'Reilly's Web 2.0 conference, and O'Reilly conferences keep getting more and more user friendly. But even cooler is how they keep getting more inclusive about who a user can be! An O'Reilly conference attendee can be somebody who isn't even physically at the conference. An O'Reilly session attendee can be in room A, and still attend the session in room B, by pouring over the 15-way coverage later that night! The way O'Reilly conferences aggregate media, blog, and audio/ video coverage has always been impressive, and it enables you to not have to miss any sessions, whether you're there in person or not. But with Web2con, there's a Socialtext wiki that's definitely adding another plane of experience. For whatever reason (because SocialText is a little less intimidating than Twiki?), it seems like people are contributing more to this wiki than to they have to other O'Reilly conference wikis. In any case, I encourage you to check out the coverage of the Web 2.0 conference via the Socialtext wiki, which includes a collaborative blog, shared session notes, and links to attendee blogs. Plus, duh, check out the normal conference coverage page, too.My favorite conference notes so far has been at blackrimglasses.com.
The talk is about long-tail publishing. Long-tail is an annoying meme. I like “powerlaw” and “scale-free networks” much better, but anyhow. Yahoo is launching some publishing ecosystem projects:Ecosystem:
1) Publishers
2) Users
3) Advertisers
4) ProvidersFind, use, share and expand “all human knowledge.” Wow, ambitious much? Couldn’t find everything in the “deep web,” content that people want to monentize. Why would people monentize content? Montentize MEDIA, not content, but I digress.
They moved away from crawling to directed content. Users also share what for-pay content they would like to see in their search results. Directed search though, seems to be getting to a pay for crawl mentality. It’s easy to trick, and that is a bit worrisome, again, I digress.
tags: web2con, oreilly, business
