Very interesting John Battelle-hosted conversation with Terry Semel, Yahoo CEO, at the conference. The difference between outlook and attitude between Semel and Barry Diller is stark. On the one hand,

weblogsinc bought by AOL for between $20-35 million. SocialText (the wiki company) is returning to open source. PubSub has announced an open source structured blogging initiative. Flock, the social browser,

I'm running out of battery time on my laptop, so I'll have to wrap up coverage of the conference for now. It's been a very busy day, running from one

John Battelle is speaking to Barry Diller of IAC. John asked straight off: why did you buy Ask? Barry: search box would keep evolving and more convergence through it. They

Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle are on stage now with the formal intro. Great setting, two big screens on both sides of the main stage - which is a nice

Time: 1:30pm - 2:45pm Panelists: David Madelorot, VP Search Content, Yahoo! Search Will Johnson, VP & GM, Yahoo! Publisher Network Online Anne Frisbie, Sr. Director of Category Search Marketing, Yahoo!

Real-time blogging going on here...  Jeff Jarvis, President & Creative Director, Advance.net Dick Costolo, CEO, Feedburner Matt Cutts, Software Engineer, Google Chas Edwards, Vice President, Sales & Market Development, Federated

Yahoo! has bought upcoming.org, Andy Baio's events service: "In just a few years, most of it spent on nights and weekends, the Upcoming team has built an excellent site with

Lycos, search engine portal and owner of Wired Magazine, has announced its intention to rebrand as a media company. According to the press release Lycos has released a service called

My post yesterday asking if Bloglines has dropped the ball in the web-based RSS Aggregator market provoked some interesting responses. Among them were a couple of comments from Jim Lanzone,