October 2005 Archives
John: how you handling the success? Sergey: attributes success to luck. followed our hearts in terms of research areas. found they had something useful and impactful. early on talked about
Shows stats - 36k feeds that really matter; 14k "really really matter", 60 feeds that are Paris Hilton hot; 1 feed is da bomb - slashdot. [will update these stats
Open source client platform for messaging, communications. Shows email interface with links embedded in each message - with web services calls to various apps/services. e.g. mouse over for Google map,
This is a Show Me of new technologies. Rolf Herken talking, founder of mental images. 3D visualization component software. mental ray photorealism - worked on The Matrix, Alexander, 2046. "Rendering
Kim, CEO of SpikeSource: "the world has completely changed for building a software company." Joe: talking about Jotspot, "DIY publishing" - wikis next step after blogs for web publishing. Jotspot
Google just announced their new RSS Reader, called Google Reader. It's browser-based (of course) and has similar look n' feel to Gmail. Very Ajaxy. I'll play with it some more
John starts by grilling Jonathan: "are you talking to Microsoft?" [crowd roars]. Jonathan replies that AOL is in transition from proprietary mindset/business model to more open model - like Web
Discussion: Open vs. Closed Models Danny Rimer , Jeff Barr, Toni Schneider Tim: what do you actually own? Jeff from Amazon: we own customer db and namespace of products (Tim's
Mary Meeker called where we're at now a "boom-let". We've gone from boom to bust to boom-let (presumably a precursor to the next boom). She thinks the first 10 years
Lots of data points. "Korea is goto place to figure out where the Internet is going" Innovation coming out of China - 5,6,7 yrs time we're at "boom-let" stage now
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