The conference is over now and so here's a summary of my blog output from it. I was pumping out the real-time notes over the last 3 days! I didn't

For me the Web 2.0 conference has been really exciting and the air has been full of energy. But I'm new in the Silicon Valley, so I've been curious to

John: this idea of prosumer media, define more. prosumer media is big business Mark: started bloglines to scratch my own itch. other people must have this problem too, that was

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