Off to the Web 2.0 Conference
Tomorrow morning I'm traveling to San Francisco for next week's Web 2.0 Conference. I attended it last year and thoroughly enjoyed it. Read/WriteWeb's coverage of the 2005 conference is here - and needless to say I'll be pumping out the posts again this year.
In association with the conference, a new Web 2.0 report has been published by O'Reilly Media - written by my friend John Musser, with Tim O’Reilly and the O’Reilly Radar Team. Called 'Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices', it is an insightful overview of the tools and trends prevalent in this current era of the Web. The report is not free - it costs 395 clams. I was lucky enough to get a press copy and I'm sure they won't mind me publishing a short excerpt from the executive summary:
"These trends manifest themselves under a variety of guises, names, and technologies: social computing, user-generated content, software as a service, podcasting, blogs, and the read–write web. Taken together, they are Web 2.0, the next-generation, userdriven, intelligent web. This report is a guide to understanding the principles of Web 2.0 today, providing you with the information and tools you need to implement Web 2.0 concepts in your own products and organization."
The report also kindly mentions this blog, Read/WriteWeb, in the Reading List appendix.
If you're at the conference next week, I look forward to meeting you. I'll also be attending the Widgets Live event on Monday. If you're unable to attend either, I will be doing my best to cover the big news and the interesting new technologies here on Read/WriteWeb!
Update: Looks like I jumped the gun on the public announcement of a certain name change. I've updated my post accordingly, but will revert back to the original soon.
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Hi Richard, see you at the conference, make sure you come and see the Launch Pad event on Tuesday afternoon :)
Richard,
Looking forward to having a chat with you at the Summit.
Rand Leeb-du Toit
I will be folowing it from Melbourne :)
I'll be in the valley too. See ya there Richard. ;)
Hey Richard ... I'll be at Widgets Live and day 1 of the web 2.0 conference. Looking forward to seeing you!
Looking forward to meeting you Richard.
It's not about the Web anymore, it's a VC Mart.
i'm kinda getting Excited & Revved up about Web2.0 & Web3.0 again!! I'll be anxious to hear what U have to say!!
Cheers & have Fun!! ;))
How many web 2.0 conferences do we really need ? I mean ....seriously? This is getting to be a bit crazy ...
Cheers
Scott
Well, I wish I could show up. But its about 18,000 miles away. I'd love to get an update so I can add the new sites to my definiteive list of web2.0 sites - at http://web2.0jump.in . Appreciate anyone and everyone to contribute to this single and most definitive list of Web2.0 sites on the net. Keep it growing.. current count is about 260 sites ... i'm sure there's many more.