MySpace, Facebook bantering at Web 2.0 conference
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A recap of some of what was said at the event on Wednesday night.
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Technology that can converge different wireless gadgets into a single device is discussed at a conference.
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PALO ALTO, California  - Apple's iPhone may be big  news, but in Silicon Valley all eyes are on Facebook. The  all-ages private Internet club that began as a college student  hangout has become the tech industry's hottest ticket.
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The debate over your social capital -- your personal data, how you access it and who owns it -- will be a central topic at the Web 2.0 Summit, the invitation-only web services conference which runs through Friday in San Francisco.
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Plaxo, Google, and Facebook now have members in the relatively new consortium to promote social-networking interoperability. Don't expect to see immediate results any time soon, though.
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As an impressive roster of technology industry celebrities gather at this week&#39;s&#160;Web 2.0 Summit&#160;in San Francisco, all eyes are on emerging opportunities for Internet companies.Experts point to online video, mobile Internet services, social networking, and enterprise adoption of advanced Web technologies as areas that are ripe for further innovation and capitalization.At the event, CEOs, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs will offer their views, in keynote speeches and panels, on a myriad of topics, both specific to their businesses as well as applicable to the Internet market in general.The lineup of speakers includes CEOs like News Corp.&#39;s Rupert Murdoch, Microsoft&#39;s Steve Ballmer, Facebook&#39;s Mark Zuckerberg, eBay&#39;s Meg Whitman, Viacom&#39;s Philippe Dauman and AT&amp;T&#39;s Randall Stephenson.Still, by now, the term&#160;Web 2.0, once synonymous with bold innovation in online services and applications, &quot;is getting a little tired,&quot; said industry analyst Greg Sterling of Sterling Market Intelligence.&quot;It has always been an elusive term, but now it is very mainstream. It&#39;s widely used and the features that were characteristic of those early Web 2.0 companies are now widely adopted,&quot; Sterling said in a phone interview, referring to things like content tagging and sharing, blogs, wikis, and syndicated feeds.While receptive to the possibility that new, fresh ideas may come out of the conference, Sterling wonders how much the economic uncertainty in the U.S. is affecting the spirit of innovation so emblematic of the Web 2.0 era.On the other hand, Tim Draper, founder and managing director of venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, sees big opportunities in the application of Web 2.0 technologies in large organizations, particularly in areas like hosted software, project management and communication, and networking.&quot;All the applications that have driven the enterprise over the last client server generation will be renewed with Web 2.0 applications that will replace or enhance those applications. Big opportunities [lie] here,&quot; he said in an e-mail interview.Opportunities also exist in the adaptation of online services to mobile devices, as demand for accessing these services from cell phones continues growing strongly, he said.Draper is also confident that players in the online video space will find business models that will satisfy the video creators, artists, and the providers of online video platforms, like Google&#39;s YouTube. &quot;Entrepreneurs are honing in on models that work,&quot; he said.Meanwhile, Andrew Parker, an associate analyst at venture capital firm Union Square Ventures, has great faith in online services that, with permission, monitor users&#39; activities and, based on that data, personalize their offerings.&quot;I call this set of services &#39;implicit Web services&#39; because they involve implicit data collection instead of explicit data entry,&quot; he said in an e-mail interview. &quot;I think we&#39;ll see more valuable implicit web services going forward.&quot;Some big vendors are taking advantage of the conference&#39;s popularity to announce new products and partnerships. Among them are:-- Hewlett-Packard, as part of its Print 2.0 initiative to improve printing from Web sites, will announce new relationships with large Web publishers, like Disney.com, Microsoft&#39;s Windows Live Spaces social network and blogging service, Yahoo&#39;s Flickr photo sharing site, and the popular Graffiti application for Facebook.--&#160;MySpace and Skype are partnering&#160;to let MySpace members make free voice calls via the MySpace instant messaging service. The new service, called MySpace IM with Skype, will integrate MySpace&#39;s IM service with Skype&#39;s Internet voice communications services, and will be generally available in November.-- Fast Search &amp; Transfer will unveil Fast Active Mobile, a mobile search and personal recommendations platform that wireless carriers can implement to offer these services to their customers. Fast Active Mobile will build a profile for every wireless subscriber, taking into account their searches, product views, purchases and other activities and information.-- NewsGator Technologies, an enterprise RSS vendor, will announce Social Sites, an add-on to its RSS Enterprise Server, designed to enhance Microsoft&#39;s Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by making it easier to discover what colleagues within the organization are doing.The Web 2.0 Summit ends Friday.
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An idea I've been thinking about for a while and looking for an opportunity to do is a "flash conference" along the lines of the flash mobs that were so popular a few years ago.  Here's how it would work... Some event happens that focuses the attention of bloggers, one where there's a lot of ground to cover and at least two or three different ways to view it, one where the combined expertise of 5 or 10 bloggers would make a big difference.  The event would last at most 3 hours, would be webcast live, and be edited into a 1 hour program within 24 hours.  As many of us are waiting for delivery of Leopard, the new Mac OS, it seems that this may be an opportunity for such a conference. We'd have to find a facility in San Francisco that could house this. There would need to be room for 20 or 30 people, and it must also have decent networking. Then the question of who would we turn to for expert opinions. Some ideas... 1. A Mac software developer. 2. A gadget blogger (Engadget, Gizmodo, etc). 3. A creative artist (it is a Mac after all). 4. ??? 5. ??? This is meant to be an instant idea. I have asked the question on Twitter and your comments are welcome here as well. Update: Loic Le Meur has volunteered the offices of his SF startup to host the flash conference. Cooool.
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At this week's Web 2.0 Conference, Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen talks about why Photoshop won't be a hosted application, what he thinks of Microsoft's Silverlight, and Google's Gears.
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The Zend Developer Zone has made some major announcements about this year's Zend/PHP Conference & Expo including the reveal of one of this year's keynote speakers.   Keynote - We have the name of the final keynote speaker. In case you canlt guess [from the picture], Cory Doctorow, blogger, author and co-editor of Boing-Boing will be speaking on Thursday morning at ZendCon. Speakers - We have a new speaker in the lineup. I'm pleased to announce that Chris Shiflett will be presenting his talk, "Security 2.0". Party 2.0 - Finally I'm excited to announce that at ZendCon this year, we will be hosting the very first "Happy Hour 2.0". In conjunction with Terry Chay and the Lunch 2.0 gang, we will open up the Exhibit Reception to everyone...for free.   You can get more information on the schedules and happenings (oh and register for the conference) over on the main conference website.
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Social networking site Facebook called "the greatest paradigm shift in technology since the Internet itself."
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How hard can you blow? Competition Readers who live on planet Earth may have failed to notice it but the white hot, bleeding edge, ground zero of web 2.0 imagineering this week was the TechCrunch40 conference in San Francisco.â¦
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The limited wisdom of tiny groups Organizers of a Web 2.0 talkfest are promising to unlock the secrets of the social networking universe for ordinary folks and to hook 'em up with some big swinging internet dicks over canapÃ©s.â¦
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Facebook has become such a popular social networking site that some companies are betting their businesses on it.Participants in a panel at the Web 2.0 Summit conference in San Francisco Thursday cited the impact of Facebook."We looked at the Facebook platform before it launched and came away with the conclusion that this could be the greatest paradigm shift in technology since the Internet itself," said panelist Ali Partovi, CEO of the iLike music discovery service.iLike bet close to 100 percent of its business on Facebook, he said."We made a very big bet. We basically decided to halt work on our own Web site and spent the next [several] weeks that we had building a Facebook application," Partovi said. iLike's own Web site, meanwhile, is used to drive traffic to the Facebook application, he said."Literally, within the first 24 hours, our Facebook registrations exceeded the rest of our Web site," by a dramatic amount, he said. In the first 12 hours, iLike signed up 10,000 users, followed by 10,000 more in the next three hours and 10,000 more in the next two hours, he said.Facebook application developer Slide is probably allocating 35 percent of its efforts to the site, said Slide Vice President Keith Rabois. Slide decided to invest in Facebook because it created an open environment that encouraged developers to make money for the first time."That has been a sea change," Rabois said.Facebook opened the floodgates for a raft of innovations, said Seth Goldstein, CEO and co-founder of SocialMedia, which also has developed applications for Facebook. Facebook has 2 million users, half of whom use it daily, he said."There's a level of engagement," inside the Facebook platform, he said.Another panelist noted Facebook widgets. "The neat thing about the Facebook platform is you can actually talk to friends through widgets, thorough the APIs," said Lance Tokuda, CEO of the RockYou photo-sharing site.
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The Web 2.0 conference is under way in San Francisco, so the B.S. will be flying. Thanks to the innovators in Wired's Gadget Lab, you can contribute to the dung heap by using our Web 2.0 Summit startup and press kit to tout your own flim-flam company.
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Dave Dash has posted his own summary about a recent PHP-related conference that happened in Amersfoort - SymfonyCamp.   He talks about some of the presentations given, the other conference attendees, Fabien Potencier's Symfony 2.0 talk, his own talk on the Zend Search Lucene component and the "clean up" project they spent a day working on.   You can also check out Fabien's overview of the event (with more photos) for a different perspective.
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Tobias Schlitt has a quick new posting on his weblog about some of the upcoming conferences, including the Itn'l PHP Con 2004.
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Business school academics butt heads over the role of wikis, blogs, and other Web 2.0 endeavors in the enterprise