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  Web 2.0 Workgroup

  During my time in Silicon Valley I've been staying in the TechCrunch house with Michael Arrington and Frederico Oliveira (Gabe Rivera of memeorandum fame is also here currently). Mike, Fred...

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  Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 3-9 October 2005

  This week: Web 2.0 Conference Specialsponsored by:The past week has been an amazing one for me. My first trip to America and I've met so many people that I'd previously...

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  My Million Dollar Blog

  Tristan Louis did the numbers on the AOL-WeblogsInc deal. My blog Read/WriteWeb has 1,938 inbound links on Technorati as of today, so according to Tristan's calculations Read/WriteWeb is worth over...

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  Andreessen confirms Ning business model

  Marc Andreessen popped into Alex Barnett's comments to confirm the business goals of Ning. In response to Alex's well-written analysis of what Ning is trying to accomplish, Marc commented:"Alex --...

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  Web 2.0 Conference Post Round-up

  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...

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  Cautious Optimism and Cynical Buzz

  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...

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  Discussion: Prosumer Media Mena Trott, Mark Fletcher, Rich Skrenta

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

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  Conversation: Sergey Brin of Google

  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 open...

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  Search engine stats: Jim Lanzone from Ask.com

  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...

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  Zimbra UI Minute

  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,...

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  3D Web Services

  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...

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  The Alumni Report Joe Kraus , Kim Polese

  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 heading...

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  Google RSS Reader announced at Web 2.0

  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...

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  A Conversation with AOL CEO Jonathan Miller

  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...

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  Discussion: Open vs. Closed Models

  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 summary).Toni...

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  Bubble or Bubble-let?

  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...

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  Mary Meeker talk

  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 timewe're at "boom-let" stage now (after boom...

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  Yahoo CEO Terry Semel conversation

  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,...

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  Flurry of Web 2.0 Business Activity

  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, is expanding their...

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  Web 2.0 Conference coverage notes – Wed afternoon

  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...