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Web 2.0 Summit Blog - Announcing the Initial Web ...

Jaimey Walking Bear — 2011-05-12

This October 17-19, Web 2.0 Summit returns to San Francisco's Palace Hotel. Join the Internet's brightest and most influential leaders as we shake up the stage with rapid-fire conversations, dynamic high order bits, and stories from ...

Web 2.0 Summit Unveils Initial Lineup for 2011 Event Examining the Data Frame

TechWeb — 2011-05-11

SAN FRANCISCO, May 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Web 2.0 Summit, co produced by O'Reilly Media and UBM TechWeb, present the initial list of speakers headlining this year's event. Program Chair, John Battelle , Executive Chairman of Federated Media and Tim O'Reilly, CEO of O'Reilly Media,

What are the key data categories companies want to control?

John Battelle — 2011-05-11

Web 2.0 Summit 2011 is being organized around the theme of "The Data Frame," so last year's Web 2.0 map needs a related update.

Google rolls out Nexus S smart phone

James Temple — 2010-12-07

Silicon Valley Bubble or Barrier for Web 2.0 Startups?

Alan Weissberger — 2010-12-05

Is Silicon Valley in a new bubble? (poll)

Dean Takahashi — 2010-12-04

Web 2.0. Summit - My summary of Social Media sessions - Part 1

Dominika Turek — 2010-11-29

Google's Android Phone to Take Credit Cards

Eva Norlyk Smith, Ph.D. — 2010-12-03

Five Lessons From the Web 2.0 Summit

Paul Gillin — 2010-12-01

Innovator: Ex-MySpace Exec Amit Kapur

Douglas MacMillan — 2010-11-24

Bubble or Boom, Silicon Valley Is Crazy Again

Derek Gordon — 2010-11-24

Famed Analyst Mary Meeker Joins Famed VC Firm Kleiner-Perkins

Marshall Kirkpatrick — 2010-11-29

Mary Meeker, probably the banking world's single best-known person in technology, has joined venture capitalists Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, backers of Google, Amazon, Zynga and many clean-tech companies in recent years.

Meeker analyzes technology trends and gives research-dense, high energy presentations at conferences like O'Reilly and TechWeb's Web 2.0 Summit. Last year she discussed research finding that use of the mobile web will surpass use of desktop browsers, globally, within 5 years. How prominent is Meeker? Sarah Lacy, who has covered the Silicon Valley VC market for years, puts it this way at TechCrunch this morning: "As an analyst, Mary Meeker was as famous in the dot com glory days as [Kleiner's John] Doerr was as a VC, so it's appropriate and seemingly a long time coming that the two would wind up as partners."

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"Our number one goal is to help the Mark Pincuses [founder of Zynga] of the world build their businesses into Internet treasures, and there has been no greater finder of Internet treasures than Mary Meeker," Doerr told TechCrunch this morning.

Let's hope that not everyone at the firm famous for funding world-changing companies like Google and Amazon sees as their number one goal funding companies like the makers of Farmville. Perhaps it really is just about the economic growth, though, and all those other investments made the world a better place only as an afterthought. On the other hand, the socio-psychological meaning and impact of Zynga will likely be the subject of years of academic study; maybe that will do the world some good.

Meeker's research for Morgan Stanley has long been a favorite for web startups to use in their fund raising presentations. Whether Meeker will continue publishing as prolifically, presenting at conferences or speaking as a seemingly non-partisan analyst on the field remains to be seen. Her position as one of the most powerful women in technology clearly remains unchanged.

Below, highlights from Meeker's last big presentation on the growing importance of Mobile, as selected by ReadWriteWeb's Audrey Waters in coverage this Spring.

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SpongeFred: Web 2.0 summit mobile tsunami

Frederic Boulanger — 2010-11-24

I was at Web 2.0 Summit last week. It was a great conference, and a great opportunity for me to learn and integrate some of the ideas that are out there. This is the best thing about conferences, you can spot trends, you can read trends ...

The Internet Superstars at Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco ...

Timothy Tiah — 2010-11-24

The Web 2.0 Summit I attended in San Francisco last week was great not only because it gives anyone in the audience a good insight on what's happening in the tech industry and what the coming trends are going to be like. ...

Microsoft: Actually, We Still Have Kinect Systems For The Holidays

Oliver Chiang — 2010-11-23

Twitter man: Tweet ad demand exceeds supply

Cade Metz — 2010-11-18

Cloud Computing: Schmidt, Zuckerberg, Bartz Top All-Star Web 2.0 Summit Lineup

Clint Boulton — 2010-11-17

Google: Chrome OS Still Coming This Year (It Just Might Be In Beta Form)

MG Siegler — 2010-11-22

There's a lot of hoopla right now that Google's Chrome OS has been delayed and will miss the stated release date of "this year". Much of this is based off of the comment that Google CEO Eric Schmidt made last week at Web 2.0 Summit, in which he said that Chrome OS would be available sometime in "the next few months". So I asked Google today if they were still sticking with the "later this year" availability of Chrome OS — the answer I got? An enthusiastic "yep!" But just in case, I decided to follow up and ask if that meant an actual shipping product was coming or some test version of the OS? The answer there was much more murky. "We're not going into details at this point," is what I was told.

Why "Delivering Happiness" is a must read

Linda Stone — 2010-11-22

New York Times says we're in a 'tech bubble': everyone agree?

Joe McKendrick — 2010-11-22

Lessons from Silicon Valley: embrace the social web

Emma Barnett — 2010-11-22

Netflix Makes Streaming Cheaper–and DVDs More Expensive

Harry McCracken — 2010-11-22

At last week’s Web 2.0 Summit, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said that the company would soon let subscribers opt for a plan that included only Watch Instantly video streaming, without the ability to get DVDs by mail. He spoke the truth: Netflix is introducing a $7.99 plan that provides exactly that. (It’s been testing it [...]

Google's CEO shows off Nexus S at the Web 2.0 Summit

Oliver Haslam — 2010-11-21

Evan Williams: Twitter has a "lot of money in bank"

Amandeep Dhaliwal — 2010-11-21

Twitter frustrated over Facebook's non-cooperation

Scott Martin — 2010-11-20

Adobe is testing an optimized version of Flash for MacBook Air

Anton Chuiko — 2010-11-20

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg's public presence much better, observers say

Mike Swift — 2010-11-20

Internet Giants Foster, and Threaten, Innovation Economy

Jonathan Weber — 2010-11-20

Adobe Develop Flash specifically for MacBook Air

Ella — 2010-11-21

RIM could add NFC to BlackBerrys 'in the near term'

Mike Clark — 2010-11-19

LinkedIn Doesn't Need Kegstand And Hot Tub Photos To Compete With Other Social Media, Their Pace Is Just Fine

Caterina Fake — 2010-11-22

In her piece on LinkedIn in PEWire, Connie Loizos writes about Jeff Weiner’s talk at Web 2.0 Summit this week and exhorts him to pick up the pace at LinkedIn — using Reid Hoffman’s reluctance to introduce photos to LinkedIn as an example of an essential conservatism in the company.

I have to completely disagree with her analysis, as I’ve been watching LinkedIn since its inception, and have been impressed with both their willingness to change, as well as their actual implementation of new UX, features, and especially experimental features. Their rapid implementation of Groups, Answers, their search refinements, integration with other social networks, etc. etc. has always been rapidly executed. Their Chief Scientist, DJ Patil and his team are especially agile innovators, with an incredible fund of data to work with and many experimental features cooking in their labs.

I have to especially agree with Jeff’s assertion that the lack of Kegstands and hot tub photos on LinkedIn is one of LinkedIn’s key distinguishing features. It should be preserved and defended at all costs. In building a social network, the standards and mores of a community are its lifeblood; one does not lightly ‘experiment’ with these and LinkedIn is exactly right to defend them. I think Loizos’ article mistakenly conflates the company’s defense of LinkedIn’s culture with conservatism. It’s just not so.

I’d also take issue with the assertion that they haven’t made any “high profile” personnel changes. Weiner coming in as CEO is as high profile as you could hope for, and I believe that hiring name brand talent isn’t as successful of a strategy as hiring great engineers and developers, which I have seen them doing again and again. They should know, they’re a company that specializes in employment and hiring. :-)

This post originally appeared at Caterina.net and is republished here with permission.

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Web 2.0 Summit: The Future Strategy of Web Technologies - Tips on ...

Daniel Hudson — 2010-11-19

Web 2.0 Summit (formerly named Web 2.0 Conference) brings the intelligence, innovation, and leadership of the Internet industry together in one place at one time. Through incisive plenary sessions, frank onstage conversations, ...

Web 2.0 Summit: Twitter Secrets, State of the Web : Web 2.0 ...

Blogs.com Editors — 2010-11-19

The Web 2.0 Summit wrapped up this week--what were the highlights and big announcements? Netflix is launching a streaming-only service, and CEO Reed Hastings said "web-connected TVs are likely to constitute a third of the TV market this ...

Google CEO Schmidt: No Chrome OS Netbooks for Christmas

Clint Boulton — 2010-11-21

Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Chrome Operating System has been delayed though no one at Google or computer makers believed to be building Chrome OS netbooks will say why. - Google's Chrome Operating System launch has been delayed, and the platform won't be available to launch on netbooks for at least the quot;next few months. quot; Google CEO Eric Schmidt revealed as much to reporters in a Q amp;A session at the Web 2.0 Summit Nov. 15, adding that the platform con...

Web 2.0 Summit - Day 2

unknown — 2010-11-21

Photo: Carol Bartz, CEO, Yahoo! and John Battelle, co-founder, Web 2.0 Summit [Web 2.0 Summit 2010] - Nov, 16 - The day started with a bunch of announcements from Yahoo! which was launching its Local Offers Program with 20...

Fixing a Hole

Steve Gillmor — 2010-11-20

And it really doesn’t matter if I’m wrong I’m right where I belong, sings Paul McCartney on his latest album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Facebook Band, which sits high on the iTunes charts. Boy, is he not kidding. He’s taking the time for a number of things that weren’t important yesterday. So should we. On the surface it seems like business as usual, with the heads of big Internet companies sitting down with John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly at this week’s Web 2.0 Summit. The Android tablets are starting to drop now; they’re half the size, half the weight, and amazingly the same price. What? Here’s some guy with a Comcast XFINITY iPad app, which lets me control my DVR at home but doesn’t let me view any of the network content that is choking the hard drive nor the on-demand versions that would let me not record them in the first place. What? Much is made of data portability but how it ain’t gonna happen because it wouldn’t be good business. Mark Zuckerberg was personable and engaging and all that good stuff, but why on Earth would he want to fix something that is so not broken? Why would Evan Williams want to give away Track for free when he can release a new iPhone app with Track push notification tied directly to our credit cards? What?

Gillmor Gang

Steve Gillmor — 2010-11-20

The Gillmor Gang convened this week in the wake of the Web 2.0 Summit conference in San Francisco. Much of the conversation, however, concerned TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington's water crisis. We did get a chance to intermingle some attitude about Facebook's new Message platform, which apparently only Robert Scoble has wangled an active account. The Gang was split down the middle on Facebook's credibility in the data portability space, with Arrington and searchengineland editor Danny Sullivan arguing that Facebook are a bunch of liars and salesforce.com Cloudblogger John Taschek saying everybody in Silicon Valley was challenged in the truthiness department. Gillmor, of course, argued back and forth just for the sake of it. Arrington eventually veered off into a discussion of virtual reality, leaving us with the thought that whoever invents that will get all the money. Video ahead.

Talking to Eric Schmidt at Web 2.0 Summit 2010: “But forget search ...

Bas van den Beld — 2010-11-20

This post was mentioned on Twitter by Bas van den Beld and State of Search News, State of Search. State of Search said: StateofSearch: Talking to Eric Schmidt at Web 2.0 Summit 2010: “But forget search…” http://bit.ly/bFGs6A [...] ...

Hacking NetFlix : Netflix CEO Reed Hastings at Web 2.0 Summit Video

mikek — 2010-11-19

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and Former Fox/Hulu exec Peter Chernin were interviewed at the Web 2.0 Summit by John Heilemann from New York Magazine. Hastings noted that the iOS devices like the iPad had "very little" impact on Netflix's ...

Accel Dumping Stock In Facebook

Matt Rosoff — 2010-11-19

Accel Partners is selling off a huge portion of its Facebook stock, Mike Arrington at TechCrunch reports.

The VC firm owned 10% of Facebook, but has sold one-fifth of its stake for a price somewhere in the range of $500 million, and is no longer the largest venture holder in the company. Buyers reportedly include Andreessen Horowitz, which may be in for as much as $200 million.

The big question is valuation. Are the buyers accepting that Facebook is worth $35 to $40 billion, or are they buying at a much lower price? At the Web 2.0 Summit conference the other day, VCs Fred Wilson and John Doerr had a disagreement on the secondary market, where investors buy limited stock, with Wilson suggesting that valuations in that market are not realistic or meaningful.

Regardless, it's probably higher than the $15 billion valuation that Microsoft used when making its investment in 2007. That investment looks like genius now.

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The TechCrunch Guide to the Web 2.0 Summit

Rip Empson — 2010-11-19

The seventh annual Web 2.0 Summit wrapped up yesterday after an exciting week of panels, interviews, and discussions at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The star-spangled lineup for this year's events included Facebook CEO Mark ...

Web 2.0 Summit 2010

James Duncan Davidson — 2010-11-19

The seventh edition of the Web 2.0 Summit has come and gone. It's the sixth year that I've been the photographer and I've seen the event go through a few phases from irrational exuberance to weathering the downturn. ...

CEOs discuss Apple at Web 2.0 Summit

Michael Gray — 2010-11-19

While the Web 2.0 Summit was under way from Nov. 15 through Nov. 17, there were a few inevitable pot shots at Apple from attending chief executive officers. This isn't really a surprise with the ongoing growth of Apple and Apple's ...

The Web 2.0 Summit Points of Control Map

Jaypee Habaradas — 2010-11-19

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Web Video Hogs Up 37 Percent Of Internet Traffic During Peak TV Hours

Erick Schonfeld — 2010-11-19

A few weeks ago, some data came out suggesting that Netflix alone accounts for 21 percent of Internet traffic during peak TV hours. But if you add in a couple other sources of streaming video from the Web, namely YouTube and other forms of Flash video, the traffic share of Web video jumps to 37 percent (with 10 percent from YouTube and 6 percent fro Flash video). BitTorrent is another 8 percent, with much of that being video as well. These startling numbers were put together in a slide by Morgan Stanley Internet analyst Mary Meeker during her presentation at the Web 2.0 Summit earlier this week. All HTTP web traffic is only 23 percent of the total.

Ari Emanuel Argues Over Piracy at Web Summit (Video)

Eriq Gardner — 2010-11-19

Global internet trends you should know: From the Meeker Files

Joseph C Lawrence — 2010-11-19

Adobe Huffing and Puffing to Push Out Flash for Macbook Air

Richard Adhikari — 2010-11-19

Google See Connected TV In Every Home Within A Few Years

unknown — 2010-11-19

Unlocked HP Palm Pre 2 Now Available in U.S. for $449

Michelle Maisto — 2010-11-19

Netflix CEO 'Very Bullish' on Google TV, Apple TV

Clint Boulton — 2010-11-19

Can Facebook Own the Web?

Eva Kaplan-Leiserson — 2010-11-19

LinkedIn at Web 2.0 Summit

Mario Sundar — 2010-11-19

In the past few weeks, we've begun sharing relevant LinkedIn news, events and video coverage through our @linkedinnews twitter account. For those of you who want more than just a scoop, we're also starting a blog series that will ...

Twitter and the Power of Giving People a Voice [GigaOM]

Mathew Ingram — 2010-11-19

During an interview at the Web 2.0 Summit, former CEO and Twitter co-founder Evan Williams said that the network "lowers the barriers to publishing about as far as they can go." Not everyone sees this as a good thing, but the impact of it is enormous.

LinkedIn growing at a member per second

Molly McHugh — 2010-11-18

Watch the Web 2.0 Summit From San Francisco

Jon Brooks — 2010-11-17

RIM CEO Ridicules Apple at Web 2.0 Summit. Blackberry Fights Back

Raveena Kapoor — 2010-11-17

Netflix CEO: People Don't Want Movies on Cell Phones

Dan Hope — 2010-11-18

Netflix Gives Thumbs Down to iOS Video Streaming

Lia Sindre — 2010-11-19

Facebook Messaging, Gingerbread platform make news

Justin Williams — 2010-11-19

LinkedIn CEO: Yahoo Isn't Over

Ben Parr — 2010-11-18

RIM Chief Says Apple Has Mobile App Backward

John Paczkowski — 2010-11-18

Zuckerberg: Facebook blocked Ping over data reciprocity

Jason D. O'Grady — 2010-11-16

Facebook's Zuckerberg: Social is here to stay; "Get on the bus"

Sam Diaz — 2010-11-16

Web 2.0 Summit - Discussions with Jim Balsille, Co-CEO

Richard Pike — 2010-11-18

Twitter: We Won't Build Games

Oliver Chiang — 2010-11-17

Twitter's @Ev: Ad Money Good, Facebook Blocking Bad

Ryan Singel — 2010-11-17

Twitter's Ev Williams Says Redesign Only a Start

David Needle — 2010-11-18

Myspace, Facebook love: Twitter and Gmail hate?

Joan Lee — 2010-11-18

LinkedIn CEO: "Keg stands" will protect us from Facebook invasion

Dean Takahashi — 2010-11-17

LinkedIn: Do You Want Your Boss Seeing Your Keg Stand?

Mark Hachman — 2010-11-17

Poking Holes in RIM’s Anti-Apple Rhetoric [TheAppleBlog]

Liam Cassidy — 2010-11-18

BlackBerry manufacturer RIM's CEO Jim Balsillie made waves this week by taking a swipe at Apple at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco. To be fair, Apple CEO Steve Jobs struck first, but are Balsillie's comments substantive or just a knee-jerk reaction?

VC smackdown highlights East versus West

Therese Poletti — 2010-11-18

Is Web TV Dead For Now?

Charles Pullman — 2010-11-18

Twitter's Evan Williams On Secret "Reputation Score", Facebook Talks and the Secondary Market

Mike Isaac — 2010-11-17

Twitter's Timeline May Promote Relevant Tweets

Mark Hachman — 2010-11-17

Twitter looking to friend Facebook

Glenn Chapman — 2010-11-17

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams: 'We have a lot of money in the bank'

Jessica Guynn — 2010-11-17

The who's who of the digerati: A gargantuan Web 2.0 Summit photo gallery

Dean Takahashi — 2010-11-18

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz defends company, tenure

Jessica Guynn — 2010-11-16

Wilson Vs. Doerr. Bubble Vs. Boom. East Vs. West. Android Vs. iPhone. Facebook Vs. The Web (VIDEO)

MG Siegler — 2010-11-18

With Web 2.0 Summit now over, looking back, in my mind, easily the best panel was the one entitled Point of Control: Finance. It featured venture capitalists John Doerr (Kleiner Perkins) and Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures) talking with New York Magazin's John Heilemann about the state of both investing and the state of the web ecosystem at large. What made it so interesting is that Wilson and Doerr clearly don't agree on many of the big issues. This was best exemplified during the portion of the talk when the two give their views on where we are now. While Wilson worries that we may be in the midst of the next "bubble", Doerr thinks of it as a "boom". They're both talking about the same thing, they just view it completely different ways.

Yahoo: We're focused on the future

Mike Swift — 2010-11-16

Frank Quattrone At Web 2.0: Look To M&As, Be Wary Of IPOs

Deborah Gage — 2010-11-17

FCC Chief Sees Clouds Darkening Broadband Skies

Ryan Kim — 2010-11-17

Eric Schmidt Brings Nexus S Featuring Android Gingerbread for Web 2.0 Summit Interview

rahsheen — 2010-11-16

Google, Verizon and Comcast get fingered by the FCC

Lawrence Latif — 2010-11-18

Web 2.0 Summit: Photos & more highlights

JD Lasica — 2010-11-18

Yahoo! preps build-your-own-dynamic-website service

Cade Metz — 2010-11-17

Aro Mobile Officially Unveiled at Web 2.0 Summit, Begins Beta Program

unknown — 2010-11-16

Zynga expands social gaming empire with CityVille

Julianne Pepitone — 2010-11-17

Zynga has 320 million users, launches two Games on Yahoo [Web 2.0 Summit]

Christina Doland — 2010-11-16

Google CEO: Android update "could replace credit cards"

Julianne Pepitone — 2010-11-15

Tech companies draw battle lines at Web 2.0 Summit

Nathan Halverson — 2010-11-15

BlackBerry boss renews disdain for Steve Jobs

Cade Metz — 2010-11-16