News & Coverage
Announcements, articles, blogs, photos, and podcasts about the 2007 Emerging Technology Conference.
Session: Lessons Learned in Scaling and Building Social Systems
March 29, 2007 Joshua Schachter just finished peppering us with little nuggets of wisdom in his "Lessons Learned in Scaling and Building Social Systems" session. His talk was not focused on the technical aspects of scaling social systems, but on the human/social aspects.… read more
Robert Kaye
Computerworld: OLPC eyes experimental battery for $100 laptop
March 29, 2007 Computerworld's Eric Lai reports on a new device designed to power the $100 laptop from the One Laptop per Child project. The new generator is powered by a pull string instead of the crank in the original design, which ended… read more
Sharon Cordesse, Conferences Publicist
Second ETech Podcast Posted
March 29, 2007 Ewan Spence points us to the latest ETech Podcasts: Our second show from O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference 2007 and the good and the bad of the future are here. The dangers of RFID, the progressive carbon offsetting of Java libraries,… read more
Robert Kaye
ZDNet: Podcast interview with Mike Shaver of Mozilla.org
March 29, 2007 Marc Orchant interviews Mike Shaver, one of the founders of the Mozilla Organization, about the newly created Mozilla Manifesto--a document describing the company's vision of the internet as a global resource and Mozilla's role within it. Listen to the podcast… read more
Sharon Cordesse, Conferences Publicist
Ars Technica: Cuban, EFF lawyer Spar Over YouTube and the DMCA at EFF Pioneer Awards
March 29, 2007 The good folks over at the EFF held their Pioneer Awards fundraiser ceremony in conjunction with ETech this year. Ars Technica's Nate Anderson covered the event, which not only recognized the efforts of award winners Bruce Schneier, Yochai Benkler, and… read more
Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal
More thoughts on Amazon Web Services EC2 and S3
March 29, 2007 Today I attended two more presentations that focused on Amazon's EC2 and S3 services. I also spoke with the Amazon Web services team at length yesterday to find out more about their offering and how I might be able to… read more
Robert Kaye
Heise.de and NewTeeVee: ETech news roundup
March 28, 2007 For those of you who read German, journalist Janko Rottgers has posted several ETech articles on Heise.de. You can find these here: --ETech: Wikia als meinungsstarke Schwester der Wikipedia --ETech: Mark Cuban im Copyright-StreitgesprÃĪch --ETech: Grenzenlose Ressourcen mit Amazons Webservices… read more
Sharon Cordesse, Conferences Publicist
Wired News: Roundup of ETech Coverage
March 28, 2007 The Wired team has been covering a number of sessions and events here at ETech this week. Here are several of their most recent posts: --ETech 2007: Don MacAskill Saved $922,000 Using Amazon for Storage --ETech Community? --Magic is in… read more
Sharon Cordesse, Conferences Publicist
Computerworld: Hawking your attention for fun and profit
March 28, 2007 Eric Lai reports on Seth Goldstein's presentation about Atten.tv at ETech. This software takes voyeurism to new extremes, allowing others to view a webcast of the sites that a particular user is visiting. "Not only will Attent.TV users eventually be… read more
Sharon Cordesse, Conferences Publicist
Keynote: Big Company Hacks at Yahoo!
March 28, 2007 Chad Dickerson's keynote speech this morning talked about how he hacked Yahoo!. Hacked Yahoo! the company itself and not code, mind you. In his speech, "Big Company Hacks at Yahoo!, Chad talked about the Hack Day that Yahoo! hosted last… read more
Robert Kaye
Technometria on ETech
March 28, 2007 Phil Windley continues his excellent coverage of ETech, posting summaries of Wednesday's keynote sessions that you won't want to miss: --The Core of Fun: Ralph Koster --Danah Boyd's Learning from Muggles --Mike Kuniavsky's The Coming Age of Magic: Ubiquitous Computing… read more
Sharon Cordesse, Conferences Publicist
BBC News: Call for blogging code of conduct
March 28, 2007 "I do think we need some code of conduct around what is acceptable behaviour, I would hope that it doesn't come through any kind of [legal/government] regulation it would come through self-regulation," Tim O'Reilly said in an interview with BBC… read more
Sharon Cordesse, Conferences Publicist
ETech podcasts from the Podcast Network
March 28, 2007 Ewan Spence from the Podcast Network pointed me to the his first podcast covering ETech 2007: ------- The first ETech podcast is up. Our opening show sees Tim O'Reilly talk about the themes of the 2007 Conference, along with a… read more
Robert Kaye
Keynote: Amazon Web Services: Building a "Web-Scale Computing" Architecture to Meet the Variable Demands of Today's Business
March 27, 2007 Amazon.com has a history of making good presentations at O'Reilly Conferences. Today's "Amazon Web Services: Building a "Web-Scale Computing" Architecture to Meet the Variable Demands of Today's Business" keynote by Werner Vogels from Amazon was another eye opening keynote speech.… read more
Robert Kaye
Keynote: Why Can't a Computer Be More Like a Brain? How a New Theory of Neocortex Will Lead to Truly Intelligent Machines
March 27, 2007 I really enjoy going to O'Reilly conferences -- you always meet new and interesting people, while at the same time catching up with cool people you met in the years prior. And this ETech promises to be no different --… read more
Robert Kaye
The O'Reilly Factor: BEA Ushers in Web 2.0 Products
March 27, 2007 Enterprise reporter Chris Boulton offers a provocative look at BEA's new enterprise products that will be demonstrated at ETech this week. Interviewing Jay Simons, senior director of product marketing at BEA, Boulton describes the implications the three new social computing… read more
Sharon Cordesse, Conferences Publicist
Computerworld: Open source ... hardware? Someday, say ETech attendees
March 27, 2007 "Open-source, object-oriented development, personalization, even hacking, are presaging and inspiring new manufacturing methods that will overhaul today's plodding techniques born during the Industrial Revolution, according to panelists speaking Monday at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego," writes Eric… read more
Sharon Cordesse, Conferences Publicist
ETech: Hitwise Site Picks
March 27, 2007 Brady Forrest caught Bill Tancer's presentation at the O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing yesterday, where he revealed his picks for the next four up and coming Web 2.0 sites. Bill works for Hitwise, a research firm that is able to measure… read more
Sharon Cordesse, Conferences Publicist
CNET: Hackers, designers talk tech's future at ETech
March 27, 2007 "Technology is so embedded in many people's lives that it can be hard to step back and recognize the small shifts in the world brought about by adoption of new applications or gadgets," writes Stefanie Olsen of CNET. Stefanie's report… read more
Sharon Cordesse, Conferences Publicist
ZDNet: BEA debuts Enterprise 2.0 AquaLogic product family
March 27, 2007 Dan Farber writes about BEA's new enterprise products which are being announced at ETech today. AquaLogic Ensemble and AquaLogic Pages are Web 2.0 revisions of BEA's enterprise software formerly known as Project Runner and Project Builder, respectively. Read more on… read more
Sharon Cordesse, Conferences Publicist
Infoworld: Having your Zimbra cake and eating it, too - Zimbra adds offline functionality
March 27, 2007 "I never thought Microsoft would lose the email war, but now I'm starting to wonder....Zimbra is an exceptional piece of software," reports Matt Asay of Infoworld. "And now that it's fully usable offline as well as online...why not switch from… read more
Sharon Cordesse, Conferences Publicist
Brady Forrest on Kathy Sierra
March 26, 2007 Brady posted this message on the O'Reilly Radar blog today: Kathy Sierra, a Foo and speaker at many of our conferences, has had to cancel her appearance at ETech today. Unfortunately, it's not the usual travel or calendar mishap that… read more
Sharon Cordesse, Conferences Publicist
CNET: Start-up Zimbra takes Web e-mail offline
March 26, 2007 Martin LaMonica reports that Zimbra has released an early version of Zimbra Deskrop, it's Web-based email program that can run both online and offline. Zimbra Desktop is an open-source program that uses Ajax and runs on any browser and operating… read more
Sharon Cordesse, Conferences Publicist
Press Release: Attensa Introduces First Enterprise RSS Reader to Rank Important Articles Based on User Interest and Attention
March 25, 2007 Attensa will be previewing a new attention driven RSS reader - Attensa for Outlook 2.5 Beta 2 - that automatically pulls articles from RSS feeds that are most important to users to the forefront of their attention. This is the… read more
Sharon Cordesse, Conferences Publicist
Read/Write Web: ETech Photo Caption Contest Winner
March 25, 2007 Though Richard MacManus is unfortunately unable to attend ETech this year, he held a popular photo caption contest, with the grand prize a ticket to ETech. Out of the many hilarious captions submitted, Kevin Jones' reigned supreme. Congrats, Kevin, see… read more
Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal
ETech Preview: Applied Heresies and Onions
March 24, 2007 Can't wait until the conference to find out what Avi Bryant's "Applied Heresies" session is all about? Read Conference Chair Brady Forrest's preview of Avi's theory and why cooking up your next creation without onions may give you a more… read more
Sharon Cordesse, Conferences Publicist