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Web 2.0 Newsradar spreads the word about Al Gore at Web 2.0 Summit by reposting Tim O'Reilly's announcement.

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BuzzTracker says the announcement about Al Gore at Web 2.0 Summit is its most blogged piece on Mr. Gore.

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Yahoo! Buzz runs the announcement that Al Gore will speak at Web 2.0 Summit.

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Listen to this mechanical reading of the Boing Boing post about Gore coming to Web 2.0 Summit.

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David Pescovitz writes about the terrific speakers scheduled for Web 2.0 Summit:

Our fearless band manager John Battelle is the co-host, along with Tim O'Reilly, of the Web 2.0 Summit, a huge confab where Internet heavyweights talk big vision. Combined, John and Tim know everyone on the Internet (and their brothers) and so they always line up great talkers. They've just announced the speaker list for this year's Web 2.0, to be held November 5-7 in San Francisco. It's no "insider baseball" Internet conference. Indeed, the big thematic question of Web 2.0 2008 is: "How can we apply the lessons of the Web to the world at large?" Folks like Al Gore, Lance Armstrong, Saul Griffith, Elon Musk, and Michael Pollan will attempt to provide some answers.

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Tim O'Reilly on the exciting news that Al Gore will join the conversation at Web 2.0 Summit:

As I wrote last month in What Good is Collective Intelligence if it Doesn't Make Us Smarter?, at this year's Web 2.0 Summit, we're focusing on how what we've learned from the web over the past decade can be applied to solve the world's hard problems. That's why I'm really excited to see that John Battelle has persuaded Al Gore to join us.

One of those hard problems that requires all the intelligence we can throw at is global warming. And there's no one who deserves as much credit as Al Gore for getting it on our collective radar. Through persistence, vision, and hard work, and a real mastery of the new tools of global media, he made all of us pay attention. His work has been a textbook demonstration of the power of media to change the way people think.

That's Gore's continuing focus, with his role at Current TV. He's also joined Kleiner Perkins as a partner involved in cleantech investing.

When I first saw Gore talk about climate change at the TED conference in early 2006, everyone wanted to know what we could do about it. People are still struggling to answer that question, but it's clear that technology can play a large role: helping us to monitor and measure the rate of change in crucial environmental variables, creating feedback loops that change behavior at both macro-levels (like carbon markets) and personal levels (like home energy monitoring); creating green data centers and low-power devices; creating new forms of renewable energy generation or storage, new materials that require less energy to create; alternative fuels and vehicles. The list goes on and on. (Reminder: we're looking for innovative "web meets world" startups for the Web 2.0 Summit Launchpad.)

Of course, global warming is far from the only "web meets world" theme that we're exploring. The conference will cover everything from the latest trends on the web (the rediscovery of e-commerce as a business model, cloud computing, social networking, mobile applications, and the inevitable platform wars) to politics, global disease detection, personal genomics, private space industry, and even military infotech. Speakers I'm particularly excited to see, in addition to Vice President Gore, include Tony Hsieh (@zappos, for those of you who see him continually on twitter), Elon Musk (who's got to have the coolest portfolio of investments since retiring from PayPal, with SpaceX, SolarCity, Tesla Motors all under his wing), and Michael Pollan, who's completely changed the way many of us think about food. Check out the confirmed speaker list, but keep in mind that there are more yet to come as John and I firm up the program.

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by Tim O'Reilly on  As I wrote last month in What Good is Collective Intelligence if it Doesn't Make Us Smarter?, at this year's Web 2.0 Summit, we're focusing on how what we've learned from the web over the past decade can be applied to solve the world's hard problems. That's why I'm really excited to see that John Battelle has persuaded Al... read more

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John Battelle announces a splendid addition to the Web 2.0 Summit:

Those of you following my posts around the theme of this year's Web 2 Summit already know that we're expanding the scope of the conference this year, and asking a core question: How can we apply the lessons of the Web to the world at large? From my post outlining the theme:

As we convene the fifth annual Web 2.0 Summit, our world is fraught with problems that engineers might charitably classify as NP hard—from roiling financial markets to global warming, failing healthcare systems to intractable religious wars. In short, it seems as if many of our most complex systems are reaching their limits.

It strikes us that the Web might teach us new ways to address these limits. From harnessing collective intelligence to a bias toward open systems, the Web's greatest inventions are, at their core, social movements. To that end, we're expanding our program this year to include leaders in the fields of healthcare, genetics, finance, global business, and yes, even politics.

Increasingly, the leaders of the Internet economy are turning their attention to the world outside our industry. And conversely, the best minds of our generation are turning to the Web for solutions. At the fifth annual Web 2.0 Summit, we'll endeavor to bring these groups together.

To my mind, no person better exemplifies the merging of these two worlds than former Vice President (and Nobel laureate) Al Gore, the Chairman of Current TV. Gore and CEO Joel Hyatt started Current as "a new breed of media company that works with its young adult audience to create media that informs, enriches and inspires," by integrating online and offline media, a very Web Meets World endeavor indeed. Readers may recall that Gore recently joined Kleiner Perkins as a partner focused on green issues, as well. And we are very pleased to announce that VP Gore will be joining us at the Web 2 Summit this year.

Others joining VP Gore include Elon Musk, of PayPal, Tesla, SolarCity and SpaceX, Larry Brilliant, the head of the Google.org foundation, and Michael Pollan, author of many wonderful books on our relationship to food, including my favorite: The Botany of Desire. The full lineup is truly wonderful, and we're still adding speakers.

Requests for invitations can be found here, this is going to be one special event.

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by Tim O'Reilly on  At this year's Web 2.0 Summit, we're holding a charity auction as part of our "web meets world" focus. From the press release: The Web 2.0 Summit team will solicit donations, and donation ideas, from individuals and companies within the community and then choose the 10 most promising and unique offerings to auction after the conference dinner. Lance Armstrong, the... read more

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RIchard MacManus supports the "Web Meets World" Auction by offering free passes for the best auction item ideas:

This year the Web 2.0 Summit conference (5-7 Nov) is hosting an auction to benefit a few innovative organizations that are solving big problems.

To show our support for this initiative, ReadWriteWeb is running a competition in this post.

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Tim O'Reilly asks for, and suggests a few of his own, ideas for Web 2.0 Summit auction items:

We're looking for suggestions as well as donations. For example, what might O'Reilly donate that would bring a big price for the target charities? For example, how much would you donate to have us organize a mini-foo camp for a company, bringing together cool hackers in the company's area of interest? (But suggestions are best if you have some kind of angle on actually helping to make them happen.)

Check out the latest suggestions in the comments and read Tim's entire post here.

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SAN FRANCISCO - July 30, 2008 - TechWeb (formerly CMP) and O'Reilly Media, Inc., co-producers of the annual Web 2.0 Summit, announce the Web Meets World Auction at Web 2.0 Summit on the evening of Wednesday, November 5, at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The first Summit auction illustrates this year's theme of applying what we’ve learned from the Web to help solve our world's most pressing limits. Keynote speaker Lance Armstrong, the cancer survivor, seven-time Tour de France winner and founder of the Lance Armstrong Foundation who recently joined with Demand Media to launch LIVESTRONG.COM, will autograph a Trek road bike that will be auctioned off with other priceless items during Web 2.0 Summit’s Web Meets World Auction. All proceeds from the auction will benefit charity. Complete information about the Web Meets World Auction can be found at: http://en.oreilly.com/web2008/public/content/auction.

"In planning for the Web 2.0 Summit event this year, we have been inspired to look beyond our immediate needs and into a space that transforms limits into opportunities," said John Battelle, Web 2.0 Summit's Program Chair. "With that in mind, we’ve asked our speakers, including Lance Armstrong and others, to help us host this auction and provide the Summit community at least one concrete way to support change."

The Web 2.0 Summit team will solicit donations, and donation ideas, from individuals and companies within the community and then choose the 10 most promising and unique offerings to auction after the conference dinner. Lance Armstrong, the seven time Tour de France winner and founder of the Lance Armstrong Foundation and LIVESTRONG.COM, will donate an autographed bicycle that he signs on-stage during his interview with John Battelle. All proceeds from the event will benefit three charities, including WITNESS.org, which uses video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations.

Members of the Web community can contribute to the success of the Web Meets World auction by joining the Web 2.0 Summit Facebook community and suggest which charities should benefit from the auction and what you would consider a priceless donation. Individuals or companies who would like to offer auction items should email: auction@techweb.com.

Web 2.0 Summit takes place November 5-7, 2008 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The event is produced by partners O'Reilly Media, Inc. and TechWeb and is moderated by John Battelle, Program Chair. Attendance is limited to maintain an intimate setting and foster dialog among participants. General attendee registration is by invitation only; requests for invitations are being accepted through mid-September. Media credentials are also extended by invitation only.

For more information on Web 2.0 Summit and to apply for an invitation,
please visit:
http://web2summit.com

To read coverage from Summit 2007, please visit:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/62/news.html

To view select video from last year's Summit, please visit:
http://web2summit.blip.tv/

About TechWeb
TechWeb, the global leader in business technology media, is an innovative business focused on serving the needs of technology decision-makers and marketers worldwide. TechWeb produces the most respected and consumed media brands in the business technology market. Today, more than 13.3 million* business technology professionals actively engage in our communities created around our global face-to-face events Interop, Web 2.0, Black Hat and VoiceCon; online resources such as the TechWeb Network, Light Reading, Intelligent Enterprise, InformationWeek.com, bMighty.com, and The Financial Technology Network; and the market leading, award-winning InformationWeek, TechNet Magazine, MSDN Magazine, Wall Street & Technology magazines. TechWeb also provides end-to-end services ranging from next-generation performance marketing, integrated media, research, and analyst services. TechWeb is a division of United Business Media, a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion.
*13.3 million business decision-makers: based on # of monthly connections

About O’Reilly
O’Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, and conferences. Since 1978, O’Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying “faint signals” from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism. For more information, visit: http://oreilly.com. O’Reilly is a registered trademark of O’Reilly Media, Inc. Other products mentioned may be trademarks of their respective companies. read more

by Tim O'Reilly on  At this year's Web 2.0 Summit, we're holding a charity auction as part of our "web meets world" focus. From the press release: The Web 2.0 Summit team will solicit donations, and donation ideas, from individuals and companies within the community and then choose the 10 most promising and unique offerings to auction after the conference dinner. Lance Armstrong, the... read more

by Brady Forrest on  Dopplr, the traveler's social network, has added events. In this initial implementation you have to use one of the supplied URLs. Here are the URLs for the next six O'Reilly conferences. OSCON - http://dplr.it/oscon08 EuroRails - http://dplr.it/eurorailsconf08 Web 2.0 Expo NYC - http://dplr.it/w2exponyc Web 2.0 Expo Europe - http://dplr.it/w2expoeurope Web 2.0 Summit - http://dplr.it/w2summit08 MoneyTech - http://dplr.it/moneytech09 If you... read more

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Fourth Edition Launch Pad Addresses the World’s Need for Change

SAN FRANCISCO - July 10, 2008 - TechWeb (formerly CMP) and O’Reilly Media, Inc., co-producers of the annual Web 2.0 Summit, today announce the Launch Pad program, a unique public forum designed to uncover the most promising Web startups, is open for submissions. The theme for this fourth edition Launch Pad, Web Meets World, spotlights the industry’s best startups that use the Web’s culture to change the world. For more information on submitting your company or product for this year’s Launch Pad and to complete a submission form, visit: http://en.oreilly.com/web2008/public/content/launchpad. The Web 2.0 Summit takes place November 5-7, 2008 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.

Launch Pad’s focus will be on startups in the fields of alternative energies, social entrepreneurialism, microfinance, developing economies, political action, renewable technologies, and other innovative areas. Web 2.0 Summit Launch Pad will provide Web 2.0 companies a chance to present in front of six leading venture capitalists from Internet and Green backgrounds, while receiving raw, real-time feedback from both judges and audience members.

“The conversation is no longer just about the Web, rather about the bigger social movements driving the Web’s greatest solutions,” said John Battelle, Web 2.0 Summit’s Program Chair. “We’ve adjusted our Launch Pad to reflect the natural progression of the conversation and, most importantly, to present the Web’s most promising innovations.”

The Web 2.0 Launch Pad’s judging panel of venture capitalists will sponsor the program, thus eliminating company participation fees. Any company in any stage of financing can compete for a slot on stage, whether or not they are launching a new company or product. Judges will select the finalists who will compete at the Web 2.0 Summit event and receive up to ten minutes on stage to present to the entire Web 2.0 Summit audience and the VC judging panel.

“We’re honored to be a part of Web 2.0 Summit’s Launch Pad: Web Meets World. It allows us the unique opportunity to learn about those Web companies working to improve the complex problems facing industries outside the Web- something invaluable for Panorama Capital,” said Chris Albinson of Panorama Capital. “Together with the Web 2.0 Summit’s audience, we’ll uncover those shining stars working to build a better future.”

Submission deadline for Web 2.0 Summit Launch Pad is September 10, 2008. Final determination of the Launch Pad companies will be made by John Battelle, Web 2.0 Summit’s Program Chair, in concert with VC judges including Chris Albinson of Panorama Capital, Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures, and Mike Goguen of Sequoia Capital.

Web 2.0 Summit is produced by partners O’Reilly Media, Inc. and TechWeb and is moderated by John Battelle, Program Chair, and O’Reilly CEO Tim O’Reilly. Attendance is limited to maintain an intimate setting and foster dialog among participants. General attendee registration is by invitation only; requests for invitations are being accepted through mid-September. Media credentials will also be extended by invitation only.

-For more information on Web 2.0 Summit and to apply for an invitation, please visit:
http://web2summit.com

-To read coverage from Summit 2007, please visit:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/62/news.html

-To view select video from last year’s Summit, please visit:
http://web2summit.blip.tv/

About TechWeb
TechWeb, the global leader in business technology media, is an innovative business focused on serving the needs of technology decision-makers and marketers worldwide. TechWeb produces the most respected and consumed media brands in the business technology market. Today, more than 13.3 million* business technology professionals actively engage in our communities created around our global face-to-face events Interop, Web 2.0, Black Hat and VoiceCon; online resources such as the TechWeb Network, Light Reading, Intelligent Enterprise, InformationWeek.com, bMighty.com, and The Financial Technology Network; and the market leading, award-winning InformationWeek, TechNet Magazine, MSDN Magazine, Wall Street & Technology magazines. TechWeb also provides end-to-end services ranging from next-generation performance marketing, integrated media, research, and analyst services. TechWeb is a division of United Business Media, a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion.
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About O’Reilly
O’Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, and conferences. Since 1978, O’Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying “faint signals” from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism. For more information, visit: http://www.oreilly.com/.
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Tim explores the focus of the Web 2.0 Summit Launchpad, "Web meets world."

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Martin LaMonica applauds Launch Pad's shift in focus, "So the Internet may be maturing and the nature of innovation broadening. But it's still exciting."

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Call for Participation Now Open

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/ --CMP and O'Reilly Media, Inc., co-producers of the annual Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco and Web 2.0 Summit, today jointly announced the launch of Web 2.0 Expo New York. The Web 2.0 Expo brand was introduced last April in San Francisco and received an overwhelmingly positive reception, with double the expected attendance and dozens of major announcements. The New York event is poised to take advantage of the demand for education and networking in the Web 2.0 world, and will highlight the many innovative companies and individuals on the East Coast, as well as welcome visitors from around the world.

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by Nat Torkington on  Active URLs (Ned Batchelder): OmniTI have done something clever with their URLS—turned them into active verbs: their testimonials are at URLs like /helps/ning, their jobs page is at /is/hiring, etc. What's This Fascination with Ad Networks (John Battelle): I had breakfast at ETech with jbat (who runs the Web 2.0 Summit) and got a braindump of his thinking around... read more

by Nat Torkington on  Active URLs (Ned Batchelder): OmniTI have done something clever with their URLS—turned them into active verbs: their testimonials are at URLs like /helps/ning, their jobs page is at /is/hiring, etc. What's This Fascination with Ad Networks (John Battelle): I had breakfast at ETech with jbat (who runs the Web 2.0 Summit) and got a braindump of his thinking around... read more

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More coverage from Web 2.0 Summit from LaNacion (albeit in en espanol!):

En San Franciso, durante el Web 2.0 Summit, la marca finlandesa de celulares presento una nueva computadora de mano mientras Apple, paradojicamente, anunciaba mejoras para su iPhone

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LaNacion's coverage from Web 2.0 Summit. The reporter said that was the story was in the top ten of most viewed stories that day...

Mark Zuckerberg, ex estudiante de Harvard, es el cofundador y CEO de la ultima nina mimada de las redes sociales online; estuvo en el reciente Web 2.0 Summit realizado en San Francisco y revelo detalles del boom

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More coverage from LaNacion from Web 2.0 Summit, this time on Google Health:

Por que la marca mas valuada del mundo pone en cuestion la salud?; en pleno debate por la seguridad social en EE. UU., en el Web 2.0 Summit de San Francisco, la empresa revelo su interes por esta problematica

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This was published on the site of the oldest and second largest newspaper in Argentina regarding Web 2.0 Summit:

San Francisco fue la sede de la Web 2.0 Summit, un encuentro sobre las tendencias web actuales y futuras; organizado por Tim O´Reilly y compañías líderes como Facebook, Microsoft, Nokia y Google, hubo importantes anuncios

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This article is in Japanese but covers social media news from Web 2.0 Summit:

Web 2.0 Summit Report -- Next edge; social graph in the real-world society

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Sarah Lacy, who is working on a book about the rise of Web 2.0, attended Web 2.0 Summit and gave her spin on the Facebook/MySpace debate:

Those were among the few nuggets of news emanating from O'Reilly Media's annual Web 2.0 Summit, which also featured Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who said as little as possible about reports he's lining up financing that could value his company at upwards of $10 billion

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David Carr attended Web 2.0 Summit and filed this report yesterday:

Half an hour into the party, there was a ripple of excitement, and people started murmuring and pointing toward the door. When the crowd parted, I expected to see Mark Zuckerberg, the young overlord of Facebook, or Steve Ballmer, the battle-hardened Microsoft veteran. Then again, this is a MySpace party, so maybe Britney Spears or Lindsay Lohan? Instead, it was Rupert Murdoch — old school, old media, and at 76, just plain old. From the reaction of the crowd, it might as well have been Lindsay Lohan. He was overwhelmed by an immediate onrush of hospitality as the geekerati lined up to get a word with him.

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Interesting article on Web 2.0 Summit:

The bubble question also lurked in the minds of many attendees at the Web 2.0 Summit conference in San Francisco last week. Along with Facebook, search and online advertising juggernaut Google has an even scarier valuation. In Google's case, Wall Street justifies its market cap of around $209 billion because of what analysts consider is a huge untapped sector of the advertising market that has not yet moved to the Web.

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Dean Takahashi covered Web 2.0 Summit:

John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly opened the Web 2.0 asking a question, “Is this a bubble?” Few folks raised their hands in the ballroom of the Palace Hotel. But this is the land of the faithful. True believers are the ones who are starting Internet companies in social networking and media

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More from Web 2.0 Summit from eWeek:

CEO Mark Zuckerberg parries dogged questions about online advertising.

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Joel Dreyfuss has some interesting theories of everything new sounding familiar at Web 2.0 Summit:

At one point during the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this week, I thought I’d fallen into a time warp. I suddenly found myself listening to pitches that might have been appropriate in the 1990s at a mainframe computer convention, not a cutting-edge event like this summit is billed.

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Richard MacManus, a Web 2.0 Summit veteran filed the following stories:

2007 Web 2.0 Summit Review: How the Web 2.0 Conference Has Evolved Over 2 Years

MySpace Evolves - Developer Platform Details, Partnerships, Growth Figures

Twine: The First Mainstream Semantic Web App?

The New Era of Semantic Apps

Web 2.0 Summit 2007: Mary Meeker and Internet Trends

Web 2.0 Summit 2007: Mark Zuckerberg

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Mark Zuckerberg's appearance at Web 2.0 Summit had many mentions in the media, here is what USA Today's Jefferson Graham had to say:

Much has been made of the youth of 23-year-old CEO Mark Zuckerberg (left) of the red-hot social network Facebook.

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Lots of stories from Web 2.0 Summit from CRN/Channel Web, here's a good one:

Among the many buzzwords associated with the Web 2.0 hype, none has quite the cachet as "open." Yet no idea is more profoundly troubling to the companies trying to build profitable Internet businesses.

And for the rest of the coverage:

Summit Coverage

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Business Week sent a few reporters to Web 2.0 Summit, which resulted in the following stories:

Summit Coverage

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Clint Boulton of eWeek wrote this piece regarding John Battelle at Web 2.0 Summit:

Reporter's Notebook: John Battelle puts the screws to Mark Zuckerberg in a thrilling grilling.

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Reuters filed tons of stories from Web 2.0 Summit, here are most of them:

Reuters Coverage

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This is an article filed by Reuters regarding Web 2.0 Summit:

Start-up companies at the Web 2.0 Summit this week displayed confidence that the Internet has become a big enough home, with hundreds of millions of users, for many of their projects to find a market.

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Bloomberg covered Web 2.0 Summit like crazy, this will link you to their stories:

Web 2.0 Summit Coverage

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Blog Talk Radio uploaded a few broadcasts from Web 2.0 Summit, you can listen to them here:

PodCasts on Web 2.0 Summit

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Barron's publishes several pieces, including Tech Trader Daily. This link will show you all the stories on Web 2.0 Summit:

Barron's Coverage

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This is an interest follow-up piece from Web 2.0 Summit, but also addresses the Graphic Social Patterns conference which will become an O'Reilly conference in the new year...

"Everyone woke up and realized this was not a minor thing they did," said Dave McClure, a Silicon Valley investor and the organizer of last month's conference, Graphing Social Patterns: The Business & Technology of Facebook. "Now everyone is trying to copy and implement their own version of that."

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Jon Fine, reporter at Business Week wrote this column about Web 2.0 Summit:

...this New York media guy (read: storyteller) traveled to the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, at which a smart set gathers to discuss, among other things, how technological change inflects media.

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Yes, it's in German... but it's a solid article on social networking from Steffan Heuer of Technology Review who attended Web 2.0 Summit:

Wenn es bislang noch irgendwelche Zweifel daran gab, dass das Mitmach-Web auch die letzten Winkel der etablierten IT- und Medienkonzerne durchdrungen hat, wurden sie beim diesjährigen Web 2.0 Summit ausgeräumt.

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by Brady Forrest on  At Web 2.0 Summit, Stewart Butterfield announced that Flickr is going to be rolling out a new Maps interface and Flickr Places to highlight their geo-tagged photos. They have an amazing amount of photos (1.38 Billion) with a new... read more

by Jimmy Guterman on  It's a young crowd at the Web 2.0 Summit. I'm in my mid-40s and I feel unconscionably old here. Safa Rashtchy ran a session this afternoon in which he interviewed a half-dozen Baby Boomers, the generation in this country... read more

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This panel at Web 2.0 was amusing, Mitch Wagner sums it up:

The Web 2.0 Summit got a delightful dose of reality from a panel of a half-dozen baby boomers, giving the point of view from a group usually unrepresented at industry conferences: The ordinary Joes and Janes who have to use the technology the industry builds.

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Interesting story that seems to support the notion of a bubble forming, from Web 2.0 Summit:

The money was great... Larry and Sergey were focused... but a panel of ex-Googlers revealed why they have now gone off to build their own Web 2.0 fortunes.

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Looks like "Web 3.0" is getting bandied about, but for now here is a story from Web 2.0 Summit:

Silicon Valley has painted a picture of the web in 2030, and it is very powerful - and very smart - indeed

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Richard Martin covered most of the news stories from Web 2.0 Summit, here is his article on Launch Pad:

Last week at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco I ran through the contestants in the startup beauty pageant known as Launch Pad, and asked for readers' votes on the one Most Likely to Succeed. The results are in -- plus I'll reveal the actual winners chosen at the summit.

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Thanks to Marc Orchant for mentioning the presentations from Web 2.0 Summit, found here:

A number of the interviews conducted by Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Summit last week in San Francisco have now been posted online at blip.tv including Battelle’s interview with Steve Ballmer of Microsoft which was one of the highlights of the event for me.

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Once again Bobbie Johnson does a thorough job reporting from Web 2.0 Summit:

eBay confronts $1.4bn Skype disappointment

$10bn for Facebook? Maybe, but the real value lies in the ads

Microsoft remain tight-lipped over Facebook

Murdoch plans new role for Wall St Journal

Microsoft keeps hunting as part of online battle with Google

Facebook founder says social networking sites in it for the long haul

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Steven Pearlstein covered Web 2.0 Summit last week and published the following in his column about a tech start-up and speaker Rupert Murdoch:

For the next two minutes, the two scheming entrepreneurs traded stories, the jowly septuagenarian media mogul filling in some details of how he broke the newspaper printers union on London's Fleet Street

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by Tim O'Reilly on  Maker Faire Austin is in full swing. I'm not there, having just finished up the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, recuperating at home before heading out Monday for a MySQL board meeting in London, but I'm watching the goings-on... read more

by Brady Forrest on  At Web 2.0 Summit, Stewart Butterfield announced that Flickr is going to be rolling out a new Maps interface and Flickr Places to highlight their geo-tagged photos. They have an amazing amount of photos (1.38 Billion) with a new... read more

by Jimmy Guterman on  It's a young crowd at the Web 2.0 Summit. I'm in my mid-40s and I feel unconscionably old here. Safa Rashtchy ran a session this afternoon in which he interviewed a half-dozen Baby Boomers, the generation in this country with... read more

by David Recordon on  Brad Fitzpatrick and I just got off the stage at Web 2.0 Summit, where we talked about social networking love and hate. You'll see coverage elsewhere about what we said. Here, I'd like to take you behind the curtain and... read more

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Oliver Starr and Marc Orchant have been covering the Web 2.0 Summit:

Events tend to swirl at the Web 2.0 Summit. The pace of speakers appearing on the main stage is frenetic and there are so many interesting conversations, demos, and briefings taking place in the lobbies and hallways of the Palace Hotel.

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by Natalia Wodecki on  

AT&T; makes the following announcement at Web 2.0 Summit:

AT&T; Inc said on Friday it plans to participate in an upcoming government auction of airwaves in the 700-Megahertz spectrum band, but it is still deciding whether to bid for a portion of the spectrum reserved for open access

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Oliver Starr reports from Web 2.0 Summit:

O’Reilly and the CMP Media team did something that I hope will become a standard across not just our industry but every industry; they gave everyone a tree to be planted in each of our names via TreeNation

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by Dawn Applegate on  

And a counterpoint to the previous article, this is another view on Google/Facebook at Web 2.0 Summit:

I have to say that until now I thought Josh Quittner was a pretty smart guy.

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by Jimmy Guterman on  The morning media panels at the Web 2.0 Summit haven't been as energetic or exciting as the technology panels (I'll add to the chorus: Dash seems very cool). Over the past three panels, AT&T; Randall Stephenson waxed disingenuously about Net... read more

by Natalia Wodecki on  

San Jose Mercury News reports on Web 2.0 Summit's new companies and big business:

On the ground at the Web 2.0 Summit. Web 2.0 is the label for Internet companies that live on hype, hope and swelling online audiences. For years, they have incubated their technologies and made bold promises about changing the world. Now there are signs these youthful ventures are becoming real businesses.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Kara and John have been posting from Web 2.0 Summit:

All Things Digital

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Web 2.0 Summit was picked up on KQED:

This week opens the much anticipated Web 2.0 Summit taking place in San Francisco, with everyone from Rupert Murdoch to the founder of Facebook on hand to cut deals and promote their vision for the web.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Coverage of Web 2.0 Summit:

You don't need to be a developer to create mashups or FaceBook apps.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

International coverage for Web 2.0 Summit:

Opinions on the Web 2.0 Summit are varied across the blogging sites as excitement surrounding the event mounts

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by Tim O'Reilly on  Rob Currie and Mark Williamson of Dash, the internet-connected GPS, are on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit. They're explaining just what the benefits are of internet connection, how it transforms the GPS in-car experience: Traffic data is real... read more

by Dawn Applegate on  

John Musser is covering Web 2.0 Summit for Programmable Web:

At the Web 2.0 Summit yesterday MySpace’s Chris DeWolfe and Newscorp’s Rupert Murdoch unveiled some of their plans for opening-up MySpace. They’ll be doing this in stages over the next few months.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Popular Science covered Web 2.0 Summit this week, here are some of their stories:

Popular Science At Summit

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by Jimmy Guterman on  One of the afternoon sessions at the Web 2.0 Summit I'm most looking forward to is the "Semantic Web" panel, in part because it's a hot topic and in part because it's the lead topic in the most recent Release... read more

by Dawn Applegate on  

Mostly video, but here's what Loic LeMeur has been up to at Web 2.0 Summit:

LeWeb

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Here is coverage from the Launch Pad at Web 2.0 Summit:

Today’ Web 2.0 Summit ended with a Launch Pad session where six startups each got six minutes to pitch their companies to the crowd and a panel of venture capitalists. Here’s a thumbnail sketch of each with my initial impressions

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by Dawn Applegate on  

The figures on attendance are due to be corrected, but here is the Web 2.0 Summit coverage from David Louie:

These are faces you may not know, but they're people shaping the future of the internet.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Mitch Wagner's report from Web 2.0 Summit's informal press gathering:

John Battelle of Federated Media, Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media, and Eric Faurot, senior VP at CMP, got together this afternoon to put out an overview of the Web 2.0 Summit and look at the future of Web 2.0 in cell phones, sensors, and

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