Web 2.0 Day 1: Afternoon sessions

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中国结走过一程人生旅途，写下一段心路历程，留住一份美好记忆. << If Everyone Thinks It's a Bubble, It's Not a Bubble | 主页 | Barry Diller Opens Web 2.0 >> Web 2.0 Day 1: Afternoon sessions 2005-12-09 http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8014 As an avid fan of O'Reilly conferences, I've gotten accustomed to their standard format of organizing conferences. Web 2.0, which O'Reilly and MediaLive put on together, aims to please a different group of attendees, so the format is a bit different. While the workshops earlier in the day were more of the typical O'Reilly conference format, the afternoon plenary sessions were all held in the large ballroom, with all attendees all paying attention to the one single track. On one side, there are no session conflicts where you want to attend two (or more!) sessions that are all happening at the same time. On the other hand you lose some choice as to what sessions to attend and there is less depth for any given topic. I usually like to pick a session and try and convey as many nitty gritty details as I can, but I'm having to change my pace here because a lot of the plenary sessions are more like casual conversations, as opposed to full on technical detail assaults that you might expect to find at OSCON or even ETech. So, please bear with me as I try and adjust to the new format. I'll let you know what I think about this conference format when I wrap up my blog coverage on the weekend. I got my final clue that this conference is different when Tim O'Reilly showed up on stage in a suit. Uh oh. What's happened to our fearless leader? I think this is in part due to the changed feeling in the Bay Area -- as people have been saying lately: "The buzz is back in the Silicon Valley!" There are plenty of suits running around here and the VCs have emerged from their long hibernation. Companies are getting funded again and people are starting to throw business plans around, though VC's are nowhere near their late 90's glory. Companies used to get multiple millions of dollars for seed rounds where VC's are now routinely talking about much smaller amounts -- usually around $500k. Personally, I hope that a level of sanity can be maintained this time around, since too many useful innovations died when the Internet bubble burst a few years ago. One of the major talking points this year has been the trio of web companies: Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft (MSN). These three companies are the big sponsors of the Web 2.0 conference and outside of the conference these giants are engaging in stiff head to head competition. This also plays itself out here at the conference -- a lot of panels compare and contrast the approaches of these three giants. In the "Mash-Ups 2.0: Where's the business model?" workshop the nuances between Google's maps approach vs Yahoo! approach were examined. Yahoo! has been touting that acquired companies like Flickr and Upcoming will remain open and that the rest of Yahoo is working towards making the other parts of Yahoo! as open as possible. Yet a Yahoo! based maps mash-up is hosted on a Yahoo! server, whereas Google ends up giving more control (and the associated hosting burden) by letting developers host the mash-up pages themselves. These types of comparisons are being touched on left and right as people compare the approaches of the three major sponsors of the event. Another trend here at Web 2.0 are events -- there is a lot of talk about companies like Eventful, Upcoming and the newly launched Zvents. Each of these companies tries to bring some cohesion into the jumble of events (conferences, concerts, exhibits and even personal events) that occur daily. Each of these companies has an open API that allows third parties to access and enter events into their database, hoping to capture the same spirit that Flickr captured for online photo collections. Its clear that the market can't support three event solutions, but given that Yahoo! just purchased Upcoming, maybe Google and MSN will snap up the other two solutions. In any case, I hope that these open event solutions will gain some serious uptake. I could see small bands trying to establish themselves and find audiences for their music be the big winner with these event solutions. Of course, this is also good for consumers who will have more event choices than ever before. I'm excited to see how this will play out. Now its time to dive back into the conference... Robert Kaye is the Mayhem & Chaos Coordinator and creator of MusicBrainz, the music metadata commons. gerald 发表于 2005-12-09 18:16 引用Trackback(0) | 编辑 Comments 发表评论最近更新