Saturday, April 21, 2007
Web 2.0 Expo: The Real Live Web is among us
Those of us who are not yet Web 2.0 entrepreneurs to justify a trip to the event where the second generation of Internet technology is presented to mainstream people: Web 2.0 Expo and did not win the Web 3.0 definition contest to get tickets, were preparing to follow the conference in a time-shifted fashion like how we did it for previous Web 2.0 events: reading Web 2.0 Summit coverage, finding live-blogging posts or listening and watching podcasts of selected presentations. But this year, thanks to live streaming, the virtual experience was enhanced.
Jeremiah Owyang’s business casting and Robert Scoble’s live streaming were two experiments to show the behind-the-scenes experience of this event and with Chris Pirillo made Web 2.0 history by streaming the Social Media Revolution panel as this 15-minute video mashup can attest.
The World Live Web is a term coined by Alex Searls and has been used to differentiate static content production from content that stimulates conversations and participation - blogs, wikis, podcasts, vlogs. But services like Twitter/Jaiku (status microblogging), Talkshoe (live online talk radio shows) and Ustream/Stickam (live online television broadcasts) are going to re-define the term as they mature.
And here are some of the resources found around the web with coverage related to this event, presentation files and slide shows are being added as available and the talks are ordered by popularity using the session stats.
- A Conversation with Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon: (video interview) (liveblog)
- Built to Last or Built to Sell: Is There a Difference? (video clip) (WebProNews)
- Launch Pad Day 1 (liveblog): Spock, WebEx, inpowr (audio)
- High Order Bit: Introducing Apollo (audio)
- Eric Schmidt in Conversation with John Battelle: (video) (highlights) (audio)
- State of the Web 2.0: Measuring the Participatory Web (ReadWriteWeb) (audio)
- Mobile 2.0 (audio)
- Jeff Weiner in Conversation with John Battelle: (video clip) (WebProNews) (audio)
- Launch Pad Day 2 (audio) (Webware): Swivel, Vidoop (video), Tellme
- Web 2.0 for the Enterprise: Is It Soup Yet? (video clip) (audio)
- High Order Bit: Architecture for Humanity (audio)
- High Order Bit: Joost: P2P Television (audio)
- High Order Bit: The Other Local (audio)
- Ignite: (Potenco video) (Information diet) (Happiness hacking) (Justin.tv)
- Tagging that Works (Agile Partners audio) (slides)
- Web2.Open ()
- High Performance Webpages (slides)
- The People Formerly Known as the Audience (liveblog)
- Scalable Web Architectures: Common Patterns and Approaches (slides)
- Media 2.0: How Web 2.0 is Transforming Traditional Media (liveblog)
- Building Web 2.0: Next-generation Web Platforms
- Social Networking Winners & Losers: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- The New Hybrid Designer: (ReadWriteWeb)
- Web 20-20: Architectural Patterns and Models for the New Internet
- Starting Up 2.0: Strategies for Pitching, Financing & Growing Your Web 2.0 Startup (WebProNews)
- Venture Capital 2.0: Bright future or broken forever? (WebProNews)
- The Social Media Revolution: You oughta be in pictures (and podcasting and vlogging) (video clips) (audio)
- Emerging trends in Search Engine Optimization & Search Engine Marketing (liveblog)
- Top 5 Dos and Don’ts for Measuring Web 2.0 (liveblog)
- The Need for Feeds: Understanding RSS & Blog Marketing (liveblog)
- From Pages to People: Behavioral Targeting (liveblog)
- Implementing OpenID (ReadWriteWeb) (audio)
- An Overview of Badges and Widgets: The fast rise of viral web parts (ReadWriteWeb)
- Using widget syndication for online marketing and measurement (ReadWriteWeb)
- Open Source Business Models for Web 2.0 (ReadWriteWeb)
- Click the Big Red Button : Tips & Techniques for Optimizing Conversion and A/B Testing (WebProNews)
- Writing Voice Mashups with Mechanical Turks and Maps (audio) (slides)
- Case Study: Digging into the Technology Behind the Development of Digg (audio)
- Rich Internet Application Platforms (audio)
- API and Mashup Best Practices (audio)
- The Challenge of Agile Development: Avoiding half-baked design (audio) (slides)
- Immersive Experiences: Lessons from Game Designers (audio)
- Reality Bites: The future of gaming + Virtual Worlds 2.0 (audio)
These are also some selected highlights from the conference.
There was also a parallel unconference which was open to anyone: Web2.Open, some slideshows are also published. Michael Wesch, the creator of the famous video “The Machine is us/ing us” which was used for the introduction to the first keynote of Web 2.0 Expo gave a talk in Web 2.0 Open, a video clip explaining how the well-known video was conceived is available.
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