Oct 6, 09:37 pm: [Web 2.0] Day 2, part 2

  • Blogs are starting to get an attention that rivals mainstream media
  • almost a third of blog posts use tags or categories (almost 400k every single day)
  • 720K blogs tagged in blog finder (this happened in a month)
  • new feature:
    technorati_feature
    • Tom Barton
    • Data center infrastructure—server and systems
  • Hossein Eslambolchi
    • convergence of infrastructure and applications which will make rich media ubiquitous
  • Discussion: Open vs. Closed Models
    • Danny Rimer
    • Jeff Barr
    • Toni Schneider
    • Sam Schwartz
    • concept of trust as something that you own
    • concept of owning metadata (aggregate use) and connections tools that make community possible
      (those two things add up to owning the platform)
    • the trust is what allows you to open the system up for broader use because it works both ways (the platform owner trusts the community)
    • Allows people to do more because they don’t have to be able to host the infrstructure for their services

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Marnie Webb  |