Oct 7, 06:04 pm: [Web 2.0] Day 3, part 1

  • Stewart Butterfield, flickr
    • showed some interesting graphs that demonstrates the relationships between people and the clusters of photos
    • flickr is a way to see the people who are important to you
    • the activity in flickr is all people
    • displays what hobbyists can produce; a showcase for their work
    • disagreed with Jason Fried (37signals) sometimes more is more
    • the secret of flickr’s success? they are wrong a bunch of the times, but they move to fix it quickly. They don’t know what they are doing—they try.
    • it’s like music—improvisaitonal music and you improve by playing with people better than you
    • the change of web 2.0? It goes from the manufacture of entertainment for people to technology that emphasizes the connections between people
  • Dick Hardt, Sxip Identity
    • What’s identity? what I am, what I like, what I say about me, what I say about me—more trusted
    • how do you get verified id?
    • modern identify provides a separation between the acquisition and presentation of identity—allows for trust, scalability and privacy
    • how can digital identiy mimic the real world?
    • example, eBay has reputation but that reputation doesn’t belongs to eBay—you can’t take it to another site
    • identity 2.0—identity is user-centric
    • need an identity ecosystem to make this all happen
    • identity20.com
  • Dinah Neff, City of Philadelphia
    • challenged to make Philly first major, wireless city
    • next great freedom is the freedom to connect
    • only 58% of households to the Internet; only 10-25% of low income homes connect—that’s greater thant 30% of Philly’s community
    • muni wireless fight in PA well documented
    • able to partner with nonprofits, business to make sure that the project is sustainable but that it provides support to the individuals in the city—particularly low income
  • Seth Sternberg, Meebo
    • goal is to make IM available anywhere in the same way that you can access email on the web without downloading a 3rd party software
  • Vinod Khosla, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
    • open source textbooks to save the state money; that money can then be pumped into the education system
    • with the increase of information, it’s less valuable to teach people facts—they can get their fingers on facts—it’s more necessary to teach people critical thinking and the ability to make sense of the vast information at their disposal
  • Gene Becker, HP Labs
    • examine ubiquitous and utility computing to break out of the “kazoo” interface
    • currently riding a bunch of simultaneous waves—many technologies coming together
    • from the slide: “the web is becoming diverse, social, creative, mobile, contextual, physical, experiential.”
    • making printable hyperlinks
    • mediascapes
  • Usama Fayyad, Prabhakar Raghavan – both from Yahoo!
    • My Web 2.0
    • with Yahoo! Research trying to build the science of the Internet—we don’t have a basic understanding of the science behind much of what we do on the Internet
    • studing the activity behind Yahoo! Buzz—how do market predications work, what are the long-term trends, building the science of microeconomics
    • mindset
    • data mining flickr tags
  • Alan Eustace, Google Labs
    • a rule that as the company scales with people it needs to be scaling with the things that it does
    • as new things are developed, it is given a place to be tested—Google Labs
    • trying to see if machines can do sex identification—not tagging but by examining the images
    • Google Reader—aggregates web feeds, audio support so that you can us it to listen to podcasts. Supports features—can email items, blog them. Has many shared features with Google.
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