Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010
2010-09-27..2010-09-30
New York, United States
[Web 2.0 Expo New York 2009, Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010]
who it's for
startup founders, web developers, product managers, interaction designers, ux researchers, content strategists, investors and VCs, data engineers
topics
foursquare platform and gamification; location-aware games and behavior change; WebKit and mobile web platform; Closure Compiler and JS minification; packaged web apps and local storage; augmented reality for marketing; content strategy and message architecture; eCommerce data analytics; phones as sensor platforms; startup fundraising and showcase pitches; 3D globe data visualization; app store and platform economics
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Why Everything Sounds Better Auto-Tuned... | Gregory Brothers | 13m |
Argues that Auto-Tune isn’t dead but multiplies value by turning speech into pop tracks using pitch correction plus beats and editing; demonstrates turning a… | ||
| Movies Are in 3-D, Why Not our Data?... | Julia Grace | 10m |
IBM Research builds a 7-foot sphere lobby display, maps geocoded feeds like Twitter, Foursquare, and pandemic models onto the globe, and runs interactive… | ||
| Thinking Hard About the Future | Tim O'Reilly | 22m |
Argues that exponential tech curves meet real limits and cultural change, cites Ray Kurzweil's claim about brain uploading by 2025, points to tens of thousands… | ||
| Apple and the Open Web | John Gruber | 10m |
Argues that Apple is a major web company because it builds and gives away WebKit (derived from KHTML in 2003) which powers iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Palm… | ||
| Web 2.0 Expo NY 2010: Dennis Crowley | Dennis Crowley | 11m |
foursquare grows from a tiny team to ~32 people while turning checkins into actionable city data: badges and mayorships layer game mechanics onto real-world… | ||
| A Conversation with Esther Dyson | Esther Dyson, Bre Pettis | 14m |
Trains as a cosmonaut but never flies, invests in commercial space firms like XCOR and brokers like Space Adventures, and predicts a robot on the moon by 2019… | ||
| Games that Know Where You Live | Kati London | 11m |
A studio builds location-aware games that aim to change real-world behavior: a UK government-commissioned MMO called Code of Everend uses UK traffic data to… | ||
| Web 2.0 Expo NY 2010: Brady Forrest and Sarah Milstein | Brady Forrest, Sarah Milstein | 03m |
Conference opens with logistics and numbers: the event is sold out, 30% attendees from startups, and about 30 startups in the showcase tomorrow night. Program… | ||
| Michael Bolin interviewed at Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010 | Michael Bolin | 02m |
Google open-sources the Closure Tools suite (including the Closure Compiler) it uses to build Gmail, Google Maps and Docs, and says teams can share desktop and… | ||
| Eric Meyer interviewed at Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010 | Eric Meyer | 07m |
Argues the web is not dying but spreading into nonbrowser places and being embedded in chat clients and apps, calls Apple’s recent easing of third party… | ||
| Lynne d Johnson interviewed at Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010 | Lynne d Johnson | 06m |
Covers practical AR use cases and adoption barriers: network interoperability, non-smartphone support and tying SMS or picture phones into AR, plus… | ||
| Margot Bloomstein interviewed at Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010 | Margot Bloomstein | 06m |
Content strategy means planning creation, aggregation, governance and the lifecycle of content and experience, not just upfront copy. Museum exhibit design… | ||
| Deanna Zandt interviewed at Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010 | Deanna Zandt | 03m |
Argues the internet is echo chamber and democratizing simultaneously, so growth in access does not equal equal skills or influence and requires intentional… | ||
| Lukas Biewald interviewed at Web 2.0 Expo New York | Lukas Biewald | 05m |
Defines a practical split between crowdsourcing vs distributed work, citing LiveOps and oDesk/Elance/Guru/TopCoder as transactional distributed labor while… | ||
| Welcome | Brady Forrest, Sarah Milstein | 02m |
Announces that the event is not sold to AOL, opens with Pixels by Jean Patrick (link to YouTube promised), and solicits two‑minute New York‑related tech videos… | ||
| Web 2.0 Expo NY 2010: Paola Antonelli | Paola Antonelli | 16m |
MoMA is mounting Talk to Me, a show that documents concrete interfaces: barcodes, nutrition labels, World Wide Web and Mosaic, the 1981 Star GUI, MetroCard… | ||
| The Real Data Behind eCommerce | Charlie Kim | 11m |
Company has 16 years of data across 30,000 merchant partners and shows eCommerce still accounts for less than 6% of all sales. Core claims: simple segmentation… | ||
| A Conversation with Bret Taylor | Brady Forrest, Bret Taylor | 17m |
Social plugins are simple iframes that jump from 350,000 sites to 2 million sites and serve over three billion likes daily, enabling immediate personalization… | ||
| Funding for the Future: Hunting for Thunderlizards | Ann Miura-Ko | 11m |
Web 2.0 frees information, reshapes industries and governments, and creates new routes to scale. About 1,500 startups get first funding each year and roughly… | ||
| Startup Showcase | Tim O'Reilly, Fred Wilson | 55m |
Glimpse demos a working mobile app that sends time-limited links for live location sharing, reports 300k users, an API for partners and clear scaling and… | ||
| Startup Showcase Introduction | Tim O'Reilly, Fred Wilson | 06m |
An experiment to reproduce how VCs actually evaluate startups: short on-stage pitches followed by live Q&A with VCs that probes business model, go-to-market… | ||
| This Is How You Mayor: Taking Foursquare... | Baratunde Thurston | 18m |
Runs a 30-day check-in campaign at Delicatessen with strict rules: no drive-bys, real presence only, campaign manager recruited, daily check‑ins tracked by… | ||
| Web 2.0 Expo NY 2010: Tom Conrad | Tom Conrad | 10m |
Built a personalized internet radio service starting in 2004, launches on the web in 2005 and grows from 13 million listeners in 2008 to 60 million US… | ||
| A Conversation with Ryan Sarver | Ryan Sarver, Anil Dash | 12m |
Explains which APIs exist and why: REST for reading and writing, Search for keywords, real‑time streaming API and a streaming team of two, plus the tiny… | ||
| Ted Roden interviewed at Web 2.0 Expo New York | Ted Roden | 03m |
Realtime web means showing what you know instead of what you knew at page load — live state, not stale snapshots. Google Instant counts as realtime because it… | ||
| Peter Meyers interviewed at Web 2.0 Expo New York about Best iPad Apps | Peter Meyers | 12m |
Claims that the iPad shifts apps from quick, local tasks to immersive creative experiences and gives concrete examples that support it. Color Splash lets users… | ||
| Tom Conrad of Pandora Media interviewed at Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010 | Tom Conrad | 05m |
Pandora models itself on traditional radio and positions discovery ahead of ownership, noting U.S. listeners average 16 hours of radio a week versus 3 hours of… | ||
| Baratunde Thurston from The Onion interviewed at Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010 | Baratunde Thurston | 07m |
Describes a Foursquare mayorship turned staged campaign that uses left tips about drinks, hashtags and coordinated check-ins to trigger a swarm badge, with… | ||
| Gregor Hochmuth of Google Inc. interviewed at Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010 | Gregor Hochmuth | 04m |
Chrome is building a Web Store that launches later this year and already lets developers upload apps and preview listings so the inventory and UI can be ready… | ||
| Anil Dash of Expert Labs interviewed at Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010 | Anil Dash | 07m |
Expert Labs builds an open source platform called ThinkUp that hooks to Twitter and Facebook to surface actionable insights for policymakers, aiming to bring… | ||
| Leila Janah of Samasource interviewed at Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010 | Leila Chirayath Janah | 05m |
Samasource defines microwork as small online tasks like business-listing verification and content moderation and claims a model that directs about 70% of… | ||
| Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed interviewed at Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010 | Jonah Peretti | 08m |
Argues that combining creative experiments with measurement wins: Old Spice spends about $12 million on a mixed paid-plus-social campaign while running rapid… | ||
| A Conversation with Ryan Sarver and Bret Taylor | Ryan Sarver, Bret Taylor, Anil Dash | 16m |
Live conversation digs into concrete platform choices: Twitter API rate limits and how they shape third‑party apps, Facebook Platform changes and the rollout… | ||
| The Future of Work | Lukas Biewald, Leila Chirayath Janah | 15m |
Argues that modern AI creates jobs because supervised machine learning needs massive labeled data and humans to do tasks machines cannot, notifies a $12… | ||
| A Conversation with Jonathan Miller | Jonathan Miller, Tim O'Reilly | 16m |
News Corp runs a product-led digital strategy across properties like MySpace, Jamba, IGN and Photobucket, and is executing a major MySpace relaunch (code… | ||
| Web 2.0 Expo NY 2010: Nick Bilton | Nick Bilton | 15m |
Introduces a practical design frame based on viewing distance: 1ft mobile, 2ft computer, 10ft TV, shows a sensor project using $30 Arduinos to log temperature… | ||
| Startup Showcase | Amanda Hesser, Merrill Stubbs | 13m |
Food52 reports 135,000 uniques/month and 30% return twice or more daily, with sponsorships from Viking, Williams-Sonoma and OXO and HarperCollins book deals as… | ||
| Startup Showcase | Bryan Trussel | 13m |
Glympse is a mobile app that sends time-limited realtime links by SMS or email so recipients click a map and follow location updates (about every 3 seconds in… | ||
| Startup Showcase | Brooke Dixon, Lynn Dixon | 14m |
hour.ly is an hourly-job matching engine for the gig economy that starts with a food and hospitality beachhead, built as an MVP by one developer and marketed… | ||
| Live from the Startup Showcase | Alex Howard, Tim O'Reilly | 20m |
Live on the showcase floor with on-the-spot demos, the piece cuts between quick startup pitches and a focused conversation about hour.ly’s monetization… | ||
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