Web 2.0 Expo NY 2008
2008-09-16..2008-09-19
New York, United States
who it's for
startup founders, product managers, community managers, platform engineers, data scientists, content creators
topics
collaborative filtering for personalization; browser 3D games with plugin; large-scale comment moderation; user-generated content virality; interactive data visualization tools; ambient sensing and ubicomp; marketplace growth and scaling; product simplicity and curation; personal branding via video content; asynchronous offline sync solutions; local web ecosystem evolution
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Arianna Huffington in Conversation with Tim O'Reilly | Arianna Huffington, Tim O'Reilly | 26m |
A news site builds a platform that combines opinion with aggregation, hosts 2000+ bloggers, and enforces human pre-moderation with 30 moderators 24/7 to keep… | ||
| The Next Generation of Video Games | Shana Fisher | 13m |
Claims a browser-only platform that runs AAA 3D titles in a browser using a proprietary engine and an under 100KB plug-in, delivers multiplayer with dedicated… | ||
| Organizing Chaos: The Growth of Collaborative Filters | Jay Adelson | 09m |
Argues collaborative filters are now practical because the web pours in dynamic personal signals (from clicks and links to Twitter, GPS and Nike+iPod) enabling… | ||
| What ManyEyes Knows | Irene Greif | 10m |
ManyEyes is a public site that lets anyone upload spreadsheet data, create and save interactive views (stacked histories, bubble charts, networks, word maps)… | ||
| Future of Technology | Genevieve Bell | 10m |
Five concrete cases show the internet morphing around constraints: a town 150 km from connectivity where people drive to a McDonald’s hotspot; Orissa villages… | ||
| The Real Future of Technology | Dan Lyons | 16m |
Anonymous parody blog launches on free Blogger/Google software in June 2006, grows from 90,000 readers to about 1.5 million as community-sent content and… | ||
| Because We Make You Happy | Ben Huh | 10m |
Explains how a weekend three-line Lolcat builder (top, middle, bottom text) and a simple cadence of six homepage posts starting at 9:00 a.m. drive sharing and… | ||
| Enterprise Radar | Tim O'Reilly | 33m |
Argues Web 2.0 is moving into ambient computing driven by sensors, citing laundry machines that Twitter availability, Macs repurposed into the quake catcher… | ||
| The DIY Guide to Growing a Company | Maria Thomas | 13m |
Etsy reports about $100M gross merchandise sales in 2008 while only 0.1% of U.S. companies ever top $250M, so growth requires specific moves not fluff: build a… | ||
| High Order Bit | Jason Fried | 16m |
Software tends to be good for the first few versions then balloons into bloat by version four or five unless someone curates it; the team treats features like… | ||
| Building Personal Brand Within the Social Media Landscape | Gary Vaynerchuk | 15m |
Claims building a personal brand via consistent content and hustle: builds Wine Library TV five days a week for 17 months, grows a family wine business from a… | ||
| New York's Web Industry From 1995 to 2008: From Nascent to Ascendent | Fred Wilson | 26m |
Chronicles New York’s web ecosystem from 1995 onward with concrete benchmarks: 230 vs 30 early‑stage VC financings (1995) and growth to ~120 vs 360 by 2008… | ||
| The Death of the Grand Gesture | Deborah Schultz | 11m |
Argument that the classic punctuated marketing stunt doesn’t die but shifts into a continuous online-personal mix: social tools named include Twitter, blogs… | ||
| It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure. | Clay Shirky | 24m |
Claim: the problem is filter failure not information overload. Evidence: spam volume that feels doubled actually rises ~25% and breaks downstream filters… | ||
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