Web 2.0 Summit 2009
who it's for
senior executives, startup founders, product managers, platform engineers, web developers, venture capitalists, media executives
topics
DoubleClick Exchange advertising; Android G1 hardware collaborations; Chrome developer channel builds; facebook quizzes and games; newspaper paywalls and monetization; participatory sensing with smartphone sensors; Bing Wave 2 visual search; twitter firehose integration; facebook platform metrics and growth; peer-to-peer Wowd search prototype; PayPal developer APIs and payments; virtual goods and Facebook Credits
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| A Conversation with Sergey Brin | Sergey Brin, John Battelle | 18m |
Denies attempting to buy Twitter and says many ex-employees form an alumni community that eases partnerships; positions Google as sending search traffic… | ||
| What Do Teens Want? | Safa Rashtchy | 34m |
Teens treat Facebook as the hub — spending an hour-plus on Facebook quizzes and games, friending parents annoyingly, and abandoning MySpace; Google is default… | ||
| Discussion: Whither Journalism? | John Battelle, Martin Nisenholtz, Marissa Mayer, Eric Hippeau, Robert Thomson | 41m |
Debate centers on who pays, who creates, and what actually scales: newspapers report 820,000 home delivery subs as stable while Murdoch pushes paywalls; Google… | ||
| A Conv | Carly Fiorina, John Battelle | 39m |
Exploring a Senate run while recovering from cancer and citing a CEO track record, states a platform of opportunity and accountability, argues stimulus… | ||
| Discussion: Humans As Sensors | Brady Forrest, Markus Tripp, Deborah Estrin, Sharon Biggar, Di-Ann Eisnor | 28m |
Smartphone sensors collect speed, heading, GPS, compass, camera and accelerometer data and feed services that sell or act on that data: passive GPS+compass… | ||
| A Co | Sheryl Sandberg, John Battelle | 33m |
Announcement that Bing gets feed of public status updates with no money changing hands, Facebook is profitable and cash‑flow positive ahead of schedule, and… | ||
| A Conversation | Qi Lu, Tim O'Reilly | 29m |
Bing launches about 100 days ago and now rolls out Bing Wave 2 with visual search for 1,500 cameras, sliders for megapixels and zoom, and one‑click reviews and… | ||
| A Conv | Evan Williams, John Battelle | 36m |
Explains why revenue stays vague while 97% of engineering effort goes to product quality, with advertising, paid business features and data/insight services as… | ||
| Openin | Tim O'Reilly, John Battelle | 08m |
Year-over-year market moves get concrete numbers: Dow 9,265 → 10,000+ and NASDAQ 1,770 → ~2,200, and a Dow Jones VC roundup shows a Q3 shift where web services… | ||
| High Order Bit: A Conver | Mark Drummond | 08m |
A peer-to-peer search system demonstrated as a working prototype that surfaces what people are clicking and sharing in real time, not just crawled pages… | ||
| High Order Bit: Casually S | Mark Pincus | 10m |
Claims rapid growth from Facebook API launch in May 2007 to an app-economy model: 50 million daily active users and FarmVille at 20 million daily active users… | ||
| High Order Bit: An Open | Scott Thompson | 10m |
PayPal opens its platform on November 3 developer conference, exposing APIs/hooks into PayPal system so external developers can initiate payments and move… | ||
| High Order Bit: The Case | Carl Shapiro | 09m |
Competition policy focuses on three concrete areas: monopolization, mergers, and agreements among competitors, with enforcement aimed at stopping exclusionary… | ||
| High Order Bit: A Call | Steve Schneider | 05m |
A federal framework proposes a national technological-literacy assessment targeting grades 4, 8 and 12 but recommends starting at 8 (possibly 4) in 2012, with… | ||
| A Con | Brian Roberts, John Battelle | 44m |
Comcast plans and demos concrete moves: DOCSIS 3.0 to 65% rollout enabling up to 100 Mbps, billions in annual capex (about $5B+ a year), and a beta "FanCast"… | ||
| A Conver | Jeff Immelt, John Battelle | 30m |
Forecasts say the global economy is recovering with capital markets healthier but unemployment high and third‑quarter growth only technically positive; GE… | ||
| A Con | Owen Van Natta, John Battelle | 18m |
Myspace positions itself as a next‑generation digital distribution platform centered on an open social graph that surfaces content discovery beyond real‑world… | ||
| Discussion: The Future of Content | Richard Rosenblatt, Dan Rosensweig, Peter Guber | 30m |
Three distribution routes reshape content: direct navigation, search-driven content at scale, and social feeds. Demand Media reports paying creators about… | ||
| Web 2.0 Summit 09: Marissa Mayer | Marissa Mayer | 08m |
Announces a live partnership with Twitter partnership to surface tweets inside search and a new real-time index, and demos Google Labs Social Search that… | ||
| High Order Bit: A Vision | Aaron Koblin | 07m |
Shows a working portfolio: an animation of Flight Patterns that maps ~140,000 US flights in a 24‑hour cycle and ran at MoMA, phone and Internet visualizations… | ||
| High Order Bit: When Can | Mary McDowell | 12m |
Nokia describes a shift from telecom to a Web‑first play that targets the next billion mobile users and shows concrete wins and experiments: OV Mail hits over… | ||
| High Order Bit: Scaling H | Max Ventilla | 09m |
Aardvark is a real-time question routing service that indexes social graphs and presence across IM email Twitter and mobile and automatically initiates chats… | ||
| High Order Bit: The In | Mike Schroepfer | 09m |
Facebook runs at 300 million monthly actives, users spend 8 billion minutes per day, and the site stores ~20 billion photos while serving ~1.2 million… | ||
| High Order Bit: Changing | Shane Robison | 15m |
IT use accounts for only 2% of global emissions so the focus shifts to the other 98% by instrumenting systems, changing supply chains and redesigning… | ||
| A Conve | Aneesh Chopra, Tim O'Reilly | 32m |
Explanation of the U.S. CTO role and three concrete policy moves: a mandate to double key research agencies, a $100 billion of $787 billion stimulus allocation… | ||
| High Order Bit: The State | Mary Meeker | 17m |
Markets have rebounded from 2008 lows with S&P up ~60% (Russia +181%, India >100%, China >70%) while unemployment climbs to ~10% and government debt reaches… | ||
| High Order Bit: A Window | Sundar Pichai | 15m |
Chrome reports 30 million active users and targets netbooks for a 2010 holiday release of Chrome OS, describing the browser as a modern OS for web apps with… | ||
| A Conversation with Jo | Jonathan Miller | 32m |
MySpace sizes at roughly 100 million US reach and near a billion dollars of revenue, is focusing on music games and entertainment, and must first stabilize… | ||
| A C | Shantanu Narayen, John Battelle | 28m |
Adobe announces a pending Omniture buy to tie creation tools to realtime analytics and “close the loop” so customers can iterate content; Flash claims 90%… | ||
| High Order Bit: Burning | Cynthia Warner | 14m |
Sapphire Energy claims engineered algae can be grown at scale to make a drop‑in crude substitute that is 40× more photosynthetically efficient than land crops… | ||
| A Conversation with Paul | Paul Otellini | 31m |
Says PC unit volume now runs flat to up versus 2008 after a February trough, with average corporate desktops at five years old and notebooks at four years old… | ||
| A Conversation with Brook | Brooke Burke | 30m |
A celebrity-controlled media channel uses Twitter, YouTube and a niche site to build an authentic community that drives traffic — cited example: 1.5 million… | ||
| High Order Bit: The Rise of the Network Company | Sean Parker | 13m |
Argument: companies that build and control active communication networks create superlinear economic value and will dominate the next decade, not firms that… | ||
| High Order Bit: Surviving the Hype Curve: A Case Study | Tom Hale | 09m |
Second Life survives by concrete numbers and systems: 40 hours per month average use with 25 hours spent talking, a billion voice minutes per month and a… | ||
| High Order Bit: An API for the English Language | Erin McKean | 07m |
A live English-data platform launches a set of APIs that actually work: a definitions API serving hundreds of thousands of entries from the Century Dictionary… | ||
| A Conversation with Tim Armstong | Tim Armstrong, John Battelle | 31m |
Accepts AOL as a risky standalone with a spin‑out pending, claims profitability tied to paid services while shifting strategy to a content+ads+communications… | ||
| A Conversation with Austan Goolsbee | Austan Goolsbee | 31m |
Says the stimulus is $787 billion and defends its mix while warning of slow implementation caused by tax code rules and Davis‑Bacon disputes; cites financial… | ||
| Discussion: Web Squared and the Economy of Work | Liam Casey, Maynard Webb, Josh Green, John Hagel | 36m |
Argues that digital platforms are already remaking product supply and work: a contact center in the cloud routes calls to the best of 20,000+ remote agents… | ||
| A Con | Tim Berners-Lee, Tim O'Reilly | 34m |
Argument that the web succeeds because protocols and URLs were placed in the public domain and links tolerate breakage, not because of closed control; warns… | ||
| High Order Ignite | Bre Pettis, Daniel Fletcher, Rolf Herken, Jacquelyn Ford Morie, Dennis Crowley, Brady Forrest | 31m |
Five short demos claim concrete impact: MakerBot ships a desktop open‑source 3D printer kit plus Thingiverse files and prints food‑safe PLA and a wedding ring… | ||
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