Web 2.0 Summit 2011
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| High Order Bit | Chris Poole | 08m |
Argues that forcing real-name identity (Facebook, Google+) erodes the web’s ability to explore multiple selves and risks silencing youthful experimentation… | ||
| Senator Ron Wyden interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Senator Ron Wyden | 11m |
Argues specific opposition to the Protect IP Act because it enables arbitrary seizure of domains and creates a private right of action that hands control to… | ||
| A Conversation with Ross Levinsohn | Ross Levinsohn | 20m |
Yahoo says it runs 13 million variations of its homepage every day and personalizes content by combining signals from mail, search, Twitter and Facebook with… | ||
| Opening Welcome | John Battelle, Tim O'Reilly | 11m |
Conference opens around the theme data frame and argues that scale of data, not new algorithms, drives breakthroughs — Stanford’s 2005 DARPA winner Stanley… | ||
| A Conversation with Sean Parker | Sean Parker | 30m |
Covers Spotify’s Facebook Open Graph integration giving 800 million users access and enabling viral music distribution, explains licensing starts with the four… | ||
| A Conversation with John Donahoe | John Donahoe | 23m |
eBay describes an effort to merge eBay PayPal GSI and Milo into an integrated Commerce platform that opens services to third-party developers, using PayPal to… | ||
| A Conversation with Mark Benioff | Mark Benioff | 18m |
Claims that Facebook is becoming the next consumer OS and that social plus cloud plus mobile creates an enterprise revolution, backed by concrete moves… | ||
| High Order Bit | Kirk Skaugen | 15m |
Intel predicts 15 billion connected devices by 2015 and cites current volumes — 48 hours of YouTube per minute, 200 million tweets per day, 7.5 billion photos… | ||
| Pivot | Tony Conrad | 04m |
Four-person product uses classic viral onboarding plus offline tactics—physical business cards, taxi cab ads and billboards—then deliberately recruits an… | ||
| Genevieve Bell interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Genevieve Bell | 12m |
Ethnography drives design choices at Intel by predicting where processors travel next, forcing changes in power, battery and form factor rather than specs… | ||
| High Order Bit | Deb Roy | 10m |
Bluefin Labs builds a live-index of TV by strip-mining broadcasts with satellite dishes, linking a semantic content graph to the public social graph and… | ||
| High Order Bit | Genevieve Bell | 09m |
Argues that data behaves like a person with eight concrete traits: some artifacts resist digitization and must stay physical; many flows are intermediated (an… | ||
| High Order Bit | Brad Rencher | 11m |
Argues that data must tie to business outcomes and gives concrete examples: a campaign buys 1.3 million Twitter followers but only 8% verifiable humans, MTV… | ||
| Tony Conrad interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Tony Conrad | 06m |
Co-founder commentary lays out concrete results: a billboard campaign nets over 50,000 signups and just under half a million votes, about.me positions itself… | ||
| Brad Rencher interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Brad Rencher | 05m |
Argues that digital data must map back to CEO metrics, not sit in silos, and cites Coca-Cola’s 33 million Facebook fans as a popular yet unclear vanity metric… | ||
| Chris Poole interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Chris Poole | 11m |
4chan turns eight and traces its design to Futaba Channel, an imageboard template adapted for English speakers; growth is steady and organic with volunteer… | ||
| Tony Uphoff interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Tony Uphoff | 08m |
Argues that conferences are adding real-time social tooling—Twitter and Facebook streams, livecast and Slideshare integration—and using live monitoring and… | ||
| A Conversation with Ron Wyden | Ron Wyden | 37m |
Claims that Section 230 enabled the social web and that current bills like PROTECT IP (PIPA) would allow arbitrary domain seizures and hand enforcement to… | ||
| Opening Welcome | Edwin Lee, John Battelle | 06m |
San Francisco claims number one annual growth in high‑tech jobs, hosts over 1,500 tech companies employing 27,000 people, and notes 40 companies seeking 2… | ||
| A Conversation with Michael Dell | Michael Dell | 28m |
Company narrative shifts from selling boxes to selling outcomes, claiming a move to services with 40% of staff in services and numerous buys — Perot Systems… | ||
| Pivot | Bill Gross | 05m |
Claims a social network called ChimeIn that targets relevance and monetization by introducing compact posts called Chimes, threaded comments with up/down… | ||
| High Order Bit | Danny Weitzner | 13m |
Argues that the U.S. pursues a fast, pragmatic model: replace slow rulemaking with voluntary enforceable codes of conduct developed with industry and… | ||
| A Conversation with Dick Costolo | Dick Costolo | 50m |
Company moves infrastructure to own data centers and is actively splitting a monolithic app into services to scale. Traffic climbs from 100M to nearly 250… | ||
| A Conversation with Michael Roth | Michael Roth | 19m |
A global marketing holding company reports 130 countries, 42,000 employees and 4,000 clients, and details an early Facebook stake sale that turns a ~$1M bet… | ||
| High Order Bit | Andrew Stalbow | 10m |
Rovio turns Angry Birds into a constantly updated service that drives 400 million downloads and 130 million monthly active users with no paid marketing (zero… | ||
| A Conversation with... | John Partridge, Dan Schulman | 38m |
Visa handles about 16% of $3.5T payment volume online while American Express reports roughly $100B online at ~20%, and both say online share keeps growing as… | ||
| Internet Trends | Mary Meeker | 32m |
A fast survey of 12 internet trends with concrete numbers: nearly 1 billion 3G subscribers and huge smartphone upside as smartphones outship feature phones… | ||
| "Dark Side" of Data: The NSA ThinThread Tale | Thomas Drake | 18m |
Claims that a $3 million skunkworks system called ThinThread could ingest terabytes per minute, preserve context and PII, apply FISA‑compliant rules, and… | ||
| Introducing X.Commerce | Matthew Mengerink | 14m |
x.commerce offers an open commerce stack: Magento storefront with about 5,000 extensions and a developer network of ~800,000, plus an integration layer called… | ||
| Quantifying Entrepreneurship | Bill Maris, Graham Spencer | 10m |
Google Ventures deploys about $200 million a year and plans roughly 100 investments per year while running a 43-person team that blends engineers, scientists… | ||
| A Conversation with Jack Tretton | Jack Tretton | 18m |
Hands-on demo shows the PlayStation Vita running Uncharted: Golden Abyss with 5-inch OLED screen, dual analog sticks, front and rear touch, gyroscope, cameras… | ||
| Pivot | Alyssa Henry | 08m |
Amazon S3 stores 566 billion objects and an internal catalog of 1.5 billion items that receives about 50 million updates a week. Teams spin up EMR clusters… | ||
| High Order Bit | Ken Goldberg | 10m |
Researchers apply robotics models to social media, building a self-organizing “Opinion Space” that maps ideas as colored blooms and ranks them with a patented… | ||
| High Order Bit | Gil Elbaz | 11m |
Argues that limited access, not lack of data, blocks innovation and shows working models: APIs scale from 400 to 4,000 listed, marketplaces like Infochimps and… | ||
| Pivot | Aileen Lee | 09m |
Compares a Moneyball approach for consumer web companies, arguing that hiring data teams early drives product and buying decisions: Rent the Runway builds a 19… | ||
| High Order Bit | Alison Lewis | 11m |
Coca-Cola describes a 2009 Freestyle soda dispenser that now has 1300 machines in 60 markets and serves over 100 brands in the same footprint as a 7‑brand… | ||
| High Order Bit | Susan Wojcicki | 12m |
Google Analytics adds a dynamic Sankey-style flow visualization that maps how users move through pages and segments (browser, country, custom variables) and… | ||
| High Order Bit | Hilary Mason | 08m |
Analysis of Bitly click data shows global patterns: 27% of traffic from the United States, unexpected platforms such as Minecraft sharing emerge, and a… | ||
| A Conversation with James Gleick | James Gleick | 20m |
Starts from 1948 when scientists invent the bit as unit and try a technical definition of information, argues that information ranges from raw data to meaning… | ||
| High Order Bit | Josh James | 11m |
Argues that BI doesn't work for most companies and that the real problem is getting actionable numbers into executives’ hands, not more rows or faster… | ||
| High Order Bit | Alex Rampell | 10m |
Main claim: payments should be free because the transactional data exceeds fees and can be monetized by showing targeted offers at the moment of purchase or on… | ||
| High Order Bit | Mike McCue | 11m |
Argues that to create a breakthrough you must sometimes ignore the data and put emotion ahead of analytics, illustrating with drag coefficients 0.47 (1957… | ||
| A Conversation with Tim Westergren | Tim Westergren | 19m |
Company reports 37 million active users and 70% mobile usage, claims the iPhone launch in 2007 nearly doubles new-user growth overnight, maintains a catalog of… | ||
| A Conversation with Steve Ballmer | Steve Ballmer | 26m |
Claims concrete wins: Bing doubles to 15% U.S. share and moves to #2, with 25–30% with Yahoo after the alliance; partnerships with Facebook and Twitter supply… | ||
| A Conversation with Anne Wojcicki | Anne Wojcicki | 16m |
Company launches consumer genetics service that drops from $1,000 for 500k SNPs to a $99 genotyping product and now offers exome sequencing at $1,000… | ||
| High Order Bit | David Barnes | 09m |
Lists five concrete urban changes over five years and gives implementations and partners rather than vague trends. Cities install neighborhood‑level disease… | ||
| High Order Bit | MC Hammer | 07m |
A prototype called Deep Search aggregates contextual datasets around a single query so a search for 90210 zip code returns listed homes with beds/baths/sqft… | ||
| High Order Bit | Joanne Bradford | 09m |
Argues that writers regain value by combining subject expertise with data skills and platform know‑how, not by repeating topic-driven content. Shows Demand… | ||
| High Order Bit | Salman Khan | 13m |
Khan Academy runs ~2,800 videos and a growing platform of exercises and analytics built by an 18-person team; 200 exercise modules generate infinite questions… | ||
| Pivot | Mike Olson | 05m |
Takes ~1M adverse-event reports, expands them into ~360M patient–drug–drug buckets, and analyzes them with gamma Poisson shrinkage estimator to score… | ||
| Pivot | Kevin Rose | 06m |
A seven-person studio called Milk builds Oink, a mobile platform that ranks and compares specific items inside places (example: matcha tea at Samovar Tea… | ||
| Pivot | Mitchell Baker | 05m |
Argues that each person should be the platform for personal data, routing public, professional and health information to different services so individuals keep… | ||
| High Order Bit | Deanne Brown | 09m |
Federated Media announces a partnership with Automattic to enable an opt-in ad program that lets WordPress.com publishers place ads and earn revenue… | ||
| MC Hammer interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | MC Hammer | 10m |
Announces a beta social search engine called Wird/Wireo that bundles crawled public data — real estate, schools, hospitals, GIS — into relationship-driven… | ||
| Sergey Brin interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Sergey Brin | 07m |
Explains why Google tackles self-driving cars: past team won the DARPA Grand Challenge, a prototype drove roughly 1,000 miles without intervention, and… | ||
| A Conversation with... | Vic Gundotra, Sergey Brin | 31m |
Google+ hits 40 million users within a month and represents about 4% of Google’s account base, with Android clients auto‑backing up photos and videos and 3.4… | ||
| Pivot | David Hornik | 05m |
Investment case for car data: early backing of Splunk proves machine-exhaust can be indexed and searched; RelayRides leverages cars idle 92% of the time so one… | ||
| A Conversation with Bret Taylor | Bret Taylor | 16m |
Argues that products improve when they add social context and points to concrete features: open graph and the new timeline plus an activity log that lets users… | ||
| High Order Bit | Jeremie Miller | 11m |
Argues that personal data must live with the person and shows a working prototype from Singly that collects social feeds, merges and dedupes contacts, indexes… | ||
| A Conversation with... | Charlie Cheever, Adam D'Angelo | 16m |
Quora launches about two years ago and focuses on making each question page the best web source by surfacing expert voting signals and curating answers rather… | ||
| Pivot | Dave Morin | 06m |
A mobile-first private social app built around close friends and family claims to reach 1 million users next month and ships an update called Path 2 focused on… | ||
| High Order Bit | Frank Cooper, Shiv Singh | 13m |
PepsiCo describes turning packages into digital entry points using Advanced image recognition on 300 million cases to unlock X Factor content, mapping… | ||
| A Conversation with Reid Hoffman | Reid Hoffman | 30m |
Argues that ubiquity of real identities and smartphones makes semantically rich user data the substrate for new apps, and describes LinkedIn’s concrete work… | ||
| Anne Wojcicki interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Anne Wojcicki | 08m |
Company 23andMe launched five years ago offering 500,000 markers for $1,000 and now ships exome sequencing that yields 50 million data points for roughly the… | ||
| Alexander Ljung interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Alexander Ljung | 08m |
Company founded in Berlin now runs offices in London and the U.S., about 70–75 employees, and reports 7.5 million creators on SoundCloud. Platform offers… | ||
| Reid Hoffman interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Reid Hoffman | 05m |
Argues that technology need not only boost productivity and cut jobs but can create local work by making markets for tasks and skills, citing mobile… | ||
| Joanne Bradford interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Joanne Bradford | 08m |
Demand Media describes itself as a tech-backed content studio running eHow (largest how-to library), Livestrong, Cracked and niche sites like Trails.com and… | ||
| Thomas Goetz interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Thomas Goetz | 10m |
Healthcare already generates millions of genetic data points (23andMe cited) and continuous streams from accelerometers, but most patient records remain… | ||
| Kevin Rose interview - Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Kevin Rose | 09m |
Milk is a tiny incubator of seven people that raises a bit of money to build two to three mobile/web apps; first is Oink, a beta in the Bay Area that rates… | ||
| David Barnes interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | David Barnes | 08m |
Cities instrument pipes, roads and cars with sensors and combine geospatial, weather and flow data to run new analytics; Washington DC deploys the District of… | ||
| Mike Olson interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Mike Olson | 07m |
Cloudera packages Hadoop into a production-ready CDH bundle and reports enormous adoption across finance, telecom, government and retail as companies ingest… | ||
| Salman Khan interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Salman Khan | 10m |
Started as 2004 remote tutoring and YouTube lectures in 2006, scaled into a nonprofit in 2009 with early backers like John Doerr Google and the Gates… | ||
| Hilary Mason interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Hilary Mason | 06m |
bitly presents a clear claim: URL attention decays differently by content and network, with a measured half-life study showing YouTube 7 hours vs Twitter 2.8… | ||
| Gil Elbaz interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Gil Elbaz | 07m |
Factual offers a Global Place database of about 40 million places spanning 44 countries delivered by download or API and built by aggregating partner feeds… | ||
| Andrew Stalbow interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Andrew Stalbow | 06m |
Rovio reports concrete scale and next steps for Angry Birds: 400 million downloads across platforms, 130 million monthly users and 30 million daily users… | ||
| Harriet Fryman interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Harriet Fryman | 04m |
Combines enterprise BI with social feeds to turn social chatter into measurable drivers of sales and marketing performance using sentiment analysis over… | ||
| Rebecca Woodcock interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Rebecca Woodcock | 08m |
Cake Health logs into insurance websites with user-provided credentials, scrapes plan and claims data, and calculates out-of-pocket totals, deductible progress… | ||
| Dr. Ann Cavoukian interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Dr. Ann Cavoukian | 10m |
Argues that privacy is not dead and Privacy by Design as an international standard now exists, unanimously adopted by privacy regulators; reports a 2006… | ||
| Mayor Ed Lee interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Mayor Ed Lee | 05m |
San Francisco opens city datasets and reports over 60 apps built on that data, claiming better government decisions and customer service; one concrete system… | ||
| Matt Galligan interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Matt Galligan | 11m |
Left SimpleGeo two months ago and is now advising while exploring new consumer mobile projects. SimpleGeo is described as a cloud location platform with a new… | ||
| David Hornik interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | David Hornik | 17m |
Discusses managing off‑the‑record conversations at a high‑density digital media retreat and how social streams require social media filtering to trigger action… | ||
| David Campbell interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | David Campbell | 08m |
Microsoft says teams run hundreds of petabytes a day on tens or hundreds of thousands of servers and storage costs fall from roughly $1,000 per megabyte 25… | ||
| Thomas Drake interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Thomas Drake | 09m |
Claims that NSA spent billions on Trailblazer and got only PowerPoint slides while an internal $3 million ThinThread skunkworks solved the big-data problem but… | ||
| Ryan Block interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Ryan Block | 09m |
gdgt describes building product reviews as structured per-criterion review surveys that produce histograms of ratings and topic-level comments so readers can… | ||
| Ken Goldberg interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Ken Goldberg | 08m |
Announces a new company Hybrid Wisdom Labs and a collaborative discovery engine that maps crowd ideas as colored blooms on a spatial canvas, sizes reflecting… | ||
| Vikram Dendi interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Vikram Dendi | 06m |
Microsoft describes a production machine translation service that started in research and now runs Bing Translator and the MT engines inside Office and… | ||
| Dennis Crowley interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Dennis Crowley | 11m |
Company reports over 10 million users and over a billion check‑ins, 80 employees with about a third ex‑Google and a data team of four. A new Foursquare Radar… | ||
| Jane McGonigal interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Jane McGonigal | 08m |
A social game called SuperBetter launched into closed beta after being invented to recover from a mild traumatic brain injury and then tested in a clinical… | ||
| Jason Cavnar and Matt Zimmerman interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Jason Cavnar, Matt Zimmerman | 04m |
Singly is a hosted, open source platform that hosts your personal data and gives developers an API plus installable apps that run directly on a user’s data… | ||
| Alex Rampell interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Alex Rampell | 09m |
Places paid offers directly around purchases to convert nonpaying users into revenue by matching specific transactions with advertiser actions for virtual… | ||
| Yusuf Mehdi interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Yusuf Mehdi | 14m |
Bing is positioned as a decision and action engine not just a search index claiming it can book appointments, buy tickets and preserve context across devices… | ||
| Matthew Mengerink interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Matthew Mengerink | 08m |
eBay explains that mobile and emerging markets collapse channel distinctions and that M‑Pesa and high Kenyan mobile finance adoption are real precedents… | ||
| Nick Bilton interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Nick Bilton | 18m |
Argues that data becomes the web’s central battleground and names concrete failures: 77 million records stolen in the Sony breach, companies hoarding petabytes… | ||
| Adam Lashinsky interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Adam Lashinsky | 09m |
Argues that the web is undergoing platformization of the web with power concentrated in a handful of owners — Apple and Facebook grow stronger, Android and… | ||
| Danny Weitzner interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Danny Weitzner | 24m |
Description of White House Internet policy work that gives concrete wins and concrete headaches: a rapid, months‑long enforceable code of conduct for personal… | ||
| Ben Horowitz interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 | Ben Horowitz | 09m |
Argues that cloud and mobile create a platform shift that forces wholesale rewrites: the AWS burstable model lets apps assume unlimited machines so networking… | ||
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