Web 2.0 Conference News

Oct. 2009: Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle answer the question of "What's next for Web 2.0?" in Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On .

The untimely death earlier this year of Rajeev Motwani, the Stanford professor who had advised Google's co-founders, unleashed an astonishing wave of tributes to this classic Influencer.

Salesforce.com's soon-to-be-launched Chatter application will help firms meet their collaboration needs, and is aimed at becoming the "Facebook for the enterprise", according to chief executive Marc Benioff.

Google's new real-time search interface automatically updates search results for hot topics like Tiger Woods, without requiring a browser refresh.

Google announced their public DNS server today. I'm using it right now. There's been a bunch of speculation as to why Google is offering this service for free but the reason is pretty simple: they want to speed up people's Google search results.

NVIDIA RealityServer a new cloud computing platform for running 3D web applications is shipping today.

Continuing its stormy courtship of online news publishers, Google is offering news sites more control over how their content can be accessed.

ON THE GO: Annette Tonti, CEO of MoFuse, a company helping others create mobile Web sites.

Let's say you're an investor who has been following Hewlett-Packard for ages. The company's slowing printer sales concerns you, largely because you think this may be a long-term issue rather than a short-term blip.

Web 2.0, a concept created by Tim O'Reilly in 2005 , is useful. But it's only a concept, not a technology.

Job hunting is made a bit easier in the digital age, not only by the growing number of employment websites, but also by digital tools that can help in everything from creating a resume to developing a job-search network.

LIKE MANY people in his business, the technology publisher Tim O'Reilly is a heavy user of the Twitter microblogging service.

Tim O'Reilly delivered a dire warning at his Web 2.0 Expo over the weekend. The Web is under threat from closed applications, from Google and Apple to Microsoft and Amazon, and from content vendors like News Corp.

An Audio Report is Also Available at the Top of the Web Page. From the Article Starting Wednesday in Sweden, the European Union is holding a conference of ministers of technology from across Europe that will be looking at lessons learned throughout the EU.

The first thing I have to say about Dreamforce is WHOA! 19,000 people registered this year, from 60 countries.

This has nothing in particular to do with Apple , but it's very 2.0. We spent much of last week at a conference in New York City called Web 2.0 Expo - a celebration of the "next generation Web" where one of the centers of attention was the giant Twitter screen set directly behind the keynote speakers that showed what the audience was tweeting about ...

Government transparency must go beyond posting to a blog here and a Wiki there and calling the result "transparency," Beth Noveck, federal deputy CTO for open government, said Thursday at Web 2.0 Expo in New York.

We are on the brink of war. But put your weapons down. This one is a war for the Web.

We may be giving Sony Ericsson a darn good scolding on the one hand for their XPERIA X10 hijinks , but we're a little more interested by their new WebSDK for Android and Symbian Foundation devices.

Salesforce.com has announced Salesforce Chatter, a product to give businesses social-networking tools.