Saturday, October 08, 2005

The Companies of Web 2.0, Part 1. The Web 2.0 conference kicked off today with a number of great workshops. The highlights for us were the Attention Trust board meeting (posts below) and, of course, the Launchpad workshop where a dozen companies presented in an hour and a half. My notes on each company are below. Many of these have been profiled here [...] [TechCrunch] 2:57:50 PM

The Companies of Web 2.0, Part 2. Here’s the second set of companies that presented at the Web 2.0 conference Launchpad workshop. See Part 1 here. Zvents My friend Ethan Stock showed off Zvents, which launched last night. We’ve written about zvents here and here. In a nutshell, Zvents helps you create and locate the tens of thousands of monthly local [...] [TechCrunch] 2:57:30 PM

Web 2, A Few Highlights. It's hard to both post and run this event, but a few things have been so interesting I wanted to note them. First, Terry Semel, who I interviewed yesterday morning, had some choice words for Google. In essence, he suggested that if Google and Yahoo were to be judged as competitors, perhaps they should be judged as portals, since that's what both companies are now. And by that measure, Google is "number four." I also got to ask Terry a question suggested by Indeed CEO Paul Forster. If Google does jobs.google.com (which is expected by many shortly), would Semel let Google crawl hotjobs.com? "We will always be more open than Google," was his response. Innaresting. Second, I interviewed AOL CEO Jonathan Miller yesterday, and got a chance to ask him about the persistent rumors of a MSN or even Newscorp acquisition (I also asked MSN honcho Yusuf Medhi,more on that later). He deferred, but did say that all things worth considering will be considered. I then played off my favorite AOL idea of the moment. It goes like this: AOL was critical in Overture's rise, when Overture got the AOL deal, it made the company. Then, when Google stole AOL with Adwords, that deal (which many said Google overpaid for) was critical to Google's future success (according to Eric Schmidt, who told me as much for my book). So, I asked Jonathan, might not MSN try to steal AOL's business from Google? MSN can afford to overpay, and a hundred million or more in guaranteed profit to Time Warner's bottom line can't hurt, right? Miller had a great answer: "We're kind of the swing vote," he said. "I think people have noticed that." Indeed! More, I hope, when I get a chance.... [John Battelle's Searchblog] 2:56:50 PM

Jeff Jarvis/BuzzMachine: Web 2.0: It's made of people. Web 2.0: It's made of people  —  Stuart Butterfield of Flickr/Yahoo just quoted Ross Mayfield who quoted Soylent Green:  —  Web 2.0 is made of people.  —  So was Web 1.0, only they didn't get it yet.  But the truth is, they still don't get it.  —  Yesterday, I'd had it with hearing content moguls talk … Source:   BuzzMachine Author:   Jeff Jarvis Link:   http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2005/10/07/web-20-its-made-of-people/ View discussion [tech.memeorandum] 1:28:34 PM

Catching up Catching up. Radio crashed again, and it took me a couple of days to find time to reinstall it (about a 30-minute process). It's done, but now I need to filter several hundred items from my RSS subscriptions. Should be back online before Monday. I love Radio's features, but these once-a-quarter crashes are starting to annoy me. 12:23:57 PM