Scobleizer (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Yesterday I visited five companies to get you the latest that's happening in the tech industry. Here’s the five companies I visited (now you know why my email isn't getting answered): 1. Xobni. This is a cool add-on for Outlook. Tim O’Reilly has been raving about it on his blog. I’ve been using it for about a [...]
Aral Balkan (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
I'm honored and humbled every time I look through the list of stellar speakers we have confirmed to present at the Singularity web conference. As such, I want to take a moment every week to highlight a new speaker, starting this week with Tim O'Reilly. I had the honor of meeting Tim several years ago during [...]
On Java (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Participated in a Q+A session after yesterday's keynote. Sat down with Neil Young, Larry Johnson, some Sun executives, and a small group of reporters including Tim O'Reilly. Young and Johnson struck me as animated and excited about both the archive...
Scripting News (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Fred's heart is in the right place. He puts money behind technology he likes. This is bootstrapping. Then he bothers the developers with features he needs. He's a bootstrapper and a hacker. Then Fred reads articles written by other people and listens to a Tim O'Reilly keynote and tries to get everyone into agreement. Reminds me of The Negotiator , William Shatner. Fred believes in triangulating...
The Web Pitch (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
There is a lot of talk in the media today about “Cloud Computing”. But what exactly is it? Nick Carr’s recent book suggests that, cloud computing will become ubiquitous as electricity is today. The following experts give their own definitions at the recent Web 2.0 Expo. Tres Cool. Tim O’Reilly Dan Farber Matt Mullenweg Jay Cross Brian [...]
Marc's Voice (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Happy Birthday to Paolo Congrats to Scobleizer on finally selling out. It'll put Milan through college. DataPortability.org - Six Months strong - and a nice new site - too. Now about that logo…… Fine with me - lets just stop using the term Web 2.0. Tim O’Reilly won't like it - but we’ll all be [...]
Rough Type (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
The inventor of LSD, Albert Hofmann, has joined the great Peter Max painting in the sky, but the dreams he spawned live on. Publisher and sometime savant Tim O'Reilly tells the BBC, on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the open-sourcing of the World Wide Web, that a true "global consciousness" is at last emerging, thanks to the Net. "It really is going to happen," he says, and "it's going...
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
The following is a guest post from Dave Mathews, as part of our series on The Road to Maker Faire. On July 26, 2003 after Chris Pirillo's Gnomedex 3.0 a hungry group including Tim O'Reilly, Rob Malda of Slashdot, and...
Entrepreneur Watch (Free subscription) | 04/27/2008
At Web 2.0 expo, Tim O’Reilly mad the inspirational speech. He was preaching to the faithful, but it was good to hear some optimism about the future of technology, and not just in entrepreneurs’ ability to get rich. Quite simply,...
Tech-Surf-Blog (Free subscription) | 04/27/2008
In case you didn't catch this, a couple of days ago Tim O'Reilly asked the Twittersphere if they'd like to put any questions to the CEO of Sun, about an hour before he was to interview him on-stage at the Web 2.0 Expo in SF this week. (Photo by James...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
Tim O’Reilly is a publisher and web entrepreneur who has proved himself in both worlds, and I always admire his dead-on observations of Web technology and its possibilities for entrepreneurship. Before this last Web 2.0 Expo, he did some nice checks and balances on the hype. It's always bittersweet to have someone reminding us [...]
Digital Podcast (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
Tim O'Reilly interviews Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun. Sun pioneered the phrase the network is the computer. Tim asks Jonathan about how he uses blogging to help run Sun, what he thinks about cloud computing, the acquisition of MySQL, the challenges of power consumption and the importance of data in the world of the networked computer.
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz is having a conversation on stage at Web 2.0 with show boss Tim O’Reilly, who started out with a question on why Sun blogs. Schwartz says his top job is being a communicator as CEO. Getting a message across to the troops, who ask him questions like “Why did we spend [...]
Webware.com (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
O'Reilly Media's Tim O'Reilly encouraged the audience at his keynote interview with Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz to Twitter him questions, but didn't follow up by asking any of them. (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News.com) SAN FRANCISCO--After all the hooplah over interactivity--or lack thereof--during keynote speeches at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in March, I've been...
Web 2.0 Expo Blog (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
Just short of Jonathan Schwartz's keynote conversation this morning, here's a preview for those of you who can't be here. The CEO of Sun will be speaking with our very own Tim O'Reilly. What is your talk about? Why should...
