Tim O'Reilly

Tim O'Reilly and the Cassandra act

Open Source (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

There are real threats O'Reilly didn't mention. ESPN, for instance.

What if the Declaration of Independence Was Created in Google Wave? [Google Wave]

Gizmodo (Free subscription) | yesterday

So you've scored an invite and watched the videos , but still confused about Google Wave ? Google's latest explanatory tactic: recreate famous documents to showcase Wave's features. Here's the declaration of independence , complete with edits from the founding fathers . If you've got a Wave account, you can check out the reconstruction here . Google Wave team member, Lars Rasmussen, says the idea...

PDC 2009 review

Steve Clayton: Geek In Disguise (Free subscription) | yesterday

The dust has settled on the PDC 2009 and unlike previous events where I have tried to blog at the event, I decided this time around that it was just too hard to do and that a more considered review a few days after the event may work better. Here goes… I’m really only going to focus on the keynotes and a few sessions I found intriguing – I actually attended less sessions that I...

The links of O’Reilly

Memex 1.1 (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009

This morning’s Observer column. LIKE MANY people in his business, the technology publisher Tim O’Reilly is a heavy user of the Twitter microblogging service. He also has a Facebook account. To save effort, he has arranged things so that his Twitter posts are automatically forwarded to Facebook where they are transformed into ’status updates’. So far, so [...]

Beth Noveck and Tim O'Reilly at Web 2.0 Expo

Gov20, HealthIT & Healthcare Reform (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009

At the Web 2.0 Expo 2009 in New York City Tim O’Reilly had an amazing conversation with Beth Noveck, United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government. She is on leave as a professor law and director of the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School and McClatchy visiting professor of communication at Stanford University. Dr. Noveck taught in the areas of...

Digg, Google Wave Seize Spotlight at Web 2.0 Expo

eWeek (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

NEW YORK The Web 2.0 Expo was not quite the news-frenzy that its San Francisco-based brother Web 2.0 Summit was this year. But the show's creator and high-tech publishing guru Tim O'Reilly provided some zing Nov. 17 by arguing that arms races between Google and Apple as well as Facebook and Twitter threaten to stifle the Internet as we know it. O'Reilly also said Microsoft would emerge as a major player...

Brace Yourself for Web Wars

Internet Evolution (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

Tim O'Reilly warns that we're moving away from the 'open Web' due to industry leaders who would prefer to dominate

Why Tim O'Reilly Sees Microsoft as a Proponent of the Open Web (eWeek)

LWN.net (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

eWeek reports on Tim O'Reilly's prediction of a shift towards openness at Microsoft. " At the Web 2.0 Expo, Tim O'Reilly predicts that Microsoft will emerge as a leading proponent of the open Web, despite the company's tradition of fostering its own proprietary operating systems and development languages. O'Reilly says Microsoft's recent deals to index Twitter tweets and use Wolfram Alpha's APIs...

• Why Tim O'Reilly Sees Microsoft as a Proponent of the Open Web - eWeek
• Microsoft Named As Ally Of Open Standards - eWEEKeurope

On the Fight Over Control of the Web

Google Blogoscoped (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

Tim O'Reilly argues that we're heading for a web war -- an ugly fighting over the control of the web, which goes against the web as an interoperable platform: [W]e've grown used to a world with one dominant search engine, one dominant online encyclopedia, one dominant online retailer, one dominant auction site, one dominant online classified site, and we've been readying ourselves for one dominant...

Web 2.0 Expo Keynote

Gov20, HealthIT & Healthcare Reform (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

Tim O'Reilly predicted that Microsoft will emerge as a leading proponent of the open Web. In "The War for the Web," a blog post published Nov. 16. He said: "Microsoft will emerge as a champion of the open Web platform, supporting interoperable web services from many independent players, much as IBM emerged as the leading enterprise backer of Linux." But he didn't explain how Microsoft...

• Microsoft Named As Ally Of Open Standards - eWEEKeurope

State of the eUnion: Government 2.0 and Onwards

eLearning Moments (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

Danish non-profit 21Gov.net has just launched a new eBook entitled State of the eUnion: Government 2.0 and Onwards (PDF 1.1mb) under a Creative Commons Licence. Available in print form soon . From yesterday's press release : The future of eGovernment is up for discussion today, when ministers of IT and Technology from all over Europe gather in Malmö, Sweden, for the Fifth Ministerial Meeting...

Expert Labs: Can an Outside Incubator Turn Government Tech-Savvy?

ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

Long-time blogger and tech executive Anil Dash announced today at the Web 2.0 Expo New York that he's leaving publishing software company SixApart and will head a new technology incubator called Expert Labs . Expert Labs will be dedicated to connecting technology innovators ready to build tools with government officials who can put those tools to use in the public interest. It's a vision that differs...

Big Ideas…. Nov ‘09

Marc's Voice (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

Tim O’Reilly - laments over the ‘war for the web’. Indeed we’re in an on-going battle. I just hope Tim doesn’t try and trademark “War 2.0″. Chris Messina - FactoryJoe has some insights into the death of the URL . As the NEO said - it’s all about ‘choice’. Lev Gonick - CWRU’s CIO informs us a major effort he’s been working on for...

Microsoft may rule the open web

Ben Werdmuller (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

Yesterday, I posted some commentary on Tim O’Reilly’s take on the web as an application platform, and agreed that Microsoft championing the open web would be a very smart strategy for them. Previously, I’d talked about the issues with cloud computing at the moment, and how an iPhone App Store approach to web applications would dramatically [...]

O'Reilly: The Web is at war and it's making me sad

Cnet (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009

In his regular keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo, Tim O'Reilly made sure to set off the punditocracy by insisting that the "war of the Web" is heating up again. Wait, you mean it ever cooled off?