Seizure
So… right now TCD is on hiatus (again, I know) because I had a seizure. I’m going to move to Boston, get health insurance and try to fix my health up. Fun, right? So that’s the deal. I’m going to figure it out, but for now TCD is a 5th priority.
Spammers hit for $1 billion+ lawsuit
Project Honeypot looks to take a bite out of spam.
Excuses
SO…. we’re still fixing some computer problems, but we should be back bright and early tomorrow (4/25)
RIM develops BlackBerry virtualization environment
We’re sorta back. Give us some slack! In order for our new live environment to work properly (read: Lots of shows, little time) we’re testing out some new issues.
Gracias!
Google announces presentation app
Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, announced an addition to docs and spreadsheets, a powerpoint competitor for presentations. Right now, details are sketchy, but Schmidt presented it as a no frills version of powerpoint focused on collaboration. Expect more coverage throughout the day, but Schmidt breezed over it at the web2.0 conference.
Now, he’s talking about doubleclick, if he talks about the presentation app we’ll update again. Nothing new here.
Sidenote: Schmidt implies they’ll get rid of doubleclick cookies.
Schmidt: Microsoft and AT&T’s claims of anti-trust with google are false. Straight out false. “They’re are a long list of reasons why they’re wrong.”
Battelle: Let’s talk about a controversial issue: YouTube and copyright.
Schmidt: Google is OK with YouTube/Viacom, hiding behind DMCA. Schmidt talks about the ABC (australia) google 16-year-old problem.
Anyone else think schmidt is gates’ good twin (or conversely, that gates is Schmidt’s evil twin?)
Google introducing a “CYC” claim your content tool for copyright holders to police youtube easier.
Sidenote: WiFi at the convention seems to be improving.
Schmidt: “We are investing billions of dollars in capital into data centers.” “We think that more applications using that are very good.”
Battelle: What about net neutrality?
Schmidt: Not concerned about telcos and cable companies as competitors, but as partners. Of course they’re supporting net neutrality… since net neutrality created google and other small comapnies. Google could survive a problem of loss of net neutrality, but any young company founders would get screwed. We get it. Everyone claps, because yes, net neutrality helps small companies. We get it already.
Battelle: “Who do you want to acquire?”
Schmidt: Mobile companies look interesting to us. We think 3g and 4g networks have tremendous power, and the mobile space is wide open, and we’re looking at partnering with companies for the mobile web. Another area: local space. Most transactions in advertising are local advertising, geotargeted ads etc. Most search engines don’t take care of local information. Quite a few companies are figuring out local search.
Battelle: “what’s the firs thting you think of?”
Schmidt: I think of my email.
Battelle: “Gates’ glasses are smudgy.”
Schmidt: “The thing I think about at google is scaling.” Talks about his forward looking scaling approach from the mid nineties. In order to win on the internet is the scaling strategy. Scaling for google means more data centers, more resources, etc. We’re really in scalings infancy.
Google: “We’ll never track your usage. Ever.” They’re working on allowing users to export their data and get out of google, as opposed to trapping users into their services.
Battelle: Last question: On the board of apple now, wtf?
Schmidt: Apple is an amazing story, as a company, technology supplier, products, etc. Some of the best people in the world work at apple. As they watch how the decisions are made, Schmidt has been collaborating with apple. Google maps inside of the iPhone.
That’s a wrap kids! Be back later!
Bezos talks Amazon Web Services
Bezos is going to talk about Amazon Web Services, so this turns into some sort of advertorial for the next few minutes.
Here are the links, if you weren’t there to listen to the advertorial.
Keynote: Web2.0’s O’Reilly
Tim O’Reilly up on stage– apparently, it’s called “web two dot oh” so all you two point oh’s are lame.
Buzzword bingo: “Persistant computing”
O’Reilly doesn’t want to see new interfaces on old apps, but rather new apps for traditional interfaces.
Next, Bezos.
Placelessness and the advance of micropublishing
Alex Faaborg of Mozilla talking microformats.
1- what are microformats
2- what is mozilla’s role
3- what’s the UI
(something else)
Talking microformats, hit microformats.org for extra information. Microformats book, tomorrow microformats talk, and another one on wednesday.
2- why does mozilla care?
Talking web browser history, from mosaic to mozilla.
2008 hits webbrowser to switchboard.
first, the web browser was a book, then a radio with RSS< and then with microformats it’ll become a switchboard.
Each state, web browsers have been trying to keep up and being reactive as opposed to proactive. For example, RSS there are a gajillion chicklets, and a reactive way web browsers let it go.
Microformats are kind of killing us right now similar to rss chicklets. Now, we need to create hCard geo, adr and hCalendar with associated buttons.
Operator is a plugin for interacting with microformats. Get it at labs.mozilla.org.
Also, microformats could be implemented in the regular ways (rss feed icon, sidebar, or menubar)
Bookmarks (sidenote, tagged bookmarks in ff3)
Should microformats be shown in the content area instead of browser UI? Modal intervaces suck. They heard that they shouldn’t change the content area.
Microformat creation? What if end users could create microformats. Right click say new event and create that easy inside of the browser.
Why should they use microformats?
1– open standards, please don’t hurt the web picture
2– human / computer interaction
3– cross polinating
Audience questions:how do we promote sites to take advantage of microformats?
Talking at w20 is ane say way. Adding a web browser implementation of microformats would help a lot to penetrate.
how do we support previous data entered?
try to detect, before adding structured information.
how to combat spam?
Not really helping yet, since microformats make it easier to understand what email addresses are email.
Lost remote
We’re trying to liveblog from the Lost Remote panel at Web2.0. Right now, the panelists are talking exclusivity. Is the web really the place for old-media style exclusivity? Or, does exclusivity really mean more “controlling the content where I want it to go.”
Moderator: Liz Gannes, Gigaom
Jay Adelson, Revision3
David Clarck, North America
Erik Hachenburg, Metacafe
Howard Lidzon, Wallstrip
Marc Siry, NBC Uni
Erik Hachenburg, of MetaCafe, unsurprisingly thinks YouTube won’t get into monetizing content before it dies.
Adelson: “The question remains can YouTube really build community.”
Howard: “Everyone’s talking about YouTube like they’ve been around for 100 years, but they’ve only been around for 3 years. Three.”
Audience Question: What’s the future of set-top boxes?
Adelson: “I think what’s changing this year is pretty much all the platforms that control set-top boxes are adding internet connectivity.” The problem? The UI isn’t there for internet content. DVR is kind of like an RSS feed, and when we can make the interface for internet content as simple as subscribing to a DVR show, we’ll have made it.
We got into the session late, but essentially it feels a lot like the panelists are still kind of searching for ways to deal with video content.
Live test
Hey, I know we haven’t still gotten back to regularity yet, but we will post web2.0. Plus, we might even have some content for you from the show.
In the meantime, check out our live test running over at our alpha-site, thebiz. It’s our live test, running off of a test server right now. We’ll be using it for the upcoming politic2.0 event. Fun, right?