15 posts and columns on O’Reilly Media

Viral Chart: The Web 2.0 Summit's "Points of Control"

in News on August 29, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT

Here is a cool chart from the Web 2.0 Summit–what the O’Reilly Media and UBM TechWeb conference is calling “visual representation” of its theme of “Points of Control: The Battle for the Network Economy.” As it is described on its Web site, the map (which is the brainchild of Web 2.0 impresario John Battelle) chronicles “these shifting points of control–strategic chokepoints on an increasingly crowded board.”

Kara Visits Graphing Social Patterns West and ETech

in News on March 5, 2008 at 12:55 am PT

My head hurts from a full day of geeky wonkery here in San Diego, at O’Reilly Media’s overlapping conferences, Graphing Social Patterns West and its ETech or Emerging Technology Conference. The pair of conferences are slightly different, although both cover what most conferences cover–the Next Big Thing.

Foo Camp: Alpha-Geeks Gone Wild

in News on June 25, 2007 at 4:52 am PT

Sadly, I was not there to see Google’s Larry Page land a helicopter on the lawn up at Tim O’Reilly’s annual geekfest called Foo Camp, so I could mock him to his face. (Note to Larry: That better be an awfully big solar footprint you’re building at the Googleplex in Silicon Valley to replace all [...]