Web 2.0 Expo

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Report Card? How About That Annual Report?

Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 6, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Here is one indicator of the allure of Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial culture: Diane Keng just launched her third start-up–and she is still in high school.

Adobe CTO: Flash on iPhone Doesn’t Suck and Apple Knows It

John Paczkowski in Mobile on May 5, 2010 at 12:40 pm PT

Apple didn’t ban Flash from the iPhone and iPad because it propogates lowest common denominator apps, it banned Flash because it propogates good ones. This according to Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch, who, during an interview at the Web 2.0 Expo today, lambasted Apple for its campaign against the platform.

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Facebook Exec Extols the Virtues of Setting Privacy to "Everyone"

Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 5, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

Facebook is under a spotlight for new privacy settings that could lead users to unwittingly expose a lot more information about themselves. But in a keynote interview at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Facebook executive Paul Buchheit laid out the argument for why he sets his privacy settings to the most open level–”everyone.”

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The Black Art of Writing Facebook Updates

Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 4, 2010 at 1:10 pm PT

A Web 2.0 Expo panel on how corporate brands use Facebook shared a social media dirty secret: a company might have a spectacular fan page on the site–but its thousands of self-identified “fans” probably don’t visit that page there very often.

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Keep a Civil Cybertongue

Jimmy Wales and Andrea Weckerle, Founder, Wikipedia and Founder and President of CiviliNation, respectively in News on December 29, 2009 at 11:47 am PT

In less than 20 years, the World Wide Web has irrevocably expanded the number of ways we connect and communicate with others. This radical transformation has been almost universally praised. What hasn’t kept pace with the technical innovation is the recognition that people need to engage in civil dialogue. What we see regularly on social networking sites, blogs and other online forums is behavior that ranges from the carelessly rude to the intentionally abusive.

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Web 2.0 Expo: An “American Idol” for Start-Ups

Marisa Taylor, Tech Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 3, 2009 at 5:13 pm PT

During the “Launch Pad” session, five start-ups took a grilling from developers, journalists and venture capitalists, then faced a crowd vote at the Web 2.0 Expo’s version of “American Idol.” As attendees texted their votes, moderator John Battelle, founder of Federated Media Publishing, jokingly asked: “Want to have a dance-off?” None were necessary. The techies in attendance were starry-eyed for all things mobile, picking Nitobi’s PhoneGap, an open-source tool for building mobile apps, as the People’s Choice winner. Life-tracking site zeaLOG was a close second.

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Web 2.0 Expo: eBay Tells Developers to Embrace Making Money

Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 3, 2009 at 4:47 am PT

EBay is on a mission to woo developers at the Web 2.0 Expo this week in San Francisco. During a keynote speech Wednesday, eBay CTO Mark Carges told an audience filled with Internet start-ups that “nothing matters more than getting paid for the hard work that you do.” EBay knows a thing or two about making money, he said, before unveiling a new program to open up the company’s marketplace platform and PayPal services to outside developers.

Microsoft's Stephen Elop Speaks!

Kara Swisher in News on April 3, 2009 at 1:40 am PT

In BoomTown’s ongoing series, “Microsofties on Parade,” I spent some time earlier this week with Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft’s Business division. Reporting directly to CEO Steve Ballmer, Elop is a newbie, having gotten to Microsoft only a year ago. Which is why he is enthusiastic in his determination to tell the world that the software giant has gotten the open religion and is becoming “the most interoperable company in the world.” Yes, he really said that.

Is Microsoft Office Coming to the iPhone? Yes. Didn't You Hear Us the First Time?

John Paczkowski in News on April 2, 2009 at 8:10 am PT

Is Microsoft truly committed to bringing its major productivity applications to mobile devices? Of course it is. Will the iPhone be one of them? Absolutely. How can I say that with such certainty? Well, because Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft’s Business Division, hinted at Web 2.0 Expo yesterday that it would be. But more importantly, because Microsoft formally announced it last November.

Is Microsoft Office Coming to the iPhone? Yes. Didn’t You Hear Us the First Time?

John Paczkowski in News on April 2, 2009 at 8:10 am PT

Is Microsoft truly committed to bringing its major productivity applications to mobile devices? Of course it is. Will the iPhone be one of them? Absolutely. How can I say that with such certainty? Well, because Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft’s Business Division, hinted at Web 2.0 Expo yesterday that it would be. But more importantly, because Microsoft formally announced it last November.