Web 2.0 Expo NY presentations and videos

Even though I did not attend Web 2.0 Expo in NY, but my work colleague did, it's nice that there are videos and presentations already on the Net on this. There are videos from Blip.TV and presentation slides from O'Reilly (which sponsored and hosted the Web 2.0 Expo conference).

The most notable keynote I watched was that from Tim O'Reilly, the founder of O'Reilly Media and the person who coined Web 2.0, on Enterprise Radar. Tim was talking about how the Web meets the World, in that the valuable contributions and impact on Web 2.0 is not creating a gaming application for Facebook but using Web 2.0 technologies to help the world like for example in global warming, for helping detect weather storms and informing people, etc. Tim gave a challenge to users out there to make something that is useful for the world that is life changing. I think that is good advice.



Another video I saw was of Jay Adelson from Digg talking about the growth of collaborative filters. There wasn't really anything new here I found.



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Web 2.0 Expo comes to New York

The Web 2.0 Expo, which is the Web 2.0 conference for industry, just started in New York yesterday and is being held September 16 to 19. A colleague from my research group at Nokia Research in Beijing is there right now providing us with updates from the conference. I'd be interested to hear from the attendees how they feel about the conference and the relevant keynotes, presentations and tutorials about how Web 2.0 is being used in the enterprise and how developers are creating Web 2.0 applications for mobile devices.

I've attended a Web 2.0 conference before in Toronto called Mesh, just before I moved to Beijing. I blogged about Mesh on my personal blog, as well as Twittered and Facebooked my updates. Apparently, Ignite NYC was happening before Web 2.0 Expo. For those who don't know Ignite, Ignite is an event where people are given just 5 minutes to talk about their product or idea and pitch it to the audience. It seems that there was a cupcake contest in which there were buttons on the iPhone in the form of cupcakes, see below.

There appears to be lots of energy online about the Web 2.0 Expo in NY as can be seen from joining the Twitter feed, the blog, as well as the photos.

If you're interested in Web 2.0 or are working in Web 2.0, keep track of this conference. It looks like the first day just finished the workshops and tomorrow starts the keynotes, sessions and exhibition hall. In relation to Nokia, it seems like S60 is a sponsor of this event so it will be interesting to see the mobile development for Web 2.0 on S60 devices.

Looking forward to hearing about the keynotes and the other sessions and demos in the following days.

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