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marissa mayer
Liveblogging Google VP Marissa Mayer at the Web 2.0 Summit
Google VP and de facto spokesperson Marissa Mayer is at the Web 2.0 Summit discussing "What Google secretly discovered along the way." Opens with a story about running studies about Google, doing split A/B testing (giving a small group of users a different version of Google — a different font, different buttons, whatever). More » -
netscape
Netscape vs. Digg checkup: Netscape head says he's beating Digg
"We're on the same trajectory that Digg was at the beginning," Netscape head Jason Calacanis said onstage at the Web 2.0 Summit today about his social news site's main competitor. But that's not what one online stat tracker says. According to Alexa, Netscape's traffic has fallen since he revamped the site, despite Calacanis's claim that they're adding a thousand users a day. More » -
aol
Hello bubble: Lou Reed plays "What's Good" at Web 2.0 dinner (with video)
When Lou Reed performed last night at the Web 2.0 Summit dinner, it felt more like "All Tomorrow's Parties" than "No Money Down" — such a sign of excess that some vets recalled an Elvis Costello performance at an Ask.com party in the first dot-com boom. More » -
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Numbercrunch: How much did Zimbra, Veoh, and Wink raise?
At the Web 2.0 Summit, host John Battelle asks each of three startup founders how much VC funding they recently took. Their answers: More » -
to-do
To-Do tonight: Have fun (!) at Web 2.0, or find Waldo
- No badge, no pass, no problem: Hang out in the Sonoma conference room, which Mashery rented out as soon as it heard O'Reilly was holding its conference here. They're handing out margaritas, and I hear the wifi's better than the sketchy conference connection. Hell, I'm walking down there as soon as I finish this list. [SF Gate]
- Did you RSVP for AOL's dinner with a "special guest" (Hint: word is it's Lou Reed)? Then heaven help you when you try to slip in. []
- Is there an Ask.com party tonight? Any other parties? Can I get a witness? Tips@valleywag.com if you know of one.
- Or dress like Waldo and join the crowd outside SF's Ferry Building. [Laughing Squid]
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geeking out
Geek out: S'mores and massages at Yahoo's Web 2.0 party
Valleywag party expert Megan McCarthy crashes Yahoo's bash at the Web 2.0 Summit, sucks on flavored oxygen, and reports. More » -
ross levinsohn
Fox Interactive head: Brad Greenspan is a loser
Fox Interactive head (and MySpace buyer for News Corp) Ross Levinsohn (pictured) on Brad Greenspan, the former MySpace founder who's sued MySpace for allegedly lying about its value to investors, and Fox for allegedly censoring him: More » -
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web 2.0 con
Web 2.0 Con: Alienating the one neocon in the audience
Web 2.0 Summit MC John Battelle makes a news announcement before the morning break: More » -
web 2.0 con
Web 2.0 Con: The Democratic Convention by any other name
Info overload: At the Web 2.0 Summit, just sat through a ten-minute State of the Internet slide show. Way too fast to process, so presenter Mary Meeker from Morgan Stanley said she'd put it online. More » -
web 2.0 con
Web 2.0 Con: Liveblogging Vint Cerf vs. Robert Pepper on Net Neutrality
At the Web 2.0 Summit, host John Battelle is moderating a debate between Internet god Vint Cerf (pictured; he invented the main protocol used on the Internet) and Cisco exec and former FCC adviser Bob Pepper over Net Neutrality. Battelle has introduced the debate by explaining how hard it was to find anyone who's against net neutrality. More » -
web 2.0 con
Waggable: And in their place they sent 50 biz-dev guys
Overheard last night from a developer who didn't attend this week's business-development-heavy, techie-light Web 2.0 Summit, referring to the staff of Adaptive Path, who coined the term "Ajax" for a form of dynamic web pages like Google Maps: More » -
joi ito
Joi Ito preaches the World of Warcraft gospel
Serial entrepreneur and investor Joi Ito, a terribly accomplished technologist, is introducing the audience at the Web 2.0 Summit to the communicative and social power of World of Warcraft. His points: More » -
crash this bash
Crash this Bash: Yahoo with me baby
Yahoo announces their Web 2.0 Summit party, for con guests only. (We'll see if it's crashable.) More » -
web 2.0 con
Web 2.0 Con: Liveblogging the "Conversation with Eric Schmidt"
4:20: The grand ballroom for the welcome message and a talk by Google CEO Eric Schmidt was packed; I skipped upstairs to a swank overflow room catered by Google. Remember those Google snack rooms? They turned this room into one of them. More » -
web 2.0 con
Welcome to the big Con: How the Web 2.0 Summit works
For the rest of the week, we'll be reporting from the second annual Web 2.0 Summit, organized by O'Reilly Media and hosted by John Battelle. Before we start, here's a guide to this conference. More » -
to-do
To-Do tonight: Rock for children's literacy
- Open bar til 9 at the Tech Industry Charity Jam, a concert with a suggested $10 donation to Room to Read. [Conference Guru]
- Have pizza and snacks with Zee Germans at the eurocentric Web Monday in Palo Alto. [Upcoming]
- You don't need to buy a pass to this week's Web 2.0 Conference, starting tomorrow morning. As with all cons in the Palace Hotel, you can just hang out in the lobby and schmooze. (That's the real point of these cons anyway.) But the workshops tomorrow will be harder to sneak into. [Web 2.0 Conference]
- By the way, I want to alert you that we'll be calling it a "con" all week, no matter how old the joke gets.
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john furrier
Loose Wires: In Furrier's defense, Vloggercon WAS too nerdy
- Overheard Podtech founder John Furrier (pictured) saying a few things at the Vloggies, an award show organized by his company: For example, "Vloggercon was too nerdy." That's a little less respect than he paid this summer's videoblogger conference when he went on stage. But I can't recall which vlogger he called "a hottie" at the afterparty. [Photo by JD Lasica]
- Today's Pictures in Slate: Cubicle drones in India's Silicon Valley. [
- Play buzzword bingo at this week's Web 2.0 conference with this card. After the conference, send completed cards to tips@valleywag.com to enter Valleywag's hall of fame. [Duck9]
- Who got the $131 million stock "gift" that Google co-founder Larry Page registered with the SEC? Maybe Larry himself. [Mercury News]
- Best headline in tech news this week: "Silicone cleavage bounces back." [Wired News]
- Techie legend #1: the data server used as a sawhorse. [Daily WTF]
- Techie legend #2: "Just remember, every time a Gaim user sends someone a file by dragging it into a conversation window, it's because I lost my wallet." [Duncan Mac-Vicar]
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jerry yang
Yahoo's cofounder plays submissive
he front page of the site for this week's big Web 2.0 Conference quotes one of Yahoo's co-founders: More »
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