Tim O’Reilly announced this morning that O’Reilly and CMP are spinning off their Web 2.0 conference so the little people can participate too. The four-day “Web 2.0 Expo” will be held next April at Moscone, with a tech conference, tutorials, and a trade show floor. We didn’t realize this, but apparently the official Web 2.0 conference is invite-only. O’Reilly also said his company and CMP would limit trademark protection of their “web 2.0″ mark to only events that are confusingly similar to “The Web 2.0 Conference”…or, now, “The Web 2.0″ expo. But hey, even Eric Schmidt is calling it “web 3.0″ now.
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2:07 PM PT
Liz,
Microsoft’s track record is to take 3 revisions to get anything really workable. When Microsoft starts talking Web 3.0 we had better all pay attention or risk getting run over by the train…
1:47 AM PT
Tim O’Reilly — YAWN. Some, including himself, may believe he’s “god” but last time I checked he really isn’t. Why put coins into Tim’s pockets to attend a conference in which he has attempted to create artificial scarcity (e.g., first let’s invite all the alleged “cool” people to Web 2.0 as invite only and then create envy among the non-invitees so we can then charge the “pians” for the spin-off conference). What a rip off artist Mr. O’Reilly is.
11:16 PM PT
Nice post. Web 2 point ohhh. While the content is obvious king and in that UGC is fast becoming the rule of the game what really need to be seen is an interesting way to monetize the traffic here. On one hand we have powerful tool and on the other people are getting fed up with the online social media and calling it a quits. The advertisers are worried about being on such platforms because they dont know how the world will react and they might not be able to control it so the excuse that “who wants to advertise next to crap”. I think high time that somebody show the color of money here.
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