Outside Lands is next week, and folks have been busy uploading photos, videos, and memories of great music over at the CrowdFire site. We're almost at 1000 total media objects, which is amazing. Anyone can feed the fire, which gets lit next week…help us cross into four figures!…
Check it out here. And don't forget to feed the Crowdfire here. You can see shots from my Blackberry of the Wailers last night here!…
Those of you following my posts around the theme of this year's Web 2 Summit already know that we're expanding the scope of the conference this year, and asking a core question: How can we apply the lessons of the Web to the world at large? From my post…
As we convene the fifth annual Web 2.0 Summit, our world is fraught with problems that engineers might charitably classify as NP hard—from roiling financial markets to global warming, failing healthcare systems to intractable religious wars. In short, it seems as if many of our most complex systems are reaching their limits.
It strikes us that the Web might teach us new ways to address these limits. From harnessing collective intelligence to a bias toward open systems, the Web’s greatest inventions are, at their core, social movements. To that end, we’re expanding our program this year to include leaders in the fields of healthcare, genetics, finance, global business, and yes, even politics.
Here's the release. Again, feed the fire at CrowdFire here….
Tim posts here about the auction we're be having as part of the Web 2 Summit this Fall. Given the theme (Web Meets World), we're giving profits to charity, and we're looking for suggestions on what we might auction off. The bigger the idea, the better, of course. For…
Here is the release, and here’s the link to the auction page. But I need your help: What should we auction off? When we did this back in the late 90s, we auctioned off John Doerr’s tie for like ten grand, as I recall. I think someone paid a lot more than that to throw Meg Whitman, me, Mary Meeker, and Bill Gurley into the pool.
Now those were the days…
Read MoreTwitter is again overloaded (Fail Whale, which always reminded me of that scene with James and the Giant Peach where the birds lift the peach out of shark infested waters, anyway…). Follow me here if you can. So, since I can't entertain you with Tweets and Crowdfire is ripping…
Twitter is again overloaded (Fail Whale, which always reminded me of that scene with James and the Giant Peach where the birds lift the peach out of shark infested waters, anyway…). Follow me here if you can.
So, since I can’t entertain you with Tweets and Crowdfire is ripping it up, here’s a photo from the National Archaeological Museum of Athens that I took today (I took alot more). This fellow, a philosopher, seems quite bent. I liked him.
If you want to know what I'm up to, read my Twitter feed….back to posting when I'm back in the US……
Have a fair amount of traveling to do today, but once I settle in, late tomorrow, I'll be in a place to write far more……
Have a fair amount of traveling to do today, but once I settle in, late tomorrow, I’ll be in a place to write far more…
Susan Bratton interviewed my on any number of topics, and her interview and transcript is here. Thanks, Susan!…
Susan Bratton interviewed my on any number of topics, and her interview and transcript is here. Thanks, Susan!
A while back I announced the theme of this year's Web 2 Summit: "The Opportunity of Limits: Sustaining, Applying and Expanding the Web's Lessons." Since announcing that initial theme and lineup, an amazing group of folks have agreed to come and participate, and if you peruse the list, you'll…
Since announcing that initial theme and lineup, an amazing group of folks have agreed to come and participate, and if you peruse the list, you’ll note that it’s not just the regular coterie of Internet leaders. Sure, we’ve got those folks coming, and yes, we’ll be focusing just as intently on the opportunities in our industry. But we’re also going further afield. As we wrote in the overview:
In the first four years of the Web 2.0 Summit, we’ve focused on our industry’s challenges and opportunities, highlighting in particular the business models and leaders driving the Internet economy. But as we pondered the theme for this year, one clear signal has emerged: our conversation is no longer just about the Web. Now is the time to ask how the Web—its technologies, its values, and its culture—might be tapped to address the world’s most pressing limits. Or put another way—and in the true spirit of the Internet entrepreneur—its most pressing opportunities.
