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The Web 2.0 Conference is of, for and about the leading figures and companies driving innovation in the Internet economy. The conference will debut with the theme of "The Web as Platform," exploring how the Web has developed into a robust platform for innovation across many media and devices - from mobile to television, telephone to search. < Link >

The Web 2.0 conference 2004

Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle on the big themes of the conference:
-The web is a development environment.
-Websites are now software components that you can call as services.
-PC application stack was Intel-Others-Windows, with third party applications to lock in at the top.
-Web application stack is NetworkSolutions - OpenSource/Browsers - BigGuysLikeAmazonAndMapquestAndGoogle, with network effects to lock in at the top.
-Customers build businesses -- tons of people are putting content on the Internet to help eBay, Google, Blogging, Amazon, Flickr, etc.
-Microsoft won the browser war but saw no financial gains from the win. All the value has migrated to the applications.
-We're seeing the end of the software upgrade cycle, because Web applications are always up-to-date.
-"The Power of the Tail" means you can have a lot of small players that all survive. Google AdSense takes advantage of the tail. < More >

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Supernova 2005
MeshForum 2005
ETech 2005
OSBC2005
Software 2005
SDForum
SofTECH