[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist  Aug 05, 2008  

RIchard MacManus supports the “Web Meets World” Auction by offering free passes for the best auction item ideas:

This year the Web 2.0 Summit conference (5-7 Nov) is hosting an auction to benefit a few innovative organizations that are solving big problems.

To show our support for this initiative, ReadWriteWeb is running a competition in this post.

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[O'Reilly Radar]
by Brady Forrest  Jul 18, 2008  Dopplr, the traveler's social network, has added events. In this initial implementation you have to use one of the supplied URLs. Here are the URLs for the next six O'Reilly conferences. OSCON - http://dplr.it/oscon08 EuroRails - http://dplr.it/eurorailsconf08 Web 2.0 Expo NYC - http://dplr.it/w2exponyc Web 2.0 Expo Europe - http://dplr.it/w2expoeurope Web 2.0 Summit - http://dplr.it/w2summit08 MoneyTech - http://dplr.it/moneytech09 If you... read more

[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist  Jul 08, 2008  

Tom Donoghue previews Web 2.0 Expo New York, happening September 16-19 at the Javits Center.

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist  Jun 27, 2008  

Arianna Huffington, Marc Benioff and Tim O’Reilly Kickoff Keynote Lineup; Event Registration Now Open

SAN FRANCISCO–TechWeb (formerly CMP) and O’Reilly Media, Inc., co-producers of Web 2.0 Expo, announce some of the keynote speakers for this inaugural East Coast event. Web 2.0 Expo New York will convene the brightest minds of the next-generation Web to celebrate the power, size and innovation of the industry on the East Coast. Web 2.0 Expo New York happens September 16-19, 2008 in the Javits Convention Center.
Registration is now open at:
https://en.oreilly.com/webexny2008/public/register.

Since its dramatic launch in 2007 in San Francisco, Web 2.0 Expo has grown in double digit percentages and expanded to include events in Tokyo and Europe, in addition to the upcoming New York show. The Expo makes the principles and practices of Web 2.0 accessible to a broad and influential audience and has acted as the platform for major exhibitor announcements and launches. The New York event is poised to take advantage of the growing demand for education and networking in the Web 2.0 world, and will highlight the tremendous innovation occurring on the East Coast.

“There’s a thriving Web community on the East Coast, interwoven with the financial, advertising, and consulting industries in New York,” said Jennifer Pahlka, co-chair of Web 2.0 Expo. “Web 2.0 Expo New York is driven by and built for that community—the developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and other Web professionals who are realizing the promise of Web 2.0 in the center of world commerce.”

Speakers in the spotlight at this year’s conference include:

Jay Adelson with digg was suckered out of the world of film and broadcasting into helping kick-start the Internet industry in 1993. Since then, he has helped engineer Netcom, the first ISP in the United States, worked at DEC research lab in Palo Alto to build the secret back-end of the Internet, and founded the billion-dollar Equinix.

Marc Benioff is chairman and CEO of salesforce.com. He founded the company in 1999 with a vision to create an on-demand information management service that would replace traditional enterprise software technology.

Arianna Huffington is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of eleven books. She is also co-host of “Left, Right & Center,” public radio’s popular political roundtable program.

Dan Lyons is a senior editor at Forbes and the author of the The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. Dan joined Forbes in 1998 and wrote for various computer trade publications including CRN and VARBUSINESS before that. He’s been a journalist for 25 years.

Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. Tim’s blog, the O’Reilly Radar #8220;watches the alpha geeks” to determine emerging technology trends and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community.

Clay Shirky divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client/server infrastructure that characterizes the Web.

Gary Vaynerchuk has captured national attention as a businessman and Internet celebrity. Gary’s fame can be attributed to his pioneering, multi-faceted approach to personal branding and business building, currently with winelibrary.tv.

Fred Wilson works with Union Square Ventures and began his career in venture capital in 1987. He has focused exclusively on information technology investments for the past 17 years.

Web 2.0 Expo New York proudly features leading women, with over 40 percent of the keynote lineup being female. In addition to Arianna Huffington, the Web 2.0 keynote stage welcomes Maria Thomas, COO of Etsy, Deborah Schultz, and Irene Greif of IBM, among many other female speakers at the event.

A forum for creativity, engineering, and innovation, Web 2.0 Expo New York includes a multi-track conference, workshops, an “unconference” program called Web2Open, a major tradeshow, and many networking events. Web 2.0 Expo welcomes industry leaders who are participating and exhibiting in this year’s show including Diamond sponsors Microsoft and Salesforce.com;
Platinum sponsor eBay; Gold sponsors Amazon Web Services, curl, Force10, Intuit QuickBase, ONEsite, OpSource and Sun Microsystems; Silver sponsors Acquia, Awareness, BlueArc, Coradiant, Dixero, Jive, Kapow, Lithium, Panther, SynthaSite, Industry Live and WebAsyst.

To learn more about the 2008 Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco or to register visit:
http://en.oreilly.com/webexny2008/public/content/home

To apply for a media pass, visit:
http://en.oreilly.com/webexny2008/public/content/media

To read the O’Reilly Radar, visit:
http://radar.oreilly.com

If you have ideas about areas you’d like to see included at the conference, send a note to: webexpo-idea@oreilly.com

If you’d like to stay up to date on information relating to Web 2.0, sign up for the conference
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[O'Reilly Radar]
by Brady Forrest  Jun 17, 2008  I am going to be in Berlin Monday and Tuesday meeting with people and companies for the Web 2.0 Expo Europe. I'll be in London on Wednesday and Thursday for the same reason. Since I can't make meetings with everybody I am going to plant myself in the Sankt Oberholz from 1700-2000 on Tuesday, June 17th (before the evening's... read more

[O'Reilly Radar]
by Brady Forrest  Jun 17, 2008  I am going to be in Berlin Monday and Tuesday meeting with people and companies for the Web 2.0 Expo Europe. I'll be in London on Wednesday and Thursday for the same reason. Since I can't make meetings with everybody I am going to plant myself in the Sankt Oberholz from 1700-2000 on Tuesday, June 16th (before the evening's... read more

[O'Reilly Radar]
by Brady Forrest  Jun 12, 2008  I am going to be in Berlin Monday and Tuesday meeting with people and companies for the Web 2.0 Expo Europe. Since I can't make meetings with everybody I am going to plant myself in the Sankt Oberholz from 1700-2000 on Tuesday, June 16th (before the evening's football games). I'll buy some pitchers and be available to talk. If... read more

[O'Reilly Radar]
by Brady Forrest  Jun 12, 2008  I am going to be in Berlin Monday and Tuesday meeting with people and companies for the Web 2.0 Expo Europe. Since I can't make meetings with everybody I am going to plant myself in the Sankt Oberholz from 1700-2000 on Tuesday, June 16th (before the evening's football games). I'll buy some pitchers and be available to talk. If... read more

[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist  May 08, 2008  

Nicole Ferraro reported on conference highlights:

Vysr Beats Yahoo to the Punch With RoamAbout

What’s Next for Social Platforms?

Tim O’Reilly: Web 2.0 Is Not Over

Yahoo: Social Is Dimension, Not Destination
MySpace Talks Apps & Facebook (But Not Yahoo)

Fake Steve Jobs Invades Web 2.0 Expo

Searching for the Next Search Engine

Slideshow: Web 2.0 Expo

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist  May 08, 2008  

Juan Carlos Perez reports on Expo, starting with the great opening line:

D. Mark Hornung is attending this week’s Web 2.0 Expo because he doesn’t want to get hit by a tsunami.

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist  May 06, 2008  

Web 2.0 Expo earned world wide coverage. Here’s what Jan Becker wrote for German readers

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist  May 06, 2008  

The News Blaze crew covered many of the major events and announcements at Web 2.0 Expo SF.

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist  May 06, 2008  

Bernardo Parrella reports on the conference: Prosegue l’abbraccio tra socialità online e mondo high-tech, mentre al Web 2.0 Expo di San Francisco Tim O’Reilly mette in guardia contro il “lato oscuro” della Rete…

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist  May 06, 2008  

Mathieu Ramage shares his take on the conference for French readers.

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Avila Reese - PR Contributor  May 06, 2008  

Caroline McCarthy contrasts the revelry of Web Expo parties with the more cautious tone of the conference itself in this post:

The economic attitude of the Web 2.0 Expo hangs in an awkward limbo: The tech industry relies on innovation, but no one can deny that these economic times demand caution. What’s a geek to do?

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Avila Reese - PR Contributor  May 06, 2008  

Mitch Wagner, on FriendFeed:

So I took a break from Web 2.0 Expo to get some alone time with my laptop and FriendFeed. Yes, I am aware of the irony: I have traveled all this way to a conference saturated with social networks, and I left the conference to connect with a social network.

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist  May 06, 2008  

Deborah Gage and Ellen Lee look at another side of Web 2.0.

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Avila Reese - PR Contributor  May 06, 2008  

Yardena Arar highlights the coolest startups, innovators and exhibitors on the Expo show floor:

The Web 2.0 Expo at San Francisco’s Moscone Center West, which wraps up today, doesn’t take up a huge amount of space: Startups predominate, and most don’t have money for big flashy booths. But there’s more cool new technology per square foot here than at many big trade shows.

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Avila Reese - PR Contributor  May 06, 2008  

Leslie Katz rounds up the highlights, launches and green innovation at Web Expo.

It was all Web apps, all the time in San Francisco this week, as some of the Internet’s most prominent movers and shakers gathered for the giant Web 2.0 Expo.

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Avila Reese - PR Contributor  May 06, 2008  

“The economic attitude of the Web 2.0 Expo hangs in an awkward limbo: The tech industry relies on innovation, but no one can deny that these economic times demand caution. What’s a geek to do?” writes CNet News.com’s Caroline McCarthy in this article on the economy, Web 2.0 & Web 2.0 Expo.

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Avila Reese - PR Contributor  May 06, 2008  

Dan Beyers discusses the various lauches by Intridea at Web 2.0 Expo:

Upender, the chief executive of Intridea, said the speed of development today forces the company to rapidly launch and improve products.

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Avila Reese - PR Contributor  May 05, 2008  

George Shirk writes, “Among the various engines driving the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco - and arguably it is the biggest engine - is the attention on all things mobile.”
Shirk continues,

Indeed, on Thursday the conference featured a number of “focus tracks” specifically dealing with mobile. Developers and content specialists crowded in, hoping for clues as to what “Mobile 2.0” will look like.

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal  May 03, 2008  

Susan Kuchinskas covers Artur Bergman’s presentation at Web 2.0 Expo: Tips for startups work for any Internet business.

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal  May 03, 2008  

Over on the Bay Area’s News Station, Brian Shields was very busy at Web 2.0 Expo, shooting over 17 interviews, including this overview with Jen Pahlka:

and this interview with George LeBrun and Joshua Ross, the O’Reilly InPractice team that launched at Web 2.0 Expo:

Everyday new applications and ideas come out that expand the way we’re all able to use the Internet. KRON4.com is giving you a peek inside the future of the web courtesy of some of the innovators and visionaries who attended the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco in April, 2008. Watch the videos, follow the links, and share your thoughts on the Internet’s Next Big Thing.

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal  May 03, 2008  

Check out video of Jennifer Pahlka, General Manager and co-chair of the Web 2.0 Expo and TechWeb, who sat down with Liane to talk about the community-driven content and events.

Jennifer Pahlka On Web 2.0 Expo’s Community Driven Content - Girls Gone Geek from Girls Gone Geek on Vimeo.

Liane also spoke with TechWeb’s VP of Marketing, Stacy O’Connell about the active community that is Web 2.0 Expo.

Web 2.0 Expo Is An Active Community - Girls Gone Geek from Girls Gone Geek on Vimeo.

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal  May 03, 2008  

Fritz Nelson, Executive Producer at TechWeb, talks with Tim O’Reilly at the Web 2.0 Expo 2008 in San Francisco about the corporate and IT uses of Web 2.0.

More TechWebTV episodes from Web 2.0 Expo.

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal  May 03, 2008  

Fritz Nelson, Executive Producer at TechWeb, talks with Tim O’Reilly at the Web 2.0 Expo 2008 in San Francisco about the corporate and IT uses of Web 2.0.

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal  May 02, 2008  

Ari Balogh, CTO at Yahoo! just offered a preview at Web 2.0 Expo of a very new kind of Yahoo!. One that invites developers to take advantage of our huge scale to write applications that build on our existing properties (think Mail, Sports, Search, our front page, mobile, My Yahoo!, etc.), tap into millions of loyal users, and make Internet experience more relevant and useful.

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[O'Reilly Radar]
by Brady Forrest  May 01, 2008  Last week Steve Souders, the author of the O'Reilly book High Performance Web Sites and creator of Firefox plugin YSlow, presented his latest website performance findings at the Web 2.0 Expo (I made him promise that he would present new content). He's still developing the final set of guidelines, but here is what he so far: Split the initial payload... read more

[O'Reilly Radar]
by Brady Forrest  May 01, 2008  The videos for the Web 2.0 Expo Keynotes are available on Blip.tv! I've embedded video of Clay Shirky's excellent keynote above. In his talk Clay discusses many of the concepts from his new book and explains why sitcoms are "cognitive heat sinks". A transcript of his talk is available in his post Gin, Television, and Social Surplus.... read more

[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Avila Reese - PR Contributor  Apr 29, 2008  

Read Eric Auchard’s article on Yahoo’s plan to expand data sharing and networking among its estimated 500 million monthly users.

“We are not building another social network,” Chief Technology Officer Ari Balogh told more than 1,000 attendees at the Web 2.0 Expo conference in San Francisco on Thursday. “We are building social into everything we do.”

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[O'Reilly Radar]
by Tim O'Reilly  Apr 26, 2008  In the Jonathan Schwartz interview at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco yesterday, I screwed up. After learning we weren't set up for audience Q&A with microphones, I thought, "well then, I'll just suggest to the audience that they twitter questions @timoreilly, and I'll check my phone during the interview." I kept checking, but no questions. Bummer. Not... read more

[O'Reilly Radar]
by Brady Forrest  Apr 25, 2008  | View | Upload your own Several of our speakers have uploaded their slides to Slideshare. There are fifteen so far. I've embedded the slides from Design Your API: Learnings from Twitter and Stamen by Alex Payne and Michal Migurski. The slides (which include notes) include lessons learned from their projects together.... read more

[O'Reilly Radar]
by Brady Forrest  Apr 24, 2008  In the Web 2.0 Expo keynotes we've been experimenting with a segment called "What X Knows". The Web 2.0 services that we use learn a lot about their users. We asked some of those companies to share some of their info-porn with us. Current, the user-generated TV channel, made an under-one-minute visualization of the videos from their site that... read more

[O'Reilly Radar]
by Tim O'Reilly  Apr 26, 2008  In the Jonathan Schwartz interview at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco yesterday, I screwed up. After learning we weren't set up for audience Q&A with microphones, I thought, "well then, I'll just suggest to the audience that they twitter questions @timoreilly, and I'll check my phone during the interview." I kept checking, but no questions. Bummer. Not... read more

[O'Reilly Radar]
by Brady Forrest  Apr 25, 2008  | View | Upload your own Several of our speakers have uploaded their slides to Slideshare. There are fifteen so far. I've embedded the slides from Design Your API: Learnings from Twitter and Stamen by Alex Payne and Michal Migurski. The slides (which include notes) include lessons learned from their projects together.... read more

[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Avila Reese - PR Contributor  Apr 25, 2008  

Daniel Terdiman contributes this article on the entertaining and irreverent Fake Steve Jobs:

In a frenetic keynote address Friday morning at the Web 2.0 Expo here, Fake Steve–otherwise known as Forbes writer Dan Lyons–gave his unique take on the world of technology, the people who drive it, and the future of media.

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Avila Reese - PR Contributor  Apr 25, 2008  

Jon Leland has some great things to say about this year’s event:

This spring’s SF show attracted about 8,500 web-savvy geeks and associates and I was impressed with the consciousness of both the collaborative conference editorial orientation as well as the folks in attendance.

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal  Apr 25, 2008  

At the Web 2.0 Expo, the company unveils its new software-plus-service platform,” writes Darryl K. Taft.

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Avila Reese - PR Contributor  Apr 25, 2008  

David Spark provides the ‘definitive’ on cool –what was (and wasn’t) at Web Expo.

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Avila Reese - PR Contributor  Apr 25, 2008  

Leslie Katz rounds up the Web Expo experience, “It was all Web apps, all the time in San Francisco this week, as some of the Internet’s most prominent movers and shakers gathered for the giant Web 2.0 Expo.”

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal  Apr 25, 2008  

“Yahoo reveals new strategy of letting outside developers mix search results with other sites,” writes Nathan Halverson.

The Internet is increasingly controlled by its users, and not its designers.
That shift was evident Thursday at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, a three-day conference co-produced by Sebastopol-based O’Reilly Media.

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Avila Reese - PR Contributor  Apr 25, 2008  

Call for Participation Now Open

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/ –CMP and O’Reilly Media, Inc., co-producers of the annual Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco and Web 2.0 Summit, today jointly announced the launch of Web 2.0 Expo New York. The Web 2.0 Expo brand was introduced last April in San Francisco and received an overwhelmingly positive reception, with double the expected attendance and dozens of major announcements. The New York event is poised to take advantage of the demand for education and networking in the Web 2.0 world, and will highlight the many innovative companies and individuals on the East Coast, as well as welcome visitors from around the world.

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal  Apr 25, 2008  

Caroline McCarthy contrasts the after-hours parties with the onstage Web 2.0 Expo presentations in this post.

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal  Apr 25, 2008  

Video of the Web 2.0 Expo keynote presentations are starting to go up on blip.tv.

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[O'Reilly Radar]
by Dave McClure  Apr 24, 2008  This year's Launchpad at Web 2.0 Expo SF features six new Web 2.0 startups that have captured our interest and attention: Acquia Triggit Chirp Interactive Oortle JobScore TradeVibes Here's a brief description of each of these cool new companies: Acquia is an open source software company providing products and services for the wildly popular Drupal social publishing system. At Acquia,... read more

[O'Reilly Radar]
by Brady Forrest  Apr 24, 2008  In the Web 2.0 Expo keynotes we've been experimenting with a segment called "What X Knows". The Web 2.0 services that we use learn a lot about their users. We asked some of those companies to share some of their info-porn with us. Current, the user-generated TV channel, made an under-one-minute visualization of the videos from their site that... read more

[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Avila Reese - PR Contributor  Apr 24, 2008  

Shannon Clark comments that Web 2.0 Expo might not deliver the “business emphasis and focus” she was looking for, but makes up for this when it comes to in-depth technical expertise and innovation.

As an entrepreneur my advice to anyone attending the show would be to take it slow. To indeed take a walk through the exhibit hall and see the booths, see how potential partners and competitors present themselves. But then to find a good spot at one of the many table filled seating areas, announce your location via twitter, then settle in for a few hours of lobbyconning (sitting still and letting people come to you to stop, meet, and reconnect).

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal  Apr 24, 2008  

Fritz Nelson shot this last night:

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[Web 2.0 Expo]
by Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal  Apr 24, 2008  

Juan Carlos Perez of IDG News Service covers news from Yahoo! revealed at the show:

Yahoo is swinging the doors of its Web platforms wide open to let outside developers create applications across its network of sites, as well as radically stitching together its online services under the social profile concept….”It is rewiring Yahoo from the inside out, across all of our properties, to fundamentally open up those Web services and provide a consistent development model, a consistent deployment and consumer experience as well,” said Ari Balogh, Yahoo’s chief technology officer, during a keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco on Thursday.

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