Jeff Bezos has seen it all in his decade-long quest to build Amazon into the biggest internet retailer in the universe. During the Web 1.0 era he was Time magazine's Man of the Year, but many on Wall Street wrote his company off during the bust. Now Bezos is back, and his plan to turn Amazon into a web platform for both consumers and partners has paid off handsomely. So what's next?
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Technology leaders from eBay, Yahoo!, Comcast, and Amazon discuss ownership of data, the gradual shift from closed to open systems, and the new opportunities for innovation this raises. They share their views on whether - and how - the resulting innovations should be kept in-house and finish by debating the …
Hosts Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle introduce the themes of this year's Web 2.0 Conference and look back at a year that has seen the term "Web 2.0" rack up a vast number of citations on Google and become a common description for a range of new technology. If "Web …
As Google's phenomenal growth rate continues it must face a raft of challenging decisions, such as choosing in which direction to point the company, how to exploit whatever potential remains in its advertising business, and how the company can keep fostering innovation while remaining agile. Omid Kordestani, the person responsible …
Web 2.0 enriches online user experience by facilitating collaboration, participation, and communication. This is exciting investors once more and new Web 2.0 startups are finding it easy to get funding from venture capitalists. Although Vinod Khosla is a venture capitalist himself, he warns startups to learn the lessons of the …
"Geolocation: The Killer Map" What's the killer app of the web? It might just be geolocation, a service that opens up tons of new business and service opportunities. Plus, the visual rock. See the cutting edge in mapping from the entrepreneurs leading the way. [A Web 2.0 Conference panel …
Joe Kraus, founder of DigitalConsumer.org inroduces his new company, JotSpot. (IT Conversations audio from the Web 2.0 Conference)