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"Web 2.0" guardian O'Reilly copies name of Sun event
Make your event name too similar to O'Reilly's Web 2.0 conferences and you may hear from lawyers. Or have Google withdraw support for your organization. Or receive public scoldings from O'Reilly and Google employees, powerful pals of O'Reilly, or even Tim himself. But guess who just appropriated another's conference name for their own event? More »
once you're lucky, twice you're good
P is for Parker, the Valley's bad boy
Sean Parker has had a hand in some of the Valley's biggest successes. His first company, Napster, took the world by storm, but didn't make Parker rich. His second, Plaxo, just sold to Comcast. And his third, Facebook — well, say no more. Except for the bit about him getting kicked out, according to Mark Zuckerberg's legal testimony, for a cocaine arrest. (Parker characterized the incident as "a misunderstanding.") That and more is covered in the 21 pages Sarah Lacy devotes to Parker in Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good, new book about Web 2.0. The index page where Parker is listed: More »
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Sebastopol cancels Sonic.net's free Wi-Fi contract, citing health concerns
The city council of Sebastopol, home to tech publisher Tim O'Reilly, voted unanimously last week to cancel the city's agreement with Sonic.net allowing the company to set up a free Wi-Fi network. Why? Because a few residents complained of electromagnetic sensitivity. And by "residents" I mean "crazy nutjobs." O'Reilly's Dale Dougherty rounded up some typical comments:I have had health challenges, and my body cannot handle wifi...it gives me headaches and makes me very sick. I would be unable to go to the store, shop. I have enough problems being limited in my travels, it is outrageous that a place so environmentally conscious would create this in our/my hometown. In Europe they are much more advanced than us, and there wifi is not allowed in cities in the European commonwealth.If I touch a coathanger to my fillings and hold it at just the right angle, I can tune in to hear AT&T and Comcast executives cackling. (Original photo by Leslie Hunziker)
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Tim O'Reilly has a mancrush on his son-in-law
In-laws can be so embarrassing. Like Tim O'Reilly, Saul Griffith's father-in-law. The book publisher and conference organizer wrote a lavish profile of Griffith, calling him a "genius" and "a scientist and engineering polymath" before disclosing that Griffith was married to his daughter Arwen. (The happy couple is shown here.) More recently, O'Reilly has lavishly praised Griffith's upcoming keynote at an O'Reilly conference, without reminding readers of his family ties. It's better than the alternative, I suppose: At least Arwen's dad doesn't think she married a loser. After the jump, a more intimate picture of Saul and Arwen. More »
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Three questions for the Google party plane posse
We know TechCrunch's Michael Arrington didn't make it onto the Google jet back from Davos, but who did? Arrington claims that Lotus founder Mitch Kapor, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and tech publisher Tim O'Reilly made it onto the flight but doesn't serve us up with a passenger manifest. More »
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Self-important blogger fails to catch ride on Google party plane
TechCrunch's Michael Arrington tried and failed to score a ride from Davos back to California on the Google plane. No surprise, since the plane — owned by Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt, not the company they run — only seats 25 people.I've heard that Tim O'Reilly, Mitch Kapor, Reid Hoffman and Mark Zuckerberg will be on that flight. Basically, every Davos attendee from the Bay Area except me managed to hitch a ride back with Google.Mike, they did you a favor: Could you ever claim to cover Google as an independent journalist if its founders put you on that flight? Have some dignity. Instead of whining about having to ride Swiss back, as you did, Jason Calacanis would have chartered his own jet. (Photo by Brian Solis)
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Web 2.0 for Idiots
A reader emails in response to our Web 2.0 to English series, "I fail to see the problem with Tim O'Reilly's primer. Anyone who's not an idiot needs no further explanation." As a Reader's Digest contributor, here's the condensed version of your email: Fail. For the rest of us idiots, I've whipped up a chart. More »
5:01 PM on Thu Nov 1 2007
By Paul Boutin
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social networks
Six Apart's Brad boy is Googling a new idea
A Valleywag spy reports sighting Brad Fitzpatrick, the creator of LiveJournal and outgoing Six Apart executive, at Philz Coffee in San Francisco. Fitzpatrick was there with book publisher and geek icon Tim O'Reilly and David Recordon, a former Six Apart engineer who left to join VeriSign last year. The three were working on a presentation on "social network portability." Now, that's no surprise — Fitzpatrick has been openly interested in the idea of swapping personal information between websites for a while, and he and Recordon — who we hear, by the way, may be rejoining Six Apart — helped create the OpenID standard, which helps accomplish just that. No, what makes this geek sighting fascinating is that Fitzpatrick, we hear — though neither he nor Google has confirmed this — is headed to Google. And Google has been trying to get back in the social-network game. More »
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Tim O'Reilly's VC mission decloaks
Tim O'Reilly has finally come "out of the VC closet," as one reader notes, with the announcement of O'Reilly Alphatech Ventures. The owner of Web 2.0 plans for his VC arm to invest in "hackers" and "disruptors" and "bionic software" and "photon torpedoes" (note: only one of those is a lie). Current investments include a wifi widget toy, a wiki-style instructional platform, and software to enforce better spending habits. Investors in the O'Reilly venture itself include Omidyar Network and Explore Holdings (the latter, a.k.a. Jeff Bezos). But really, "Alphatech"? Sure, the world is hurting for names, but there's got to be something more original and less bland.[Photo: Dresden Future Forum]
