3. What We Really Do At O'Reilly
Change the world by spreading the
knowledge of innovators
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4. How we do it
• Find interesting technologies and people
innovating from the edge
• Amplify their effectiveness by spreading
the information needed for others to
follow them.
• Books
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5. How we do it
• Find interesting technologies and people
innovating from the edge
• Amplify their effectiveness by spreading
the information needed for others to
follow them.
• Books, Conferences
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6. How we do it
• Find interesting technologies and people
innovating from the edge
• Amplify their effectiveness by spreading
the information needed for others to
follow them.
• Books, Conferences, Online
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7. Some Examples
• First books on Linux and Perl - 1991
• First book on the internet, covered WWW
when there were only 200 web sites - 1992
• Launched first commercial web site, 1993
• First advocacy about web services - 1997
• Organized meeting where term “open
source” was adopted - 1998
• Coined term Web 2.0 to describe rules for
new internet platform - 2004
• Make: celebrates the new DIY - 2006
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8. Watch the Alpha Geeks
• New technologies first exploited by hackers, then
entrepreneurs, then platform players
• Three examples
– Wireless community networks
predict universal Wi-Fi
– Screen scraping predicts
web services and the internet
as platform
– “The pedal powered internet”
predicts new focus on energy
Rob Flickenger and his potato chip can antenna
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9. quot;The future is here. It's just not
evenly distributed yet.quot;
--William Gibson
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39. Tracking Illegal Deforestation in Brazil
with Google Earth
Source: New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/19/world/americas/19brazil.html
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78. 9. Instrumenting the World
We are moving out of the world in which people
typing on keyboards will drive collective
intelligence applications. Increasingly,
applications are driven by new kinds of sensors.
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98. For More Information
• What is Web 2.0?
http://www.oreillynet.com/go/web2
• http://tim.oreilly.com
• http://radar.oreilly.com
• http://www.makezine.com
• http://www.oreilly.com
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