State of
the Internet OS
Tim O’Reilly
O’Reilly Media, Inc.
www.oreilly.com
Mashup Camp
November 19, 2008

How many of you have O’Reilly books?
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Web 2.0 Summit
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Web 2.0 Summit
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\"The future is here. It's just not
evenly distributed yet.\"
--William Gibson
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Pattern Recognition
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The Open Source Paradigm Shift
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The Open Source Paradigm Shift
• How many of you use Linux?
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The Open Source Paradigm Shift
• How many of you use Linux?
• How many of you use Google?
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The Open Source Paradigm Shift
• How many of you use Linux?
• How many of you use Google?
• What’s being missed here?
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What Do These Apps Have in Common?
CraigsList
Wikipedia
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What Do These Apps Have in Common?
• The Internet, not the PC, is their platform
• Built on top of open source software, but not
themselves open source
• Services, not packaged applications
• Data aggregators, not just software
• Network effects from user contributions are
key to their market dominance
“The future is here. It’s just not evenly
distributed yet.”
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“Data is the Intel Inside”
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Building on the
momentum and
excitement of the
O’Reilly Peer-to-Peer
& Web Services
Conferences
Building the Internet Operating System
MAY 13–16, 2002 • WESTIN SANTA CLARA , SANTA CLARA , CA
“Peer-to-peer and Web Services are only the first steps towards
the emergence of a distributed Internet operating system—
a new platform for next generation applications that are
device and location independent, and provide increasingly
transparent services.”
— TIM O’R EILLY, F OUNDER & P RESIDENT, O’R EILLY & A SSOCIATES , I NC.
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The Internet Operating System
The subsystems will be data subsystems
– Location
– Identity
– Time
– Products
– Speech
– Translation
– Relationships
– Price
– Tags
– ???
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The Programmable Web
Last two weeks
All time
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Three Types of Data Sources
• Namespaces
• Primary data
• Derived meaning
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Namespaces
• Unique keys used to look up actual data
• Can be widely known, invented, or
“embraced and extended”
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Web 2.0 is about finding meaning
in user-generated data,
and turning that meaning into real-time
user-facing services
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How Ridiculous Is This?
• Dialed calls (last 10)
• Received calls (last 10)
• Missed calls (last 10)
My phone company’s call history database
knows everyone I’ve called and who’s called
me, how often and how recently. Why
doesn’t it share that with me?
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MAKE: Magazine
“Martha Stewart
for Geeks”
-- Newsweek
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What’s Next?
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Eric Horvitz
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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
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