Tim O'Reilly
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. O’Reilly Media also publishes online through the O’Reilly Network and hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, and the Web 2.0 Conference. Tim’s blog, the O’Reilly Radar “watches the alpha geeks” to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is on the boards of MySQL, CollabNet, Safari Books Online, Wesabe, and ValuesOfN, and is a partner in O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.
Blog Posts
Al Gore Joins Web 2.0 Summit Lineup
--As I wrote last month in What Good is Collective Intelligence if it Doesn't Make Us Smarter?, at this year's Web 2.0 Summit, we're focusing on how...
Open Source and Cloud Computing
--I've been worried for some years that the open source movement might fall prey to the problem that Kim Stanley Robinson so incisively captured in G...
Suggestions for Web 2.0 Summit Charity Auction?
--At this year's Web 2.0 Summit, we're holding a charity auction as part of our "web meets world" focus. From the press release: The Web 2.0 Summit...
iPhone rants and raves
--On twitter, @mparekh (Michael Parekh) lamented the other day: Had my 3G iPhone Crash 5 times so far, hanging up on boot screen. Full Restore every...
House trying to ban twitter and qik?
--John Culberson (R-Tex) is trying to stir up a storm on twitter, saying that new house rules being proposed would ban services such as twitter from ...
Should Personal Genomics Be Regulated?
--I read recently about the cease and desist letters sent to 23andme and other personal genomics companies selling tests directly to consumers. 23and...
Should Personal Genomics Be Regulated?
--I read recently about the cease and desist letters sent to 23andme and other personal genomics companies selling tests directly to consumers. 23and...
What good is collective intelligence if it doesn't make us smarter?
--Two stories I read yesterday morning are worth sharing. The first, an editorial by science-fiction writer Robert Silverberg, was entitled The Death...
What good is collective intelligence if it doesn't make us smarter?
--Two stories I read yesterday morning are worth sharing. The first, an editorial by science-fiction writer Robert Silverberg, was entitled The Death...
Segway CTO Leaves for Apple as Product Design VP
--Phil Torrone noticed today on the Segway Chat forums that "Doug Field, the chief technology officer at Segway who heads their entire engineering te...
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Comments
Awesome keynote.
I really enjoyed the keynote yesterday. Thanks for not avoiding the hard topics. We all need to do the right thing... for all of us.
Good keynote speech!
