State ofthe Internet OS

Tim O’Reilly

O’Reilly Media, Inc.www.oreilly.com

Mashup CampNovember 19, 2008

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How many of you have O’Reilly books?

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 theO’Reilly Peer-to-Peer

& Web Services Conferences

“Peer-to-peer and Web Services are only the first steps towardsthe 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’REILLY, FOUNDER & PRESIDENT, O’REILLY & ASSOCIATES, INC.

MAY 13–16, 2002 • WESTIN SANTA CLARA, SANTA CLARA, CA

Building the Internet Operating SystemBuilding the Internet Operating System

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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

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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

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“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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