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Watching the Alpha Geeks
Tim O’Reilly
O’Reilly Media, Inc.www.oreilly.com
Stanford EE380November 19, 2008
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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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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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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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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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Watch the Alpha Geeks
Rob Flickenger and his potato chip can antenna
• 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
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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"A victory small enough to be organized is too small to be decisive."
--Eliot Janeway, Struggle for Survival
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Tracking Illegal Deforestation in Brazil with Google Earth
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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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Natalie Jeremijenko’s Feral Robot Dogs
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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