Topic: The Internet and the World Wide Web
Zopto is a unique URL addressing scheme for identifying any physical location in the world down to the level of a house number. A Zopto address is represented as a URL that looks very much like the postal address of the place itself. In this presentation, Ben Nolan - technical director of startup Projectx - gives the audience a preview of Zopto and describes the technology in more detail.
In addition to their successful retail business, Amazon.com also has a popular technology arm, Amazon Web Services, which provides developers with direct access to their robust technology platform. Phil, Matt, and Scott discuss this program with Jeff Barr, Senior Manager, Web Services Evangelism at Amazon.com. Doug Kaye, CTO of GigaVox Media also joins them and describes how the company is using the services. The discussion provides an interesting overview to GigaVox, as well as an overview of a different type of business model.
Dave Thompson, CEO of Genius, speaks with Dr. Moira Gunn about the power shifts going on today between customers, front line sales people and executives all because of the World-Wide Web.
Today, the US dominates the Web in terms of participation, access and the influence of American English on online communication. But Internet connectivity is rapidly increasing in developing nations such as India and China. There are statistics to support the claim that the percentage of online participation from these countries far outnumbers that from the West. It is expected that by the year 2030, 50% of the population of the planet will be online. What implications is that going to have on the West?
When the traffic to your website increases, it becomes all the more important to scale, ensure service availability and survive outages without any impact to customers. Planning for uptime is known as business continuity. Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon.com describes how Amazon guarantees 100% uptime for its platform to its customers, safeguarding them against the perils of unpredictable disaster, and freeing them from the legwork of maintaining an enormous infrastructure.
Mashups - accelerators for innovation in Web 2.0 or just another buzzword? Creative reuse of content or a copyright problem? Jamais Cascio and Howard Greenstein discuss the phenomenon of mashups, applications that take data from one source and combine it with data from another source. Often, the result is a new use for the data, or targets a new user group. Get introduced to the concept and get to know what the key players and their motives are.
The internet has become an indispensable part of a nonprofit's life. But harnessing the web and email for outreach and fundraising takes agility and experience. This 2007 Nonprofit Boot Camp panel discussion of experts shares technological and marketing know-how through case studies to help nonprofit marketing executives plan effective web and communications strategies for their organizations.
Traditional political campaigns can be seen as "Broadcast Politics" - run as a top-down hierarchy with tight control and simple sound-bite sized messages. But is this the only model that could work? In the 2004 U.S. presidential race Howard Dean became perhaps the first candidate to leverage the networking power of the internet in a national campaign. Jon Lebkowsky and Zack Rosen discuss the result of involving people at the grassroots level by providing an internet platform for campaign collaboration.
Lawrence Catchpole, Chief Strategy Officer of M1 Global Solutions and Vernon Irvin, Executive Vice President and General Manager of VeriSign Communications Services, discuss the implications and opportunities resulting from the convergence of voice and data communications. Mr. Catchpole focuses on the still unfullfilled need of the enterprise customer to achieve the true strategic value of voice as data. Mr. Irvin concentrates on the opportunities available for service providers to offer new tools to drive convergence and eliminate friction.
O'Reilly Media is changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators. Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, gives his popular O'Reilly Radar presentation at the 2006 MySQL Users Conference. The web has matured to a platform where users are partcipating and driving innovation. Listen as O'Reilly covers what the alpha geeks are up to, and how MySQL is leading the way in blurring the virtual and the physical world.
