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Web 2.0 Conference: Launchpad

Submitted by Will Pate on October 6, 2005 - 9:45pm.

Socialtext is the first wiki company
Make wikis for enterprises
200+ customers
Built for collaboration, unlike email
Wiki came from open source - Wikipedia, etc
Socialtext going open open source
Starting with rich text editor for wikis, being used for other applications people are developing
Next is real-time collaborative editing of documents on thee web
Web 2.0 is made of people (cheers)

Been blogging and investing for 8 years
Search engine that lets people organize their searches by source
Find search engines created by others
Can also search the whole web
Engine powered by Yahoo
Allows people with domain expertise to create custom searches and get credit

Mail, calendar, contacts, files, binders
Tagging, smart filters
XML-RPC, RSS, ICS, vCard, vCal, WebDAV support
Shared calendars

Doing things with people you know
Social applications currently don#039t match what people do in the real world, there are gaps
Replication of social network each time a new one launches
Social infrastructure for developers
Many applications and one social network for users

Travel information site that combines user-written blogs and social networking
Internet primary channel for travel
Focus on price is commoditizing travel
Google maps integration

Open source collaboration suite
Support standards
Compatible with legacy systems
Mobil: Blackberry, Windows Mobile, etc
Allows for developers to integrate with third party applications
Crowd very impressed with integration between applications, third party applications
Good use of AJAX
Easy to find information inside the system
Conversation grouping like Gmail
Big applause

Local event search and web service
Running in Bay Area right now
Has 3x the events for that area of anyone else
What-where-when search
Search results as list, map & calendar
Makes it easy for bloggers to post calendars of events on their blogs

RSS notification service
Hosted service for enterprises
Open, anonymous access
Internet Explorer browser plugin

Orb

Desktop computer software, windows only right now
Streams your media from home to anywhere you want
Used it to control lights in someone#039s home, watching from live streaming webcam
Access filesystem on home computer from anywhere

Wink

Aggregate tags from across the web, analyze and rank relevance for search results
Users can create personal search sets

Development platform built on Firefox
Metadata via tags, ad hoc protocols like XML, decentralization of data and asynchronousness
Adding extensible profiles, peer-to-peer data transfer, data storage and resource replication
AllPeers MediaCentre allows import, tagging, organization, sharing of data + media files into Firefox
Web Page Sharing allows annotation, with sharing, of web pages
Third party apps coming soon

Building tools to help people do the things they do already, better and faster
Dozen folks in a garage in Palo Alto
Built on open source - Firefox browser
Alpha release coming in a few weeks, beta in a few months
Focusing right now on favorites and history, integrating blogging features
Making subscribing to feeds, favorites the same
Reading RSS in the browser
Blogging topbar - new interface element
Blog editor with rich text editing
Flickr topbar browser in blog editor

Structured blogging - structuring blog posts so that machines can read and aggregate similar content (ex. movie reviews)

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