Tim's Opening Keynote:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2004/view/e_sess/4843

at the

O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/et2004

2-10-04

San Diego, CA

Cory Doctorow

doctorow@craphound.com

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What's the mission at O'Reilly? Change the world by spreading the
knowledge of innovators. Hear what we're working on and pass it
around.

Keep finding new tech.

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Gibson: The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed.


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What's on the radar now?

* Amazon Hacks, Google Hacks, eBay Hacks, Spidering Hacks, etc

* You might think you're not a Linux user, but if you use Google,
you use Linux. What you use isn't (just) what's on your desk

* The Internet is the platform

* Killer apps are built on OSS, but aren't themselves OSS -- like
Google and Amazon

* User contributions are critical to market dominance: Listmania
in AMZN search-results (BN.com doesn't have this -- and it shows,
and they have 1/10 the market of AMZN)

* MSN maps are really cool and useful, but there's no collab
element, just blinking banners that appear to be saying "Go away
user, go away"

* iPod: There's an Amazon built into iTunes. It's conceived of as
a multidevice application.

* Rendezvous kicks ass: (NB, here's the thing *I* want from
Rendezvous: create a realtime /etc/hosts file based on the
zero-conf-visible boxes on the subnet, so that I can just type,
"telnet Cory\ Doctorow's\ Computer" and have it resolve)

* Network enabled market research. Used to be that people called
IT mgrs and asked what server they were running. Then Netcraft
started actually spidering servers and finding out exactly what
processes were running.

* Using Marc Smith (MSFT Research) tool, I was able to compare
Usenet traffic in OSS-oriented newsgroups to conference
attendance and book-sales and get a sense of the size of  the OSS
market

* Technorati captures a lot of this wrt blogs

* Alexa does this for the whole Web

* Google AdWords is a Blue Book for words, eBay is a Blue Book
for everything. Graph AdWords pricing for tech-related words
against the sale of books on the same subject and they correlate

* Cambodian FirstMile solutions has guys on motorcycles who drive
from village to village, picking up email and delivering it

* Hardware hacking is the new black.

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