Rael Dornfest

• "remixing" -- that "prosumers" and general consumers are opening their boxes and exploring
• Going behind the curtain.
• Syndicated e-commerce means you don't need to own every component of your application.
• "All progress depends on the unreasonable man" --George Bernard Shaw via Rael Dornfest

Tim O'Reilly

• Tim o'reilly: pattern observation. Design patterns and internet applications.
• Pattern language -- Christopher Alexander.
• "Users add value to shared data"
• "make participation the default aggregating user data as a aide effect of their using your application (shirky via o'reilly)"
• Don't design for single device anymore
• Capture and share the social fabric underlying the application, rather than artificially constructing another
• Why is it that enterprise software has to be continually reinvented while tcp/ip is 30+ years old. That it has to do with the core packet idea of TCPIP.
• Ora into data visualization (look at treemap)

Stewart Butterfield -- flickr

• Web services as startup strategy
• Issue: loss of control over pace of things happen by open web services, impact on scalability
• ~250,000 api requests / day 3m pageviews / day

Danny Hillis -- Applied Minds

• They build stuff to 1.0 then hand off to licensees or other developers
• Demo of graphical map table and new 3d map table
• He echoed the ideas of building services ased on user contributed content. The value of the service increases as the amount of content is contributed.
• Metaweb -- sharing and rendering of public data in public space

Jeff Bezos -- Amazon / a9

• Syndicated search via a9
• Modified rss to add three tags to indicate # of items returned, current index and next index
• "Channels" of search results.
• Can select specific data sources for search and rank them in order of preference
• Can turn on/off displays of results from data sources
• Notion of "consuming search" -- connecting to 3rd party search services and getting results (via RSS with above modifications)
• Aggregated search results
• Aside: He clicked "Yes" when asked by Windows Update if he wanted to shutdown.
• Make it possible to integrate 3rd party search into their interface via RSS
• OpenSearch RSS