Steve Gillmor

As RSS burrows deeper and deeper into the heart of mainstream computing, the next-gen technology for processing the Web is having some growing pains. If you believe the more florid news headlines, its all about the battle for bragging rights between RSS and Atom. Head for Google or Yahoo if you want more on that […]

DEMO sounds like it was back on track this year after several years of nursing the collective wounds of the Bubble collapse. SAP Ventures Jeff Nolan filed two nifty blog posts on days One and Two. Meanwhile, pre-Scoble Microsoft blogger Joshua Allen provides notes on Dave Winers campus visit. The questions are as interesting as […]

The 2004 OReilly Emerging Technology is now history, with a Wiki full of Hydra and blogger transcripts to document it. Conferences are mental marathons, and this one was as hard to keep up with as ever. Theres no way to attend every session of multiple tracks, but there could be. Its time for virtualized conferences. […]

Before his recent comeuppance, Howard Deans Democratic presidential campaign focused attention on the emerging category of social software, as Deans campaign team used Meetups and Weblogs to generate more than $40 million in contributions. In the enterprise, social software can help build connections between workers and their business contacts and customers. The social software phenomenon […]

SAN DIEGO—Listening to former Howard Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi, I kept hearing the echoes of John Edwards “Two Americas” theme. The occasion was the Digital Democracy Teach-In, a conference track appended to the third OReilly Emerging Technology Conference here. Trippis keynote was a free-form post-mortem on the fading Dean campaign, but the audience of […]

The OReilly Emerging Technology conference is off to the races with an opening keynote by Dean architect (and now MSNBC commentator) Joe Trippi. Trippi made news by strongly hinting at returning to the fray. “Maybe a website… I have a number of ideas,” Trippi offhandedly tossed off midway through a question and answer session. Dean […]

While the music industry gathers in Los Angeles for the Grammy Awards, under the watchful eye of Federal Censorship Commission czar Michael Powell, Ill be checking in ninety miles down the road for the OReilly Emerging Technology Conference. While Hollywood remains preoccupied with exposed skin and protecting fading business models, a loosely coupled band of […]

Apple has shipped a public beta of iChatAV 2.1 , including support for video conferencing with the AOL Instant Messenger 5.5 for Microsoft Windows. Its iPod all over again. Everytime a Windows user hooks up to an iSight chat, theyll be evangelized to buy an iSight for their Windows machine. Of course, the secret sauce […]

Bill Gates comments at last months World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, were widely reported. “Two years from now, spam will be solved,” Microsofts chairman confidently declared. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I received this news first through my RSS aggregator. More and more, I find myself avoiding my e-mail client. On the Mac, its […]

Social networking is on the bubble, with Orkut the latest to spur invites from friends, virtual acquaintances, and “others.” Ive been watching the Lord of the Rings DVDs with family, and somehow this feels like the gathering of wizards, men, hobbits, orcs, and treefolk in no particular order or trusted reputation. Baselines Sean Gallagher and […]