Last month we began work in earnest on the Social Media Buyers Guide project by starting to collect information, ideas and questions on the Social Media Club wiki.  Last week we hosted our first podcasts. Today we are beginning to seek contributions to our formal Social Media Buyers Guide Survey th...

The next week after Shift’08 (which I wrote about on Monday), I attended Web 2.0 Expo Europe in Berlin. The main reason for me obviously was my speaking engagement (scroll down for more about this). This is a rather long account despite trying to keep it as brief as possible. Opening Reception...

In the Jonathan Schwartz interview at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco yesterday, I screwed up. After learning we weren't set up for audience Q&A with microphones, I thought, "well then, I'll just suggest to the audience that they twitter questions @timoreilly, and I'll check my phone during the in...

I didn’t make it to the keynote to see our new CTO speak (meetings that morning), but it was very strange, bordering on deeply surreal to watch the video of it. Interesting to see my “Flickr is the 2nd largest API ” meme work its way up the tree. I didn’t make that factoid up...

Dan Lyons, a.k.a. Fake Steve Jobs and a senior editor at Forbes, gave one of the Web 2.0 Expo keynotes this morning.  Dan was both hilarious and thought-provoking. So how does someone become the Fake Steve Jobs? Dan asked, but Forbes wouldn’t let him start a blog.  Apparently Dan was “...

I had a chance to check out the new Live Mesh "tech preview" announced at Web 2.0 Expo this week. Two first impressions. First, the Live Mesh tech preview is a good start. It's obviously early in the life of Live Mesh so it's hard to judge something which you are viewing by just pe...

After the keynote frenzy this morning, the session that stood out for me was Facebook Marketing: Best Practices with Jeremiah Owyang from Forrester Research as moderator, Evan Mager from AKQA, Holly Liu from Watercooler, Brett Keintz of 750 Industries and Stanford GSB and Kevin Barenblat of Context ...

This year the Web 2.0 Expo (our coverage) in San Francisco has been a bit akin to SXSW, but in San Francisco. Last night there were over a dozen announced parties for all attendees, plus a number of more "exclusive" parties. Monday and Tuesday night were similar, tonight promises to be a ...

Oh, Max! I just got through telling someone who asked me that I thought you, Slide founder Max Levchin, was one of the smarter Web 2.0 characters. Then, of course, you get to be on the cover of Portfolio magazine for its “Brilliant” issue this month. Apparently, Max, you are Silicon Vall...