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...

Photography I’ve posted photos from the Web 2.0 Expo in two sets on Flickr. Images from the Expo itself: Images from team events, and round and about the city: I’ve made all of the images Creative Commons Attribution-ND. A note on conference photography. I decided to travel light as I was only g...

Your site can have a lot of traffic, for many different reasons. Apart from that, your site can experience peaks of traffic. To deal with this you can build your own infrastructures, but today there are other solutions available, such as the ones provided by Amazon and by Google. Amazon web services...

A very interesting and informative talk dealing with the new types of attacks that affect web 2.0 applications and RIA in particular. The session was divided in 2 parts, the first about AJAX and the last about Rich Internet Applications. The slides of this talk are available on slideshare and are im...

Tim O'Reilly and Yossi Vardi Tim O’Reilly on stage starts a difficult topic: how can web 2.0 help in a world of crisis? Important topic but, in part for the ugly American slang of Tim, in part because he probably had a strong lunch (he’s constantly thirsty) I understand only little c...