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What About the Inside? In this talk, we discuss how the proliferation of the visual, photorealistic recording devices, such as digital cameras, panoramic photography, and even video cameras, can help capture useful visual information of the indoors, and furthermore, making them geospatially referenceable. We ll discuss how EveryScape converts standard panoramic photography techniques into geospatially referenceable information for the INDOORS, where GPS cannot go. From O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference, Burlingame, CA, May 13, 2008.

DIY Drones: An Open Source Hardware and Software Approach to Making Minimum UAVs Every day, Moore s law technology getting cheaper, faster, better brings more and more professional-quality robotics within the reach of amateurs. Over the past few decades we ve seen this in wheeled, legged, and other ground-based ( 2D ) robotics. Now the same forces are starting to do the same for 3D robotics, including underwater and aerial vehicles. This session will demonstrate the leading edge of this: some of the cheapest UAVs ever built. Some are based on LEGO Mindstorms NXT, some use regular cell phones strapped to model planes, and some use hobby-grade embedded microprocessors grafted to radio control (RC) aircraft. From O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference, Burlingame, CA, May 13, 2008.

Ipoki: a GPS-based Social Network Ipoki.com is a GPS-based social network that allows people to share geolocation data using a small application installed in their mobile devices. Ipoki integrates this data with other social web sites like Facebook, Flickr, Netvibes, or IGoogle. Open Social and Android are the future integrations for Ipoki. Social networks, mobile devices, and geodata are joined in this project. From Launch Pad, O'Reilly 2.0 Where Conference, Burlingame, CA, May 12, 2008.

Introducing Whrrl: Real-Time Personalization for the Real WorldAt the nexus of social networking, local discovery and user-generated content, Whrrl combines mapping and micro-blogging technology into a unique social discovery experience. Whether accessed via the Web or mobile device, Whrrl provides users with an entirely new discovery pathway for finding and sharing local knowledge with friends and communities. From Launch Pad, O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference, Burlingame, CA, May 12, 2008

Jesse Robbins (O'Reilly Radar), Mikel Maron (Mapufacture)-- Twitter and Google Maps are being used in mainstream emergency management, and projects like InSTEDD will push them even farther. This session shows you what is working, what isn t, and what s next in Disaster Tech.

Steve G. Steinberg (Steinberg Consulting)--Wall Street is largely populated by hackers. For the first time, however, hackers increasingly run the show. Major funds, like Renaissance Technologies, are run by ex-computer scientists, and they are among the hottest firms on Wall Street. How do these financial markets hackers think? Where do they look for data? How do they find an edge? We ll hear about untangling web addresses, monitoring wireless traffic, and all sorts of leading-edge gambits for hacking Wall Street. Where are the opportunities? What works? What doesn t any more?

Larry Tabb (TABB Group)--Dark pools, algorithms, disappearing traders the markets are being transformed by technology. Capital is increasingly disappearing into markets where immense computational power is required to find trading parties; and algorithms are replacing traders at many funds. Renowned Wall Street technology analyst Larry Tabb walks us through the numbers, showing what s changing, how fast, and where technology is going in money and capital markets.

Martin Wattenberg (IBM Research )--More data is better, right up until it isn t. Because after a while everything starts to disappear in data smog, with meaning lost in terabytes of data feeds and general information overload. How do you cope? Martin Wattenberg is a deep thinker in this area, having created one of the most widely known market visualization tools out there, SmartMoney s Map of the Market. He will walk us through its creation, as well as the future of high-volume data visualization.

Paul Kedrosky (Venture Capitalist), Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)--The Web 2.0 wave is slamming into Wall Street. Sharing and social networks that once seemed antithetical to the zero-sum world of money are finding their places in investing. From social stock-picking, to new and tradable web-based data, to search, all of these Web 2.0 technologies are showing up on Wall Street. At the same time, Wall Street is pushing the edge in technologies in areas ranging from realtime to databases. The confluence of money and technology is changing both, and there is a lot to learn on either side. This talk set the stage for the conference's two days of discussions.

David Leinweber (Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley)--Technology has transformed investment and trading over the past 30 years. Markets have become computer networks, brokers are disintermediated by direct access and algo trading. Reporters are disintermediated when investors have access to primary sources at the same time they do. An ever larger view of exploitable economic and business activity can found on the web. Alpha innovators with the right technology are positioned to access, analyze, and act on this information. Dr. Leinweber, a founder of one of the earliest successful algo trading firms (acquired by ITG in 1992), manager of a $6 billion quantitative institutional global equity portfolio (at First Quadrant), founder of a pioneering web information firm (pre bubblle) and a visiting faculty member in economics at Caltech (post bubble), brings an unusually broad and deep view to these issues, from both a sell- and buy-side perspective.

Steve Skiena (Stony Brook University)--Back in the 1980s, computer scientist and hacker Steve Skiena thought of a great way to beat jai-alai markets. Trouble was, it required faster computers and more data than he had at the time. That changed in the late 1990s, as Skiena exploited faster computers and web-based data to beat jai-alai markets, at least for a while. The story, which later became a self-authored book, is a fascinating one, sitting right at the intersection of money and technology. And, oh yes, you just have to hear about which markets he is cheerfully hacking now.

Devin Wenig (Reuters Group PLC), Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)--Reuters is the largest information services company on the planet. It sits on some of the most widely used data, but is that data s time past? We ll find out with the company s Devin Wenig. He has the task of sorting out how and where to add web-based data to the company s panoply of information services. What is Reuters buying? What will it build? Why? The company also has some major product-related product launches up its sleeve, so maybe we can convince Wenig to reveal all.

Tony Berkman (Majestic Research ), Stephen Kaufer (TripAdvisor), Penny Herscher (FirstRain, Inc.)--The Web is like an infinite library. Prices, popularity, schedules, economic releases, weather data, ocean buoy heights it s all there, and often in realtime. It can feel like a data bonanza to more enlightened financial market sorts, with this profusion of data opening up myriad doors for new strategies that go far beyond the traditional reliance on company filings, earnings data, and quarterly conference calls. But there is a problem. Many major web sites prohibit automated access to their site, with terms of use that say such usage is not permissible. Some argue that such prohibitions make no sense, and are likely not enforceable. Other companies take advantage of their less insightful competitors and open up their data to all comers, financial or otherwise. It is a crucial issue, and we have insights from a prominent lawyer in the area, the CEO of a major web property, and one of the best known equity research firms using web-based data.

David Friedberg (WeatherBill), Michael Ferrari (Weather Trends International), Robert S. Marshall (WeatherBug)--Everyone talks about the weather, including investors. Weather data isn t just for weather geeks anymore, with it rapidly becoming a crucial source of data about retail trends, hurricanes, catastrophe bonds, event insurance, resort traffic, and on and on. And with the rise of web-based data and related services, it is finally cheap and realtime too. How do you separate the weather signal from the noise? If you can t do anything about the weather, how do you make money from it?

Stewart Alsop (Alsop Louie Partners), Roger Ehrenberg (Monitor110, Inc. ), Bruce Golden (Accel Partners), Cary Davis (Warburg Pincus, LLC), Salil Deshpande (Bay Partners)--For the longest time most of the innovation in financial markets came from the inside. Teams would hive off from major brokerage firms, starting hedge funds, or less, commonly, new companies providing data and research services. Web 2.0 is changing all of this. It is less expensive than ever to create companies with global data, and global access to customers. As a result, money technology is a hotbed of innovation and related startups, exactly the sort of happy hunting ground of which venture capitalists are fond. We have brought together some prominent VCs and angels to talk about the future of these markets from their perspective. Where is the hot money going? Where will the most innovative developments come from?

Bo Cowgill (Google Economics Group)--Most people don t know it, but Google is running one of the largest internal prediction markets in the world. In a sense, the fast-growing company has brought Wall Street inside, creating a marketplace to help it make decisions. Google thinks it helps them collect opinions, make better decisions, and generally use markets and economics to be a more effective company. Bo Cowgill will tell us more.

Nick O'Neill (Social Times), Mike Sego ((fluff)Friends), Keith Schacht (42 Friends LLC), Tim O'Shaughnessy (Hungry Machine), Zach Allia (Free Gifts)--Apps with millions of users are great, but if your users never come back how much is it worth? Find out how to design and build for fanatic user engagement, how to create retention strategies and measure the results, and ultimately get users addicted to your application or widget for life or at least a few months :).

Roger Magoulas, Director of Research at O Reilly Media, provides an update on the big picture trends in Facebook application building and usage. His presentation covers concentration of usage in top applications, as well as a look at applications by category and other topics. The presentation provides an update to The Facebook Application Report produced last fall by Tim O Reilly and the O Reilly Radar team.

BJ Fogg (Stanford University), Dan Ackerman-Greenberg (Stanford University / 750 Industries), Robert Fan (Stanford University / 750 Industries)--September 2007: 100 students enroll in a Stanford class on building Facebook apps and social persuasion. Instructors Fogg & McClure warn students the new course would be risky and uncertain. By December the students blew everyone away: 50+ amazing apps, 10 million installs, and 1 million daily users. Hear their story and learn what happened.

Jia Shen (RockYou), R. Tyler Ballance (Slide.com)--What are the critical and necessary components of a highly successful social application? How do you design for both viral adoption and user engagement? How can you build an app that can easily be ported to new social networking environments? Learn the answers and other elements of style for developers building apps and widgets on today s social platforms such as Facebook, MySpace, OpenSocial, and others.

Peter Semmelhack (Bug Labs)--Bug is releasing a set of open-source hardware modules. These gadgets can be connected together in any fashion and coded to interact as desired. Two of the first modules were a GPS and an accelerometer. What do you think you would do with access to a fully open device with those capabilities? Unsurprisingly, their steadily growing developer community has been building location-based apps. A location-based alarm clock. A proximity-based todo list. As more modules are released the usefulness for the geohacking community increases.

Tom Churchill (Earthscape)--Google Earth and similar programs show a synthetic view of the world using satellite and aerial imagery, overlayed with street information and points of interest. What if you could replace the satellite imagery with live video from an infrared camera? That s just what the Denver Police Department does with the latest technology. Until this system, officers had to locate targets on the ground using traditional automotive-like mapping systems (or worse, paper maps) that required them to take their eyes off of the suspect in order to attempt to locate their position so that they could communicate it to ground units. Learn how hardware-accelerated 3D graphics and GIS databases might save your life, what happens when geeks meet cops, and how all of this helps make desktop software better.

Denis Browne (SAP Labs, LLC)--See how the physical and virtual worlds can be combined with state of the art tracking and sensor networks to address real world business needs and challenges.

Building on its influential predecessor chicagocrime.org, EveryBlock takes the local-data mashup to new levels. Founder and hacker Adrian Holovaty talks about the philosophy and technology behind EveryBlock, the untapped potential of address-specific news, open data, and life after Google Maps.

Geoff Zeiss (Autodesk, Inc.)--Convergence is about breaking down islands of information based on traditional disciplines or professional categories or those created by the traditional organization of the architecture, engineering, construction, transportation, and utility and telecommunications industries. The convergence of architectural and engineering design, location, and 3D visualization and simulation technologies developed is resulting in a framework for interoperability across the lifecycle of building and infrastructure including design, construction, and operation and maintenance. The business drivers for this transformative technology advance are productivity and efficiency in the construction and facilities management industry, and improving the performance of facilities over their full life-cycle. The goal is seamless access to architectural, engineering design, and geospatial data inside, outside, and under a facility.

Tim O'Reilly, Founder of O'Reilly Media and co-chair of the Web 2.0 Conference series addresses the main audience at the 2008 Web 2.0 Expo

As part of what seems to be a conference marathon month, socialTNT is at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco this week. Instead of our usual "3Q's in 3Min," we will be doing short video interviews throughout the conference. On Wednesday, Day 1 of the Expo, socialTNT chats with Mashable's Kristen Nicole, Web 2.0 Expo organizer Dave McClure and Forrester's Josh Bernoff.Check out the video to hear the state of Web 2.0, discuss what it means and analyze the marketing messages on the floor. Oh yeah, and we talk about the parties.

Kathy Sierra and Tim O'Reilly discuss innovations in the publishing landscape from an author's perspective. They also touch on the principles of how Sierra successfully "creates passionate users" and how this energizes and increases her audience.

"Scaling MySQL at YouTube" with Paul Tuckfield, MySQL DBA, YouTube. YouTube has experienced explosive growth continuously for most of its history. This talk focuses on a series of unfortunate events, each followed by a fortunate solution, in the battle to keep scaling YouTube databases as fast as YouTube users demand.