The inaugural Web 2.0 Expo in SF was a huge success. We had over 3,000 attendees in the full conference attend sessions on development, design, marketing, and business. The CFP for the conference has been extended by a week to November 6th. Submit something!
This year we’ll be looking at:
* Security, Security, Security—because if users can’t trust you, you ain’t going to last
* Going Offline—Google Gears & RIA Platforms
* Facebook Apps—Can your business depend on another’s so intrinsically?
* The Social Graph—How open can it get?
* Web Operations, the “Web as Platform”
* The Domain Name Gold Rush, Act II—thar’s gold in them thar dot-coms!
* Search and Vertical Search
* Machine vs. Human in Search, Mapping and Elsewhere
* The Browser as Business Model
* High Performance, High Scalability, High Availability
* Social Networks and Identity
* Internet Marketing and Measurability
* Simplicity and Incremental Complexity
* Tagging, Ranking, and User-generated Content
* Web 2.0: SHOW ME THE MONEY! (Real Revenue Models, not Underpants Gnomes)