I’d forgotten I’d done this video interview during the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin last month until Paul Andrews sent a link to my brother, with the comment: “Tim is always so refreshing because he can be so candid. Did you see this great wide-ranging video? Nobody else is pointing this stuff out because it might cost them a VC or market point.”
Intruders.tv talks to Tim O’Reilly about social media, OpenSocial, Microsoft and Google market dominance, Facebook, genomics, Bubble 2.0 and, of course, the iPhone.
Yes, it’s true that I said in the interview that Web 2.0 is a stupid name, that the companies trying to exploit the social graph are going about it all wrong, and that we’re entering a period of consolidation where the big players are going to start trying to capture more value than they create. I had a bad cold, so I was perhaps a little more dour about the prospects for the future than I normally am. But I also talked about the potential still ahead of us — in applications built on the social graph (as soon as they give the users real control over their own data), in genomics, and in the re-engagement of computing with the physical world.
The interview really was a “fireside chat,” in a fabulous supper club in Berlin, at a party hosted by Felix Petersen of Plazes, Tariq Krim of Netvibes, and Rodrigo Sepulveda of Vpod.tv.